You know, Joel Olsteen is always talking about reviving your dreams and not losing your hope in their fulfillment. Joel, like many preachers, reminds that most things we are going through we think are "bad" really aren't as bad as we think and they don't last as long as we think. But I have to say that in my life this has not proved true. That one "fall on a sidewalk" one Friday morning in June 1st. 2001 ended up in my being here, and the last I checked I'm still here. The first time I threatened suicide was August 2nd. of 1967 because I basically "just didn't like the way my life was going". I can look back at things I did and say "But I don't blame myself". If you try and Monday morning quarterback yourself, you are engaging in self delusion. I remember when I was in fifth grade just thinking about the future and how I'd be a teenager with a car dating a lot in high school and getting married in my early twenties and having kids. The scenario didn't exactly work out that way. Some people as Christians get married because they think "It's the thing to do". And when the marriage goes bad they say "thank God there wern't any children". But it isn't the fault of the people who get married. After all you have to consider what the alternatives are. One of course could be to walk away from the Church. Another would be to lie to yourself and say "the conflict doesn't bother me". Of course continuing to lead a double life is always an option, but that has its drawbacks. Sometimes bad things can be forseen. I forsaw this downturn back in 2006. There was some book out that tackled the twin topics of excess religiosity in the United State, and the other topic was the mounting of all forms of economic debt. I predicted the Shaw of Iran would fall in the summer of 1976. Perhaps it was a lucky guess. I did not forsee the current economic problems in my own life because of not getting the three hundred dollar renters rebate. The family at the same time decided I shouldn't get money at Christmas or any other time. And I didn't qualify for the Bush rebate of last spring. But unlike as Joel Olsteen might think, these adverse developments had nothing to do with "negative thoughts". Indeed these developments blind-sided me, coming out of the blue. Our economic problems now in this country seem to be worstening with each passing day. Now Citibank will be bailed out because we should have bailed out Lehman Brothers but didn't. Banks are thumbs up; Auto makers get thumbs down. We get it. Bush is selective in that only the most massive squanders and misappropiaters of funds get bailed out. If a bail out means helping out the comon people Bush says "Forget it".
We were all waitning for Obama's Big Revitalization Plan today. If he had actually given us a plan for anything I'd have made these words the blog heading. But it didn't happen. We just have to trust him. Obama has a press conference but isn't answering any questions people actually want to know. He announced four appointments this morning. Timothy Geitner is secretary of Treasury. Also coming on board are Larry Summers, Christine Rictor or Roper or something and Melanie- - ? Anyhow people are just tickled pink by the appointments. The stock market likes the names. I am thinking right now if you want to be optimistic you would say that perhaps this bear market will bottom out about the first of February, but I shudder to think where that will be. I'd be planning the stocks I'd buy right now. But we should actually see us rounding the corner economically about June of 2009. That's my optimistic scenario. I am famous for being too optimistic about family vacations and "when we will get there" because my Dad ended up driving a lot slower than I imagined. But basically the "light at the end of the tunnel" is nowhere in sight and the future only looks continuously bleaker than the present and bleaker than the future looked a few weeks back. Welcome to reality. Just remember when it comes to owning stocks- - you still own just what you owned a year ago. If you learned that your CD collection was worth only half of what it was worth a year ago would you run out and sell it? That would be rediculas. It's your property. You paid for it. it's yours. You haven't lost anything because the price someone else wants to pay for it had dropped.
If some of you wonder about Romulan football let me just say that it's a little narrower, but just one yard shorter, 99 yards or 90 Romulan meters of 39.6 inches. They really don't have that many flag violations involving "unnecessary roughness". Things like pass interference, offencive or defencive are unheard of with Romulans. Also things like holding of grabbing face masks, blatent or otherwise - are perfectly legal. The only thing they call a violation is going for the private parts. That's still illegal. The Romulans have a "no feet inbounds" rule for passes where you don't have to have any feet touching the ground, only that you are in control of the ball. Also in Romulan rules is you don't "down it" after you score it really doesn't count till you do- - none of this crap about crossing the plane of the goal line. If you lose the ball and another player gets it even crossing the goal line- - a fumble is a fumble and the other team can down it and get it on the twenty. They never had an "in the grasp" rule. Intentional grounding to stop the clock is NOT allowed in Romulan rules. There are no two point conversions and no overtime.
In soap land Nicole is in the process of losing her baby that she's having with Elvis Dimira. You see Elvis never did place either Nicole or her baby that high on his list of priorities. It's much more important to cancle a romantic weekend getaway with Nicole at the last minute- - to go off with Stephano to South America so he can get involved in criminal obstruction of justice. Elvis regards that as a much better use of his time. Meanwhile the other girl who is having Elvis's baby, Samantha, is still waiting in the wings. She had the good sense not to tell Elvis she was pregnent, and if Elvis knew she were pregnent he'd drop Nicole in a second and run to Samantha. Now we can pretty well surmize that Elvis' relation with Nicole is over. There are times where you just have to put your wife first and forget the multitude of excuses. Elvis is more afraid of displeasing his father than he is of losing everything with Nicole.
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