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Obama’s Youth Regiment

Howdy all. I just wanted to let you know that starting soon there should be more consistant blogging on this site! We’ve got a lot of  stuff coming up and hope you stay tuned. Until then, here’s something that should get you through your day.

/nuf said.

Fairness Doctrine

Looks like everybody is jumping on board the fairness doctrine boat.  This should be a fun ride. I wonder if any states or governers will have the kahones to declare this unconstitutional and allow broadcasters to speak freely in their states. I would love to see the “O” send troops into Texas to shut down a radio station.

These Democrats sure get thier feelings hurt easily.  Waaahhh Rush is picking on me!

Woot!

I have been rooting for the Man of Steele since he ran for Senate in Maryland, so you better believe he was my choice for RNC seat.

Man, this is two black-conservative posts in a row for me, I guess Obama really did bring the hopenchange.

I have a new hero. And unless Shawn makes me take down the link on the right ——-> I am keeping that up too.

The rest of his videos.

Now to get back to clinging to my guns and hating minorities.

Fail

Despite the attempt to spin his speech as otherwise, Obama failed to deliver anything worth listening too.  What did he even say? I don’t remember. All I heard was blah blah blah the economy is down blah blah war blah.  And beyond his speech, who else thought that poem was complete crud.  Definitely not worthy of anybody’s ears outside of a San Fransisco bar’s poetry contest.  And although a man’s prayers are usually between him and God, I couldn’t help but laugh at the “Yellow isn’t mellow” part. Comedy gold.  Sure, I know I am just a bitter American, but I expected soooo much more after all the hype. There was nothing worth “Carving into granite”.

And while I am at it… my Grandma called and asked that Mrs. Obama give her window curtains back.

Here is the full text of BLEH. Dont fall asleep reading it. I reccomend taking it a paragraph at a time and drinking lots of coffee.

Later Comrades!

UPDATE: Hot Air rocks again! “Black will not asked to get back, brown can stick around, yella’ will be mella’, the red band can get ahead man, and when WHITE WILL EMBRACE WHAT IS RIGHT“

Obama quotes 1984 – part 2

Did I say chocolate production was up 1.3 million pounds? I meant 2 million! It has become obvious that Obama knows there is no way to prove whether he “saved or created” X number of jobs, so once again he raised the number. This time from 3 million to 4 million (was 2.5 earlier).  By the time 2010 rolls around he will probably be saying he is saving or creating 20 million jobs. And of course, the media will love him for it and tell us to love him for it.

With this, I declare, the official “Obama pulling random numbers out of the air hoping we believe him” watch.

Other news from Obama to watch for – Obama promises americans will be 15% “happier or not less happy” by 2011

Hot Air has a good post on this too.

Reagan Quote Wednesday — 7 Jan 09

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” – Ronald Reagan

Zunes

I got my wife and I each a brown Zune 30GB about a year ago because they were on sale at amazon.com. They were OK, but their main downfall had been that they could not play audio books from audible.com (something that my ipod does fine). This was an annoyance since I enjoy audio books, but it wasn’t too big a deal since they were cheap, and were good for watching movies on (bigger screen than the ipod, yet still fit in your pocket).

In the latest firmware update for the Zune, the ability to play Audible audio books was added. This was great, I could dedicate my ipod to music, and use my Zune for audio books. Anyway, my wife and I are leaving for California in about an hour or so and I was going to load both of our Zunes up with audio books for the cumulative 11 hours between here and CA. As I turned each of them on after charging fully they froze at the Zune loading screen and won’t reset with the button commands. This is the lamest thing ever. BOTH of them froze and won’t reset at the same time, just before our long and miserable flight in coach to Cali.

Oh well, I pulled out my trusty ipod, took some music off of it, put the audio books on there and got our old creative zen nano for my wife.

I think God was just punishing me for buying the brown Zunes.

UPDATE FROM CALVIN: I read this is only happening to the 30GB zunes. And there is a possible fix.  Wait until the clocks roll over on new years, then let your battery die COMPLETELY. So maybe turn it on and let it sit? Then, recharge and turn it back on.

Saturday Fun Links (Sunday Edition)

Sometimes clinging to my guns and bibles gets me a little stressed out. And so, I present to you some links to take your mind off things.

