One True Media Review (Welcome to NASCAR)

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Hey everyone, I am currently testing a new way to show off your pictures and videos using a web site called "One True Media". I think this is a cool little setup they have going, but before I write a full review about it I need your help. I would like you to view the video even if you are not a NASCAR fan. I would like you to tell me what you think of the video and the over all way it set these pictures up for this video. Tell me what you liked and didn't like about it. All the pictures I got off the Internet and I then just picked the format I wanted and then uploaded the pictures to the web site. I then edited them so they would go in a specific order and in some cases I even changed the length of time for each slide. I then picked the music I wanted from their list and that was it. Again please tell what you liked or didn't like about. Once I am done testing this web site program and finish reading what all of you thought about it I will then write a review of the over all program and web site. Thanks for your help and I look forward to reading what you have to say.

Question of the week: Does absolute truth really exists?

Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well. Well here is this weeks “question of the week”. As a Christian, for me this answer is simple “yes” absolute truth does exist. I believe that God is the only absolute truth because he can not and will not ever lie. Now some of you may not believe in God and that’s fine, I don’t want this article to be an argument about Christianity or Religion. What I want to know is do you believe that absolute truth really exists? So lets here your opinion, why or Why not. Then support your answer by telling us why you believe the way you do.

So what’s changed?

Well, here we are. Several months have passed since the first stimulus package was passed. So now the question is what’s changed? Answer: NOTHING!!! One only has to watch the news see that this is true. The economy is still crashing, layoffs are on the rise, and the housing market is not any better then it was. Businesses keep closing and the stock market looks like a giant yoyo. The banks are still asking for more money and now even the auto industry is coming around with their hands out asking for help.

To make things worse, AIG is still giving out millions in bonuses. I don’t know about you, but I am stunned beyond belief and angry at the nerve of this company, and it’s not just this company, others are doing the same or similar things. We have opened the flood gates of free money, and every company known to man is lining up with their hands out. Companies continue to put their self and corporate greed ahead of everything else, regardless of its negative effect on the economy. As long as we continue to NOT hold these companies accountable, things will never change.

I am outraged at the thought that we as tax payers have no idea where all the money has gone, and worse yet the government doesn’t seem to care. Sure, they scream and yell and even act as if they care. They even say they want to know where the money went and how it was spent, but that’s about it. We will never see anyone go to jail for stealing millions of dollars from hard working tax paying Americans. By the way, ask yourself this question “where is all this money coming from?” I think we all now the answer to that one.

The bottom line is this, until we start to hold our government officials accountable, along with these greedy corporate CEO’s, there will continue to be no accountability on anyone’s part. Now, I will say this, I am not against any CEO making as much money as they can, that is what capitalism is all about (Free Market). But, when they cross the line into criminal or questionable behavior, then we need to go after them using all means possible, even if that means jail time for some. We then need to hold our government officials accountable as well. We need to tell them we will not stand for this kind of behavior and then demand they do something about it before they just hand out money we don’t have. I think the time has come for us as tax payers to say to our government. And the CEO’s of big businesses, enough! The money well is dry and we are shutting you off.

The Plinky Question: Paul Simon was going to Graceland, Toto blessed the rains down in Africa – what place would you write a song about?

My favorite place on earth is Bergen Noraway. If I could write music this would be one place I would write about.

This is truly one of the most beautiful spots on earth. It is like stepping back in time, to the age of tall sailing ships and open air markets. It is as if God had put just a little bit more in making Bergen, then he did in other place on earth. The sad thing is words can not do it justice, it is a place that needs to be seen.

So "What Say You?" how would you answer this question?

CELEBRATING MY 100TH ARTIICLE!!!

WOW, it’s so hard for me to believe this is my 100th article. If back in the beginning you would have told me I would last this long I would have told you, you were nuts. Well here I am today still going thanks to all of you out there that have supported me in this venture; I could not have done it without the encouragement of every one of you. There are so many of you that I need thank, but I don’t have the room or time. So I will make this short. I want to thank all my close friends for the encouragement, I also want to thank my family for putting up with me when I was writing, Now, I want to thank two very good friends, who without their help none of this would have even happened. I want to thank Adam Hauser who just agreed to be my new editor (and a good IT person) who is always willing to help me to improve the blog site. Thank you Adam you are a true friend. And now last but not the least, my friend MR. JR Briggs. JR was the one who encouraged me to start writing this blog even after I told him I was not a writer and English and I did not get along at all. JR is an author and has written many books. I took a class he was doing at an artist retreat one weekend just to see what it had to offer. I told him I don’t have anything to write about and besides who would want to read anything I have to say. To this day I will never forget what he told me, he said “If I had an opinion about something, I had something to write about, and has for who would read it just give it a try and see what happens.” Thanks so much JR I will always remember that, the rest as they say was history.

So some of you right now are asking”What is the best article I have written and what have I learned from all this writing?” Well I did not have to think very long about that; the first one was actually a set of articles on the subject of illegal immigration and the second was an article on a moose and a helicopter. The First one dealt with Illegal Immigration and was called “Application to become an Illegal Immigrant”. It seemed that the articles I did on this subject touched off a fire storm of comments, this article in particular got a total of 16 responses. Now the other article about this subject did not get that many comments, but the comments that they did get were very emotional. The second one dealt with a moose that knocked down a helicopter. It was titled “Alaskan Moose brings down helicopter”. This article got a total of 21 comments, the most comments I have ever had for one article. These were two articles I thought where my best, but there are many others and I don’t have the time or the space to share them all, so you will have to check them out yourself.

