Seeing a lot of convenient stores with huge displays and even retail spaces filled with vape material.  Market must be huge.  Reminds me of mini head shops.

Teenage daughter wants to go to a Sci Fi convention.  Wants me to taker her.  I will watch sci fi all day long, in fact it is probably my favorite move and book genre.  On the DL of course.  Going to a sci fi event somehow pushes one over the edge of nerddome.  I am going to go, just gonna keep it quiet.  Here is the celebrity lineup.  Grown adults dressing like cartoons is a little off.

On this topic, the teenager is really into Japan cartoons which she adamantly calls Anime.  Let me tell you this is a weird world.  These kids are eating up these horrible cartoons.  Compulsively watching 24/7 if allowed.  I hate it.  I think it is stupid.  We have not forbidden it but we certainly limit the viewing.  We have to keep a close eye on the subject matter as well.  Not only are some of these really dark but the porn industry has moved in.  Rated R at the very least.  Wolf in Sheep's clothing.  There really is a force moving to influence our children and not for the best.  We have stumbled on a lot of disturbing material.  Mostly from deviant ART.  If you like crappy tasteless art this is the place for you.  They take the same style of anime and create porn situations and really graphic sex scenes.

Teenager is aware of this sites and genres and has stumbled across them.  She says she knows how to stay away from them and I believe that she does.  Just doesn't set well with me that the two can be associated in any way.  I hope she grows out of this FAST.

All that led us to a group called Bronies.  This is a group of mostly men from 18 to 35 that like my little pony.   Yes the cartoon from way back, it has made a resurgence recently and the kids love it. These bronies claim to be a fan of the show and troll chat rooms and conventions.  I will say that if you are a man 18-35 and you consider yourself a Bronie you are a pedophile.  You have no business in chat rooms talking to 11-12 year old girls about a freaking cartoon.  DIE looser.

Above is a typical bronie.  Want that chatting with you daughter?

When I first heard about bronies I be like WTF, today I am like WTF.

My apologies to any merchants that are trying to capitalize on this to make a buck.  But you can DIE too for perpetuating this crap.

Other Examples;

I am sure there are some bronies that a legit and do not have ill intentions toward children, but it is just weird and concerning.

I like being a dad to a newborn.

Last week coming home from the babys first dr appointment we were following a small truck that had the entire bed full of groceries.  The wife commented who needs that many eggs?  I told her that I think that is a convienient store owner that has purchased items from Sams/Costco and selling in their store.  Sure enough we followed that truck right to the convient store that has been mentioned here before.  That day was one of those unseasonably hot days, temp at the time was 75 and the closest big box store is 45 minutes away.  This guy had eggs and milk and lunch meat from what I could tell.  Is it still illegal to do that?  I remember seeing "not for individual sale" on items in the past.  Might be hard to do with Eggs.

Needless to say do not shop at the shell station east of Lavon on 78.

Intentionally avoided the SOTU address last night.  Now trying to dodge all the comments and commentary.  I am very opinionated, and hearing everyones opinion is something I could care less about.

For years as a conservative I felt like the media, pop culture and some of the 24 hour news stations opinion segmants had a very vile attitude toward conservatives.  I remember thinking the right needs someone that is just as vile and put it right back on them.  Well now we have Dennis Miller, Ann Coulter, and a slew of people lashing right back at the left.  The left seems to hate it.  They don't seem to realize that we learned if from them.  Reminds me of the 80's anti drug commercial.  HERE.

I would have rather had Hillary Clinton as president thank Obama.  Now that she is gearing up for her presidential campaign, I am scared.

Liberal friends are already showing support for her.

Conservative friends are blasting Liberal friends with "WHAT DOES IT MATTER, #BENGHAZI"

I like it.

Benghazi needs more explanization.  It will eventually hurt Hillary.

Republicans still do not have a strong canidate.

Why do the highly educated love socialism?

My first college political science teacher said about communism "it works on paper"  That is about all I took from that class.  I didn't really care about politics back then.  I cared about BEER.

I miss my college friends.  Probably the hardest part of growning up.  I'm busy they are busy, yada yada yada.

One of the reasons I avoid political issue is because I worry.  Doom and gloom bums me out.  I have to remind myself that we are here only for a short time and eternity awaits.  Prayer helps.  And not just to chill out.

I am uncomfortable with the term "awareness" as in breast cancer awareness, autism awareness, what ever awareness.  It makes me think the fundraisers are keeping the money.  I know they probably aren't and I know that there are guidelines that they have to follow, but I really don't want to donate to cancer awareness, why wouldn't they say breast cancer cure?  I would donate to that.  Is there a difference?  

Baby girl arrived, she is not potty trained.  But she is awesome and perfect.

