Dummy.

In the office complex that I work, just outside of my office, sits a table. This table is large and usually people put plans, snacks ,or what ever on it. Monte, the guy in the office to the east of me walks by and asked me if I like nerds (the candy). I said yeah they are all right. Well Monte drops about 10 boxes of nerds on the table outside of my office for the rest of the office to eat. I grab a box, and Hanns the guy in the office to the West comes out of his office and grabs a box of nerds. After a few minutes Hanns comes into my office and asked if I thought a person could eat four boxes of nerds in one minute. I studied a box and told him that I thought that a person could. Hanns then proceeded to place a bet. He bet me a dollar that I couldn't eat 4 boxes of nerds in one minute. I thought about it for a minute and started wondering if it was possible. I wondered if I could be that man that could defy all laws of eating and do it, and me, being the kind of person that doesn't take a challenge lightly decided that I would take the bet. I opened the boxes, set them on my desk and began, box after box chewing and crunching fruit punch valentine nerds. Swallowing gulp after gulp of sour flavored sugar until all four boxes were gone. As I finished I knew that I did it. I asked Hanns the time. It took me one minute and five seconds. I lost the bet. So not only am I a dollar poorer, I am sick as a dog and I think I have diabetes now.
Dummy.

The Rest of 100 things about me.

76. I believe that there should be a weight limit on any belly button piercing and if that weight limit is exceeded, a minimum of 3 layers of long shirts should be worn.
77. I think that if your mid-drift is showing it must not protrude over the top of your belt buckle thus hiding the belt buckle. Unless you are a redneck and work in a scrap yard. Then it is allowable.
78. In High School, White Trash Jeff Orton took me for a ride in his sweet 88 Camaro. The car's body was beat up but he had just dropped a new 350 engine into it. We were driving down mainstreet listening to AC/DC while his dirty blond mullet flapped in the breeze. While he was chugging an Old Milwaukee he accidently ran a stop light. On the other side of the stoplight was a cop. The lights flipped on, and trying to impress me with his new engine, Orton gunned it, we turned down a side street and headed for the Indian village to hide out. Orton cop-slid around corners like it was the Dukes of Hazzard. He found a parking spot between a couple of other cars shut the lights off and tossed his beer. About 20 seconds later the cop car came zooming by. I was so relieved to have gotten away. I wasn't that scared of getting caught, I just didn't want to have to share a jail cell with Orton.
79. My senior year in High School I was walking down the hall next to my science teacher. He pulled the hat off my head and reactively (it was wrestling season) I put him into a headlock and began to give him a noogie. After I let him go, I realized that Science teachers do not like to be put into headlocks and noogied.
80. I love to get coal at the coal yard. Because it gives me other white trash to socialize with.
81. I love to cut wood.
82. I love lighters.
83. I am a pyro. I love to play with fire of any kind.
84. In college, one day my dog jumped out of the back of my truck and bit a kid. It wasn't an angry bite, just a playful fetch the kid bite. I was sick about it. I walked the kid home, and waited for his parents to come home wondering what kind of lawsuit I was about to get into. When his dad got home I was relieved when the kid's stoner dad gave him five for getting his first dog bite. The guy asked me to bring my dog over the next day so his kid could play with it so he wouldnt be scared of dogs. I took the dog over and in the 45 minutes that I was there he drank a 12 pack of beer. I became his new best buddy. He invited me and the dog in the house to look at his gun collection. While we were looking at his guns I noticed that my dog was peeing into his closet. I didn't say any thing because I didn't want to ruin our new friendship.
85. At the age of 12 on the way to a scout hike, I sat in the back of my scout leaders station wagon that had in-operable windows. I got car sick really easy back then and the Zion trip just wasn't doing it for me. As I realized that I was about to call Ralph. I told my scout leader that I had to puke. He said are you sure? I said yes I am sure. He asked if I was sure again, I said yes again. He asked if I was sure again and I blew chunks all over his car and on him. I think that was enough to convince him that I had to puke.
