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Forgive yourself. Love others.

Kramer

I have to be straight up honest about something . . .

Unless I'm doing radio for a living, at least in SOME capacity, I ain't gonna be fully happy.

I've written that before and gotten blasted, but you know what? Kiss my ass. Before I even get into the radio thing, let me say something else. You know, the things that originally made me successful, garnered me a MASSIVE audience and allowed me to travel from coast to coast while making big money was the fact that I said what was on my mind WHEN IT WAS ON MY MIND. Period. The more I opened up, the more success I saw. The more I said what was truly on my mind, the more people respected what I had to say. Over the past few years, all of that has been stifled because of a loud, vocal few that get (got) pissed off every five minutes.

I simply cannot allow myself to listen to that anymore.

The older I get, the less I can handle bullsh*t. I just cannot. I have had people slamming their politics, agendas, corporate rules, and shallow opinions down my throat for so long its literally made me sick.

Recently a group of radio people wrote about my time spent in Dallas. It started making me think about the difference in then and afterwards. After Dallas, everyone wanted to get their hands on me and change me. People wanted to mold me into their idea of a version of myself that they felt would be more digestable to a larger audience. You cannot change people, their opinions, their views, their politics, their genuine outlook on life. I've been a little afraid of writing that due to someone reading it that may change their opinion of me or my show. Tough. I can't hold my big mouth shut anymore.

Since arriving in St. Louis, I've never SEEN a more conservative and vocal group of people about the most petty issues in my LIFE. I love St. Louis, and maybe I got unlucky in that only some of the petty PEOPLE found me, the show, and the site. I don't know what it is/was, but I will tell you this: The days of me cow towing to what anyone has to say are DONE. That doesn't mean I can't and won't respect everyone's opinion, but I'll be damned before I think before I say anything anymore. It got so bad I was actually self editing what I was saying on this damned website. I did it almost unconsciously, and I didn't even realize it until yesterday. Those days are gone.

Radio.

I will do what I have to do to support my family, but unless I'm doing radio in some capacity, I ain't gonna be happy. That's just the way it is. I'm 38. Next year will be a 20 year anniversary of my career. During my time of unemployment, I have searched, looked, and dug for other things that could transfer over and I found that delivering pizza was about all that worked. There's nothing wrong with delivering pizza, but when you've put meat in the freezer by formulating opinions and expressing them, delivering pizza feels like a jail sentence. If that pisses you off, good for you! You can sit around, pontificate, judge, get angry, write your comments, talk down over your nose to me and slam me all you want for saying that, but that's where it is. Good luck.

I'm not going to bore you too much with this. Alexa.com has GOD OF RADIO ranked at 576,587. I know that doesn't sound very impressive, but that is our rank out of every website in the World. We're getting a tremendous amount of hits. Out of everything we're doing, we're actually getting the majority of those hits from Google now. Google has really kicked in. I truly wish we could convert that traffic to the forums. I've really worked hard on the damned thing, so it'd be great if you'd go sign up. I've made a point to put a lot of content there that's not found on this website, so there's a LOT to see. Hop in some topics and conversations too. And oh, don't feel weird about starting threads. I got an email the other day from a woman who said she posted a thread, felt stupid, so she left. Don't feel stupid...its fun.

Barack Obama says that McCain is trying to make everyone scared because he (Obama) doesn't look like Presidents on money.

Huh?

Already the candidates have taken our eye off of their political views, stances on important issues, etc. by distracting us with bullshit. Nothing ever changes. Why can't these guys just run an election/campaign on things that we all want to talk about, things that are dear to us, or real issues.

Instead, Obama is trying to make this a race thing. I guess that's some kind of sympathy thing, but it isn't working with me. I'd LOVE to vote Democratic, but it sure as HELL isn't going to happen unless I find out McCain was an al qaeda operatist, and even then I would give it some thought.

I am so sick of the election crap already I could vomit.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new poll out Thursday indicates that fewer than a quarter of Americans think things are going well in the country.
According to Thursday's poll, 22 percent of Americans approve of how Congress is handling its job.

A new poll says 30 percent of Americans approve of President Bush's job performance.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. Poll showed that 24 percent have a positive outlook for the country, while 76 percent say things are on the wrong track.

It is the lowest number on record since 1980 and the third time in four decades that the number has dropped so low.

Recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. polling has shown a steady drop in the country's mood. In April 2007, 51 percent said things in the country were going badly. A year later, 70 percent reiterated that position.

The poll questioned 1,041 adult Americans by telephone July 27-29, 2008. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

"Only three events -- Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, and the economic downturn of 1992 -- have driven below 30 percent the number who think things are going well," CNN's polling director Keating Holland said. The mood of the country has been assessed since 1974.

