Fireside3

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation property caretaker, under employed maintenance man/mechanic, under appreciated animal rescuer, aspiring writer, philosopher, amateur veterinarian
Location Wichita Falls, Texas
Introduction I'm a wildlife rehabilitator. I'm an Army veteran and very direct. I am honest to a fault and believe that you have nothing of character if you don't have that. You always get the truth from me, even if you don't want it, but you always know where you stand. I'm patient and compassionate, but I have no tolerance for disloyalty, dishonesty, contradictions, or other deficits of integrity. Religiously, I'm a Deist. I'm not into dogmatic dogmas. Politically, I describe myself as an "Anarcho-Conservatarian". My views don't fit the left or the right and I'm mostly Libertarian. I'm pro-gun ownership, but I don't have any respect for the recreational crowd of slobs known "sport hunters". Guns should be used to shoot bad people. I'm pro-life where it concerns the unborn who have done nothing wrong. I'm anti-drug but it's your business, as long as you harm no one but yourself. I'm for secure borders. I don't buy into man-made global warming or macro-evolution. I don't think that who marries whom is the government's business, or yours. I don't care for endless wars on whomever we want to occupy. Republicrats call me a liberal, and Demublicans call me conservative. I piss everybody off.
Interests Herpetology, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, cooking (I am Sicilian, after all), spending time outdoors or on road trips (I love the desert southwest), aviation, history, veterinary and medical sciences (I study exotic animal medicine), constitutional and criminal law (have studied law just as a hobby), photography, philosophy, foreign language (I speak German well enough to get by, and Russian just enough to get into trouble ), and writing.
Favorite Movies Inglorious Basterds, Saving Private Ryan, The Borne Identity, Pulp Fiction, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Castaway. If it's Terantino or Tom Hanks though, it's good.
Favorite Music I enjoy music from CCR to old school Metallica, and especially enjoy Blues. I also prefer "Red Dirt" Texas country music (Morrow, Creagar, Keen)...not the "Nashville" mainstream.
Favorite Books I Claudius, the Virtue of Selfishness (Rand). In general it is easier to state that my favorite books are anything by Ayn Rand ( I am an "Objectivist" philosophically speaking ). I also enjoy Thomas Paine, and Mark Twain's political and philosophical commentary. I've got blue collar roots, but I'm a thinking man. School never taught me anything, and I never let "schooling" interfere with my education, as Twain said.