What an experience.

The hospital smelled like an old folks home, I will not be back.

I have the ability to be completely un biased, and I have to tell you looking at our newborn baby I have to say that she is the most beautiful baby ever.  Remember that I am totaly un biased.  She is just awesome.

Why would anyone want more government?  Am I a fossil?  I hate the idea of people allowing themselves to be ruled.  And that is exactly what more government means, how could any other result come from more government?

We can say that we are "ruled" every day.  But we are ruled at a comfortable rate, that rate is now no longer comfortable in my opinion.  Those that want more laws, government programs, bureaucracy need to know that they will not be in charge.  Then they can desire big government.

Banning large cokes is just an example of how ridiculous this country is becoming.  People are going to be fat if they can, banning the cokes isn't going to make people healthier.  Kook aide will still be around and people will still be pouring 3 times the amount of sugar into that tasty drink.  Ban Sugar?

I am an old school conservative, but I can honestly say that I care less about weed.

Interesting question I heard on the radio today.  "Is weed more dangerous than football?"  My initial answer to that is no.  Not factoring in if it is a gateway drug.  To that I have no idea.

It seems that progressives want to tear down old school family units.  That is not an original thought, just a thought that I think about often.  Traditional family units produce more stable happy children that grow up to produce the same.  Why would we want to change that?  If there was a new way to do that is better I would listen, but I have not seen any evidence that supports that.

Democrats and Progressives have their stuff together.  They are all on the same page it seems.  Tear down the religious, the right wing conservatives, and the salt of the earth hard worker.  Don't get me wrong I hate the progressive movement.  But while republicans are bickering among themselves they are getting a state senator with very little experience elected to the white house.

I become more libertarian every day.

I remember going to the store to buy my first hunting license, my dad said to get the duck and goose stamps.  I said are we hunting them?  He said no, but buying them does a lot for conservation.  Looking back I never would have thought my dad even knew the word conservation.  And that was way before it became cool.

I wish I had $350,000 to kill a huge animal.  I am not sure why animal rights activist are upset about this.  That money is specifically for conservation of that species, and since ole black rhino is past the making love stage he has no chance of sireing any little rhinos.  The biggest threat is poachers and the largest contributors to conservation are hunters.  What's the issue?

And why are most "protest" photos taken really low to the ground looking up?  Kidding I know why.  They do this to make it seem like there are hundreds of people behind them backing them up.  When you and I know the truth, there are maybe 6-8 protesters.  Liberal Media

I went to a convenient store yesterday and had a coupon for some Copenhagen.  The attendant looked at it and said "we don't take those".  I said coupons?  You don't take coupons?  He said "no".  I said see ya.  That store is located on Highway 78 just east of Lavon, suprise another shell station.

I support their right to not take coupons, but they lost me as a customer.  Plus that place is brand new and already smells like a nursing home.

Any trophy hunters out there that have any excess deer meat?  I got none.

I taught myself to lift weights with a bank bag of pennies.  Over time I ended up with a full set of weights.  Never went to a gym.  I am teaching the boy how to lift, and he is starting out with dumbells of his own.  He only wants to do bicep exercises.  I told him baseball pitchers don't do bicep exercises.  Is this still true?  He was perplexed.  Todays kids seem to get bummed when they realize hard work is required to meet their dreams.  I get on to him pretty hard when he says he can't.  I feel sometime he just needs to figure stuff out on his own.  He listens to my sports advice about 20% of the time.  When he sees success from this he pays a little more attention.  He has great potential, the only thing holding him back is his own desire.  He wants to be good at sports but would rather play video games.  I have told him over and over, video games will not help you in any way with sports.  And don't give me any crap about hand eye coordination.  Catching a baseball or football while running full speed is working on hand eye coordination.  Video Games melt the brain.  He will be fine once it all clicks.

On top of attempting to give solid advice to the boy about God, sports, and girls, I have to deal with his biological father giving him the worst advice ever.  Problem is the worst advice ever is coming from his dad.  So I have to be very careful how I un teach these snippets of idiocracy.  The latest was the "dad" was telling the boy to develop his wings.  REALLY?  For those of you that don't know "wings" are the latissimus dorsi muscles in the back and can be present from the front when extremely developed.  It gives bodybuilders that hourglass figure.  In my opinion they typically get developed enough by all the standard exercises done for any sport.  No real reason to develop them unless you are a body builder.  I told him football players could care less about 'wings".

The boys dad is Full of Sh *&, always what he is going to do, and how he was when he was young.  He never does what he says and his stories of his sports glory is grossly overstated.  Per people that knew him back in the day.  I do not want that for the boy.

Baby girl is coming.