The left shows it’s threshold. So yeah… your mind is still on things, sorry I lied. Will do better next time.

The Ladder Theory – Great great great read. All too true. Warning: Bad words.

And to steal from Hot Air one last time… today… Scroll down and watch the video. It is great, you know.

Now I am off to find those links I lost where Joe Biden is on a mission to stop people from expecting Obama to fix anything. To paraphrase my good buddy Joe, “No seriously! We thank you all for pretending Obama was a god when you were electing him, but now that it is done, we should all come back down to earth and realise things will get much worse before they get better! And please ignore that he will be the cause of most of many additional problems!”

The Reincarnation of Prohibition

I was recently having a political discussion about gun bans with a colleague at work. He had lived in the UK where they have had a successful ban on most firearms including handguns, assault rifles, and pretty much every gun under the sun with the notable exception of firearms made for hunting. He said that he supported a ban on assault rifles because while in the UK where ownership of these weapons is not permitted he felt safer there. In fact gun related crime in the UK have diminished greatly since the ban went into effect.

I really appreciate conversations like these because they make me question why I believe what I do. They make me research and analyze the reasoning behind my philosophies. While thinking about this discussion, I wondered if imposing more gun control, specifically a nationwide ban, would in fact benefit the people more than it would hurt. I then asked the question, “what is the difference between the UK and the US?” and then it struck me, we’ve tried something like this before.

In the 1920’s America embarked on the noble experiment, prohibition. The sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol for consumption was banned by the 18th amendment in order to reduce crime, promote hygiene, and lessen the tax burden of the nation resultant from poorhouses and prisons (because all poor people and criminals were just alcoholics right?). So in 1920 alcohol was banned, crime went down, prisons emptied and everyone became so wealthy that they forgot all about alcohol right? Not so much.

During the period of prohibition from 1920 to 1933 crime in the United States increased dramatically. Alcohol went from the local market to the black market, and this new underground market lead to the rise of organized crime in America. Prohibition also damaged the U.S. economy by failing to capture tax revenue from the sale of alcohol, an estimated $500 million annually.

Since Canada, Mexico, and other surrounding nations (such as those of the Caribbean) had not imposed any sort of ban on alcohol, their distilleries flourished during prohibition as bootleggers would transport liquor across international borders to sell on the black market. The point being that even though the U.S. had banned alcohol they had not been able to eliminate either the supply or the demand.

So what does this have to do with gun bans? Unlike the UK where they are isolated, the United States borders two large countries where it is possible to obtain firearms to be smuggled back across the border. Even if there were to be a constitutional amendment that repeals the second amendment the fact that Canada and Mexico could provide guns to Americans on a black market is the defining truth that would make abolition of firearms in the United States ineffective and detrimental to the economy and social welfare. Tax dollars would be lost, jobs would be lost, and there would still be guns purchased by Americans who instead of supporting their economies would be supporting the Mexican and Canadian economies instead. All it would do is put firearms solely in the hands of the very criminals we would try to stop with such legislation.

Update: Aparently I was wrong about the UK gun ban working. Since 1997 gun related crimes have almost doubled. Source here.

Please let me know your oppinions by commenting below:

Obama: America’s Student Body President

Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States by voters who have been misled by one of America’s greatest institutions, the free press. I’ve believed that Obama supporters have had blinders on for over a year now, and this belief has been confirmed time and time again as I talk to people with whom I work and go to school. I would ask simple questions asking what they thought of this or that, generally regarding what Obama said. I could not believe how blissfully uninformed and biased they were! Many times they would say, “He probably didn’t say that! You must have heard it on talk radio!” Even when I would show them a video, or an article from a “reliable” source (Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters) they would merely brush it off and say, “that was taken out of context,” or, “that’s not exactly what he must have meant,” and then go on to explain what they believed he meant. Do people misspeak? Yes. Obviously when Obama said he had been to 57 states he misspoke. Forgivable and un-newsworthy. Obviously when John McCain talked about the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border he also misspoke. Unforgivable and very newsworthy. These are two examples of how the media failed the American people by promoting their agenda and not reporting news. Indeed Barack Obama has been elected without much of the mainstream scrutiny that every other presidential candidate had received this election. Even Hillary Clinton was scrutinized more thoroughly than Obama was.

