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?

Who will read this?

I have things to say even if no one reads it.

The Health Care debate

The real issue on Health Care is not whether we need health care reform it is how.

It use to be that we would recognize a problem and we would discuss it. We may disagree
on how to resolve it but at least we agreed that there was a problem.

Now when people disagree on how to resolve an issue they call each other names rather then debate the actual issue. The American people seem to believe the set of facts that their ideology leans them towards. What the real facts are is very hard to determine. It is all smoke and mirrors on both sides of this argument and for the most part the media just reports what it hears.

Implementation of any proposal and the unintended consequences of health care reform are what I am worried about the most.

I am against any proposal that would create another bureaucracy like the IRS that will have commissioners deciding our fate and promulgating rules w/o congressional over site. I have heard the comment that we already have that and while that may be true it does not mean we need another layer of it.

Check out one flavor of the bill at: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text

Do a find for "Commissioner", you will find 100.

Title of Bill

H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.

Black Holes

Did you know that they will creating mini black holes at CERN? There hope is that through studying the creation and death of a black hole they will be able to ascertain how the big bang started. The operative word here is the death of the black hole because if the mini black hole grows we could get sucked into it. I will go with Stephen Hawking on this and agree that the black holes will go away as fast as they start. He is truly a great mind.

What can we do?

Did you ever have to reload your operating system of your computer? Once that was done it ran faster and more efficiently did it not.

Could this be done with our government? Probably not.

What can we do?

Step 1. "WE" all must stop calling people names. Once you call someone a racist, or a nazi, or anything derogatory, can there really be a frank discussion of issues?

Tell me what someone has said is wrong, why it is wrong and then back it up. Your opinion that this person is an idiot is not relevant.

The book of JoJo

Weight gain and loss

The world (Earth) always maintains the same weight except for the occasional meteor and when we we send junk into space. When we applaud someone's weight loss just remember, for the world to remain in balance someone else has gained it. The book of JoJo