86. When I worked with my younger brother Gregg as a telemarketer, we were sitting next to this kid name Andrew. He was a Dungeons and Dragons dungeon master. Just messing with him we told him that Gregg was adopted and when I went with my parents to the orphanage to pick Gregg up, my parents told me that they would never love Gregg as much as they loved me. Gregg acted sad as I relayed the story to the dungeon master. The dungeon master rebuked me for my unkindness nearly casting an evil spell of warts upon my body. That day I realized that even dungeon masters have hearts.
87. One time my friend Todd and I started a heavy metal band called KRANK. We were pretty Hard Core. I wrote the Lyrics and Sang While Todd put the tunes to the Lyrics on the Guitar. We were kind of like a mix between AC/DC and Cinderella. We had a drummer that was supposed to be pretty bad A on the drums named Brent but he didn't have any drums. And when It came time for me to buy a microphone, I just didn't think that I was ready for that kind of committment. So we broke up.
88. One time I went to a Poison/Cinderella/Dokken/Slaughter concert at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas with my wife and Mark Slaughter came out into the crowd and gave me five and I was like "you rock Mark Slaughter!" and he gave me a look like "yeah I know I rock, I'm Mark Slaughter."
89. One time I went to a Poison/Ratt/Great White/LA Guns concert in Salt Lake. LA Guns opened and they were all wasted and everybody started booing and I was booing until The lead singer held up a bottle of booze and then every one started cheering for the bottle of booze. That is every one but me. I'm a Mormon, I don't cheer for Alcohol.
90. One day at work I was out in the field working near an electric fence. It kept calling to me to mess with it. I inched closer and closer. I decided that if the fence didn't kill the horses that it housed, it wouldnt kill me so I touched it. It zapped me a little but not bad. Then I realize that my boots were preventing the power from grounding so I held on to the ground rod and then touched the wire. It shocked the hell out of me. I felt my heart almost explode. I sat there for a minute and realized how stupid that I really was for doing that.
91. On my High School Senior Trip at Universal Studios there were a couple of old Iranian guys that got into a fight. They were yelling at each other, We didn't know what they were saying but we could tell that they were mad and instead of hitting each other they would slap themselves, and the madder they got, the harder they would hit themselves. My friends and I kept yelling to them to stop hitting themselves and hit the other but I guess they didn't understand what we were saying because they just kept hitting themselves. When it was all over it was really difficult to tell who won the fight.
92. In Brookhaven Miss. there was a guy from India that owned a gas station. The gas station doubled as a greasy spoon. The guy from India made some of the best hamburgers. We were talking to him one day and he said that he didn't eat beef because Cows were sacred and like Gods in their culture. I thought it was a little odd that he cooked up such a mean burger.
93. I have a Black Lab Named Angus.
94. My eyes are blue
95. When I was a boy I went fishing with my dad. We weren't catching fish so we had a rock skipping contest, after a minute my dad picked up a rock and bet me that he could skip the rock and it would never sink. I took the bet and he skipped the rock after two skips the rock stopped and floated. I was amazed until I realized that my Dad hustled me and skipped a piece of wood.
96. One year at a Fathers and sons outing my Dad invited a guy Named Hal and his boy to go camping with us. When we got to the camp site the guy was all chipper and singing songs and would get a little hurt when we would kill snakes and cut down trees. I didn't think that Hal was a very good camper. I don't think my dad did either because that was the only time my dad took Hal camping with us.
97. When I was working as a Telemarketer there was a 16 year old out of the closet homo that worked there. One day I was sitting by him and we were talking, I said dude you are too young to be set on being gay you should try dating girls,have you ever dated a girl? He said no, I said, man don't go making your mind up so soon that you are gay until you try dating girls. He quickly came back with well have you ever dated a man? I said hell no, and decided that I didn't want to go any further with that conversation.
98. When I first moved out here to my buddy and I stopped by a landowners house. Rumor had spread that Marathon had hired a Mormon long before I had gotten there. As we drove up to the landowner he yelled to my buddy: Is that one of those multi-wife mother effers. But not so cleaned up. I said, Yea, do you have any daughters? He went quiet looked down at the ground and said, no. We became good friends after that.
99. I love tools. I don't think it is possible for a man to have to many tools.
100. I am very happy to be done with my 100. I didn't realize that I was such a complex man.

