We moved into our house a little over 5 years ago. Since that time we have had some very interesting things happen...why you ask? Well, it's because we live on the edge of the freaking hood! Only in our neighborhood could you see someone walking down the street in a hospital gown with a white plactic bag in their hand- and it be completely normal!!

Other interesting experiences we have had include, but are not limited to:

-registered sex offenders hot-dogging their trucks up and down the street

-police knocking on my door with pistol's drawn asking about a stray pit bull in my yard

-drive by shootings

-people knocking on my door at 3 a.m. asking if I have seen their dog

-people knocking on my door at 11 p.m. asking for "gas" money and then not being satisfied with the $3 I offer them

-people walking down the middle of the street at 2 a.m., screaming at the top of their lungs about who knows what as a car drives behind them at 1 mph

-multiple other stray dog incidents

-multiple occasions where people knocked on my door asking if they can stay the night

-cars running through stop signs, skidding to a halt, throwing beer bottles out the window and then peeling out

-possible drug deals going down in my front yard

-guys running stolen cars through my neighbor's fence

-my neighbor chasing down the guys who ran the stolen car through his fence

-the same neighbor pulling a gun on a dog

-multiple hit and run accidents

-more police cars and ambulance's stopped on my street than I can remember

-dumpster diggers and alley walkers galore

-don't forget my crazy neighbor Mabel, the folks across the street with the yard art, the guy with Alzheimer's around the corner and the street walking drunk right behind my house

There are other's I could list, but my head hurts just thinking about them. Sometimes I wonder if there is any other place quite like this patch of land. A place of street walkers and possible mafia members, of bass bumping Pontiac's and stray dogs. A place so much like home that random people ask to live with you or at least ask for your money. A place so magical that violence, car theft and hit and run accidents go hand in hand with neighborly bbq's, kids playing in the sprinkler and little families like mine. I am reminded of the Tom Hanks movie The Burbs, one of my favorite's, where the great 80's actor Corey Feldman says, after describing his neighborhood, "God I love this place".

Anybody want to come by for a visit?

I love my country. I LOVE my state. I love uncle Ted...lot's more that uncle Sam. Here is a picture of uncle Ted. He's a Texas Wildman. I like the sound of that. Going against the grain of his profession, Ted has never been into drugs or promiscuity. He is into rock music, his family, his country and state, his rights, hunting, meat and the grilling/consumption of backstrap, guns and the hunters brotherhood.

Recently, uncle Ted has started writing a column in the Waco Trib's Sunday edition. Needless to say, his writings and opinions are interesting, entertaining, informative and 100% logical. They fly in the face of popular thought and pop culture. He might not be classified as "P. C.", but no one could accuse him of being anti-American (no one in their right mind anyway...)

What follows is one of Ted Nugent's articles taken from the Waco Trib. Enjoy.

Ted Nugent: 'Live and let live' foreign idea to left
By Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I like sizzling meat on the grill. Wild, huh? Anybody? Now, we all know ol' Nuge isn't by any stretch of the imagination a weirdo when it comes to an omnivorous diet.
Especially here in the great Republic of Texas, a smiling, drooling preference for succulent, protein-rich, nutritious backstrap over aromatic mesquite coals is as American and natural and right as Mom, apple pie and the flag. It's beautiful, really.
But a culture war rages against such universal, self-evident truths. It would be laughable if it were not so deranged. Some weirdos actually are on a crusade to outlaw the consumption of flesh.
I have musical touring associates who have been fired from their jobs with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney for sneaking a hamburger.
You heard that right. Fired for eating meat by an animal-rights maniac, hard-core vegan bass player.
The entire agenda of the gazillion-dollar-financed joke known as PETA literally is dedicated to outlawing meat.
Neither I, nor any hunter or meat eater on the planet, has any desire whatsoever to influence any vegetarian's choice of diet or to force them to eat meat. We are the friendly, tolerant Americans.
This is but one of many issues that represent the line drawn in the sand between liberals and conservatives.
Our own intrepid opinion editor at the Trib, my friend John Young, doesn't want to simply make the choice to be unarmed and helpless for himself. He has again recently insisted that you and I must also comply with his soulless condition of unarmed helplessness in "gun-free zones."
Nobody from our side wants to force anybody to have a gun or defend themselves. It is us, the conservatives, who are for individual choice.
Taxation, confiscation
As for the American left: One hears the words of Mao Tse-Tung come broiling out of the mouths of its heroes, when Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton et al unflinchingly push for "redistribution of wealth."
Central Texas' own Chet Edwards has the audacity to support taxing the after-tax life savings of American families following the death of a loved one.
The unfair, un-American, unconstitutional death tax literally destroys mom-and-pop businesses across the land. Think about it.
The wall that once symbolized communism is down, yet some still want to give it a shot. Dear God in heaven, help us.
Recently, Danny Glover, an otherwise fine actor, embarrassingly abused his uniquely American freedoms by siding with the communist Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to finance what clearly appears to be an anti-American propaganda film. Nice.
Meanwhile, right there in that communist country, old Hugo is shutting down an entire media network for daring to challenge his heavy handed, corrupt, dictatorial policies.
This is a leader who has proudly sided with terrorist support groups, and Danny Glover gives him a big hug.
If a Venezuelan citizen were to do so with President Bush, I am confident that Chavez would not respect that individual's right to free expression.
Venezuela gives its citizens no right to free expression. Glover must be blinded by the trees in that forest.
Examine the agendas of the liberal "party of peace." Its members clearly don't believe you and I are smart enough or capable of making our own choices in life.
While conservatives "live and let live," the left arrogantly thinks it knows better than we do and will burden "we the people" with more government control until we are taxed to death.
Watch them. Listen, pay attention and blow whistles.
Educate your family, neighbors, friends, co-workers and hunting buddies on how dangerous such control is against the American Dream of individual pursuit of happiness.
Throw off the shackles of government-run slavery. Stand up for individual independence. Enough is enough.
Hey, Hugo and Hillary, leave me alone.