A new year's resolution that everyone can do

1. Start exercising. (check with your Doctor first)
a. First day walk a block and add a block a day up to 10 blocks.
b. Look at what you are eating and just cut back on something everyday.
2. If you are not already doing it, start helping someone who needs it. It could be a friend or stranger.
3. Send one extra dollar a week to a charity of your choosing, or a new dollar to a charity.
4. Go to church once a week for at least an hour. The church can be an existing church/synagogue/mosque or the church could be inside you. Go to a place where you can meditate/reflect on the past week and week ahead.
5. Sing a song even if you are the only one who hears it.
6. If you live alone get a pet. If you do not live alone get a pet.

There are other things I know you can think of. Make it easy, start small and we can all achieve our goals. As my son says, Peace out.

Merry Christmas Hope

Merry Christmas to all and I mean all. Christmas for christians is about the birth of Jesus our Lord and Savior. For others I hope what they take from Christmas is hope. Hope that tomorrow things will be better. Hope for a better life. Hope for peace. Hope for happiness.

I always say, "keep hope alive".

Health Care, all in

I am not in favor of the President's new health care agenda because in the end I do not believe it will work but I have 3 statements.

1. If our health care system is in such shambles that we have to fix it now why do the people who need it have to wait until 2013 to get the health care that they so desperately need. 

2. Like I said I am not in favor of what they want to do but I say let them get what they want like they want it. If it works great. If it does not we know who to blame and we can vote them out of office.  

3. What we do not need is a watered down bill that will most certainly not accomplish anything for the people who really need health care. 

There is a plan

There is a plan. There must be because congress is hell bent on passing health care reform that probably will not reform health care. The talk is that something is better than nothing. Congress must do this now or what? I wish I knew.

I am all for people having access to health care but we should make sure that all of us have a stake in it and we all pay for it. If you get something for "FREE" that someone else pays for is it really "FREE" and will it be good. Will it be good enough for the President and Congress to drop their
health care and accept the Public Option as if it is really an option. For someone who does not have health insurance why do they call it an option.

I feel we will get what we deserve. There will be a ruling class and everyone else. If I hear one more person call me an ordinary citizen I will scream. Last I looked we are all the same.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner is the President

What is there to say except he is in good company. President Jimmy Carter (middle east peace work), we are still trying to resolve that. Vice President Al Gore (A movie about Climate Change, global warming, and how man is responsible for it), what an ego to think that man has created this huge issue if it is an issue and then man has the ability to fix it. Last I looked whenever man has interjected himself into changing mother nature there are always disastrous unintended consequences.

Congratulation to President Obama. I hope and I hope that he can live up to what the world thinks he can do, our country and the world as we know it may depend on it.

Book Of JoJo

Miracles, safety and control

I am reminded of a line in a film called “Miracle at St. Anna”, from the book by James McBride. The line says it all when it comes to what happens to people and nations when we have it too easy. We concern ourselves with many things that we can not control. Here is the line paraphrased.

“There is no control in life…wherever you go, wherever you hide, there’s risk… People pay for control (seat belts, safety devices, and so forth) even when they have none. Safety is the greatest risk of all, because safety leaves no room for miracles, and miracles are the only sure thing in life.”

Book of JoJo

Saints Game vs MIami

My wife noticed a young lady walking up the steps with a Saint's jersey with double zero and my last name on the back. I got her attention by hollering my name. She turned toward me and I yelled hey that is my name too. She hollered back with her arms open saying, "I'm not married" and she walked off. What did she mean?