Weekly Thought Bonanza Oct 10

On Sunday (monday if it is a holiday), I produce a column called “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.

The only comment I have on President Barak Hussein Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win is, wow. He was President for ten days before he was awarded the Prize. This is like winning an Oscar before the movie ever comes out.

When was the last time you went into a Home Depot and found someone to help you without wondering if anyone still works in the store? I have spoken with several people who do not even go into one anymore because of lack of help. Instead of sponsoring college football games or making really annoying commercials, they could hire some help.

The don’t ask don’t tell policy in the military was so unnecessary. I am ex-military, I am a conservative, and I am an American above all. We defend freedom as one nation under god. One nation, means all men and women are created equal, period.

Over the last few weeks, I have had Irish food, German food, and I have had Scottish food. The one thing all of these different ethnic foods have in common is boiled meat with no spices. No wonder the French think they are so important; it is all about the food baby!

As I am writing this column, the Yankees are up 2 games to zero and the Red Sox are down two zero. This week a veteran accused Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox of being too intense. Typical of a Red Sox Player, a guy busts his hump to get criticized for being too intense. I will stick to the Yankees, thank you.

Chris Everett and Greg Norman separated this week after an eighteen month marriage. Norman was best friends with Everett’s ex-husband Andy Mills, the former Olympic Skier. Mr. Norman lost his best friend and paid his ex-wife one hundred million dollars to marry Everett. Talk about needing a mulligan.

Global Warming is now called Climate Change. When it snows in Denver and Chicago before Columbus Day 5 say it is a bunch of bologna.

Rush Limbaugh is buying the St. Louis Rams and has just been named a judge of the Miss America pageant in 2010. Life is good for old Rush.

Is there anything worse than when your team loses by a missed field goal?

A neighbor of mine had their home broken into this past week. I cannot imagine how it is to have such a violation occur. Breaking into one’s home is downright wrong.

The Aflac commercials are always really well done.

Popcorn in the microwave was a great invention; however there is nothing better than using a hot air popper to make your favorite snack.

If we can put a man on the moon then why can’t we build cars with better gas mileage? Here is another thought, why can we not build a car that does not need oil? If you want to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons, then stop buying their oil.

One of the most overrated sayings out there is people saying, “That was the greatest game ever.” I would love to do a poll that asks what game is really the best ever and to pick a winner. At least then we would have a baseline to go by.

What a difference a blue-ray makes when you are watching a movie. We have come a long way since the days of the Beta-VCR.

I do not wish ill will on anyone, but I wish that the boys who killed the nurse and slit the throat of a little girl in New Hampshire will never experience a happy day in their lives again. Information is coming out now that the four teenagers committed the crime because the wanted to have a fun filled night. What the heck is wrong with them?

The Weekly Thought Bonanza thought of the week is; Animated movies dominate the box office every quarter for the last six years in ticket and DVD sales. Why is this so? Think about it for a minute. Cartoons are more popular than any genre at the movies. To me that makes absolutely no sense.

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Why you need to take that leap of faith

Have you ever taken a leap of faith? I am not talking about the faith you have in the Lord, I am talking about just going in and without any rhyme or reason going on faith and faith alone. I am not one to make leap of faith and I want to look back at my life and try to figure out why that is. 

I have never been one to just jump into something without thinking about it over and over and over again. If over thinking something were an Olympic event I would win the gold every four years. Some may call it being a chicken, I call it educated analysis. While educated analysis sounds like a really good term that I am proud to say I just came up with, it is another way of saying I have been a plain ole nervous nellie.

A prime example of how I over think things can be summed up in one sentence. I always show up to the dance but I am afraid to get onto the dance floor. I remember as a child always being nervous to make that leap of faith. I never trusted the abilities that god gave me. I never trusted myself to get over the hump because I was afraid to fail. As I got older failure became a big part of my life because I was too afraid to fail. You can learn from failures but you can not dwell on them.

In this world everyone blames and judges the other for the conditions now being faced by all. Economics, health care, raging wars escalating, global environment instability, racial tensions, and culture tensions among the big issues. It is as though humanity itself is infected with a deadly, destructive virus and we can't figure out its antidote. Observing this from mid-air, my heart breaks open, feeling this weight of sadness. Yet, deep within, my soul says this is part of our next stage of evolution. But the scene, looking down, is gripping in its scope of suffering and pain. All these masses of millions, on top of each other, with hands stretched up and reaching towards the light to be saved. Yet, they are not willing to give up the old ways of being in the world. They aren't willing to take that leap to begin their rise and ascending flight into higher structures of consciousness. They can't see they are in a bottomless pit of dark and hell like conditions. 