I said all my life I would never get a flu shot.  That streak ended yesterday.  I was holding firm for years, however when your expecting wife says get one for the baby all sense of "holding firm" get blown out the window.  I also got the Pertussis Vaccination, (Whooping Cough) or I like to call it $60.  I was fearful that the Flu Vaccine was the precursor to the Zombie outbreak.  I am not a zombie but I feel terrible.  Could be psychological.

How long will I feel terrible?  I have stuff to do.

I regrettably frequent convenient stores way too often.  I rate them, and delete certain stores off my stop list.  I expect convenient stores to be convenient, clean, stocked with my products and I expect the attendant to be polite.  Am I asking too much?

I hate it when attendants direct me step by step on how to enter my pin for a debit transaction.  There is a Shell station in Allen where every one of the attendants tell you step by step how to press the ok button, press the debit button, enter your pin and hit ok.  It drives me freaking insane.  I do not go to that store, nor should you.  It is located at the corner of E. Bethany and Allen Heights Dr.  Don't do it you will go insane.

Other stores that get a do not stop label are stores that over stock crap.  Tiny Bonsai bamboo plants, Ak47 cigarette lighters, too many cigarette lighter, torch cigarette lighters and any general crap.  Usually a sign that you are in the wrong part of town.  Also the fake professional sports team hats, I hate that.  It should be illegal to sell knock off crap like that.  I'm sure it is but they alter it just enough to get away with is.  Who buys this stuff????

And why do some smell like old folks homes?

American owned and operated stores go to the top of the list.  But are held to the same high standards.  I am sure some would deem that racist.  I am ok with that, however I do not agree that is racist.  Buy American was a great campaign.  We should see more of it.

I wish American autos were more American.

I hate hearing Texans can't drive on ice.  Of course we can't, its freaking ice!  I have driven on ice is Colorado, no biggie.  You at least have some sense of control there.  NOT HERE, it is ice with water mixed with oil.  I don't feel bad about this negative conception.

Went to a Maverics game last night, our seats were way up there but not bad, not bad at all.  I enjoyed it, Boy had a great time.  Boy is 12.

The video board is sized just right, I only watched it to see replays.

Speaking of, that place is sensory overload.  Mavs Dancers, Mavs Maniacs, Drum Line, Mavs Man, Mavs mascot horse thing, T Shirt sling shot Guys X 6, ads running on the video boards, ribbon boards, and signage everywhere.  I noticed once that there was a half second blip of a sponsor during action on the video board.  Could have been an accident.

We sat down right at tip off and siting directly behind us were some Eastern European 20 somethings behind us being loud.  One dropped a F bomb and before he could get the second F bomb out an elderly gentlemen sitting next to us stood up and turned to the group and said "Watch Your Mouth".  Dead silence.  One of the group sincerely apologized.  That was the end of speaking English for that group.  Good fans though, so was the elderly gentle man.

Cussing at pro sporting events?  Ok?

I like Elmore Leonard.

Did not see Cubes at the game.

I've been to a lot of Cowboys games over the years.  From around 1993 to the fall of Texas Stadium.  I had season ticket and knew most of the people around us.  All courteous, outgoing and good to be around.  Our section was a little reserved, I had a few issues when selling tickets and them being loud and obnoxious.   The next game I would hear about it.  I would just say I needed the money and sorry.  I secretly wanted our section to be the rowdy section.  Not the cussers or loud and obnoxious but loud and active seems like the way to do it.  I started going with my dad and he would only cheer on turnovers, points scored or bone head plays.  He fit right in at section 29.  I miss that place, it had a smell and Aura about it.  I went to one game at the Death Star.  Meh.  Talk about sensory overload!  Vidya Board is what it is.

For the first time in my sports fan life I am secretly rooting for other teams.  The Saints and the Texans.

Is it weird for people to cheer for teams of cities they have no connection to?

Baby Girls is a week away.  Getting nervous.

Welcome ME

New to the blogging world, but I just have so much to say.

Cowboys are once again 8 & 8.  BLAH

Romo is not to blame!

My wife and I are having a baby next week.  I am kind of nervous.  I got two kids when I married my wife, they were potty trained.  That was huge.  This one most likely will not be.  I already love her.  Oh yeah its a girl.

Christmas was nice this year.  I did not knock one out of the park with gifts to my wife.  Although she did not say, I think she was disappointed.  I will do better next year.  Not in terms of amounts but in terms of giving gifts she wants, needs.  Which can only come from listening, which I always need to work on.

New baby is why I am not hunting this year.  I am ok with that.

New baby will hunt! At a very young age.  I worry that the hunting culture will be phased out by the time she is of age.  I do not like the fact the this could be true.

From my experience, kids that hunt early in life do not end up in prison.

If there is one thing that women do not want, it is someone's opinion!