Alright, I’m not going to B.S. you. I’m not any different from any other joker out there with a website. Sure, I can probably bench press more than a majority of jokers with websites, and I’m probably taller than a majority of jokers with websites, but that’s it. And all that stuff does is make it hard for me to fit into little spaces, and gives me the ability to pick up heavy things. And that means I get to help a lot of people move, which I don’t mind… depending on the person. But I digress. What it comes down to is this… I have some stuff to say, and I needed a place to say it. Do I expect a huge web following? Umm, no. I’ll be lucky if my friends and family don’t get tired of me. That’s assuming they haven’t already… alas, I fear the worst.

This site is mostly full of my opinions on political and social issues, with some sports and other general stuff that is on my mind. Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, I’m politically conservative (gasp) and a registered Republican (double gasp). What a horrible, mean spirited person I must be, right? Well, I hope not, but you’ll have to be the judge of that. I’m sure if you were to ask people that know me they would say that I’m a pretty decent guy. So, how was it possible I became a conservative? Aren’t they racist, sexist, ageist and any other “ist” you can think of? Don’t they want us to goose step around in jackboots wearing arm bands while they starve children, steal from the elderly, and pour oil on little fuzzy animals? NO!! But that is self evident to any intellectually honest person. The problem is that requires someone to be intellectual and honest. Two traits that escape a majority of today’s society. This was part of the inspiration for this site. To dispel the myths of what it is to be conservative. To act as an antidote to the liberal media that takes advantage of the uninformed to push their political agenda. I won’t go into that here, but I feel this is one of the most important subjects in America today. Quick, run, go to my rant on this issue.

So what shaped my views on the world? Well… since you didn’t ask, I’ll tell you. It has been my experiences in my relatively short 28 years on this planet. I’ve had the opportunity to live, work, and travel in 21 of the 50 states. Okay, so it’s less than half, but it was most of the big ones. I’ve also been to 3 countries; I know it isn’t that impressive. Especially since in Tijuana I saw more Californians than Mexicans, and I was only in Germany for a few hours… but it still counts dammit! At least my trip to Italy is legit.

I spent most of my young life in Southern California, spending most summers in Colorado. In an absolutely brilliant move by my mother we relocated to beautiful, rural Central California for high school. No more concrete covered, smoggy, heat islands, with their snobby superficial people. It was now small towns, cattle, horses, pigs, and good, decent people who were more likely to help their neighbor than to flip them off in traffic. While in high school I found that I was blessed with some athletic talent. Enough that I would earn a football scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. My collegiate football career was fairly short lived after suffering a series of back injuries, and culminating in the fusing of my lower spine. Thus bringing an end to my fledgling football career. Although I didn’t see it at the time, it was a blessing in disguise.

When I started school at Berkeley I was politically naive. My professors got behind their podiums and I took what they said as the gospel. Hell, what did I know; I was just a dumb jock. But something wasn’t sitting right with me. I didn’t like what they were saying. They kept telling me how horrible America was, how horrible men were, how horrible capitalism was, and how horrible religion was. Now, I was an American, I was becoming a man, I wanted to be a capitalist, I wasn't particularly religious but respected the beliefs of those that were. In my heart I knew my professors and the entire far left culture of Berkeley was wrong. I just didn’t have the confidence or knowledge base to express my anger at what we were being force-fed. Near the end of my years at Berkeley (around '96-'97) I began to read books and articles outside the required reading. For the first time I was getting a worldview that was not from the far left. I was beginning to gain the courage and knowledge I would use to challenge my socialist and communist professors.

After my escape…err… graduation from Berkeley in 1998 I moved to Colorado. I was living in Denver. I was back to concrete covered, smoggy, heat islands. The difference being that in Southern California it took hours to get out of the city. Now I was only 30 minutes from the Rocky Mountains. A quick escape from big city insanity. During this time I traveled extensively for work seeing most of my 21 states. After living a for a time in Fort Collins, CO I moved to Idaho to coach football at the University of Idaho. The time in Idaho was the toughest of my entire life. I was under an incredible amount of psychological and physical stress working 18-hour days with some (not all) amazing jerks… to put it kindly. The easiest days were game days. It was a very difficult time, but I don’t regret a moment. It taught me a lot about human nature, stress, pain, success, interpersonal skills, leadership, and most importantly it taught me a lot about myself. I resigned from my coaching position and returned to Colorado, which I still consider to be the finest state in the Union.

See, the bottom line is that experience gives you a different view of the world. You can sit in your comfortable suburban home and call Nebraskans stupid, but if you’ve never been to Omaha how do you know? It’s like saying you hate eating potato salad, but you have never tried it. How do you know you hate it? All the Europeans who demonstrate against the U.S. and call us arrogant cowboys… I wonder how many on them have been to the United States. So, when people sit back and flippantly call conservatives, idiots, morons, not “deep-thinkers”, un-cultured, and cruel, I ask myself…how many conservative do they know? They watch the liberal media, and only talk to other liberal minded people who reinforce their own bigoted stereotypes.