Well I found another guy who seems to have found the same bablance in life, and then some, some would say. He’s a critic for a local newspaper in Colorado. And here’s where it gets even better, he get to critic one of his favorite pastimes and get paid to do it as often as he wantsor I guess I really should say as much as he NEEDS. See this young man samples and writes reviews on medical marijuana for the locla newspaper. He is the first of his kind in the country and you can bet he’s enjoying his work every single day. Now I do need to clarify things here and mention that this guy does suffer from chronic stomach pain and is legally allowed to used medical grade marijuana for treatment of this problem. So lets make it clear here that he is legal to use the stuff. But with so many MM shops open in the Denver area and throughout the state of Colorado and with all the different types of weed out on the market, it just seems to make sense that there was someone out there who could help these paitent/clients decide what type of weed is for them. It’s at this point in the blog where I can understand the 2 different reactions coming from you all out there, the opened minded/liberal, self styled enlightened thinkers out there saying “well this all sounds like a very good thing” while the more conservative oldschool/traditional thought would be “YA RIGHT! Who’s this guy fooling?” I think this whole issue is symbolic of just how far we’ve come as a country and yet how backwards we still seem to be at the gut level. I admit to be very skeptical when I first read this story, I mean I spent a great deal of my youth and adulthoodb  in the marijuana culture, I know what a stoner is and what they are all about lifestyle wise,and believe methey’d all be lining up for the kind of job this guy has. But thats what I mean about looking at marijuana through a outdated prizum. To me it’s clear that there are enough people in the medical community who believe in the benefiits of medical grade marijuana, so why can’t the whole country come to grips with the idea of making available for those people anywhere in the country who might get real medical help for there aliments? Why just Colorado and California? Can only those people feel better using it and if you use it in Indiana you dont’t feel it? What is it? Ithink it’s the fact that there still is so much misinformation or lingering “Reefer Madness” that permiates American society that we have been unable to move past the idea that there just might be something actually benefical from using marijuana at the medical level. I’m not going to sit here today and scream for the total legalization of pot, but I do think it’s time that the federal government and the National medical community come together and finally decide whether the citizens of the country as a whole could be benefiting from medical marijuana. I know we have to deal with the pharmacudical companies to, but if the decision is that it’s good, then of course they’ll get there big piec of the action. It’s just a question this story broguth to my head and please watch the attached story and tell me what you think.http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/07/28/n_pot_weed_marijuana_critic.cnnmoney/?hpt=C2

      I just needed to share these thoughts out loud with you all. It was something I needed to write, read and learn from

     How about all this free agent stuff in the NBA. I haven’t been a fan of the NBA the past10-12 years as the game began to drift back into a individual game and lost it’s team style luster. Watching Labron James, Dywane Wade, and Chris Bosch literly hold the league hostage till they decide where to go play and the amount of money that is being talked about for each player I wonder how the league can survive with so many “havenot” teams that can’t compete with revenues less than the big teams it just looks like there is going to be big problems ahead for the league.

       Here’s something I wanted to run by you guys too. Do you think it’s appropriate for the following to happen: A woman who was divorced then re-marries and has joint custody of her daughter with her X husband, who is the daughters FATHER/DAD, tells her daughter without talking to the daguthers REAL father to call her new stepfather “DAD”? I find myself in this postion right now and my personal feelings are one of  anger, sadness and totally insulted am I over reacting here? Please share your opinion with me, it would help alot!

      World cup Sunday Netherlands vs Spain, will you be watching, who are you picking? I’;; take whoever the German Octypus chooses! That damn thing has picked every winner in the cup….EVERYONE! He should be in Vegas ,not in a tank in Munich!