So how did Obama get elected? Instead of running for President of the United States he ran for Student Body President at America Middle School. While other candidates had to fight to get media coverage anywhere near half that of Obama, the mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS) gave Barack Obama a free ride. He could do no wrong. Networks failed to call Obama out on many of the controversial things that he said, positions (or lack thereof) that he has taken in the past, associations he has fostered, or contradictions that he has made. As a professor of constitutional law one might expect a certain level of consistency in regards to his interpretations of America’s legal foundations, but even Obamessiah seems to contradict himself on the Second Amendment. The text of the Second Amendment that was ratified by the states reads, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

In 2007 at a VPC (Violence Policy Center) fundraiser, Barack Obama had this to say:

“My first priority will be to reinstate the assault weapons ban as soon as I take office. Within 90 days, we will go back after kitchen table dealers, and work to end the gun show and internet sales loopholes. In the first year, I intend to work with Congress on a national no carry law, 1 gun a month purchase limits, and bans on all semi-automatic guns.”

More recently during the election however, Obama attempted to assuage the fears that he is anti-firearms had this to say:

“I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.”

Barack Obama reconciles these opposing views by saying:

“…I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it’s important for us to recognize that we’ve got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people’s traditions.”

Besides the CONSTITUTIONAL contradiction here from a constitutional law professor, “…the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” There is a problem with what he said. “…And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.” More gun control won’t make criminals turn in their guns, nor will it stop the sale thereof. Another question would be, “How does Obama define an “illegal handgun’”?” I wrote in a previous blog about banning guns and I found that in the UK where they had banned most firearms, gun related crimes had almost doubled since then. Maybe more gun control/regulations will work here in America, but all signs point to no.

So back on topic. Obama won by telling the vast majority of American voters what they wanted to hear instead of the truth. Free health care, taking wealth from those who’ve earned it and giving it to those who don’t pay taxes, ending an already waning war in Iraq, nationalizing several industries and bailing out irresponsible corporations (McCain and my Republican Senator, Gordon Smith, did this too. My Democrat Senator and Representative Ron Wyden and Peter DeFazio voted against the bailout and I applaud them for this). Obama wasn’t even misleading about this. Obama proclaimed hope and change. Even when I asked my friend Phil why he voted for Obama, all he could say was, “I know this sounds cliché, but hope and change.” Obama ran a campaign much like a high schooler promising hot tubs in every classroom and free hot dogs in the cafeteria. Great things, but near impossible to implement.

In the end, Obama supporters were good indicators of how the media helps Obama throughout his meteoric rise. The site www.howobamagotelected.com has a short documentary where they interview people who voted for Obama right after they voted, and a Zogby poll conducted after the election confirms these results. The Media failed us. We failed the First Amendment. Let us hope that Obama will not fail us. In fact let us hope that Obama is successful. Let us hope that Obama will turn around our economic downturn. Let us hope that Obama will strengthen our national security. Let us hope. But we can also prepare for the worst.

Oh and also for those interested, here is a good rundown regarding Obama’s stance on gun control issues:

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/barack_obama_gun_control.htm

Vox Populi

For a while I have struggled with the the idea of the Electoral College. I have tried to come to terms with why it existed to begin with and why it continues to exist. In the good ‘ol days when we were a struggling nation and the United States was an “are” instead of an “is” (No longer are the States talked about as individual “nations”. We no longer say the, “United States ARE the land of the free,” but, “the United States IS the land of the free.”), it was vital that the under-developed states were able to have some say in the course of our nation’s future. Thus, the Electoral College was drafted into the Constitution so that the states would have a voice. It is my opinion, however, that the Electoral College’s usefulness has come to an end and is now no more than a relic that should be done away with.

The simple fact is that the the United States of America is. Not an “are,” but an, “is.” That means that we are now more centralized, unified as a people, and have lost a great deal of our identity as being from Oregon or Colorado. We are American, and that is that.

So why not keep the Electoral College and pay homage to our humble beginnings? The simple truth is that as long as the Electoral College remains, our individual rights as Americans are compromised. “How,” you ask? Let’s examine four states from our last Presidential election in 2008.

