Little God snippets piss me off!

“        I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don’t. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding  why there is such a problem in having “In God We Trust” on our money and having “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don’t we just tell the 14% to Shut Up, lay down and BE QUIET!!!”

 

Why put this in the email? The only time God was mentioned in the forward is when Andy finished his rant with the first sentence of the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Now I am not part of the hard core atheist group. I do believe in Separation of Church and State. Anyone that disagrees with me on this point, please go read some history books.

 

I decided to check that validity of the email and come to see… It was just some asshole that has too much time on their hands.

 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp 

The problem I have is with the 20% of the 86% population that believe in God. It is this group of people that make the 14% shout we will not lay down and be quiet.

 

These people can’t take responsibility for their own actions. They pass the buck off to God or the Devil. Then make this religious group back up their claim with anything substantial and they back pedal to their faith or a book. Below I will give my two second opinion on living by Faith and a book.

 

Faith is not substantial; it is just some brain chemicals making them feel moved. So it is only an opinion really.

 

Getting enough people to believe your book does not make it true. Any of these people believe the Book of Mormon? Don’t get me wrong, if I see some dude or chick descending from the Heavens (not Chris Angel) without strings or gadgets, then yeah I would probably take up a cross and follow. Until then I am not going to follow a book that has been rewritten numerous times by different groups over the past 1,700 years.

Going to sell the sports car.

I have been wanting a tuner car since I fell in love with the Supra turbo in (yes, I know it’s cheesy) Fast and the Furious. Actually I have wanted a sports car since high school, but back then it was a cheap mustang or camaro.

American muscle is awesome and there is nothing that compares to the rumble of a v-8, but the handling and fuel economy is lacking. If I wanted a drag strip monster the 2 previous statements would not be in this paragraph. However I was looking for a daily driver that was best at all around performance.

Then I discovered rally racing after watching it on Speed channel. This completely blew my mind. Getting up to insane speeds on gravel roads. I grew up in small town Oklahoma and I have been driving on dirt roads feeding cattle since I was 12. I fell in love again but this time with Subaru.

I decided to go with a Subaru WRX after college. Then I finally landed a good job and a promotion. When It came time to pick it out. There was a sweet used STi with 12k miles on it. My wildest wet sport car dreams came true. I had a car that could not necessarily beat everything on the road, but it could pretty much keep up with any street legal cars out there. Plus it has the crazy spoiler and scoop that stand up a foot off the car. The best part is that they are functional.

Over the past year I have cruised around the city and upgrade the car. I have added a carbon fiber hood and grill, downpipe, mid-pipe, and Stage 2 Cobb tuning. Also took off all the badges and stickers except one pink STi badge on the trunk. It looks and sounds sweet! It has been fun to turn some heads, go balls to the wall around corners, and cruise at 110mph. There has been a few let downs though.

A goal for my ten year high school reunion was to drive a sports car to it. Some of my other friends joined in the statement. However I am the only one that came through with the goal. My friends that showed up to the 10 year reunion liked the car, but in the end it was only worth about 5 minutes of conversation.

I also was looking for a culture to fit into with the car. (Again childish and somewhat like a Mac commercial, trying to be cool with what you own) There isn’t anything wrong with the Subaru owners club here in Oklahoma but I don’t really fit in. Maybe I haven’t tried hard enough. But I have found that with friends if you have to try to be their friend, you will never really be in the group.

The last downer would have to be the problems with going way too fast. The end result is stopping in predicaments that you don’t want to be in i.e. cops and dumb asses not paying attention to you on the road.  I have been stopped way too many times in my car that just looks fast standing still. I don’t want to say there has been harassment because most of the time I was going above the speed limit. There have been three incidents in small town Oklahoma that I have been pulled over for no reason though. Then there is slamming on the breaks because people can’t see that you are going literally twice as fast as them when they decide to get into the left lane of the interstate. So the moral of the story is I have a problem with speeding. The solution to the story is getting a slower vehicle.

I am not all sad about it. Like I said I wanted a rally car. Soon after getting the STi I found that I cannot afford the repairs taking it off road, and I also like it looking sweet. My Carbon fiber hood does not take rocks.  I baby my car by waxing it monthly to synthetic oil changes every 3k miles. It has been a learning experience. I have never treated a vehicle so well. I want to get back to my roots.

I lived my teenager dream, but like all dreams, you have to come back to reality. It is time to go off roading again. I have had two trucks before I bought my STi. They were driven through or over everything that I could. However they were not 4wd. I have now been bit by the 4×4 bug. I want a Cherokee, 4runner, or Xterra in that order. Again I want a vehicle that I will play with the dynamics of. This time will be a lift and off road abilities instead of power and handling abilities.     

It has been awhile. My apologies.

It has been busy of course. Been rearranging the house. The three dogs we have worked it over while they were puppies. They are more grown up now and it is monthly that they get into something they shouldn’t, instead of daily.

Bernie Bear started out at 20 lbs. and has a tendency to chew on walls, window sills, and molding. Now he is 126 lbs and doesn’t rip up his chew toys. The other two dogs, Shad and Sarah, still like to rip up their toys but understand better what is off limits.

We decided it was time to do some spring cleaning in summer a year and a half late. We have gone through our whole house dusting, patching, and painting the house. We also decided to rearrange the furniture and we bought some new furniture too. Next project is to fix up the outside.

This definitely needs some tlc. The back deck is falling apart but patched that together and laid some outdoor carpet. However it needs to be repainted and rose bushes around the edge of in are in need of serious trimming. Don’t get me started on the grass. I got a list too long on that. Lastly is the steel barn we have out back. It has probably been there 20 years and the insulation is falling from the walls and ceiling. We are going to wait until fall to start these projects.

For the meantime the inside looks good and the outside is tolerable. We have had a couple of parties since fixing it up. The first was our friends were, of course, I got trashed. It was great though. We ended the party by watching 300 with my bose speakers cranked til our ears were almost bleeding. The second party was with family this last weekend. It was good. Everyone came. They were nice to each other. The wife and I cooked up some awesome fajitas. Then they got the hell out. The wife was sad that our family didn’t want to stay longer. Not me, I was glad for them to leave and let me get some sleep.