      Enjoyed the World Cup soccer action this year. I’ve been an up and down soccer fan most of my life, but these days with all the international flavor in my family, there was plenty to cheer about. I have a Brother in law and a sister who live in Liverpool England,I have another Brother in Law who’s from Brazil, and My Great Great Grand father and the recently discovered, long time connection for our Family to South Korea through his work there for over 40 years gave me 3 other teams to cheer for besides the USA, the drag is on Brazil was left at the time I wrote this Blog and I think they were losing today last I checked. Anyway I was suprised how I was so excited to get up in the morning to watch various matches, It kind of had that Olympic feel to it.

      Just celebrated my Daughters 7th Birthday a few days a go. She still is the apple of my eye and I’m so very proud to be a Dad and to see her growing up to be a very special young lady. I just hate watching it all from 1000 miles away!

Hey everyone have a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend, and Hope to catch you all out around the pool, or the grill or the fireworks over the weekend.

Anyway I hope you fathers out there got to spend time with your kids yesterday and took a moment to reflect on how proud you are to be a dad and have those special moments one on one with them. And for my fellow fathers out there who didn’t get to see there kid’s yesterday. Lets us just remember we don’t have it nearly as tough as those men serving around the world in our armed forces doing there duty for this country under circumstances we can’t even imagine!

I like everyone else in the country is getting so annoyed with the lack of real progress in the cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. I could go into all the issues on both sides of the drilling argument but this blog would never end. I do want to throw out this thought with regard to all the chatter of a Boycott against the oil giant. While I do see the “symbolism” of such a movement, and of course I can see the potential financial damage that so many want to inflict as punshishment for this horrible accident, but here’s another point of view. Why do we want to run the company in the ground when it’s going to take billions of dollars to clean up and compensate people for the damages so many have suffered? See if BP stays in business and we keep buying gas from them, the y will be able to keep spending all those profits by finishing the clean up, and then paying damages to all the people whose lives have be ruined because of the accident. If we say boycott and drive them into bankruptcy, then guess that will end up having to foot the bill for the clean up? Yup the American tax payer and bankruptcy would also mean they wouldn’t have to pay damages to all those people and the economy of the gulf coast would probably never recover.  Just a thought on how to do what you do every day, (buy gas), and avoid tax money being used for cleaning the beaches and waterways, and assure that BP is around to compensate those who have lost so much. 

The other thought is this. Somebody tell me they are as mad as I am the Yearn Vander Sloot, was given money in a F.B.I. extortion sting, and before the F.B.I. finally decided to open the indictment he took the money he was given in the sting operation, and promptly flew to Peru and allegedly  killed another girl. I mean The F.B.I. in Alabama had the evidence, and a sealed indictment in there possession as of May 10th, they could have filed it, got a warrant for his arrest, and had him extradited from Aruba, and this second young lady wouldn’t have been murdered!

 I mean the sad thing is he didn’t move for over 2 minutes and then when I got to where I could take his picture he was actually driving!

     Well I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands, As of today. when i see ANY OF YOU doing anything like what I’ve described above. I am going to take a picture of you and your car with my camera, and  publish that picture and your tag number right here on my blog page and the station pages too!So for all of you who block drive ways and not let people turn on to the roads, for all of you who won’t allow the employees at the station to pull out of our drive way and go home like everyone else , AND FOR ALL OF YOU WHO BLOCK UP RIGHT TURN LANES AND DONT EVEN TURN, be aware, what I’m going to to do from now on. Oh and don’t think sneaking around the back way down Garlington and Roper Mountain makes you any better. Get on the damn Freeway and stay off our roads. It should NEVER take me 26 minutes to get to work when I live less than 2 miles from the station. An as the Late George Carlin once suggested, I’m going to propose that the city allows us to have stupid flags we can stick on the back of cars of peoiple who do all these idiotic things. See we can all have these little toy dart guns thet allow us to shoot a stupid flag that will stick to your car then when the cops see you have like 10 of them on your car they can just remove you from the road and take your keys away. I’m sure of it right now, more of you are going to die or kill someone else txting or talking on your phones in the next 12 month than drunk drives will!