STATE	TOTAL VOTES	ELECTORAL VOTES
CALIFORNIA	11,996,101	55
OREGON	1,678,278	7
GEORGIA	3,891,696	15
TEXAS	7,988,912	34

Through an equation I devised ( (1-(Electoral Votes/Total Votes)*100000)*2 ), and with the above figures, in a scale I call the Haggard Vote Value Scale, one can see that because of the electoral college, the vote of those in Georgia actually were worth more than the vote of those in California:

STATE	TOTAL VOTES	ELECTORAL VOTES	VOTE VALUE
CALIFORNIA	11,996,101	55	1.08
OREGON	1,678,278	7	1.17
GEORGIA	3,891,696	15	1.23
TEXAS	7,988,912	34	1.15

In a nation that values the rights of every individual, it seems peculiar to me that we would hold on to such an archaic institution as the Electoral College. Think about the benefits. Everyone’s vote would matter equally (no more of “my vote doesn’t matter because I’m in such and such state), there would be no more battleground states and candidates would be required to campaign all over instead of a handful of states, and most importantly the voice of the people would be heard. If we truly want to move towards individual freedom and true self governance, then we must eliminate the Electoral College.

My (Good) Experience with AT&T Wireless

I’ve had Verizon Wireless for about 8 years and have moved about 5 times with their service. During this time its service has been fairly good, a dropped call here, a dropped call there, but overall fairly good. I don’t use my phone too much other than to talk with my wife, who is on the family plan with me, so we aren’t charged very many minutes. The most minutes that I have ever used was in the 400 minutes area. Since we got married in 2005 and we got the family plan I have been told that the lowest plan you can get with the Verizon family plan was 700 use em or lose em minutes. Repeatedly over the last three years I have asked if there was a lower plan I could switch to and the answer was always no.

Earlier this month I knew my Verizon contract was expiring soon and I decided to shop around. I talked to a great sales rep named Vic at the Verizon store next to the Arundel Mills mall in Hanover MD and he was very helpful in explaining the service plans that they could offer, among which was a family plan of 550 minutes for just under $60/month. This sounded great. I would be saving a few bucks a month (which can be significant since we have a mortgage and we each work and go to school), and for those months that I might ever exceed 550 minutes I would be able to tap into the rollover minutes.

I talked about the plan with my buddy back home in Oregon and he said that he was with Verizon on their 450 minute family plan. How could this be? I had been told many times that this was not even an option. So I went to a Verizon store and was again told the lowest I could go was 700 minutes. It was at this point that I called Verizon to ask when my contract expires (which happened to be the next day). They asked me why I wanted to leave and I told them that AT&T had a different plan with minutes that better suited my usage. The lady then told me that they too had a similar plan and could even go down to 450 minutes. I had been lied to even on that day by the person at the Verizon store.

I was pretty sold on AT&T at this point. The real challenge was if their service was of equal better quality in my home since my Verizon wireless has little or no signal in my house. Using a friend’s AT&T phone I was able to find that not only did it work great in my home, it worked great in my basement even (which means we can get rid of our Verizon land line now).

I decided to look for phones online and getting reviews and somehow I ended up at Newegg and found the Tilt, which was just want I wanted (full QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, can edit word documents, wifi, and more! Great phone!). Newegg had a great deal. The phones were $50/ea with two year activation on a family plan, and they usually retail at over $500. So we went into the AT&T wireless store to look at the phone and get the hands on experience to see if we really wanted it or not. Of course, the salesperson who we later found out to be the manager tried to sell a few phones to us, but quickly learned we were interested in the Tilt, which they did not have on display. In fact, the Tilt was discontinued and there were only a few in stock at store in the mall across the street.

Since the store didn’t have nearly as good a deal on any of their other phones as we saw online, I pulled out my laptop and showed them the deal to try to get him off my back, but without even a pause he said, “I’ll match that deal.” So long story short, the staff at the AT&T wireless store across from the Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover MD went out of their way to get us the plan we wanted and the phones we wanted at a very low price. I have been enjoying AT&T and my new phone very much since I switched.

