Today is the day.
For what, only time will tell.
If you’ve been wondering where The Bull has been, I’ve been deliberately staying off this blog during the end of the election cycle. Too much drama with no chance of great return regardless of who wins. Granted, IMNSHO, America would be better off with McCain over Obama. The fact remains that I am but one man – one vote. There is a good chance that I’ll be in the minority this election. I decided that I would accept that loss, should it come, with grace & dignity. Something that I predict we will not see from the Left whether they win or lose. All The Bull really cares for is the future of this beloved Nation of my birth.
There are two things that have come from all of this… For the first time in ages I found myself up at 3AM and in Circle, praying as we Pagans do, not for a win today but rather for the future and for guidance for myself. Why guidance? Because I am considering throwing my Balmoral bonnet into the ring for a local school board election. Watching the disgusting display of this election cycle has shown me that I must become more personally involved for I damned sure can’t count on the morons currently in office nor the power-hounds that want the offices to get the job done.
Like Grandpa Homer said, “If you want it done right then you’ve got to do it yourself”.
I also want to take a moment before I close this post to address an email from oe of my dearest & best friends, Nancy Gail. She wrote me a while back taking me lightly to task for my oft stated stance on Muslims. She wrote, and I quote:
I think its about time you said something nice on your blog about at least *one* ?
Muslim soldier fought for America _ and his faith – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081021/pl_mcclatchy/3078971
To reply: Happily, dear Gail! Happily! 
For this is not so much a story of a Muslim as it is the story of an American. More, an American Hero. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was what all Americans should be. He was also what all Muslims should be, but sadly are not. My complaint about Islam is that it is a religion full of blind followers. People willing to murder children – even their own – because a guy in a cleaner towel told them so. And as I’ve also said, Muslims as a group can not and must not be trusted until they start to police themselves and stop their murderous ways. Khan was the perfect example of what a Muslim can and should be. He prayed devoutly. He followed the spirit of his Faith, and he shunned the bitter extremist of Islam.
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was killed by an improvised explosive device in August 2007 along with four other soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter while searching a house in Baqouba, Iraq. The Bull salutes his memory and his surviving family for their supreme sacrifice for the Freedoms we enjoy (at least until Jan.21, 2009) here in America.
When you think about the huge advances made in the evolution of Civilization by Muslims in the past it really is a damned shame how low they have fallen as a people.
UPDATE: I voted today at 11:30AM among a huge crowd at the Tillman’s Corner, AL Community Center. In speaking with the crowd outside it appears that the Conservatives are doing well in our wee corner of Alabama. Of course, the day is young and this is one seriously volatile election cycle. I took my 14yr. old son son along with me to the polls so he could see the process in action, up close & personal. Jake was amazed at the complexity of the ballot in Alabama. Here we vote for various justices as well as a myriad of State constitutional issues – even those concerning far away counties. Hard to believe, but in the next Presidential election my son will be voting right along side The Bull. At least now he will know how…
Pray for our Nation, Pray for others – and VOTE!
Bull, out. 
