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Waco Tribune
Tag posts in SpiritWild Writings/Teditorials that are originally from an article in the Waco Tribune.
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Those of us who cherish justice and good over evil salute the heroes of the American special ops and a commander in chief who gave the green light to do the right thing. God bless the warriors.
But if common sense and logic were observed, this life-threatening damage control would not be necessary. Read More
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Our founding fathers supported an individual's right to own guns. ...
What our new president and his attorney general obviously want is control. Studying other gun-grabbing regimes of the past, they know the first thing that needs to be done to turn us from citizens to subjects is to disarm us.
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Gohmert understands that reducing the size of government is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc., are what is killing the American economy.
When the government takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything.
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Health, family, friends, happiness and dreams aglow with no end in sight. How possible? No mystery here. It's all so very simple. I work hard and give it all I've got each and every day. No excuses, no whining, no compromise, no cutting corners. I ask not what my country must do for me, but rather what I must do for my country.
For this new year, I think I will stick with my proven modus operandi of excellence - only bigger and better. Read More
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Americans deserve to know by name the political scoundrels responsible for this financial quagmire, especially if President Bush wants us to embrace a near trillion-dollar bailout.
We deserve to know exactly how this happened and have a right to know by name anyone who should be held accountable. President Bush didn't tell us that he supported any investigations to determine which Fedzillacrat is responsible for this mess and how it occurred.
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'Tis the hunting season, and I am in with all I've got. Next Saturday I'll celebrate it with many on National Hunting and Fishing Day, declared 36 years ago by Richard Nixon.
Like trapping, hunting and fishing are integral to America culture, teamed as they are with our essential conservation responsibility.
Once necessary to survive, hunting and fishing now are two very popular forms of recreation, while keeping millions of American families connected to the land and its precious creatures.
Today roughly 20 million hunters and more than 50 million fishermen enjoy the outdoors and generate roughly $70 billion in revenue each year. Read More
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In those early days before gun bans went into effect, you could walk into a hardware store and buy any kind of gun and ammo you wanted.
Kids brought all kinds of guns and knives to school for after-school hunting, competition and casual recreational purposes. No problem.
School and shopping center shootings were unheard of.
The poisonous seeds of "feel good" denial took root in the Sixties, along with Dr. Spock's "hands-off" new age parenting.
The far left has given gave birth to every social and cultural malady plaguing America today. Read More
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With all due respect to the socialist fantasies of my fellow writers and editors, and being the only author on the Trib staff with two New York Times best-sellers with an annual readership that dwarfs my "professional" comrades, little ol' humble me shall carry on, thank you, with more confidence and supported authority than my journalistic brethren. Guitar players just wanna have fun. Read More
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Independence. I love that word. It means rugged individualism, self-reliance, freedom and opportunity.
America must never compromise our independence to anyone. We deserve an energy policy that makes America once again independent - just like our forefathers taught us.
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At our rehearsals, we proved once and for all that you don't need a face to laugh and rock-n-roll, and the over-the-top emotional brotherhood in the air was palpable.
By being the best that we can be, my family, friends and bandmates show respect for the heroes' dedication and sacrifices, and the positive energy cannot be stopped. God bless them all.
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Our heads are still spinning from the whirlwind velocity of the last five years of moving from place to place in Central Texas.
Forced from our beautiful Michigan dream home and a lifetime in the Winter Water Wonderland by an infestation of unlivable toxic mold, we soon found ourselves comfortable and happy in the great Lone Star State.
If there was any culture shock, it is more likely that we caused it rather than felt it.
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I crave killer BBQ. I've enjoyed a lifetime exploring the famous eateries of Memphis, Atlanta, Jackson, Lubbock, Kansas City and beyond. I will tell you right here and right now, nobody out-BBQs Rodney when it comes to brisket.
In fact, when I bring in the TV production crew of the very popular "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" on the Travel Channel, the first stop will be the Rusty Star. Master Chef Anthony Bourdain wants to sample the essence of central Texas cuisine. Voila. We give you the Rusty Star brisket.
