Oh yeah, my ATL boys kicked some Titan butt last weekend and yours truly was there to see it live!  Now I do like the Titans since Nashville is my adopted hometown, but ANY team that plays Atlanta is one I hope loses, and loses bad.  Me and my bud Jason got to LP Field about 3 hours before kickoff to hit the 615 club and see what was going on.  We walk in and find out the name has changed to The Country Monkey...ok...ummm....what a catchy name?  Anyway, we sit down and get some drinks and see some dudes setting up TV's and Playstations.  We ask what was going on and they said they were setting up for a Madden tournament and asked if we wanted to enter.  After a couple of drinks I was like "why not" so we did.  In the first round I was playing against a kid who was about 10 years old...no lie.  I BARELY beat him by a score of 13-6.  Jason had an easier time against a 7 year old...again no lie...as he won 17-0.  You know, there was a time when I could not lose a football video game, but now they've added so much crap to them that I don't take the time to learn, I can be beaten by someone who even has a casual knowledge of those extra features.  We both made it to the semi-finals, and I got KILLED.  Jason lost but not by much.  Oh you should have seen me in the opening round though.  The competitive juices started flowing and I was saying stuff like "oh you can't stop Michael Vick!  Oh look at the moves of Warrick Dunn!  WOOOO that's my boy Kerney getting another sack baby!"  Yeah, talking smack to a ten year old.  Oh well.  At least the dude that beat me was in his 20's.  But the guys putting on the tournament found me to be quite entertaining with the stuff I was saying.  Now here's a funny anecdote.  After the first game I wanted to go to the bathroom before my next game started.  So I go down the hall and into the bathroom.  I walk in and think to myself "wow...I think this is the first guy's bathroom I've been in that is nothing but stalls".  I thought it was strange, but dismissed it.  Well when the tournament was over, Jason was headed to the bathroom before we went to the game and I decided to go one more time also.  We turn the corner to go down the hall where the bathrooms are, and I notice Jason enters a door that was a lot closer to the bar than the one I went in earlier...and that's when it hit me.  Yep, earlier I went into the women's bathroom and thankfully it was empty.  So while I'm at the urinal I'm laughing and Jason is like "what's so funny?" so I tell him and we both had a good laugh.  After the game we're leaving and some moron in a truck yells to me "THE FALCONS SUCK!!!" because I had my ATL gear on, and I was baffled as to how he could yell that when they just KILLED the Titans.  So I look at him and go "well, they did WIN!" and stared at him for a second.  What an idiot.  First it's a preseason game which means nothing, and second my team beat Tennessee badly.

Remember when I said I was being considered for a statewide televised debate?  Well I posted info on my Senate website about it, and people have started to email the League of Women Voters and News Channel 5 (the two entities putting this debate on) to ask for them to include me.  Now no decision has been made yet...but it's awesome that people are emailing about having me on this debate.  It's supposed to take place on Saturday, October 28th.  If you want to contact those two entities about this, head over to www.boforsenate.com and check out the "news" section.  I've been busy as heck over the last week or two on campaign stuff.  I've been receiving a ton of emails after that radio interview I did, and have a lot of support.  I swear, it still boggles my mind.  My goal was to get 1,000 votes, and if I had to make a guess right now, I will greatly surpass that number but who knows.  When I talk to people about the campaign, they find my honesty beyond refreshing.  For instance, at the game last weekend I asked a guy who was wearing a Steve Bartkowski jersey (old ATL QB) where he got it.  Another dude with him says "man you look familiar" and I jokingly said "well you probably saw me in the news as a Senate candidate".  Next thing I know I'm addressing a group of people.  One guy said "I know you've got integrity...here you are running for the Senate in Tennessee and you're wearing a Falcon's jersey...that tells me you will always stick to your guns".  Like Patton once said, I am no politician and I am no diplomat.  I will always call it like I see it and the people I have talked to while campaigning are blown away by this....isn't that sad?  It's pathetic that people don't feel that those who are supposed to be serving us in government are speaking from the heart.  I mean I understand completely because I feel the same way...the only thing most politicians care about is getting elected and staying in their position, and they will do whatever it takes to make sure it happens.  And with all the stuff going on in the middle east, especially Iran, until this country has a person like Winston Churchill or General George Patton as a leader, we are in big trouble.  I hate to say that but it's the truth.  Our "leaders" are so scared of how they'll be perceived they run around trying to appease people and not offend anyone while trying to fight a war for our survival.  Screw that...start the carpet bombing.  I'm sick of us playing the nice guy.  The terrorists know that the leaders of this country won't go all-out, and so does the dictator madman of Iran.  The only way to keep other countries from messing with you is to show them some force and then go "ok...anyone else wanna try something?".  Our government is playing with our very existence.  Whether its the "war on terror" or the open borders...no one is doing what needs to be done!!!!  Now there are one or two in Washington who "get it", but that's about it.  And the only name that comes to mind is Tom Tancredo.  I really hate to be all doom and gloom....but this country could very well be a third world nation in another 25 years or so like Pat Buchanan has put so well in his new book.  Our Declaration of Independence states the following - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness".  I swear, in my book it's getting close to a time to abolish this government and get new people.  I'm not just talking about voting them out of office either.  It's getting close to a time when we the people need to tell the government "ENOUGH!"  Remember, above it states that the government derives their powers from us...and if we don't like what's going on it's up to us to change it.  Do I see a revolution coming?  Nah...nothing like that...but I do honestly think we will start seeing more cases of vigilante groups because people are fed up.  Jeez how did I get started on this...hahaha.

Anyway, that's it for right now.  I've got to get back to campaign emails.  I'll have more later, sportsfans!