8:04 AM Pacific Time/Washington State 6/13/2013

RIP Jason Leffler died over night. For those of you not familiar with the name he was a Nationwide Nascar Driver who drove the #38 for Great Clips and the #18 in the Camping World Truck Series. I still do not know the details of the wreck but once its on Youtube ill share it. With all the safety precautions that have went into Nascar???? One NFL expert said the other day that NASCAR is safer than the NFL and I truly believe that with all the great devices and restylings of the cars and the new walls he must of hit something extremely hard because I dont know of any track where someone would actually die at. There are some tracks without safer barriers on the inside but I dont know yet ill post it when I see it.

8:09AM Pacific Time/Washington State 6/13/2013

This was the race and he is the yellow sprint cup do not get it confused with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series its a different type of car and its a dirt track which is called a hometrack they are not sanctioned to the same rules as NASCAR has. So if you look at this video their is no safer barrier, the cars are shaped much differently they are shaped for downforce and speed. Please keep your prayers and thoughts with Jason Lefflers family. This is not the death video and because of the shape of the track and where the wreck happened you probably wont ever see a death video because there is no seating where the wreck happened.

Jason Leffler Crash

8:21AM Pacific Time/Washington State 6/13/2013

The simple nature of the wreck was left rear blew out sending him into the turn 4 wall and rolling down the straightaway 2-4 times. BTW this is a typical type of wreck there is nothing strange about it other than maybe it tweaked him the wrong way. Dale Earnhardt Sr's wreck was eerily similiar in that Sterling Martin gave him just a little nudge and it just turned Sr's car wrong and straight up head on into the wall. Nothing weird nothing strange just a hard hit that broke his neck. BTW I remember Sr's wreck like it was yesterday he was protecting Michael Waltrip who was in 1st and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Who was in 2nd and Sr. was in 3rd. All 3 cars belonged to the Earnhardt company and Sr. just wanted them to go at it as he had fought for over 20 years to win the Daytona 500. It came out Michael Waltrip won that race and it was one of the only times Michael Waltrip ever won. Sterling Martin was a great driver up until that time and he started getting death threats. I remember Jr. calling a news conference and telling everyone to leave Sterling alone it was just good old hard fashioned racing.

Jason Lefflers Career Highlights:

Inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2003

He had 18 national championship midget car wins at the time of the presentation.

1997, 1998, 1999 USAC National Midget champion

1998 USAC Silver Crown champion

He did run the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400-One and open wheel race and the other a NASCAR race.

NASCAR Level of Racing Statistics:

At the Sprint Cup Level of racing he had 1 Top Ten and 1 Pole over 73 races and a 9 year run

His best year at the Sprint Cup level was 37th in 2012

At the Nationwide Level of racing he had 2 Wins 107 Top Tens and 8 Poles over 294 races and a 12 year run

Best year at the Nationwide Level was 3rd in 2007 out of all the teams.

At the Camping World Truck Level of racing he had 1 Win 35 Top Tens and 10 Poles over 56 races and 7 year run

Best year in Camping World Truck Series 2002 was his best year with a 4th place finish out of all the teams.

In 2012 was his last year in that series he ended up 23rd of all the teams

IndyCar Series Career:

He raced for Treadwell Racing from 1999-2000

Best finish 30th in 2000

He had 0 Wins 0 Podiums and 0 Poles

He did not make much into a Indycar career.

By definition some religions whether they want to be considered Pagan religions they are considered Pagan religions. Here is the definition of Pagan:

