If it's August, it must be Crawford . . .

If it’s August, it must be Crawford . . .

August has always been associated with heat . . . The last really hot days of summer. Americans have learned associate August as the time our President heads to Crawford for the month.

Today I realized something . . . We were upset when the Iraq Government was going to take a month off and low and behold . . . Georgie and the boys and girls of Congress are gone to parts unknown . . . And our sons and daughters are stuck in Iraq dying in unheard of heat.

I would like to tell them all . . . It’s coming fast and you can’t stop it. Heads will roll and it’s not going to matter what party you belong too. Our troops should be home . . . We should be rebuilding the south, rebuilding our ailing homeland. You coined the term, now let’s use it for good, not the bogus fear you’ve created.

Why would anyone want to be President?

I’m not sure . . . I always thought it was for the people, but now I know differently. And I’m leery of all of them. There are just too many things that need attention, that need solving for congress to run their show as business as usual. And that’s all their doing and nothing, worth anything is being done.

For example the bill that gave healthcare to several hundred thousand children . . . That’s all good and great, unless their parents get sick and can’t work. Who’s going to feed, house and care for the children? Now if you got several hundred thousand families healthcare, now there’s an accomplishment to be proud of. Forty some million Americans don’t have, can’t afford and need healthcare. Many will be forced to go bankrupt and it will destroy them.

Democrats settle to easily . . . They need to learn to fight, to be strong. And Congress needs to know they work for us, the American People.

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Money vs Power . . .

Money vs. Power . . .

Money and Power aren’t always analogous. Sometimes they fight to the death. We think money can buy anything and it does, usually. Oh, except those things we value most . . . Love, respect, friendship . . . You may believe money can, but not real love, respect or friendship. Take away the money and everything disappears.

Isn’t power money? That’s what most people think, but that’s not always true . . . I’m thinking of Gandhi, Dali Lama and Martin Luther King. Power can be given to a cause, it can be taken and it can be taken away.

And sometimes the pursuit of one will lose the other . . . Today’s cable T.V. has sold the power to advertisers. CNN, MSNBC, FOX will pay a price . . . We the Viewers will get tired and then we’ll turn it off. The pursuit of money will cost in power, the power they use over us and that’s good for us.


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My Prayers Go Out To Those In Need In Minnesota . .

My Prayers Go Out To Those In Need In Minnesota . . .

A bridge too far has a tragic entry into the history books . . . And I’m sure it’s going to sound familiar as it did with Katrina . . . We hadn’t listened then, and we probably didn’t now either.

I wonder if Iraq had never happened would we have fixed what needed fixing . . . I bet no.

There are so many things that we have grown dependant on and have failed to rebuild . . . And were more concerned with HDTV than healthcare in our nation.

Dollars only go so far and were adding too many public projects to meager coffers, thinking I don’t know what . . . As if the money is an endless stream. But it’s finite, there is a point adding just one more will break any system.

The power grid for one needs updating, the rail system, highways and byways. And we don’t have any bullet trains, schools need maintenance. And still we build more. We build huge libraries and have to ask for money for books in a referendum.

And still people go hunger in our great democracy. Our people are turned away from medical services without any insurance, college is only for the affluent, and retirement becomes a soup kitchen or a food pantry on a fixed income.

And we say, we don’t want to give handouts . . . But is the money being spent wisely? And everyday we hear of the corruption in Washington, the last Republican Ted Stevens . . . Didn’t he get money for a bridge to no where? And before that the Democratic Leader in the senate, he was involved in a somewhat fishy land deal. Whatever happened to that?

And then we have the administration and their cronies and the missing billions in Iraq . . . When are we going to tell them enough?


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And we just might have a problem brewing . . .

And we just might have a problem brewing?

When does might make right? Never . . .

A security firm is growing, growing strong. . . So you would say.

They train paramilitary personnel and have a force over 25000 . . . They are securing Iraq.

The Chicago Tribune reported to have linked the University of Illinois director of police-training institute to them. They train in North Carolina and have opened a training facility in Mount Carroll, Illinois.

They wear black . . . Black uniforms, black helicopters with all the modern high tech toys . . . Just black.

The SS wore black . . . How powerful will they have to get . . .

And we just might have a problem brewing?


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Is It Worth It . . .

Is it worth it . . .

I wonder . . . Is all the effort is worth it?

An athlete works all his life for a chance to make the big time. So few do and so few make the big money and yet so many have given so much . . . Fought so hard, just to have it taken from them by being them selves . . .