So what have I learned? I have learned 3 things, First write about what you have true passion for, second don’t take anything personal, and third be ready for your article to go in a direction you might expect it to go. Let’s start with the first one, Write about what you are passionate about. By writing about what you truly have a heart for, you will find that you will do whatever you have to bring a factual and true article to your blog site. By doing this, people will start to give you more credibility when it comes to talking about that particular subject. End the end people will see your heart and passion in what you write. Second, don’t take the comments as a personal attack on you. You need to realize that just as you have a strong passion for a certain subject, so do the people that will leave comments on your articles. You need to be willing to except opinions that might be opposite of yours. Remember that opinions are just that, opinions. After all, blogs are meant to create conversations. If you only took the comments that agree with you, your blog would be very boring. Third, be ready for your articles to go in a direction you hadn’t planned on. Earlier I mentioned an article I did on a moose that knocked down a helicopter (yes this is a true article). This article is a perfect example of an article going in an unexpected direction. I wrote this article with the intention of getting a good conversation about the DOW using helicopters for tracking animals in Alaska. Well, this article ended up being the biggest and funniest article I had ever written. The first comment I got about it, the person turned it into a joke by writing a very funny comment, from then on people that wrote comments went with the joke, and 21 comments became a part of the overall joke. This even spun off a second article similar to the first one. In short, be ready because you will never know where your articles might go.

Well, that’s about it. That was what I thought were two of my best articles and just a few things that I’ve learned. Once more thanks to all of you who read my ramblings & humble opinions. I would never have made it this far without all your support. I look forward now to another 100 articles and sharing my opinions with you, but most of all I look forward to hearing from all of you and reading your comments about the things I write about. Once more thanks so much for your support.

HEY PETA A FISH BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A FISH!!

What would some of you think if I told you I eat Bovine Puppies? I love to cook them on an open grill or if I am short on time I will throw them in an oven or chop them up and put them in a frying pan. They are also very good in a big bowl of chili. No matter how you eat them or cook them, those Bovine Puppies are yummy!

I can hear some of you right now, asking “What the heck is a Bovine Puppy?” And then there are some of you that are thinking I am the most horrible person on earth and that I am a heartless monster because I eat puppies. Well first of all, I did not say I ate puppies, yet that's what a lot of you first saw when you started reading this article. What I did say was that I ate “BOVINE PUPPIES”.

For those of you who don’t know, the word Bovine is another word for cow. So where does the word puppy come into all of this? Well let me ask you this, knowing the word Bovine means cow, would you stop eating meat or at least think about stopping if I put the word puppy after it? Let’s say, hypothetically, I don’t believe in eating meat and I want to influence you to stop eating meat as well, so I change the name cow to Bovine puppy. Now the question becomes, would this new name stop you from eating meat, or get you to think that maybe you wouldn’t want to eat it, because you don’t want others to think you eat puppies. Now let’s get one thing clear, those of you who like a good steak or hamburger are going to eat a cow no matter what they call it. Those of you who won’t eat meat are not going to. But those of you who sit on the fence as to rather you would or wouldn't eat meat, might be convinced not too.

Well, those nut jobs from PETA are at it again and they are using this very same tactic, only they want to do it with fish. A few years back they tried to stop all sport fishing by saying it was very cruel to jab a metal hook into the fish's mouth and then left them into an atmosphere that they can’t breath in. Well needless to say, sanity won and PETA went away quietly humiliated... until now. In January they came back with the idea that if we change the name “Fish” to “Sea Kittens” people would stop eating all fish. After all, could you see someone in a sea food restaurant saying "I will have a coke, fries and a large order of Sea Kitten sticks."

PETA is of the belief that if they put a cute little name to it you would be more sensitive towards the poor (but oh so Tasty) fish. In my opinion, this has to be one their most insane ideas they have ever had. They must really think we are the dumbest things on the planet. Listen PETA, you should spend more of your brain dead time on ideas that might have a better chance of passing then something as stupid as this. Fishing is here to stay, so just shut up and sit down. Remember that no matter what you call it, it will always be a fish. If you are like me, right now you might be having a very hard time believing that PETA is this stupid, well just Google “Sea Kittens” and you will find about 3,150,000 hits, all dealing with PETA and this very subject. So don’t just take my word for it, check it out yourself. Hey anyone up for some smoked Sea Kittens?

A little side note: For all you nut job supporters of PETA, PETA does not stand for “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals”. PETA really stands for “People for the Eating of Tasty Animals” Now pass me over some more of that yummy “Sea Kitten”.

So what the heck is this new Plinky Question thing?

In an effort to get you the reader more involved every once in a while I am going to answer a question from "Plinky" and have it posted on the blog like the article I just tried & posted below.

I think this is going to be fun for everyone. So when I post a question or challenge from Plinky, I will answer it and then I want you to answer it. I never know what each question will be, so this could be very interesting. So what is Plinky? well here is what it says right off thier web site.

Plinky makes it easy for you to create inspired content. Every day we provide a prompt (i.e. a question or challenge) and you answer. We make it simple to add rich media and share your answers on Facebook, Twitter and blogs.

So please give it a try when you see the "Plinky Question"

The Plinky Question: Describe your favorite room

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my favorite room would make all of you laugh, so here it goes. My favorite room is my bathroom. I have kids and that is one of the last place in the house where I can go and not have kids running to ask me for everything they can think of. I can lock the door and ...... well lets just say I can do alot of reading when I am in there.