100 things about me Continued from Continued

51. Barak Hussien Obama scares me almost as much as Hillary Clinton. I would think that the American people would be smart enough to be a little more hesitant to vote for a man with a middle name of Hussien.
52. I will vote for John McCain. I dis-agree with some of his policies and I don't like his personality. But, any man that spent 4 years in a POW camp for his country deserves to run it for 4 years. Even though I don't like the man, my personal opinion does not dispute the fact that he was an American hero. Plus I think that a pres. Hillary or a Pres Osama, would be the key that unlocks the doors to the apocalypse.
53. While working for Marathon Oil I shared an office with the guy that hired me. On many occasions we would cut the cheese and try to lock each other in the office. I don't think that was very professional conduct for a couple of engineers.
54. I get weekly calls to asking me to return to work for that company.
55. There are some movies that I could watch over and over again and never get tired of it. Back to the Future, Training Day, Rockstar, and Happy Gilmore. (edited versions of Training Day and Rockstar of course).
56. I like talking to people who think they are smart and try to portray how smart they are by talking about subjects that seem to be interesting to smart people, because deep down, even though I may seem like I am following the conversation, I more than likely am thinking about a Dukes of Hazzard episode.
57. Right now I am really thinking that I wish I would have only committed to writing 57 things about myself.
58. I hate working with negative people. People that are mopey booby, and p.o.ed. I think that it would be a good idea to put a person like that in a small room and filled it full of bananas and leave that person for a day. I think it is impossible to be in a bad mood when you are surrounded by a bunch of bananas.
59. There is a member of the Utah Highway Patrol, that If I saw him out of uniform and in the hills I would beat like a rented mule.
60. When I was a kid. I used to really enjoy burning ants with a magnifying glass. After a while I decided to step it up to gasoline, I would dump gasoline on ant piles and light them on fire. I thought that was good entertainment until I poured gas on a hot coal from an earlier burning and caught myself on fire. Then I decided that I better go back to the magnifying glass.
61. I think a good way to keep your neighbors dog from pooping on the lawn is after the dog has pooped, go out and pour bacon grease on the poop. The neighbor's dog will start cleaning up after himself.
62. I believe that if a person plays dungeons and dragons that person can be assured that he is a dork.
63. I believe that if a person is the dungeon master of his dungeons and dragons group that does not mean he is a cool dork, it means that he the dork source.
64. I don't believe that being a member of a fraternity makes you cool. Once in college, during pledge week I was hit up by a frat boy to pledge. He got to telling me about all the benefits of being a frat boy. I asked him, when was the last time he hooked up with a girl. He went quiet for a minute. I told him that was all I needed to know.
65. At a high school wrestling practice, the assistant wrestling coach got a little rough with the head coach so the head coach head butted the assistant coach, pushed him into another room shut the door, there was a rumbling around for a few minutes and they came back out. The assistant coach had his head down, looked sad and apologised to the team for his actions. I have always wondered what happened in that other room. Plus it was a pretty sweet head butt.
66. In college there was a little intra-mural wrestling tournament that I decided to wrestle in. There was this guy that showed up that was supposed to be a stud. He was a three time state champ and was wrestling for big college. Sure enough I had to wrestle him. He was just a higher caliber wrestler than I was. Right off I sunk a lucky head throw and pinned him about 30 seconds into the match. It was completely luck. I mean complete luck. The kid was infuriated. I shook his hand and told him good job. After the match he came over to me and asked me if we could have a rematch on the other mat. I lied and told him that I would like to, but I had to go home and help my dad. (I knew that kid could beat me any day of the week.) I told him that he put up a good fight and not to feel bad about it. I walked out of that gym very quickly with a big grin on my face. Why? Because that's just the way I roll.
67. When I was a little kid we had a camp trailor. When my dad would pull of the road to dump the sewer, my brothers and I would stand around and watch with excitement for giant turds to come flopping out. We really enjoyed that.
68. When I was a boy my mom would safetypin towels around me and my friend's neck so we could play superman. I used to think that superman could really fly until I jumped off the neighbors shed and did a bellyflop from 8 ft. After that I realised that there was no such thing as superman.
69. I believed in Superman up until I was 15.
70. When I was younger I was a swimmer. Back in the 80's when we were just learning about AIDS, my mom made the comment that the pool locker room bathrooms were gross and you could get aids from sitting on the toilets. I came home from swimming practice most days with belly ache. I hated swim team.
71. One day after swimming practice a kid started a fight with me in the showers. I ended up beating the crap out of him. Later in college he was my home teaching companion. I asked him if he remembered our fight in the showers. He said he didn't and changed the subject. I know he remembers.
72. One day my older brothers bike got stolen by a kid named squirrel. The cops caught him and my brother got his bike back. I think with a name like squirrel he probably should have got to keep the bike.
73. My favorite color is blue, and looking back I think my favorite color is blue because my dad's favorite color is blue, and If I'm guessing right his dad's favorite color was probably blue too. I hope my boys favorite color isn't pink or purple, because then I will have to wonder why his favorite color isn't blue.
74. When I was a very little boy I remember riding with my Mom and Dad and getting stuck in his old brown GMC. I remember suggesting that my dad put the truck into four wheel drive to get out. I remember my dad acting like he hadn't even thought of that and getting out of the truck and putting it into four wheel drive and driving us out of the mud. I remember sitting proudly saying that if it wasn't for me reminding him to put it in four wheel drive we would still be stuck. My parents thanked me over and over again for my help. They always made me feel ten feet tall.
75. One day on my mission I was driving with my comp. and a squirrel was in the middle of the road. My comp. sped up and hit the squirrel. It only wounded the squirrel, so my comp and I jumped out of the car, grabbed some sticks and and chased the squirrel up a tree. While we were trying to hit the squirrel this lady came out of her house and yelled, "what are you doing?" My comp. and I put on our sad faces and told the lady that we hit the squirrel and felt really bad and wanted to put it out of it's misery. She told us we were sweet, that most people would just keep driving. We said that we just felt bad. She was so touched that she invited us over to her house. I think she fed us Ice Cream.

