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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
Hello and welcome back to the Dogpound, where anything can happen.
Since I am writing this article weeks in advance, I have no idea who won the race. Obama is not my first choice, and McCain is not my second choice, either, but somebody had to win, since a “do-over” seems out of the question.
Mr. New President, we in the Dogpound understand that you face tremendous challenges over the next four years, and all that we ask is that you actually take action – enough of the politics as usual. Most of the major issues facing this nation are not new; they have been around for years, if not decades, and yet the government still kicks the ball between the two parties as if it is some unwanted stepchild.
Show leadership; give us direction; don’t try to do everything for everyone; focus on the major problems and the small ones will take care of themselves. Change can be both good and bad; for example, gasoline prices are now down to the level they were over a year ago. Unfortunately, so is the stock market. Remember that Max and the rest of the Dogpound pack will be watching your performance, and if you think Stephen King’s Cujo was scary, you have not seen anything yet!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.” John Gardner
A PLAY ON WORDS
A new musical has debuted at the Melbourne, Australia Fringe Festival based on the 2006 cave-in of a gold mine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, which killed one miner. Dan Ilic, the author of the musical, says he was “astonished” with media coverage of the cave-in, which he called “insensitive.” He titled it Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor – A-Flat Minor for short – to get publicity, he said. Ilic changed it after the dead miner’s family expressed outrage. [Did you get the “play”? If not, read it again!]
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacks them. The mother mouse says, “BARK!” and the cat runs away.
“See?” says the mother mouse to her baby. “Now do you see why it’s important to learn a foreign language?” [Can’t say my high school Latin helped me much other than lower my grade point!]
That is my story for now. As always be good, play safe, and remember if you must beat someone to make them follow you, then that is not leadership; that is assault.
JR and Max
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