They never asked to be worshiped. They never said they were better than anyone else. It reminds me of Julius Cesar . . . Secretly Julius wants to be King, and when they ask he has to turn it down, because someone that wants to be King has to think he is better than everyone else, doesn’t he?

There’s the rub . . . Fame, Riches, Power and Beheading . . . The NFL, Atlanta Falcons fed Michael Vick to the wolves, the media storm and they are going to destroy him . . . Regardless of innocence or not?


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Hero Worship Gone Astray . . .

Hero Worship Gone Astray . . .

Today CNN interviewed a teenage girl . . . They asked her if she felt cheated because her hero had let her down?

We are so quick to judge . . . I’m not defending Michael Vick . . . I don’t care about that. I’m more concerned that we put these people on such a high pedestal for playing sports, being President, being in the movies . . . Never once does anyone put someone up there because they are a good person.

And then we expect them to be good people . . . So many had to sacrifice that just to survive the battle that got them there in the first place. That’s irony . . . Like worshiping a soldier, a combat pilot and then finding out he killed thousands . . .

Parents have to mold their child’s view of life, not add fuel to the flames. Maybe we expect too much of a hero, maybe a favorite musician is just that . . . Good at what they do.

Now my heroes don’t play sports, they aren’t in politics, don’t have all the money in the world, but they have given of themselves, sacrificed something for the better of mankind. And even with all I know about them, they can just as easily fall from grace because of some unknown scandal . . .

But I hold them above everyone because of an action, not because of all the other little nothings. They were people, first and people aren’t perfect . . . People like Gandhi, Abe Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Martin Luther King, and some pretty great writers.

And so we judge . . . And someday we’ll be judged.


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Choose Your Own Heroes . . .

Choose Your Own Heroes . . .

Just because someone does great things, is not reason enough to make them your hero, is it? I wonder . . .

Athletes never asked to be our heroes. Teams buy the best players, because we like our teams to win. And not unlike you, players work for the team that pays them the most . . .

And we watch them work and when our team wins, we worship them and those that excel. They become our heroes. Not because they saved a life, not because they were good people, but because they played a game we loved well.

So let me ask you this, did you lie on your resume to get your job? Did you tell a few fibs on your taxes? Did you act on a tip that maybe wasn’t as ethical as . . .

All of us are heroes. If we hold one accountable, all of us should be held to the same standard. Our children will become what they see in us. If you lie, they’ll lie. If you cheat, they’ll cheat. And if you kill, chances are they will too.

Athletes are human too . . . They make mistakes. We may not like that, but we need to accept the fact. Most recent fallen hero, Michael Vick, quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons . . . Maybe ex-quarterback?

One mistake and you’re out . . . Our society has fallen, we no longer wait for the trial before convicting, the media makes sure we do it as quickly as they push us to do it. Once we hung criminals the same day as the offense, once we tarred and feathered those that showed their immoral side.


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My Little Experiment . . .

My Little Experiment . . . A Constant Reminder

So far I just have two comments on my quest to build Friends Around The World . . . Each day I will post the list and share my experience.

Friends Around The World . . .
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Plano, Texas


Today I Start a Journey

Today, I start a journey,
somewhere between birth and
death,

Sitting, analyzing, wondering,
what makes a man
remembered?

Is it, his frailty,
his pride or just his
naivete?

Today, I remove the worn
planks of decking, exchanging them, for
concrete,

For those I have touched, have I given them
a strength or a weakness, to be ground away by time?


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What if . . .

What if . . .

What if everyone stopped a moment to say hi? What if everyone for one small second realized that we have more in common than we think? What if war was a thing of the past?

Today is the second day . . . In this little project.

It’s the second day I am gathering comments. Trying to see how many and how far I can reach . . . Everyone is welcome . . . Just stop and say Hi. Leave your city, state and country. And I will make a list . . . And each day, I will try to post that list . . .

So Far . . .
Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA . . . Me
Plano, Texas, USA

Tell your family, friends, anyone everyone . . . Let’s just see where this can go and maybe friendship is the answer . . .

Dan Hanosh
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Maybe We Need A Cause . . .

Maybe We Need A Cause . . .

Maybe it’s time for us to find a cause? Maybe Al Gore is right and even if he’s not what difference does it make? I mean wouldn’t it be nice if the American people came together to Save Our Earth? Believe what you will, I think a cause is what the world needs to show us that we are all alike.

And then the critics came out trashing it and I thought how silly to diffuse the people of the world coming together for a reason other than hate. All of us are connected, we all have common beginnings. And somewhere it was easier to fight to kill when we learned to hate . . . I wonder if love can be built just as easily?

I for one, thinks it’s time to rise above the parties and unite for the common good of all people . . . How about you?


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