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Gather 'round, boys and girls, and listen closely. What I am about to tell you will help you immensely throughout the rest of your lives if you commit to practicing and living your Uncle Ted's proven modus operandi for quality of life.
You won't get this ironclad and loving advice in a classroom or from a textbook. Sadly, some of you will not have received this advice from even your parents.
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Defying gravity is fun. Nothing has changed from the dreaming little boy with the guitar and bow and arrow way back when. He's just a little more uppity and confident that self-evident truths and the American Dream are connected at the hip.
Sometimes you give the world the best you've got and you get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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Shemane and I have found that even with all the predictable rows of cookie-cutter, prefab eateries, Waco is home to a number of places to rival the most famous restaurants anywhere.
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Grassroots. That's the American way. Neighbors helping neighbors, Americans helping Americans, uniting together for like-minded causes that we really believe in and deeply care about.
If there is one defining all-American, self-evident truth that has galvanized good families across this country since the inception of this experiment in self-government, it surely is our God-given right to keep and bear arms for self defense.
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It's past time we embrace common values, virtues
God gave man a soul, a powerful, instinctual moral and intellectual True North compass, something that completely differentiates us from all other living creatures.
Animals stomp, kill and eat each other, even their own, to survive. Man has the power of reason, of calculation, of dreaming. Man can choose to do good.
Respecting the gift of life and the power of responsible choice, man can pursue complete happiness while being a positive force for all things.
When man experiences personal benefits from wrong choices at the expense of others and the environment, he has lost his soul. Read More
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I am not a Republican. I am a conservative.
Yes, Scarlet, even an over-the-top, uppity, defiant MotorCity MadMan guitar wrangler can be a real conservative. Get used to it.
Claiming to be a Republican signifies allegiance to a political party.
Being a conservative denotes a commitment to a self-evident, truth-based philosophy and disciplined lifestyle. Read More
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I'm incensed at the Bush/Pelosi $150 billion economic stimulus package. You should be, too.
Sending us a check for a couple of hundred bucks is a pandering joke - an economic slap in our faces.
Hopefully you are smart enough to see through this economic smokescreen. Even if you spend all of the money -your money, by the way, coming back to you - it will do little if anything to improve the sagging economy. Read More
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My jaw was in the basement. Like every American with a TV set, I sat spellbound as this white dude gyrated on the Ed Sullivan stage, a firestorm of twanging electric guitars and ballistic rim shots from a thunder of drums.
His voice, so soulful, was able to translate the emotion of black music to the masses for the first time in musical history.
Elvis on TV ignited a brand new army of musicians that Sunday night in 1953. 1953!
Had Lewis and Clark even made it through the Northwest Passage by then? Seems a long, long time ago, doesn't it? It was. Read More
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Clearly, God really loves me to no end. Nineteen years ago He sent an angel my way.
The result saved me from the violent seas of my American Dream cruise - my leaking, battered boat on the brink of capsizing and dumping me in uncharted, shark-infested waters.
Enter Shemane, a blonde-bomber radio babe, my Queen of the Forest. She would become my best hunting buddy, my soulmate. She would snag my floundering butt and steer me back on track.
Thank you, Lord. Good work.
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Good Lord! I've made it to a tender, youth-defiant 59 years in this vivacious American Dream of mine so far.
Amazing, really, when one considers the adventurous gauntlet of danger and oftentimes sheer stupidity of my rather intense rock 'n' roll, bowhunting life.
Thank you, Lord, for taking good care of me when my guard was down.
I am one lucky SOB, I assure you. Hallelujah and pass the camouflage walker. I remain drunk on freedom. Read More
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I always make New Year's resolutions. In fact, I am so driven to upgrade my American Dream to the best of my ability in every way possible from day to day, that I make New Week's resolutions every Sunday. I consider it a prayer for upgrade on the Sabbath, showing God I appreciate His gifts each day. Read More
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When did a nation of rugged individuals turn into helpless whiners, crying and running in fear from danger and evil?
When did we abandon our natural instinct to counterpunch and attack evil, overpowering it and neutralizing it into submission?
When were we forced to dial 9-1-1, wasting precious, decisive time, instead of doing the right thing and stopping bad guys ourselves? When did we trade in independence for dependency? It's pathetic.
