Today the Senate voted 60-39 to pass an overhaul healthcare bill that can and will change healthcare for the worse in our country. This is the first time that such an overhaul has been passed in our nation. Medicare mostly affects older people, Medicaid mostly does poor people, but this will affect us all.
It is sad that the U.S. Legislative Branch can pass such an expensive bill that strengthens the power of government far beyond what the Constitution allows. Now nearly if not more than 70% of what government does in this country is unconstitutional. In other words illegal according to our highest order of law in this country (Constitution). This is a power grab that could put Democrats out of power come mid-term elections. They are hinging their bets on the hope that the population that is helped by this will always vote for them and thus when added with those who are already die hard democrats it could keep them in power for years to come. I'm hoping that an ignorant American population will be more intelligent than I believe and will oust them in less than one year from now.
At a time when Europe is moving towards traditional American ways of life(although a long ways to go) and away from the larger federal government controls of their nations, the United States led by the Obama Administration and his liberal friends are moving America towards what Europe has already discovered to be disasterous.
More details about the bill and what I and others who are far more intelligent than I am later.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Random Thougts
I have not blogged as often lately due to my distraction from the political landscape and my position as a head basketball coach which is time consuming and more fatiguing than I thought it would be.
I have read some interesting books of late though. One of these includes: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. The title is a bit misleading until you read the book. It is one of my favorite. I put off reading it due to the cover and title for a couple years. This proves don't judge a book by its cover. I"m reading a book about one of my favorite world leaders ever- Winston Churchill. I'm also reading a book full of letters written by our nation's founding fathers to their wives and friends. Its interesting being in the minds of some of the greatest people in our nation's history. If we all could read their letter we would all be better people and better writers.
I just read and deleted some "notes" that I had written a couple years ago on facebook when I first started the "blog" thing. I look back and realize how little I knew then, although I thought I knew a lot. I now know a lot. But I will only be successful if I can look back in a few years and read my current blog and realize I did not know a lot. (think about it).
The hardest thing to do is teach kids something that they don't learn as quickly as you learned it. We tend to judge people by our own achievements and strengths. If we judged people with our weaknesses in mind, oh how much we would love one another.
I thought John Wooden was wrong when he said he never spoke about winning and losing and only playing your best and if you do that then your always a winner. I always valued winning over everything. I hate losing. But so did John Wooden. He just viewed it from a different perspective. I coach a boys basketball team that has played about 10 games against teams that have starting lineups that average a combined 25 inches and 150 pounds in size advantage. That is like Bryan College against Duke every game. We have only played 2 games that our team could have a legit chance of winning if we had played our best. I now understand why John Wooden viewed it they way he did.
I have read some interesting books of late though. One of these includes: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. The title is a bit misleading until you read the book. It is one of my favorite. I put off reading it due to the cover and title for a couple years. This proves don't judge a book by its cover. I"m reading a book about one of my favorite world leaders ever- Winston Churchill. I'm also reading a book full of letters written by our nation's founding fathers to their wives and friends. Its interesting being in the minds of some of the greatest people in our nation's history. If we all could read their letter we would all be better people and better writers.
I just read and deleted some "notes" that I had written a couple years ago on facebook when I first started the "blog" thing. I look back and realize how little I knew then, although I thought I knew a lot. I now know a lot. But I will only be successful if I can look back in a few years and read my current blog and realize I did not know a lot. (think about it).
The hardest thing to do is teach kids something that they don't learn as quickly as you learned it. We tend to judge people by our own achievements and strengths. If we judged people with our weaknesses in mind, oh how much we would love one another.
I thought John Wooden was wrong when he said he never spoke about winning and losing and only playing your best and if you do that then your always a winner. I always valued winning over everything. I hate losing. But so did John Wooden. He just viewed it from a different perspective. I coach a boys basketball team that has played about 10 games against teams that have starting lineups that average a combined 25 inches and 150 pounds in size advantage. That is like Bryan College against Duke every game. We have only played 2 games that our team could have a legit chance of winning if we had played our best. I now understand why John Wooden viewed it they way he did.
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