100 things about me continued...

26. I just got a new Giant Hi-res Monitor for my work computer that is bad A.
27. About a week after my first date with my wife I was on a date with another girl (pre-cindy scheduling)at a Poison Concert and I had my date wait in line with me to buy Cindy a souvenier.
28. I don't think that being gay is a right or a privelege. I think it is a sin. Besides that I don't like how gay people talk.
29. One time when I was in the boy scouts, I was on a scout trip and had a leader that was always talking down to me and cutting on me. I was sitting in the back seat of his van on the way home and started licking a new piece of jerky then I stuck it out the window to dry then I offered the jerky to my scout leader. He took it and said thanks very sincerely, ate the jerky, and was nice to me the rest of the trip for giving him a piece of jerky. I almost felt bad for that.
30. I wrestled my whole life and don't think that I ever had a match that I didn't feel mental pressure.
31. I don't think that wrestling is a sport for girls. Not that they can't do a good job, just it grosses little boys out to have to wrestle girls.
32. I don't think that cheerleading and drill team is for boys. Even if you are gay. If you read this and are gay and offended please see number 28.
33. In the middle east men fight by pulling off their sandals and start hitting each other with them. I don't think that type of fighting is an effective way of fighting.
34. I think that in order for a person to collect a welfare check, that person has to pass a drug test. That welfare money came from people that payed taxes. The people that payed taxes had to pass a drug test, I think that is only fair.
35. I believe that child molesters and rapists should recieve the death penalty. I don't think it is curable.
36. At one point and time I believed that a Fourty ounce beer bottle in a paper sack was the state flower of Mississippi.
37. I still believe that the mosquito is the state bird of Mississippi.
38. I love Postum, and am saddened by its discontinuance.
39. I have a stockpile of postum and and am happy about that.
40. I believe that I can make a trip to bear country the scariest trip to bear country that a person could have.
41. I think that chitterlings should not be considered a food in any culture. They are hog intestines, you cannot cover up that flavor.
43. I hate hearing someone from another country in our country complain about our country. One day in college, a Japanese student went off on America after the movie Pearl Harbor came out. I told him to get the hell out, we didn't invite him.
44. I believe that the Labrador Retriever is all around the best dog to have. My Little bro bought a English Mastiff and for a while I started changing my mind because it is the coolest looking dog that I had ever seen. However I went back to the Lab because I realised that English Mastiffs just lay around, eat, look pretty and take Giant huds. However it would be a good dog to sick on someone.
45. I think that it is ok to play in Texas without a fiddle in the band.
46. When I was in school, I thought about becoming a pharmacist. But after watching a pharmacist count pills all day I wondered if I would be able to count pills all day without taking pills all day to deal with counting pills all day.
47. I played the Saxophone up through my sophmore year in High School. I think that I was pretty good. I did the pep band the marching band and the Jazz band. They even handed out Shirts that you could have your cool band nickname embriodered on it. At that time I really wished that I had chosen to play the trombone because I could think of a million cool nicknames that would go with the trombone. When kids started showing up to school with band letterman jackets and embriodered shirts that said "Saxastud", "Flutti Tuttie", "Clair-Annette", "Tubatoothpaste", and "French WHorn". My shirt just said Dave. I realized that band wasn't for me. Plus I wanted a Trombone nickname.
48. I wasn't a very nice kid in semminary and at one point and time my teacher told me that if I memorized all of my scripture master scriptures I would never have to come back and he would give me an A. I thought that was a cop-out on his part so I didn't memorise any of the scriptures and stayed in semminary to liven up the class. He only taught one year.
49. In the 8th grade I really liked talking and entertaining the class. So my teacher made me sit back in the very back corner in this huge desk for the rest of the year. I felt bad for a minute until Derek Heap brought me a swimsuit calender to stash in my desk, just in case I got lonely. I loved that desk.
50. I think that if a person is 15 years old and rides to school with his mom in her mini-van, that, that person is not a gangster and should have to pull his pants up.
50b. I don't know why but my blogger spell checker is not working so sorry, you will have to deal withhe mie misstspellangs.
To be continued.....

