This Wolf is making a solemn vow...

I hereby refuse to participate in any further political discussions with anyone that has opinions only, and has no true research, knowledge or resource for their opinions.  Further, I am publicly decrying any method of "drive by" politics based on soundbites, excerpts or misinterpretations.  I vow to get the knowledge myself, and permit my own beliefs to be founded on truth and foundation, as opposed to gossip and rhetoric. --Signed today, by Wolf K.

That's right, I've decided that I'm tired of arguing on BlogCatalog.com about politics with people that truly have no basis for what they are saying.  I respect opinion, but I despise sensationalism.

In many of the recent discussion threads on BC.com, I've run across the right, the left and the moderate.  I respect many, but am highly discouraged with the common man's ability to process information without regurgitating blowhard air personalities or yellow journalists.

In a day and age when we need to know what is REALLY going on in our country, the people of the U.S. are instead turning to short bursts of conversation and idealizing them as if they were fact.

Barack Obama has even gone so far to set up the first website to put a k-bosh on the untruths that include his Muslim background, a raging desire to show off his lack of patriotism and how his middle name is Muhammed. (FIND URL HERE)  We have to have sites like FactCheck.org just to help us sort out the bovine extract from elements of truth

In the posts that have surfaced on BC, there are more and more sensationalist positions, and less and less reference, fact or research.  Hell, I've slept a great deal since the 80's and can't remember all that happened with Reagan and Bush I.  How the heck is someone just going to spout off how things went in a deep discussion about how the politics and leaders of the 80's influenced the economy today without doing some digging and research?

Now we're launching into a bunch of BS about the candidates.  I'd like to see us quit looking for scandal, and look for some real solutions to the problems that face this country.  Do I really care if Senator So and So misplaced a comma on his tax return, or if Mr. Blah Blah missed returning a library book in 1970?  No.  I want to know what I can expect as a citizen of this country for the years to come, and how it will effect the Cub, my pack and the rest of the world around me.

Enough rhetoric and namecalling.  Someone be accountable for themselves, quit spinning the stuff we sponge up through the media and give me some answers!

And do it quick...I have very little time to mess around.  I have a life to live.

Someone really gets it, and if you are having ANY trouble figuring out what Accountability Corner is all about, then check out this review of the site. on DoYouDiggIt.com.

I want to personally thank Mary Ward from DoYouDiggIt.com for her review.  It made my day.  Not because I have someone review the site in a postiive way, but the fact that she got it.

Now, I hope you'll get it, then help me spread it to all the people you know.  Hmmm...that sounds rather bad.  I sure hope that people don't excerpt this and then I have a rush from the CDC for spreading a harmful disease to the masses.

Then again...maybe it will help get the word out.

This is the short list of things I need to deal with to be more accountable in my life:

• Be more proactive
• Stop smoking
• Build new business
• Create list of things to do for my "bucketlist"

So, as my loyal readership, (its always good to have my mother in my corner, at least) I will ask you to keep me honest in my efforts.   I'm going to lay out my shortcomings, ideas and strategies here.  Then, I will hopefully be able to report on the good things that happen because of my accountability.

First, I'm not the best at being proactive.  This has been a detriment lately, because instead of having a fall back on several things, I'm scratching to catch up.  It is like being a mother bird with eggs, but no nest.  It tends to be a little too late, when the problem is already there.

I have a tendency to see it coming, but think its going to be okay.  Is this a character flaw?  I definitely think so.  It would be easier to deal with it ahead of time, instead of making excuses to avoid it.

Now this is the most general thing that I have to deal with.  It is very general, but it has the larger effect on the rest of my life.  Read on, if you dare.

I have spent the past several days enjoying summer, and I guess it has effected my ability to work.  I'm not feeling that "get up and go get 'em" type of motivation.

So what do you do when you have this problem?

I'm numb, but what's amazing is that by doing little practices like venting (case in point with this post), I find my way out of my funk.  I've got a list about a mile long of topics, but none of them interested me.  I'm sure they will again, but when I'm in dafunk, I just can't get excited about stuff I noticed or determined worthy several days ago.

So, I sit and do stream of consciousness type posts, and hope that it breaks my need to sit immobile.  I don't get writer's block, instead, I get do-er's block.

I have a July Spotlight to prepare for (Benny Greenburg of Ya-ttitude.com) and my short list of topics, and I sat here yesterday, looked at the screen and said....nope.  So, I took my daughter and wife and went to town and dropped into the golf shop and picked up two dozen range balls to teach the Cub how to putt.  That could have been due to my overinvolvement with the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines over the weekend, but it was a nice diversion.

I tend to find productive alternatives to writing when I'm not in the "mood".  I mow my yard, help the She-Wolf with the house, get much needed sleep or rekindle my love with the outdoors.

So, when I get back to it, I usually have another long page of potential posts, and a renewed sense of self.  But this time, I sit here and I think, "Damn, I just want to do NOTHING."

So, I will sit here for now and do nothing.  If you don't like it...ghost write for me!