Ok, I know everyone is dying to know how my speech went this week, and I'll get to that in a moment.  Hey, I gotta build suspense...that's what the great storytellers do, right?  Yeah...ummm...so anyway....I did the speech this past Monday night but my day started off with something else.  No, Vick didn't eat anymore baby rabbits, I actually had a phone interview with the Quality News Network website.  It's a website that does interviews with candidates all over the country and posts the recordings of those interviews for people to listen to.  It was a pretty cool experience.  I was asked questions about immigration, the war in Iraq, stuff about myself that I had posted on my website, things like that.  If you want to hear it, just go to my homepage at www.boforsenate.com and you can click on the link I have posted on the main page.  The thing is, I get SO worked up when I talk about political issues that I go a mile a minute, so several times I had to mentally tell myself "dude...calm down".  Plus, it was the first candidate interview I've done, so I had no clue what to expect.  I think it came out ok though.  I can tell you this, after I got done the guy who interviewed me said that on a personal note, even though he disagreed with a lot of my opinions he found my answers to be very honest and have integrity to them which he respected.  If anything is going to help me in this Senate race it will be that I don't care who I offend, who I say is an idiot, or whatever...I will speak my mind.  How many politicians do you hear doing that?

After that it was time to get into my new suit, which I have to say I looked quite amazing in, and hit the road for Memphis.  Now, as if my road rage wasn't bad enough, I now have another reason.  Normally I fill-up my car with gas when I drop right below a quarter of a tank, and by that time with normal daily driving to work and stuff I have gone about 230 miles.  Well, my total trip to Memphis was about 215 miles and I had just burned through half a tank when I arrived.  So of course the next day driving to work while I'm sitting in traffic I'm screaming in my head "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY YOU IDIOTS ARE COSTING ME?!?!?!"  I know I know, just calm down...but it was still something to tick me off.  Well I arrived a wee bit early intentionally to avoid rush hour traffic, so I stopped to get something to eat.  Did I sit there and go over my speech notes?  Nah...I finished reading Stephen King's "Cell".  Great story, but unlike him as the ending left something to be desired.  Next it was onto the meeting of the Shelby County Libertarian Party.  I arrived at the restaurant it was at and went back to the banquet hall.  Some people were in there so I announced who I was hoping for great fanfare only to find out it was another meeting that I barged in on that hadn't finished yet.  Oh well.  I excused myself and went outside to smoke.  After a few I went back in and the guy who contacted me about speaking recognized me from my awesome photo on my Senate homepage.  Me and him talked for a few and he introduced me to some other people with him.  Ok, I'll get to it...I know...I'm dragging this out.  Fast-forward to the start of the meeting.  Now I didn't know when I would be speaking...I figured they'd have some things to go over for a few...but the guy who runs it introduced me and there I was...standing up and speaking.  I wasn't nervous when I started, but much like the phone call earlier in the day, a thought hit me as I started talking - "Dude...you're giving your first campaign speech!" and I got nervous for about 5 seconds.  I mean seriously, I've done a lot of things in life.  I've been a radio DJ, TV sports announcer, wrote a book, wrestled in a professional match, been the frontman for a metal band, and here I was actually giving a campaign speech for the Senate race.  It was quite strange, but I enjoyed the heck out of it.  I spoke for about 25 minutes on who I am, various issues and such, and then the questions started.  Let me say that Libertarians know their Constitution and tax laws.  I did ok though...I mean I prefaced it by saying that I don't know everything...oh I know, hard to believe...but it's true.  I took questions for about 30 minutes or so.  It rocked.  I loved it...I thrive on pressure situations and this was one of them.  After it was over several people told me that I had their vote.  I handed out a bunch of business cards for them to pass out as well.  One of the more heated topics was over Muslims and the current war.  Not to go into the entire story but discussions came up about Muslims because in my speech I said we need to quit calling it the "war on terror" and start calling it "the war on radical Islam" because that's what it is.  They don't hate us because of democracy or freedom, they hate us because we aren't Muslim and they want to kill us because of that.  It's not that I had anyone go "man you are FULL of it" or anything like that, but the topic of why they hate us was discussed.  The whole time was a great experience, and the people I met and spoke to are extremely passionate about this country and the original intent of the founding fathers which excited me a lot.  I love history, and love discussing things with people who really study it so I had a great time.  And like I said, several told me I had their vote so I think the speech went well.

When I left Memphis that night I was checking the radio and ran across the Michael Savage show.  If you didn't know, I LOVE listening to this guy.  So I'm driving out of Memphis and wondering just how many people really think the Muslim faith is violent and hateful, because sometimes I feel alone in that thought...and then Dr. Savage came through for me.  Savage is popular because he will say what a lot of us think but might be too scared to say in a public forum.  When I tuned him in he was on quite a rant.  He said that he will believe there is a different between "peaceful" Muslims and terrorists when the peaceful ones hang the terrorists up by their necks with their guts spilling out because they hijacked their religion.  Now I wouldn't state it quite like that, but I agree to a point.  Until I see the so-called peaceful Muslims outraged over the terrorist acts then I will believe they are all one in the same.  For example, I read a story a few weeks back about the movie "United 93".  The story goes that two Muslims were at some store and were accosted by a middle-aged couple who had just seen the movie.  Supposedly they were told this is America and to take off the burka and all that.  Well, it just so happens that one of the Muslims was the leader of the chapter of CAIR (council for American islam relations) in that area.  So she sent out a message about this movie being dangerous because it spread hate.  When I read this I hearkened back to R. Lee Ermey in the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" when his character of Sheriff Hoyt sniffs a couple of times in the air and goes "huh...I smell bullshit".  I don't believe for a second that actually happened.  I think it's a way of "oh look what this movie is doing to us poor Muslims".  What they SHOULD have released in their statement was "it's a shame these idiot terrorists had to make us look bad"...but did they?  Nah.  They would rather bitch and moan about some middle-aged couple yelling at them (which I doubt happened) than state adamantly that they aren't of the same ideology of the terrorists.  Like I said in my Q&A section of my speech...I have heard from Muslims from the middle east that have converted to Christianity that the true face of Islam is what the terrorists do, and that the "moderate and peaceful" Muslim is the equivalent of someone here saying "I believe in God" but hasn't really read the Bible or gone to church.  And if this makes me a hate-monger then good...I could use the press...hahahaha.  Oh and before anyone starts with "Well people have also done things that were horrible that called themselves Christians"...I would have to agree...but at the same time state that those actions were always discounted by someone as being part of a small minority.

Oh, and didn't you love how Madonna started her latest tour in a mock crucifixion?  Why?  Because she's a coward.  Christians see this stuff all the time and are getting almost numb to it...it's no big deal.  If she REALLY wanted headlines she could have worn a t-shirt with an image of Mohammed throwing a bomb or something.  Oh wait, that would take courage and guts.  Yeah...last I checked Christians weren't chopping off people's heads like some others seem to enjoy doing in the name of their god which isn't the same God I worship.  Those who deny the Son deny the Father...just remember that.  Those aren't my words...they are God's.

And finally, I'll leave you with me looking quite dashing in my new suit.  It's a vidcap from my camcorder so it's not the best in the world...but you can't deny I am one cool looking candidate...hahahahaha.

Oh, and Al Gore has some stupid movie out about global warming.  Hey Al...stick to hunting down man-bear-pig.  If you don't know what I'm talking about then man you are missing out.  Check out some South Park....I'm serial!   HAHAHAHAHAHA!