Noun A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. That is the base definition. So as we look at other religions out there. Some may want to be considered or not be considered Pagans yet they are Pagans. Paganism is an umbrella term that encompasses all of the non-abrahamic religions. This means that every religion that has not descended from Paganism is more of an term that would be considered an umbrella term. So it encompasses many religions that are non abrahamic religions. So you figure there are only 3 religions that are considered non-pagan religions. Judaism, Christianity, or Islam would be considered your non-pagan religions. Whereas Wicca, Native Americans, Ásatrú, Hellenic Polytheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Celtic, and Druidism are all excellent examples of pagan religions. So when you think of Paganism your thinking of the number 1 religion in the world in terms of size. We have more people believing in their different God or Gods in different ways. Who would be the most devout? I have seen many people who are devout and in different countries our countries demand a lot from us. Some countries demand we work more than others and that is no excuse and I have found that Hindus and the Islamic faith to be extremely devout to their religion. Christians are devout but they are devout in getting you to think the same way as they do. They push hard at recruiting and their churches even teach them to recruit when they do not even realize it. It is very much a brainwash type of thinking. Who are the most dangerous? I find Judaism to be one of the most dangerous religions on the planet. They exist in an area where they are the only ones who think the way they do and they do not like it. Who are the most peaceful? Other than myself ha ha ha ha Paganism is hands down the most peaceful and when attacked many of them will be burned at a stake or be stoned to death without flinching. Pagans have not enjoyed a very peaceful nature. Because of their peacefulness they are attacked for it. But you ask any Pagan if they would turn their back on their faith even if they were going to be burnt at a stake? They would decline. I am a very outspoken Pagan and it's because of the world I live in. I get poked for being a Pagan and I am like a hungry lion. I personally have a great problem with the Christian faith and maybe it will take some time to get over but I will speak with my counselor about it because I personally have a  huge problem with that faith and I find that is when I am the most outspoken. I love all people it is only the faith I have the problem with. But as time goes on us simple farmers known as Pagans will once again bring in the cattle and harvest our corn for another day. IH

What do we do with Near-Earth Asteroids?

So what do we do about asteroids heading to Earth? As a Pagan I believe nature has its right to live without us interfering. If an asteroid is heading to Earth I say let it impact. Humans will survive and it could do great and disasterous things to our world. I am not all about disasters but I believe we should prepare ourselves on our planet instead of trying to change things with a nuke. What happens if they hit it with a nuke and it spreads out and hits all of America? Here is the article from Space.com http://www.space.com/21333-asteroid-nuke-spacecraft-mission.html: All credit for this little article to them.

"If a dangerous asteroid appears to be on a collision course for Earth, one option is to send a spacecraft to destroy it with a nuclear warhead. Such a mission, which would cost about $1 billion, could be developed from work NASA is already funding, a prominent asteroid defense expert says. 

Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University, described the system his team is developing to attendees at the International Space Development Conference in La Jolla, Calif., on May 23. The annual National Space Society gathering attracted hundreds from the space industry around the world.

An anti-asteroid spacecraft would deliver a nuclear warhead to destroy an incoming threat before it could reach Earth, Wie said. The two-section spacecraft would consist of a kinetic energy impactor that would separate before arrival and blast a crater in the asteroid. The other half of the spacecraft would carry the nuclear weapon, which would then explode inside the crater after the vehicle impacted"

I have a problem with this not only on the monetary side of things. Yet we are trying to change something that could end up happening 100 times a year then what are we going to do? If we allow nature to take its course I believe that is the will of the Gods. I am not one to leave all things to the Gods but when it is coming to the Universe I do. 

We put all our money into prevention with big powerful weapons when we could build shelters alot cheapter than that. But not only that we could be putting alot more money into Sciences to go into space and easily redirecting if we wanted too. We need to start pushing our lawmakers of all countries into putting more money into space so we can get to other planets like our own easily. Yes I am confused on why they don't put more money into things we could be doing and instead we put $1 billion for a nuke. It is all about us and how we educate our children and teaching them that science and mathematics is where our true future lies.

Why do people draw blanks when speaking?

Have you ever been asked a question and all of a sudden your like "Ummm, hmmmm yeah ummmm, ummmm, ummmmm. I don't know I am drawing a blank?" Well I am going to try and discover the reason why we all become what feels like the clown in the room at that time of stress.

Einstein's Actual Brain

So I figured the first thing I would do is lets find out what the dictionary says?

So I used: The Free Dictionary by Farlex
and here is what we came up with:

draw a blank 

1. . Fig. to get no response; to find nothing.

2. Fig. to fail to remember something.

Well we kind of knew that already. That was not real news for us to learn anything from. So I guess I am still drawing a blank off drawing a blank hahahaha.

