I don't put my poetry out much, but this one I think you'll like. It's a song lyric, really, and it works with the tune I have in mind. It's a rough draft, but the basic idea's there (and the chorus is done): Superman Sleeps with Winnie-the-Pooh Superman in his caped pajamas Is running through our hall He can leap over tall buildings Though he’s only two feet tall When the night is late He falls asleep in my hands He’s not afraid of the big T. Rex But he’s afraid of the boogeyman ...

When I was a child, people complained about high taxes. Sadly, that day is all but over, at least among the working class. Now the complaint I hear more often than not is service related. And it's not a partisan issue; Republicans are as bad as (sometimes WORSE THAN) Democrats. Everyone wants increases to their pet program, be it military, cancer research or the murder (err, excuse me..."abortion") industry. The reason people are so quick to demand the increase is that most of them do not PAY...

There's a newspeak term for illegal aliens in this country, one that frankly, I'm glad to see. It's a word that shows the TRUE intentions of the illegal immigration movement, and shows that assimilation, unity, and citizenship are NOT the goals of these people, but rather conquest and imperialism. The term is "nuevo pioneers", and it raises the acrid taste of bile in the back of my throat. Think about it. How do we view pioneers. We view them as settlers to undiscovered lands, as builders,...

In 2004, President Bush signed into law a statute that adds stiffer penalties to people who use stolen identities to commit a crime ( Link ). In the authoring of the bill and its passage, the high cost of identity theft was repeatedly cited. And yet, President Bush continues to push for amnesty for what may be the single largest group of identity thieves: illegal immigrants. While he demands stiff penalties for AMERICANS who steal identities, apparently if you're brown and born south of the b...

Since the 9/11 attacks, our government has rhetorically promised us a "war on terror". Not only has our government NOT delivered (as if they actually COULD deliver a victory in a war on an ideology), the newest actions of our government are attempting to run up a white flag and offer a complete SURRENDER to terror. The truth is, the worst terrorists our country face are not in some Middle Eastern country. They are inside our borders, in our inner cities. And many of them are illegals. The ...

I'm pretty much a live and let live kinda guy when it comes to personal lifestyle choices. And I speak up against injustice when it shows up. But I am sick and tired of the gay rights movement and its attempt to push an agenda. The truth is gay rights are NOT civil rights. To imply such is to imply that they have been DENIED civil rights. That they have been treated as a second class of citizens, when in fact, they have not. They are subject to the EXACT same laws as straights. There is no...

A week ago last Sunday, for the first time in months, we went to church. And in doing so, in many ways, we closed one chapter of our lives and opened another. See, ever since I first became a Christian many years ago, I have wanted nothing more than a family. The mythological family that many churches profess and that was modeled in the early church, but which remains nothing more than a pleasant urban legend to most of us. I walked in church after church, looking for that family. In s...

Well, over the last couple weeks I have been playing with my myspace page. Not to be trendy, mind you, but because so many of my friends use it and I use it to access their blogs. I still don't have a picture of it; when I find one that won't break the Internet, I'll post it. BUT, I did get a short playlist (10 songs) up of some favorites. I could have uploaded some of my own and made the favorites more fun but I actually enjoyed perusing what was out there. I found much of what I was looking...

(Thanks, Loca, for the inspiration): I'm a Libertarian and I love my country. I'm a Libertarian and I am a Christian. I am part of the Religious evangelical Left, an almost heard of minority I am a Libertarian and I think it's a compliment when you call me a conservative I am a Libertarian and I think the ACLU was a patriotic organization, and sometimes still does some meaningful things but has badly lost its way. I am a Libertarian and I don't think the United States is the world...

This week in our free time, my friends and I have been sorting through our haul from last Saturday's auction. Things were off to a good start when a high number of items had a good resale listing price on half.com. Even better on Sunday when our first sale came through. Followed by another on Monday. Then three today. In three days' time, we have nearly doubled what we spent at auction (although gas must be accounted for), from the sale of five books. Five books, it must be noted, out of TWELVE ...

As the public continues to grow disenchanted with the "Big two" parties, one would think they would be increasingly drawn to third parties. Yet, despite the HISTORIC numbers posted by Libertarians in the great state of Texas in 2006, third parties aren't electing candidates in numbers that would reflect that disenchantment. This despite the fact that the cost to run a grassroots campaign is actually DROPPING rather than climbing. Responsible members of these third parties would be doing their pa...

I encountered one of those interesting situations today. One where the solution was for me to sit in front of the computer and just fix the problem. Those situations do not often come up, but when they do I try to help the best I can. This was ten miles out in the country, a dialup customer, who had just purchased (well, is renting to own, to be more accurate, but that's another story) a new computer with Windows Vista. When I tried to describe the situation over the phone, she didn't understand...

One of the statements I heard made years ago when I was a socialist was in reply to comments I would hear people make saying that "if you redistribute the wealth, the wealth will be back in the hands of the same people within five years". My challenge back then was that we should try wealth redistribution then, because it wouldn't hurt the wealthy and would, in fact, give them a five year tax write off. The fact that we don't pretty much supports the fact that even the most hardcore capitalist d...

Some years back, I had a small book reselling business. It wasn't much, but I made good margins, learned how to buy and sell, and most importantly, learned what NOT to do. One of the biggest downfalls of the business was that I did not have any extra help to inventory, ship, and receive books. Well, a few weeks ago, we caught a glimmer of some possibilities when we received a whole bunch of equipment from a major corporation. We will begin to see returns on that investment (of time more than ...

As the world reaches out for solutions to the problems that plague us, there are those who embrace the concept of a world government. Although they usually use euphemistic terms and refer to coalitions, the idea basically is that the world needs to become more pluralistic and more united. It's my contention that not only would this not work, but it would backfire horribly. Far from being a bad thing, borders are what keep the world sane, what keep the world from totally failing. Borders are g...