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There are better hunting areas than others, but for the most part, in my home states of Michigan and Texas, and in Alaska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio, California, Colorado and elsewhere that I hunt, the big- and small-game hunting is nothing short of amazing, spellbinding.
I see more deer, elk, turkey, cougars, black bear and waterfowl than I have ever seen in more than 50 years of gung-ho hunting.
It truly takes my breath away. Wildlife management is a beautiful thing.
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Write this down: Meat is food. Horsemeat is food. Banning horsemeat will not save the life of a single horse.
Surplus horses will continue to be killed. Though consumers abroad would pay for the meat, instead the carcasses will be buried and wasted.
Who doesn't know this? Better yet, who is so shallow as to pretend otherwise?
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If you want a fire-breathing, ultra-fun, never-ending, intense Ted Nugent kind of rock-'n-roll career, you had better get in the mindset of a battle-ready U.S. Marine Corps commando.
You had better be ready to train and practice like a madman possessed. Take the very best care of your mind, body, heart, spirit and soul. Discipline yourself like you are the advance scout for Lewis and Clark. Care deeply about the quality of the music. And prepare for a work ethic that would cause much of mankind to blow up.
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All across North America and southern Africa, my family thrills at every bird that shares our wildground. I feel a kinship with all naturalists and do all I can to inspire everyone I know or meet to get to know the wild a little bit better.
Once a deeper appreciation of the wild takes hold, and it will, the call to stewardship is heard more clearly and the duty to be an asset to our good mother Earth resonates profoundly.
Some birds are more delicious than others, but each and every encounter with each and every bird cleanses the soul, and I for one cannot get enough of it.
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Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco. Read More
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How so many Americans can be so cruel and rotten toward their fellow Americans is beyond comprehension. There simply is no excuse. The writing is on the wall, in big, black, bold letters: DRINKING AND DRIVING DESTROYS AMERICAN FAMILES. Case closed.
But the menace is not confined to the drunks destroying innocent lives. It is anybody and everybody who sees it happening and fails to demand a stop to it. Read More
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We are all going to die. Get used to it. It would be a smart move for society to take the voodoo and cloud of fear and confusion out of the facts of life and death.
As the more intelligent among us discipline ourselves and our loved ones to provide for our quality of life, surely we have the right to manage the inevitable for our quality of death.
I would love to know who thinks he or she has any right to tell family members or loved ones just how, when or if they can compassionately end their suffering and meet their maker.
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With a teenage son in high school and obsessed with his academic and basketball responsibilities, my beloved soulmate Shemane finds herself tied up more often than not being the world's greatest mom. She is an Xtremely dedicated mother. Producing our award-winning "Spirit of the Wild" TV show and her own brilliant Queen of the Forest episodes, along with nonstop charity and community work, this amazing woman still manages to camo up and hit the woods with her loving husband often enough. I love her Xtremely.
Shemane is the ultimate wife and mother, but I must admit that there is nothing more beautiful or sexy than this skinny, sultry, gorgeous blonde-bomber bowhuntin' babe dressed head to toe in Mossy Oak camo.
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Quality wild ground translates to quality of life. Concrete has no "sustainable yield." I am a consumer. But like the reasoning predator instinct and conscientiousness to kill only what I eat - something my dad taught me - I was disciplined to be a respectful and responsible steward of this precious environment by which we are so blessed.
The truism that quality wildlife habitat produces quality air, soil and water should be pounded into the brains of every child on Earth. Sadly, it is not.
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To be in the presence of greatness reminds me to dedicate myself to be the best that I can be.
Though we humans can and do stumble, I learned long ago that a good man gets right back up, dusts himself off and learns from his errors. This I do. It is the essence of quality of life and survival.
To drive this discipline 101 home: There surely is no better routine than firearms training with these masters.
As a hunter and registered gun nut, I will never apologize nor waste my time defending my God-given right to keep and bear arms.
The more and bigger the arms, the better.
Which brings us to the ultimate fun guns of all times, the hot brass rainbow party of fully automatic machine guns. Read More
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