Witnessing many of my family and friends; the suffering felt deep in my heart is excruciating. But my soul says meet them where they are, and hold the higher consciousness as a beacon of light for them to see. This light is their beginning way if they choose to take it.....But why do so many choose not to take it....this is an existential question that continues to arise within me....aha, my own consciousness still needing work. I'm still in mid-air and have not reached the other world.

What gives me faith and continued courage to keep moving upward to this beautiful promised land are those great revolutionaries that have already paved the way. Those great souls of Jesus, Buddha, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and the Dalai Lama just to name a very few. Today, so many great revolutionaries have already taken this great leap, and have already arrived on the other side of the divide, waiting and continuing to give maps of guidance; they mentors to many and a symbol of how faith can lead to success.  This is globally being felt, simple, ordinary people are making extraordinary leaps away from the old to evolve into a new spirited being, thirsting to become all they can be.

I personally don’t care to contemplate all of the many causes that interfere with our being the best we can be.  And when I say the “best” that is whatever you need to be happy.   The best” is whoever you are that allows you to be at peace, be content, living each day with joy in your heart.  The ”best” is being able to march on in the face of adversity and sorrow, growing stronger with each challenge.  Why aren’t you already there?  Stop over-analyzing and stop beating yourself up over not being in a place where you are your best.  Start taking baby-steps to find your inner strength, to find that person who may be buried so deep you thought they were gone forever. 

For me, my journey needs to start by taking a big leap of faith out of my comfort zone and I need to learn that it is better to fail at something then to just not try at all.

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What does a child see in their innocent eyes?

What does a child see when he looks at the world for the first time? Research conducted at Smith-KettlewelI Eye Research Institute (San Francisco) and at the University of California (Berkeley), among other places, has measured visual acuity in many babies and toddlers. They have found that in the first month of life, babies have a visual acuity of about 20/120.) So obviously, I am not speaking literally here. I want to explore the mind of a baby and what they see in their new world.

My son, my beautiful smiley new baby boy, who means more to me then all the stars in the sky and all the sand on the beach, is my world. I waited forty years for him to look up at me and know that the man he sees loves him more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow. I want him to see the love in my eyes, the smile and my face and most of all the warmth in my heart for him, even when he has that little brown clump of warmth in his diaper, his daddy adores him so.

What does a child see when they look into the sky to see the sun shining. Do they see global warming? Do they see the earth warming or do they just see the sun’s bright light. Children smile and feel the warmth of the sun; they do not have the worries that some do about pollution and the sun’s evil cancer causing rays. Children have parents to shield them from these things.

A child must be amazed at the world they discover. Whether it is a new toy or the first snow flake that they experience, a child is a like a sponge, thirsting for knowledge.

I see how amazed my son is when he looks up at a ceiling fan. I have tried to get on his level, but I see just a ceiling fan. I wonder if Keegan sees a big spider or an eagle in flight, as the ceiling fan goes round and round. I will always remember his first belly laugh was when he was watching the fan.

Over time, babies learn that they can act with intent and variety. They experience the ability to perform an action differently from the person they are imitating. Eventually they realize internal states, such as desire; further down the line they develop empathy.

The child-rearing implications are powerful: Imitative social games, such as patty-cake, can help create the mental maps of others that lead to empathic feelings.

Every person your child watches might be teaching her something. Young children can watch and learn to imitate anybody they see. This includes family members, babysitters, neighbors, and even strangers.

Do babies know more than we think? The basic answer, which is repeatedly being demonstrated in a myriad of new ways, babies know a lot more than most people used to think. They see more, hear more, understand more, and they are genetically prewired to make friends with any adult who cares for them. The implications of this research challenge some of the standard beliefs on how children should be reared, how they should be educated, and what they are capable of becoming as they grow up. Yale Psychology Professor William Kessen, who has been studying infants for more than 30 years, says in admiration of the newborn baby's zestful approach to life, "He's eating up the world." only one caveat about the new research: "Don't frighten parents! The baby is a friendly computer!"