So I figured next would be "Where did it originate?" So back to Google I go. I type in the phrase and here is what I came up with. Of course it surprises me that its of English Origin because I always thought English people of being more proper. But it is not what you may think. These little rascals were gambling. Yep it came from lotteries hahahaha. Here is the section from Know Your Phrase. I will list all links at the bottom so that others can go look up the origins of everything I find. So here is the origin of "Why do people draw blanks?":

This idiom may come from lotteries that were played in the 16th century. Wikipedia states:

"The first recorded official lottery was chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, in the year 1566, and was drawn in 1569. This lottery was designed to raise money for the 'reparation of the havens and strengthof the Realme, and towardes such other publique good workes.'"

Some of the lotteries back then worked like so: There were two pots. One pot contained individual notes with the names of participants on them, while the other pot had notes with the prizes. A name would be drawn from the first pot, followed by a prize. However, there was a possibility for a blank note to be drawn from the prize pot, which meant the person won nothing!

To go along with this, there is a book titled A History of English Lotteries, from 1834. The writer mentions that there is an authentic record in existence which confirms the lottery that took place in Queen Elizabeth's time. This old manuscript, according to him, described the lottery, saying:

"A verie rich Lotterie Generall, without any blancks."

Kind of interesting that this phrase has been around over 400 years. Not only that but it made its way over on the Mayflower as well and from there all the way up to Deer Park, Washington where we are trying to figure out this silly phrase.


Ok it looks like I found it. I went to Google once again and typed in "Drawing Mental Blanks" Neurology and I only came up with 7 or so different websites. But I will post what one of them had written and it makes sense. It also makes sense that we exercise our brains as much as possible to keep ourselves mentally sharp and physically sharp. But did you realize out of all the organs the brain needs both mental and physical exercise to keep it sharp as a tack? Yep it sure does. So here is the rundown from that other website. The website is called PrivInfo-Improve Memory:

The Words Evade Me

"If you've ever felt like you're losing your mind because you're drawing mental blanks more often it's time to examine your cause for memory loss. Sometimes there is more than one change to be made for a person to get back to normal with their ability to remember.

Are you stressing yourself too much by taking on too many projects at once? This will cause you to become preoccupied, and you may feel as though you can't afford to take the time to relax and recharge your brain. But to do the best job no matter what the job, one must take care of oneself. Besides the physical damage of overworking, over-thinking will lead to mental meltdown. Your short-term memory will begin to suffer, causing you to forget even the simplest of words.

So, first consider if there is anything you can do to ease your burden, like learning to say no when you already have too much on your agenda. Let someone else take over when possible, delegate responsibilities, learn to stop giving so much of yourself that you begin to suffer because of it. It's easy to do too much for your loved ones, especially. Mothers (or fathers) decide that something may be done faster or done in a more satisfactory way, so they neglect to allow their children to handle things they are really quite capable of doing. Hence, an overworked and harried mother, who begins to lose her keys or wallet, forgets to put gas in the car, neglects to put the school gym clothes in the wash, can't remember a neighbor's name that they have seen and spoken to often, or calls his or her child by their other child's name. Maybe the children won't do the chore exactly as you do or as quickly as you or as well as you, but the child can't learn how to perfect their efforts unless they perform trial and error. Give them the benefit of the doubt and accept their imperfect achievements whenever possible. Gentle guidance and praise are the keys here.

There are health reasons that can cause our words to escape us. Short-term memory loss is one of the drawbacks to having diabetes. If you struggle with your blood sugar levels, you are sure to have memory challenges from time to time. Motivation, the proper diet and medication, along with strict self-discipline will get the situation back under control and the memory should return to normal.

There is an old phrase that goes 'Use it or lose it'. Sometimes we can retain our sanity and our memory loss just by making the effort to exercise our brains. Besides the benefits of physical exercise, mental exercise is also essential to overall health. Take up a new activity, something to make you think, some way to present a challenge to your mind. Of course, you want to avoid having to try too hard or you'll just become discouraged. Take baby steps if necessary, keeping up with each accomplishment and making each new challenge a bit harder. Besides improving your ability to recall words, this will boost your self-esteem."

So the next time you "Draw a Blank" remember its time to start using flash cards and running 5 miles with 500 push-ups a day cause your slipping hahahaha just kidding.

Thank you to these fine websites that gave us the info needed because of our drawing blanks LOL:

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The Free Dictionary by Farlex

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/

Know Your Phrase

http://www.knowyourphrase.com/phrase-meanings/drawing-a-blank.html

PrivInfo

http://www.privinfo.com/members/improve-memory/the-words-evade-me.php