The World According to Me.

Well it is about that time, run to the kitchen..cook the turkey, make the stuffing, pies, etc. Good times. I love this time of year, the next 30 days are my favorite. I love my family and my children, being around them just makes my day. I feel so blessed with what I have overcome this year, from a destroyed lower back that left me incapacitated for 2 months..to making Master Mason. This year has certainly brought a lot and nearly every aspect has given me a positive experience. I'm truly thankful that I have my family, my wife and two children make my day on a routine basis. Today on the way to work the Rod Stewart song "Forever Young" came on and I almost balled like a chick thinking about my son Dawkin. Really, children are amazing parts of a life. My wife has officially been there through my worst times in life, from the death of my mother to my own destruction this year. She is always there to help. And though we have more than our fair share of problems and argument...

Everyone has them, man I'm getting hammered recently. I will have 10 straight days under my belt shortly, this is nutzo. Can't wait for Thanksgiving so hopefully I can take some time off (Thu/Fri).

I'm seriously done with making excuses for people I know. Sick and tired of saying things like "that is just how it is" or "just learn to get along". How about no. I have nothing in common with some and no real interest to find something. Listening to people I care about ramble on about how we need to "just all get along" is officially making me sick. Check it, if everyone you believe cares about you, has to run around telling others why you're an "OK" person, that means you're probably a problem.

Heard about one of my friends getting beat up by her boyfriend. This is something my wife has gone through and it makes me want to break someone. How tough are you that you can beat up a chick, really? Way to man up. If anyone ever touched my daughter like that I don't think I'd be too worried about the jail time. Just unbelievable.

I can't remember where the summer went, and was out all spring. This year has flipping blown by. Makes me wonder what 2011 brings since it will be here in about 45 days. The kids are growing up...Dawkin is now 4, Morgan is turning 2....amazing. Found a few new friends this year and found a few new enemies. Luckily, the good has vastly outweighed the bad...fell in love with God and made Master Mason...got to say it was a good day. The football season is great, the Iggles are doing me proud. Heck, anytime you spank the Redskins for 59 points is amazing, special thanks Skins for letting the Eagles get 3 new NFL records. Good times. Wifey is 'movin on up' and looks to be making a move soon. Hope the best for her, she tries hard. Can't wait for the holiday season. Fall is my favorite time, cool weather and colorful trees...and of course....FOOTBALL.

One of the pitches out of Congress following the failed "Debt Commission", was increasing the Federal gas tax from 18 cents to 33 cents (nearly doubling it) , an increase of 15 cents per gallon. Add that to the state average gas tax of around 22 cents, that equals 55 cents in just tax, JUST TAX. At the same time the Country is reeling from debt, loss of income, drop of the dollars value and no housing equity, throw in the insane legislative Eco-Nazi push for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles. How exactly is this in any way a long term debt solution for anything? What this is, is a ploy. It is an attack on the consumer on a few fronts; taxation of course for the pure benefit of being able to spend it and by the Eco-Party who isn't content with the gradual movement to fuel efficiency in America, even though more cars now than in history are fuel efficient. If they can get you to accept a 45% increase, then the next time when they ask for 40% it isn't going to seem s...

So Obama put together 18 people to make up a deficit reduction commission aimed at reducing the deficit. That is a great idea, almost stellar, and what a leader should be doing, reducing the nations red column. However, just as with healthcare, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about things. Unless there is an entire re-write of US tax code which moves us from a progressive tax base to a flat-tax tax base, there is no way on earth that any of the "ideas" of this commission would come to pass. Which begs the question "was this just an exercise in futility?" Some of the notions were: severely cutting Social Security, huge reductions in Medicare and removal of the Mortgage interest write-off. This is incredible without substantial tax changes. First, Social Security..no matter what you do here somebody gets slammed, either the old or the young. It is as simple as that. Because the only remotely fair way to do this would be to say something along the lines of: ...