How babies do any of the things they do is a matter of considerable complexity. Some theorists, like Thomas Verny, a Canadian psychiatrist who wrote The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, believe the infant begins learning behavior patterns while it is still in the uterus. Most experts, however, assume that the genes still carry messages that primitive humans once needed for survival. The so-called Moro reflex, for example, which makes a newborn infant reach out its arms in a desperate grasping motion whenever it feels itself falling, implies some monkey-like existence at the dawn of time. Says Lewis Lipsitt, director of the Child Study Center at Brown and a pioneer in research on babies: "The human infant is extremely well coordinated and put together for accomplishing the tasks of infancy. These are: sustenance, maintaining contact with other people, and defending itself against noxious stimulation."

I am convinced that a child can see and learn from the day they are born. It is a job as a parent to make sure that what they see and what they learn begins and ends with that smile so big, it is the size of a ray of sunshine.

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Add activity in your life

Conserving energy and natural resources is a great thing when we're talking about turning off the lights when you leave the room or recycling. However, it is possible in the modern world of drive-thrus and remotes to conserve too much of your physical energy and limit how much you move your body in the course of a normal day.


Electric garage door openers, television remotes, electric can-openers, dishwashers, drive-through windows, and baby monitors enable us to stay put while we accomplish many of the tasks that at one time would have required physical effort. If you used to hand-deliver papers to your colleagues in another part of your building at work, now you can just e-mail them. If you gamble, you don't even have to pull the lever on the slot machine anymore!

So many products and services make things simpler and easier, yet all of this energy conservation is making us bigger than ever. In a nutshell, the more "efficient" our world becomes, the less "efficient" our bodies become at burning calories.

Take a minute to think of someone who's naturally thin. Not someone who lives from one diet to the next or rarely eats a meal, but someone who maintains their weight with seemingly relative ease. One thing you may notice about this person is that she rarely conserves energy. When she needs something, she goes and gets it instead of asking you to pass it to her. When she wants to get somewhere, she moves at a quick pace instead of strolling along. When she has free time, she often will choose an activity that requires movement, such as gardening, instead of watching TV.

Naturally thin people are often not as physically efficient as overweight people. They won't wait for things to pile up before taking them upstairs, wait for the elevator when the stairs are right there, or wait for the closest parking spot to prevent a longer walk. They don't think about the extra movement, they just do it.

Naturally thin people are also likely to fidget. Studies have found that fidgeters burn many more calories than their more sedentary contemporaries. Their bodies are constantly moving whether doodling, toe tapping, rocking while waiting in line, or pacing while on the phone. Movement expends energy (calories) and although it may not look like much, this extra energy expenditure adds up over the course of the day.

If you don't know a naturally thin adult, take a look at your kids. If they need to get somewhere, they don't slowly walk to where they want to go - they run, jump, skip, hop, bounce or glide! If you're exhausted following a young child around all day, it's because they're constantly moving. The reason you want to hold their hand half of the time when you're in a busy area is because they move so fast that if you don't hold onto them, they'll quickly run ahead! There's no conservation of energy with them, just bursts of movement and action.

Take a look at how you've been conserving your energy in order to make life more efficient. While it may make things easier to move less, the extra energy and health you gain by adding additional movement to your daily routine can make you feel healthier and stronger. Challenge yourself to find two ways that you can move more. Pace while you talk on the phone, park farther away from your destination, take the stairs instead of the elevator, stop making phone calls to co-workers and walk to their desks instead. Commit to adding more activity to your day and to energy efficiency.


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Unruly Football Fans Need a Code of Conduct

The National Football League unveiled its first "Fan Code of Conduct" for patrons in its stadiums and parking lots recently. The way fans disrespect each other in stadiums, it is no wonder. I would never ever thought the "No Fun League' would smarten up and crack down on its fans.


According to a copy of the code, drunk and "disruptive" fans can be ejected from stadiums or parking lots without refund — and stripped of their season tickets. The same goes for fans that verbally or physically harass other fans, use obscene language or gestures or interfere with the game by throwing objects onto the field. Fans that become drunk or unruly during pregame tailgating will not be allowed into stadiums. This is so long overdue.

The standard: enjoy yourself, come root for your team — but don't infringe on the enjoyment of another fan has been part of some stadiums but not Boston, New York, Cleveland, or Philadelphia to name a few."If you want to come root for another team, that's OK. But we are going to pour a beer over your head.”

The NFL's 32 clubs will be charged with implementing and enforcing the code. At this Sunday’s Patriots game, Verizon offered a service for fans so they can text officials if they see other fans getting unruly.

All NFL clubs are expected to spell out the rules to season ticket-holders and fans through news releases, mailings and stadium-area signs and announcements. Each club will have a front-office employee designated as being in charge of the policy.

