Some lessons I learned attending several city council meetings:
* It does not take brains to get elected.
* The smallest problems create the loudest stir.
* The loudest voice gets the most attention.
* When no one knows what to do, they hire a consultant.
I said before you go spending money on consultants, how about asking us, the citizens, what we thing? We'll be glad to give input and tackle the problem. Now I said, don't get me wring. It's not that we are all that smart, nor are we well connected. We are a group of people who can bring together our individual talents to make things happen. Our interest is not in high salaries or management fees, nor are we in a popularity contest. We have no boss to satisfy, nor any butts to kiss. We are We are interested in making our neighborhoods and town a better place to live. When we empower ourselves to solve our own problems rather than contract them out for thousands of dollars to strangers, we begin to see that we can find the answers, we do have the creativity, we do have the talent, that we can make things work, that we are far better off then we thought we were, that we can, together, as a group, do just fine in planning our own lives and building our own future.
They just looked at me kind of funny and hired an outfit from Chicago for $75,000.

I do have to say that blogging on Blogstream is a lot more satisfying than keeping up with Facebook or Twitter. You talk about a bunch of worthless crap.

1. Spend more time singing and dancing. If you're not very good at it, so what. Not many others are any better.
2. Write a book about your life. Keep it light and short, in case it's not very interesting.
3. When you feel the urge to lie, go to law school.
4. Pray. Pray. Pray. Then tee it up.
5. Don't smoke, drink, or have sex with the neighbor lady or man. Or is that drink, have sex with the neighbor, and blame it on alcohol.
6. Start exercising. Get up off the couch, take a deep breath, now sit back down. You don't want to overdo it.
7. Go back to school, preferably not while you're in prison.
8. Volunteer. Your present job, while most likely not paying much, doesn't count.
9. If you are down and out, ask for a raise. Now if you're unemployed, apply for unemployment.
10. And finally, think positively, for it is positive thinking that has taken us to where we are.

Gee, that really upsets me. Alaska will probably never be the same. She suddenly seems to have come to her senses. Now we can only hope she tries to become the Republican presidential candidate for 2012. Wouldn't that be something? I'm thinking of sending in a donation to help her. Every Democrat in the country should do so. It would be a great reelection strategy for Obama. I'm betting he might even send in a donation. Oh happy days!

There are times in life when you just have to start over. What was is not good enough, not right enough, not true enough. There's nothing wrong with starting over. It is a wise person who understands and learns from your mistakes. What is done is done. It cannot be undone. It can only be learned from and corrected. Wisdom doesn't come out of the blue. It comes from doing and redoing, doing and redoing....