100 things about me.

Miandmiksmom put me up to the challenge of writing 100 things about myself. So here goes.

1. I don't like Bums. We have a couple of Transients that have recently made a home in Sheridan and every time I drive by them I feel like throwing something out the window at them.
2. I don't like Hillary Clinton. It scares the pants off of me to think that she may become president.
3. I love hunting.
4. I love fishing.
5. I used to love fishing better than hunting until I got a hunting dog. After that I loved hunting more better.
6. I am starting to love fishing as much as hunting again.
7. I am a firm believer that sometimes giving someone a fat lip is the only solution.
8. I love Jesus. I don't think that he would agree with number seven or number one. But He may agree with me on number two.
9. In high school My older brother, me, and some of our friends used to wizz of the overpass onto oncoming traffic for fun.
10. My older brother and I have talked about things we did in high school and agree that now days we would be in councelling, and might possibly be considered terrorists.
11. I could eat seafood every day for every meal and never get tired of it.
12. I really like a good pocket knife.
13. I can go for a long time with out swearing but sometimes I will just have a day that I swear enough to make up for the long time without swearing.
14. I have never taken the Lord's name in vane.
15. The last time I said the F-word was 8 years ago when I was engaged. What can I say, 6 month engagement, kind of frustrating.
16. If I had a wooden leg, I think that I would attach a kickstand to it, just so I could say that I have a wooden leg with a kickstand.
17. I still think my wife is hot, and think that the only reason that I scored such a babe is because I am a good salesman.
18. Sometimes when I wake up early in the morning for work I am extra loud so my little boy will wake up so I can play with him at work.
19. I would always have my 3 brother's and Dad's back in a fight even if it meant going to jail.
20. One time in Elementary School I stapled Boner Bezanson's back. I still feel bad about that.
21. When I was a kid my German Shorthair ran away with my brothers German Shepherd. We went away for the weekend and came home and my brothers dog came back. Mine didn't. My brother said that he prayed all weekend that his dog would come back. I realized that I hadn't prayed at all that weekend that my dog would come back, and that was why my dog didn't come back. I still wish I would have prayed that weekend.
22. When I was a boy my mother made me take piano lessons. I think that I was pretty good, but I thought that the piano was for girls and homo's, so I hated it and never told any one that I could play the piano. I still can read music and I still don't tell people that I can play the piano because I still think it is for girls and homo's.
23. I think I will let my wife make my boy take piano lessons because I think it is good for the mind, and I don't think that my boy will think that the piano is just for girls and homos because I think he will be a nicer boy than I was.
24. I don't have a lot of friends, but the friends I do have I trust. If I don't trust a person I won't even pretend to be his friend.
25. My wife is a good enough friend that even if I didn't have any friends I could still be just as happy as if I had a whole bunch of friends.
To be continued.....

Yeah, I'm going there.

At 18 years of age and about two months before my mission. A friend took me to a place just north of Minersville, Utah. I never thought about the name Minersville and where it came from until I was shown the numerous mines that surrounded the Minersville area. There was something intriguing about the old openings. Some openings went as tunnels into the mountain and others were vertical pits littered with century old mining paraphanalia around the entrance. I immediately wanted to explore the mines and was stopped short by the fear of my friend. My friend just didn't want to go there. I decided that I would have to go about the mine exploration alone.

The next morning I woke up early, grabbed a flashlight, some extra batteries, and a hammer (to chip out the gold of course) and headed for Minersville.

There was one mine that stood out from the previous day that I knew I had to explore. I drove around the Minersville hills for about an hour, lost trying to find my special mine, until I came across an equally intriguing mine. Only about 15 feet from where I had parked, and over a few sagebrush was a hole about 4 foot wide by 6 foot tall. I climbed out of my primer grey Ford Bronco II equipped with an 8-ball stick shifter (I had to throw that in so you could know what kind of bad-A I was back then), grabbed my flash light and hammer and headed into the dark adventure that was ahead of me.

