I just got done taking part in a Google Hangout with several people on Google+. the topic was HR511, after it was over I sat here at my desk for a moment and thought a lot, yes in a few minutes I thought a lot lol. This whole “Python ban” thing is the craziest thing I have ever witness I mean YES we are looking a monster in the eyes but we are doing so with rocket launchers from 500 yards, we can beat it, we can beat it so easy but first we must come together. I don’t care how much money USARK tosses at it or how much expert testimony they give we are fighting a losing battle until we can stand up as a group and make a difference. I know I have said all of this a thousand times before but I am just at my wits end, is this how it is going to be until this hobby is dwindled down to nothing, nothing more than stories to tell the grandchildren like old bootleggers? I don’t want that, I don’t want it at all. I am not happy with everything that USARK does but at this point they are ALL we have and unless someone can get up right now and do better right now please stand or swallow your pride and help us take back something before all is lost, stand next to us not behind or in front of us. Some of us have a lot more to loose than others but we ALL do have something to loose so we need to come together as one organized unit and take care of business, we need to be vocal, educational, respectful and do the future generations of this hobby proud.
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I’m a Grandpa……… AGAIN!!!
Adventure with the GIANTS!!!
My best feeding picture ever.
A changing world.
Look at the above image. Do you know what that is? That my friends is a leaking pipe. I can remember when this was one of the big concerns. Before the winter cold set in there was always a mad rush to get to the home improvement store and get foam and tape to wrap the pipes. Some people even kept an inventory of it just to have in case.
Well, the world my friends has changed so drastically in the last ten years alone, sometimes so fast that we don’t even notice it. We stay so caught up in our busy life that life it’s self flies right by not even taking the time to say hi.
Not only do we have worldwide unrest now with violence going on in nearly every country in the world in the name of peace but we also have the shock from an economic down turn of the likes a lot of people have never seen but only heard about. Even if we do pay attention to what is going on in the Middle East or the Kardashians we seem to forget what our neighbors are going through. It seems all to easy to misunderstand everyone’s motives or reasoning, we lash out at fellow people because of how they live or what the believe. I can still remember, not long ago I myself was in a situation where I was extremely annoyed with someone, I was close to that point of no return where something was going to be said and feelings were going to be hurt. What did I do you may ask? I took a breath and sat back and thought.
“I know this person by name, maybe a little more than just by name but how much do I really know this person?”
I ended up letting the issue drop of my shoulders, The point is every one of us “well most of us” myself included go through things at times that we keep close to our heart and deal with in our own way. I mean when you really think about it, Bob could be in a bad mood at work because he lost his mother last night, Amy could seem a little on edge because she was up all night in the hospital after her child’s Chemo treatment.
The moral of this story is to always keep in mind something we seem all to often to forget. We generally have no idea what situation others are in at any given time. Every single person deserves an unearned amount of respect and understanding. If we can all learn to love our neighbors for who they are and not what they do this world would be a much better place for our children.
Surviving.
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here on my person blog so I figured why not. A lot has been on my mind as of late, especially today. I have been thinking a lot about the reptile community, the way it is going and the way I think it should go, I have thought a lot about how we appear, what could make us look better and what could help to start showing us in a better light. What bothers me the most though is for the last 2 years I have given my life to the world of reptile via DRN, I have had such a great time albeit bad at times it’s still be a ton of fun, as of late my phone has been ringing off the hook, so many good opportunities are coming around and thus far I have turned them all down, they are just not related to what I want to do for the rest of my life, they are not related to reptiles.
One of these calls came in again today and really got me to thinking about things. I look at everything I have done over the past 2.5 years, I have come so far but still not far enough, I look at everything that went into what I do and ask myself “Will this ever happen?” I keep holding on, I keep telling myself “one more week one more week, then it will happen” A week comes and goes with little change to anything and this makes me wander, Excuse my french but am I just pissing into the wind here? I mean will holding on to the dream for another 25 years even make a difference in the outcome? Am I going to be sorry for passing up these opportunities for a dream that is always out of reach? These are all questions that I can’t answer however I fear the answeres and that fear holds me back, I don’t know, for now I am still holding on to that dream but at the same time I am keeping my fingers crossed that the dream will come true.
The NWO
For those who don’t understand the title it means New World Order, I can’t tell you how to live your life but I can explain what will and will not be tolorated from this point forward with me.
First of all I hate rules and like to think of this as just the way it is as apposed to rules. Clearly the more anyone is in the public spotlight the more love they generate but with love comes hate and it’s because of this hate that I finally find it necessarily to lay down some ground work of how things need to be done around the DRN nation.
Around my social networks I have complete control, this means on FaceBook, Twitter, Google+ YouTube exc exc as well as this site I have compleat control to remove content and or people and block whoever I deem necessary to block.
This is not a power which I wish to use or will be happy using but from here on out any sort of slander, hate speech or anything just down right disrespectful WILL be grounds for removal and possible termination of the privilege of using my website and or social network profiles.
Please remember guys I love you all, you have followed me for a longtime and I hope this continues but keep in mind while jokes are jokes there is no place in my world for hate, there is no place in the reptile world for hate and from this day forward hate is gone.