Our future’s so bright we gotta wear shades.
Thank goodness.
I figure that three days of sunshine last week dropped the Rutherford County grouchmeter a full 3.5 points on a scale of 10.
Spring arrives in exactly one month, March 20.
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Isn’t it amazing that as tough an econimic year as we experienced in 2009 that crime fell in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County?
Saw last week it happened in Nashville, too.
Usually hard times push an increase in crime. Strange that it hasn’t.
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Folks on both sides of the political ailses give lip service to bipartisanship, especially recenty as incumbents recognize widespread voter dissatisfaction, but too many on both sides are not playing that game.
Obviously, bipartiship cannot exist in an election year.
Don’t you wonder, though, how voters might react if incumbents were campaining on how successful they were in reaching a middle ground and helping address some of our problems?
Probably do just as well to wish spring would show up Tuesday.
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Well, maybe a little bipartisanship can thrive.
First Lady Michelle Obama is undertaking a campaign to address childhood obesity, an absolutely frightening development we see every single day.
Like all First Ladies, she picked something everyone can support although the political knives can come out pretty quick if proposals get too specific.
But, several GOP higher-ups have spoken in support.
In a day of a zillion TV channels and video games beyond belief, incredible fast food options and just too much of seemingly everything, obesity and general lack of physical fitness in our youth should be terrifying.
It shouldn’t be just a First Lady initiative but a Country First initiative.
This great country will overcome our current fiscal troubles; we will deal with terrorism one way or another.
But, all these overweight children are going to be around a long time and the eventual cost could make our national debt look like pocket change.
Like education, finding answers for such a huge group with diverse incomes, cultures, values and expecdtations will be difficult.
But, a lot less than doing nothing.
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Made it clear I’m not a big Winter Olympics fan but how can you not like curling, the goofiest sport maybe ever.
I mean what sports, outside of Harry Potter books, includes a broom? Cleaning the plate off in baseball doesn’t count since it’s not involved in the actual competition.
Now I’m not knocking curling. Knowing how to make the stones speed up or slow down with a broom while slidding on ice seems the same as hitting a curve ball or catching a pass.
I’d probably be as good as curling at hitting a curve, which is to say not at all.
Slidding on ice I can do, but I’m better at windmilling my arms and using words Mom never taught than wielding a broom. |
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