Motor City or Bust

Whatever questions this blog may raise, my response is this:

"You're asking the wrong guy."

I Am Made Humble in Your Presence

There comes a time in every man's life when the only choice to make seems to be the wrong one. I pray that man has the grace to accept his decision and to make the choice, right or wrong.

I also pray to never be that man.

Purple Haze

When I think of passion and music, I think of Jimi Hendrix. Were this man still alive, I probably would listen to the radio a heck of a lot more.

Earth Hour!

Here's to you Earth!

I was snooping around in the "Blogs of Note" area of Blogger, and I came across "That Unreliable Girl." Her post about Earth Hour really attracted my eye so I watched the video. Holy cannoli! An estimated 50 million people last year participated in Earth Hour. Well, if those same people participate again this year, I know for sure it will be at least 50 million and 1 this March 30!

If you have an opportunity, take an hour out of your day on Saturday, and turn off all the lights in your house! TVs, computers, cellphones, hairdryers, water heaters, vacuums, and other such electricity using items too! Light some candles, play a board game, read a book, have some community time with your friends, get drunk, do something, but don't use electricity! I know you and I are both each just one person, but 50 million one persons is a lot of one persons, if you think about it!

-T

Now what?

And if I say to you tomorrow, "Take my hand child, come with me, its to a castle I will take you, where what's to be they say will be..."

God, Human Folly and Laughter

There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. - President John F. Kennedy to David Powers

How much truer of a statement could there be?

I know from my own limited experience this evaluation of God and human folly to be true. When I was a babe, I thought God was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-father watching and disapproving of all that I did, said and thought. When I was a young man I thought God was there to provide me with the answers and solutions as well as to fit the mold that I had in mind for my life. When I became a man I realized all that I thought I knew was only what I had come to convince myself of, and not what actually is, and I then became less than the babe I started as. To understand God is to look into the smallest grain of sand and see the immeasurable beauty of creation.
Human folly, as it exists, is also incomprehensible. There is no shame in being human, but still it blinds us. Our own imperfections put up blinders around our eyes preventing us from seeing the beauty and wonder that surrounds us. Those blinders, however, can be seen by no one but our self. Why we limit ourselves is inexplicable, but its realization is shared among every human being.

Humor though, is the one other truth that persists that can be understood. Even the child who goes to bed hungry can still smile when shown the simplest act of kindness. Finding ways to bring a smile to those who have no other reason to breath other than in their core they know they must, is the greatest gift that can be given. No amount of money, fame or fortune could match the worth of a smile on a man who has lost everything and believes there to be nothing left to live for. We must seek laughter in everything we do, for life without happiness is no life worth living.
This is not to say that misery is to be avoided. We must understand misery to fully appreciate the gift of a smile or a laugh. Like laughter to misery, the true value of water is unknown to anyone but the man or woman who thirsts or who has ever thirsted.

Needless to say, I agree with President Kennedy.

Mr President, I approve.

President Obama has put 17,000 troops into Afghanistan... without a whole lot of warning to the people he represents. In this White House Memo, Leading Military at Time of War, but Not as a ‘War President,’ the question of President Obama's leadership style is raised: Is the new President going to follow in his predecessors footsteps, or will he forge his own path?

Supporters of Obama who put him in office were slightly taken aback by his almost sneaky order to put troops into Afghanistan. After all, he was an outspoken critic of the Iraq War. The country waits expectantly to hear from the Obama Administration for the reasons behind the troop mobilization.

I believe we as a country have a duty to protect our borders both here and abroad, and I support US Troops no matter where they are because they are putting their lives on the line for me.

As I am about to head into the service as a US Marine, I'm glad to see my President showing his support for the troops. His visit to the wounded at Camp Lejeune gave the men and women who remembered his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War assurance that they would not be alone in their fight, that as a representative of the American people, the President would be behind them.

Personally, I'm excited; I can barely contain my enthusiasm. Things are happening in the world today, and very soon, I will have my opportunity to contribute my own small part toward those events.

-- Source --

Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. Leading Military at Time of War, but Not as a ‘War President’. 2009. March 22. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/politics/23chief.html?ref=us

Scheduling blogs...

The feature allowing the blogger to schedule when a blog appears is great! This gives me the chance to utilize my creative binges at whim and then set up blogs to be dispersed over a period of time, rather than all at once.

This helps for two reasons.

First, I've always wanted to try my own web comic. Using this blog scheduling, I can sit down and create three or four comic strips, then schedule them to be released throughout the week.

Number two, I've discovered I can prevent nosies from finding out exactly when I wrote a blog, which may be different from when the blog was published.

I am a'very sneaky.

Cheap or Cheep?

I find most truths unsettling; only in doubt can I accept reality.