The Marriage Dilemma

Of late the subject of rights and marriage have been a subject of great debate. The United States erupted in controversy over the issue of same-sex marriage. At the time of writing this the states of Vermont, New Jersey and New Hampshire offer civil unions granting same-sex couples equal rights to heterosexual married couples, and the states of New York, New Mexico, and Rhode Island recognize same-sex marriages performed in other countries.

So what’s the controversy?  Opponents of same-sex marriage cite that raising children in a same-sex household may harm the child. Opponents also cite that the acceptance of same-sex marriage is a slippery slope to allowing other activities such as polygamy, marriage between an adult and a child, or even marriage between a person and an animal. While the last two possibilities seem far-fetched, the concern still has some legitimacy. At what point is there a stop? At what point does society re-tune its moral instrument to achieve harmony? What about the future? Perhaps it will be argued, “We allow same-sex marriage, why not [insert whatever here].”

On the other hand, the United States of America was founded on the principles of equality for those of all walks of life. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights that every American is entitled to enjoy so why then should a certain group of individuals be denied the same rights that another group happily enjoys? Why should the benefits of Marriage be denied to those who have decided to be life-partners? This denial of rights seems to be inconsistent with the very foundations of this great nation.

So what is there to be done? One course of action may lead to the decline of morals in our society and possibly even the decline of our civilization. The other course of action would lead to disenfranchising an entire people group and denying them a civil right that has been afforded another people group. This problem seems unsolvable, but I think I may have found a solution.

The key argument against same-sex marriage is religious based, as well it should be. Marriage today has developed from a religious institution; a religious institution has been given legal status in a society that values the separation of church and state. In short, we have mixed oil and water and are now confused and frustrated that they are not mixing. The solution that I have found is to return marriage to a solely religious institution. Eliminate all legal standing that marriage has in our society and return it to the church. People can be married by any religious entity they choose so long as that entity accepts them. As private organizations, they won’t be required to accept anyone they want. This will allow churches such as the Catholic Church, Baptists, Methodists, etc to reserve the right to marry whomever they choose, and only those churches, and those who they develop reciprocal agreements with, will recognize the marriage. If a church chooses to perform marriage for homosexual couples, then they have every right to. If a church wants to deny heterosexual couples marriage then they have every right to.

Religious problem solved, but what about the legal issue? The rights bestowed upon married couples in the United States is sometimes a dictating factor in marriage, but if marriage becomes only a religious institution then what can be done? Civil Unions. Everyone, whether a heterosexual or homosexual couple, would be required to get a civil union from the government that would be a fusion between a business partnership and what marriage is legally today. People could skip the religious aspect and get only a civil union, or skip the civil union and get only the marriage if they are so inclined. In my opinion this solution would render the greatest rights to the most people while still allowing religious groups the ability to define marriage as they choose.

While there may be some flaws in this idea, I believe that it could be a framework that would allow these two opposing groups to coexist and retain the rights they each believe they are entitled.

Fairness Doctrine, in action

In anticipation of the upcoming liberal monopoly on our government, and their awesomely awesome living constitution ideas, I am proud to announce that the Shawn Haggard blog will now be conforming to the Fairness Doctrine.

Although it might not be what they had in mind.

With the fairness doctrine, we are supposed to give equal time to “opposing viewpoints”. So, that is what I will do. Of course, opposing viewpoints might be Shawn supporting Ron Paul, and me supporting McCain. Or maybe Shawn believing the bail outs amount to a “turd sandwich”, and me believing it amounts to “going camping with Shawn after he asks me ‘would you tell anybody if you woke up tied to a tree and your *** hurt?’”

So, here I am. To provide your “opposing viewpoint” as best I can. I love you, Fairness Doctrine. You are so “fair”.

My fav game – NAME THAT PARTY!

How long before they name the party of the individual? Although I must note, since when I first read about this, they have moved the party affiliation up from paragraph six.

If he was a Republican, the title would be “Republican Governor arrested…”

Don’t believe me? I have been playing this game for some time. I ask that if anybody finds evidence supporting or opposing my claim, send us a link.

UPDATE: A breif history of “Name that party”.

Let’s unionize against unions!