Only four presidents -- Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and the elder George Bush -- have seen that number drop below 30 percent during their time in office; their parties all lost the White House in the next presidential election.

The poll also examined Americans' views on Congress and President Bush, showing a widespread bipartisan fallout.

Only 30 percent in Thursday's poll said they approve of how Bush is handling his job, while 69 percent disapprove.

Approval of the Democratic leaders in Congress, meanwhile, is almost as bad: Thirty-six percent of those polled said Democrats are handling their job well, while 63 percent said they aren't.

The overall views of Congress are even lower: 22 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, and 77 percent disapprove.

President Bush joined that chorus Wednesday, when he complained about Congress' inaction on handling the energy crisis facing the nation.

He called on Congress to allow offshore oil drilling, saying the need to lower crude and gas prices made it urgent.

Lawmakers had been debating legislation to allow drilling for oil along the U.S. coastline, particularly in Florida and California. The Senate, which is set to begin summer recess after this week, has been gridlocked for days on various energy bills.

Bush criticized Democrats, who he said are refusing to allow a vote on legislation to expand domestic oil drilling. "American drivers are counting on Congress to lift the ban and so are American workers," Bush said.

Bush's views on offshore drilling appear to match those of many Americans, according to another CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll out Thursday.

Just more than half of those polled said the ban on additional offshore drilling is a major cause of high fuel prices. The same number cite the Bush administration and the war in Iraq as causes.

The poll indicates that about two-thirds of Americans think U.S. oil companies and foreign countries that produce oil are major causes of higher gas prices.

One group gets relatively little blame. Thirty-one percent of those polled said the Democrats in Congress are a major cause of gas prices.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The only good news for the GOP this year, according to Holland, is that each time the approval drop happened in the past, an unpopular incumbent was running for re-election.

This year, the unpopular incumbent -- President Bush -- is term-limited and will not be on the ballot in the fall.

(The all-time low was set in May 1980, when 21 percent said things were going well in the country and 79 percent said things were going badly.)

"The low approval rating for Democratic leaders in Congress is not likely to put the party's control of Congress in jeopardy," Holland said. "There is no indication in any poll taken by any organization that voters want to see the GOP regain control of Congress and all 'generic ballot' questions show a wide lead for Democratic congressional candidates."

That may be a reason presumed Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and probable Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama are in a virtual tie in two battleground states, according to Quinnipiac polls out Thursday.

The two are statistically tied in Florida and Ohio. Obama holds a clear advantage in Pennsylvania.

But in what could be a warning sign for Obama as voters begin to turn their attention to the general election campaign, Obama's lead appears to have dwindled, or barely remained steady, in all three states even as he has enjoyed a wave of intense media coverage surrounding his trip abroad. CNN Election Center: View the latest state polls

In Florida, Obama holds a statistically insignificant 2-point lead over McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent. In a similar poll taken one month ago, Obama held a wider and statistically significant 47 percent to 43 percent advantage over the Arizona senator there.

The difference appears to be a shift among independent voters, who now support McCain in Florida by a 5-point margin. In the June poll, Obama held the advantage among the same group of voters by a 10-point advantage. CNN's Electoral Map: Check out the lay of the land
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In Ohio, the battleground state where a weak economy should give Democrats an advantage, Obama is ahead by 2 points, 46 percent to 44 percent. That lead, also statistically insignificant, is down from the 6-point advantage the Illinois senator held there one month ago.

Obama's lead has also narrowed in Pennsylvania, though he still enjoys a clear edge there. Obama leads McCain by 7 points, 49 percent to 42 percent, down from the 11-point advantage he had in June.

Is this a shocking news story?

Of course we think everything is sucking right now. Oil prices, gas prices, food prices, prices prices prices baby! Normal people are feeling it right now.

What's really upsetting is that we know that the candidates right now are jabbing each other. THAT we know. What we DON'T (all of us) know is where they each stand on:

How to stimulate the economy again and get her runnin'!

How more people that don't have healthcare for their families can GET it.

How we can get more people in this Country employed.

How we can button up our borders and suture the bleeding its causing monetarily. (Not to mention crime.)

How we can get our TROOPS home and get out of this costly, insignificant war.

How we can finally repair, and make safe, all the screwed up bridges all over America. More tragedies are comin'!

How we can better prepare and further help when major, natural disasters happen.

I know that Obama thinks certain people don't like him because of his skin color, but I don't know what he thinks about helping my fellow Brethren and Sistren of this Country. Issues gentlemen...ISSUES!