Thursday, July 31, 2014

Forza Race Games Rock!

I've had a blast playing the Forza race car games on the Xbox 360. The first game I bought was Forza Horizon, then Forza 3, Forza 2 and Forza 4 in that order. I couldn't buy Forza 5 because it's only available for Xbox One but I do plan to buy Forza Horizon 2 when it comes out in September.

After playing 4 of their games I prefer playing the online multi-player racing on Forza 3 because it's the most competitive, at least at my current skill level. The only problem is the game is an old one and most of the players have moved onto the other games. You'll still get some good online racing there but not as good as the others. The season play and event list racing is great in all the games as you learn to race, so that's the bonus. The race tracks in all the games are awesome and many are replicas of the real ones. Sebring, Sedona, Indianapolis, Le Mans, Laguna Seca, Sonoma, Silverstone and Road American among many others are their to test your racing skills.

The fun part about Forza for me personally is the awesome muscle cars of the 70's you can race. Each car on Forza is an exact replica of the original in ever detail, from the HP of the engine to the inside of car. The dash, speedometer, tach, and steering wheel are all exactly the same.

From the mid-60's to the early 70's American car companies built the coolest hot rods ever. They had style, power and personality. Today they're are many cars that beat them on a race track or in a drag race and they certainly don't handle as well as the new cars but that's not the point. If I had my way and money was no object I'd buy a mint condition car from that era over a Japanese, German or Italian performance car any day of the week. Any one of the cars in this slideshow I would happily own if I could. All the cars in the slideshow below are orange because of my love of the Broncos but you can paint them any color you want including the original stock colors. Keep in mind all the photos I took of the cars were on my big screen TV so they're a little grainy but when you see them on your TV at home they'll be in perfect hi-definition.





Here's a video I made of the cars I own on Forza 4.



Here's a video of a race at the Brickyard Raceway in Indy with a 1971 AMC Javelin. I made it for my friend Darold as a tribute since he's a fan of AMC cars.



The cars below are ones I customized in the paint shop on Forza 3 and Forza 4. The reason there are 5 Puegeot 908's is because it's the most commonly used online mutliplayer race car on Forza 3. The Broncos Mustang, Broncos Shelby, Broncos Mercedes-Benz SL 65 and Police Car Camaro were designs I bought from other designers in the market place and applied to the cars.

1995  Ferrari F450
2004 Ferrari F430

2010 Ferrari RISI Competizione F430 GT

2011 Peugeot Matmut-Oreca 908

2007 Puegeot Sport 908

2002 BMW M3-GTR

2006 Aston-Martin #004 DBR9

2002 Cadillac Northstar LMP-20

2007 Puegeot Sport 908

2007 Peugeot Sport 908

2007 Puegeot Sport 908

2007 Puegeot Sport 908

2005 Mustang GT

2007 Shelby GT500







2010 Camaro SS

2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series

2005 Lamborghini Murcielago

2008 Viper STR10 ACR

2008 Chevy Monte Carlo Stock Car

2009 BMW Rahal Letterman M# GT2

1999 Toyota GT-One TS020

2009 Mazda Dyson B09/86

1999 Toyota GT-One TS020

1999 Mercedes-Benz Sauder C 9

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Obama's Border Crisis Creation is Grounds for Impeachment

Isn’t it incredible that impeachment proceedings haven’t begun for President Obama? I know the Democrats will have none of it and the Republicans don’t have the moral courage in an election year to launch impeachment but instead file a toothless lawsuit?  The main stream media is in bed with him certainly isn’t proposing it and worships him but party politics aside enough is enough. The list of lawlessness goes on and on. He makes Nixon, Clinton and George W. look like Eagle Scouts.  

It’s becoming impossible to keep track of the almost daily malfeasance. The IRS targeting Obama’s enemies and deleting emails, the unbelievable hostage trade, the disgraceful lack of treatment for our warriors at Veteran’s Hospital’s, then there’s the ineptitude and inaction in Iraq and the pending military, political, social and economic disaster for the entire Middle East region that is sure to follow as a result.

Then there’s the old scandals the liberal media has purposely chosen not to investigate like the Benghazi cover up that helped him win reelection in 2012, the Justice Department digging into Associated Press phone records to uncover leaks and the notorious ATF Fast and Furious debacle. If nothing else, Eric Holder the top Law Enforcement official in the US government should have been impeached for committing perjury trying to cover up his and undoubtedly Obama’s involvement in Fast and Furious.

This list alone would have been enough for the liberal media to be clamoring 24/7 to crucify any Republican President in the Oval Office but not the untouchable Barrack Obama. Remove this list and there’s still an older one of foreign policy and domestic failures that would have been grounds for at least firing him and it goes clear back to 2009, instead he gets reelected thanks to the denial of uninformed Democrats and his adoring media.

If you exclude Obamacare his newest catastrophe and possibly his worst, which is of his own creation by the way, is the appalling humanitarian crisis on the border. His statement, “I have a phone and a pen and plan to use it” (To bypass Congress) was all the people from Mexico and Central America needed to hear. It was clearly an invitation to more desperate illegal’s to cross the border and to force the hand of the Republicans to come to the table this year on an Amnesty Bill.

And what he and the Democrats want is an Amnesty Bill, they call it Immigration Reform but granting citizenship to 11 million illegal’s is Amnesty, it has nothing to do with reform. The inaction on his part to beef up border security which he could do with a call or a pen and enforce the immigration laws that are already in existence is more than adequate to deal with this crisis. Any intelligent person of course understands this for what it is, an intentional act of political gamesmanship. It’s also an excellent way to bring 11 million new citizens to the Democrat party.

Recently he proposed a $3.76 billion emergency appropriations bill to help house and feed the illegal immigrants and 52,000 unoccupied minors that have flooded over the border mostly for Central America. It’s disguised as humanitarianism but it’s really about is trying to run some interference in the main stream media. He has the lowest approval rating poll numbers of any serving President in history and has limited political capitol or credibility left.

All he can hope to do in the next several months is execute the bait and switch game with the immigration (Amnesty) fiasco and blame Republicans in this election cycle. It’s no accident; it’s clearly an act of desperation, he’s aware the Democrats more than likely will lose the majority in the US Senate.

The appropriations bill like most the President has proposed has some additions attached to it to put the Republicans in a box. It includes more money for highway infrastructure and money to fight wildfires. Instead of proposing a stand only bill to deal with the short term border crisis he and the Democrats toss this in the salad to make the Republicans look heartless if they don’t support it. Only 5% of the bill deals with additional border enforcement, again not accidental. Blank taxpayer checks are always the answer for Democrats.  

I’m so disgusted with Obama, both of the political parties, the media and the apathetic and ignorant American citizens. When are we going to start demanding lawful, moral and ethical accountability from our top government officials of both parties again, especially the President? When are we going to return to a nation of laws and not of men?

Since we hired them we can fire them if they’re not representing us by using the voting booth. Today we must call or write our elected officials in Congress and demand accountability, if enough yell they will start listening.

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