As I entered the mine, I inspected the mine for safety, and with 18 years of experience of messing around in places that I shouldn't, deemed the mine safe for exploration. As I walked throught the mine, I looked closely at the walls for, perhaps a little gold that had been left behind. After about 200 feet of close inspection, I realized that whomever painstakingly chipped this cave out by hand probably made sure that he didn't leave any gold behind. As I explored deeper I came across a small cave-in that made me a little unsure of going any farther, but being the safety expert that I was, decided that I would be OK to venture on. I climbed over the rubble and headed deeper into the hole. After what seemed like 300 feet, I came to a place that looked like the earth had settled about 3 feet and I looked down at the settled area and found a vein of turqoise. I took my hammer and chipped away the vein and filled my pockets. After taking a minute to reflect on my success I decided to venture deeper into the cave. Turn after turn, straight-away after straight-away I walked deeper. There were little if any branches to the tunnel, and what branches I found, I explored, and never found any branch to go much farther than 100 feet. As I traveled deeper I came to a wooden structure about 2 feet tall blocking the mine and what seemed like the end of my adventure. As I walked closer and looked over the barrier, I saw that the shaft was no longer horizontal but vertical. The wooden structure was a support for a ladder system leading deep, very deep. As I shined my flashlight over the edge I couldn't see the bottom. I inspected the ladder system and though the system seemed structurally sound, I realized that the structure had been built probably 100 years earlier. I thought about climbing down the ladder, but thought I should perform a few safety tests first. I picked up a rock and tossed it into the hole and listened. I never heard it hit the bottom. I did however hear what I thought was a faint cursing in Chinese. I'll never know though. I threw another larger rock and listened for a landing and never heard it. That scared me enough to decide that it would not be in my best interest to not go there.

Today I want to go somewhere that perhaps I shouldn't go, but I would like to. First, I do want to say that truly and deep down. I am not a racist. I can say that at times ignorance has caused me to make judgements on people different than I, (Race, Religion, Politics, etc.) and in the aftermath of getting to know someone that fell into my ignorant prejudgemet, realized how foolish my un-educated pre-judgements really were. I think most of us are guilty of that sometimes. Maybe I am the only one, I don't know. As I have experienced being around people that are different than me, I have come to realize more fully that most of us are all struggling with the same problems regardless of Race or Religion. I do believe that there are some things out there that do more harm for their race in the name of helping their race. I want to mention some things that bother me.. Yes, I am going there.

1. I am bothered by the United Negro College Fund. I think that a college fund designed for people to ensure that their money only goes to someone of another race is racist. I don't even think it is proper to say negro any more? How can you have a college fund called that. Can you imagine the uproar If I started a United Honky College Fund?

2. I am bothered by The Miss Black America Contest. For the same reasons as above. " There she is Miss White America..... Just not happening.

3. I am bothered by BET (Black Entertainment Television.) Not just for the same reasons as mentioned, but I think that If a channel is going to only play shows with African Americans in them, they should have to take claim on Steve Erkel.

4. I am bothered by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Any time a celebrity or politition says something derogotory or racially incorrect they have to apologise to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Hell, don't apologise to Jesse and Al, apologise to who you said it too. If Denzel Washington called me a cracker, I'm not going to feel better if he got on National Television and apologised to Reverend Billy Graham. I want him to call me. I don't need it to be a national issue.

5. I am bothered by equal opportunity employment. I think this forces an employer to take race into account when hiring, instead of the most qualified.

6. I am bothered by affirmative action and its intent to promote access to education or employment aimed at historically sociopolitically non-dominant group. I think this ensures the labeling of a non-dominant group.

My list is by no means exhaustive. Those are just a few things that I think hinder a productive society.

I think as a nation we have come along way. Look at our presidential front runners. We have a White Woman, a Black Muslim, and an 80 year old White Guy. I think this proves that we have come a long way.

I think we, collectively as a nation, are getting over the bigotry. I just think that there are some out there (e.g. Jesse and Al) that wouldn't have a living unless it were still alive.

Perhaps I shouldn' t have gone here. I feel strongly about it and welcome any comments, critisms, or questions.

I guess sometimes when you don't go somewhere, you are always left not having gone there. And just as with my cave, I could go further, but I won't, because I am afraid.