The Oakland Raiders have launched a video on their website showing season ticketholders imploring fellow fans to respect and abide by the code. The Miami Dolphins, meanwhile, will introduce a hotline this season enabling fans to call or text-message security from their seats.

The NFL, the USA's most popular pro sports league, attracted 17.3 million fans to regular-season games during the 2007 season, an average per-game attendance of 67,755. Both were league records. The league began looking at a code of behavior after hearing a growing number of fan complaints about their experience at games. Football should be a family event and currently it is more like a frat party inside and out of the stadium.

The rules say season ticket holders and others fans are not only responsible for their own behavior but for that of guests or anybody else occupying their seats. Most of the time I see season ticket holders behaving in a friendly manner it is their guest or the one game “wonders” that cause most of the problems.

The country's richest, most powerful sports league has its work cut out for it as it communicates the get-tough rules to fans and prepares some of its teams to implement the policy. The NFL and its clubs need to launch public awareness campaigns to educate season-tickets holders and their guests.

I commend the league for taking a stance to protect the right of paid spectators. The hard part will be implementing it. You would think that sports would be a great time had by all. I could see them including it in fan guides and season-ticket contracts. As for the process of deciding who's intoxicated and who's not ... good luck. Field sobriety tests in the seats might work.

As the season is underway, NFL fans might notice more security patrolling parking lots. While tailgating is a treasured part of the fan experience, it can also lead to trouble inside the stadium. Ninety percent of the stadium behavior that's too over the top is probably occurring because people had too much to drink in the parking lot.

It is about time someone has decided to tackle unruly behavior at sporting events. If not, we will just all become a bunch of Hooligan Soccer fans from England. That is a story for another day.


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Weekly Thought Bonanza Oct 4

On Sunday, I produce a column called “The Weekly Thought Bonanza”. The column is based on all of the random thoughts that run through my head all week, and trust me there are a plethora of them. I will try to share as many of these thoughts as I can, so each one of my readers can think just a little bit extra over the coming week.


I was in the mall on Saturday to buy a few Halloween items for the house, when I walked into this one particular store, ninety percent of the items on the shelves were Christmas items. What is the big rush? Doesn’t anyone enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving? Christmas is eighty one days away. Only eighty one days, I need to head to the mall like now.

My father refuses to spend any money at the concession stands at footballs games. Beer is eight dollars, water is seven dollars, and soda is five dollars. Hey dad, do not go into any night clubs they charge five times as much.

David Duchovny, a Princeton grad no less, checked himself into rehab for sex addiction. You were married to Tea Leoni and you felt you needed rehab for a sex addiction? Who says the X-files were not real?

NFL Players wore pink this weekend to support Breast Cancer Awareness this weekend. I thought it was a total class act move by the NFL. Well done guys, but the pink cleats have to go very quickly.

David Letterman slept with a few staffers and was blackmailed for it, so he came clean on his show. He did not break the law and he was not married at the time of the so called trysts. Letterman is now open game however for all of the other talk show hosts now though. I like that actually, pretty funny stuff.

Mohawk haircuts where a fad in Mr. T’s heyday. Keep them nostalgic will you please.

The baseball playoffs start up this week and my beloved New York Yankees are favored as well as my former beloved Boston Red Sox. The playoffs will go on this year possibly through November 8th. Bring back doubleheaders to shrink the season a bit. November baseball is not baseball it is just foolish.

Two pilots have been grounded after they allegedly left their cockpit mid-flight to trade punches with crew members in front of stunned passengers. Severe turbulence broke out on the Air India flight after an air hostess accused the men of sexual harassment. The 120 passengers watched as the pair left the jet controls to brawl in the aisle with the crew, the Times Of India reported. Scratch that airline off of my travel options list.

I can honestly say without any second thought that this new bed bug scare really has me upset. My grandfather used to tell me that bed bugs bite. Super.

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf will return for the third installment of the Transformers series, says director Michael Bay. Didn’t both of them complain that the last movie did not show their acting range? Amazing what a few million dollars will do to change their minds.

Public Transportation should be better in this country than it is presently, but I still will never like it.

It's been almost two weeks since Mackenzie Phillips dropped the bombshell that she carried on a ten-year incestuous affair with her father John Phillips. Does anyone else feel exhausted watching her retell such painful stories at such a high frequency? Chalk that up to too much information.

The Weekly Thought Bonanza thought of the week is; Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad, one of the world’s most virulent anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers, has Jewish roots, according to the a British newspaper. If this is true he can now just nuke himself and we will all be done with him.

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