I for one am fed up with unions. Whether it be the teachers union, auto workers union, hotel unions, construction unions or any other type of union. Don’t get me wrong, they had a good start. They helped fight for the little guy who was being worked in the most unsafe conditions for almost nothing to show for it. For example, during the construction of the Hoover Dam. But they have gone TOO FAR. They make demands that should not, and cannot be met. They drive businesses through the ground, the union reps make way too much, and they force companies to deal with them in ways that hurt the whole country. If I was in charge of a unionized company, I would move my production overseas too!

And I can’t forget of all the stories I have heard from people who have worked with unions. The workers would show up late, then take their “required break”, then still not work if something didn’t meet the union standards. By the end of the day they would get paid for half a day they didn’t even lift their fingers. And paid $150 and hour at that. Of course, they don’t even see all of it. A chuck goes to the unions.

Or how about the mayor of a small town (sorry can’t remember when or where), that got in trouble with the unions because he saw a man hole cover that wasn’t on all the way and bent over and fixed it.

I already hated unions, and now they are pushing (again) for those ridiculous card check laws!

Then I read this article by the LA times, “But in killing the stopgap rescue plan worked out by President Bush and congressional Democrats, conservative Republicans — many from right-to-work states across the South — struck at an old enemy: organized labor.” I say good for them!

Unions have gone too far and we need to be able to stand up and fight them back.

UPDATE – On Digg.com, one of the commentators made a good point. There is a union against unions, the Republican Party! So I say, let’s pa(R)ty!

- Calvin

America wakes up with strange bedfellow

Earlier today, America woke up with one heck of a Obamacain induced headache.  Then, after rolling over and rubbing its head, it took a good look at what it went to bed with and could barely hold anything down.

Even after more than a month and a half, we are just now realizing, our VP elect is a complete Loser. Big L. Joe Biden!??! Really?!?!

It must have taken a lot of drugs to make him look good. And my theory is, Obama only chose him because he is the ONLY person, on this WHOLE PLANET that nobody would care about, and couldn’t steal any of Obama’s glory.  Joe Biden, Loser.

I was talking with a friend a few days ago, a democrat, who couldn’t for the life of her remember the name of the VP elect, and she voted for him!

He knows it too. He knows how far his foot is in his mouth. He knows nobody cares about him.

A wise man once said, “Into a closed mouth, a foot does not easily enter.”

- Calvin

Fun Link Saturday

Did you know….

…that the news presented on television and in the papers is arbitrarily selected by editors and there is no requirement that it be important or even true?

…that most celebrities are banal vacuous idiots and you’d be better off licking a dead monkey than emulating their lives or listening to their opinions?

…that the current Vice President-elect is someone named “Joe Biden”?

Read the rest on The People’s Cube (very entertaining site)

Want some great weekly Weird news? This site has been at it for years and updates every sunday.

And lastly – from XKCD - Flowchart madness.

Obama quotes 1984

Good news everybody! Chocolate production is up by 1.3 million pounds! A 35% increase over last month.

Remember these type of quotes from the book? Well, Obama is making up some of his own now.

Where as last month he promised to “Create or save” 2.5 million jobs, now he has increased it to 3 million! How nice of him. Of course, the only way he could fail to “save 3 million jobs” is if there are less than 3 million people employed in the U.S.

Hey, while he is at that, I personally promise I will “create or save” 5 billion lives by next week. And as long as there are still 5 billion people alive, I get the credit, right?

Good job you slippery politician you! Always adding that fine print to you promises!

Shocking New Weapon Used by Insurgents in Iraq

Inspired by recent events, insurgents in Iraq are using a more “presidential” weapon.

Rocket Propelled Shoe

Merry Christmas — 2008

Merry Christmas!

During this time of economic downturn and uncertainty it may be hard for some to feel the holiday cheer. Let not your heart be troubled, for there are those among us who are spreading some holiday cheer.

Just the other day in Detroit Michigan, a married couple went around the town handing out $100 bills to people to spread some holiday cheer. They did this not for fame and recognition, but anonymously. In all, they handed out $11,000.

Earlier still the family who owned the Peer Bearing Company divided  $6.6M among their 230 employees as an early Christmas bonus. No, this wasn’t part of some government health care refund that companies were forced to do, this was a successful company who saw a need and gave back to its employees.

It’s just nice to know that even in hard times such as these there are those among us who’s love for others transcends even this economic crisis.

Merry Christmas.