Global Warming

Global Warming

The ice sheets are falling (BTW, I was in Alaska and watched them fall into the sea so it's really happening). The sea is getting warmer. The storms are getting stronger. With all of this happening it must be about Global Warming - I don't agree.

The reason I don't agree is because the term Global Warming gives everyone a wrong impression. The people who don't agree about Global Warming say: "last winter was the coldest winter ever how can that be about Global Warming. We've had more snow than ever before. Therefore, it can't be Global Warming."

They're right. It's not Global Warming it's Climate Change! We are in a stage where our earth's climate is changing. Some believe that after this stage we will enter an ice age (I don't think it will happen while I'm alive, but who knows).

Climate Change is real and anyone who believes otherwise is not paying attention. 

Now comes the question: "what is causing Climate Change." Some believe that it's just a natural thing that happens every so often. They point to the fact that we have gone through an ice age and a major drought before humans populated the earth. 

Ya know, they do make a good point. However, most of us are sure that humans polluting the Earth is not making anything better it's making things worse. How can any Government accept polluting our beautiful Earth by opening coal factories? How can any Government accept eliminating car pollution standards? How can any Government accept allowing oil refineries to pollute the skies just so they can make more money? I can go on and on, but I hope the sane people know these policies are NOT making the problem better.

Sooo you say, what the hell does this blog have to do with happiness? Just ask a person with acute asthma how happy they are breathing the air around them. Just ask the people who are losing their homes to violent storms if they are happy campers. Just ask the people who lost a love one because of major fires if they are really happy. 

Climate Change is making some people depressed and unhappy. However, let's not give the naysayers their argument by calling it Global Warming when it really is:

CLIMATE CHANGE 

Why Am I Here

Why Am I Here

I never know what's going to pop into my crazy head. Yesterday, in a quiet moment, A thought popped into my brain - Why Am I Here? WOW, that was a very deep question with many, many answers. So many I had to really think hard about it. After much thought, I'm still not sure Why Am I Here?

Am I here to save mankind - definitely NOT! Am I here to be a good father - well, that hasn't worked out for me. Am I here to be a good husband and a good friend - I believe I am, but there has to be more to it than that. Am I here to "serve" a higher being - I do believe that putting positive energy out into the Universe will bring back positive energy, however, I don't believe I'm here to "serve" anybody.

Am I here to make money and lead a comfortable life - I do believe in capitalism, but that can't be the reason I'm living on this planet. Am I here to please everyone around me - if you're reading my writings and my blogs you know that's not the reason I'm here. Am I here to be a happy and positive energy person - now I might, just might, be getting closer to an answer. 

I still don't know the absolute answer. 

Maybe I'm Here Just Because I'm Here

OLD

OLD

At ten I felt young. At thirteen I was wishing I was older. At twenty I was married with a child on the way - I still felt young because my career was taking off. At twenty-five I was managing five people, my wife didn't like being a stay home wife, the kids (two kids now) were in need all the time and I started to feel I was getting OLDER.

At thirty-five I was divorced, the kids were in their teens and I was feeling young again because I was free again. At fifty, I was working too hard and managing almost a hundred people. I had a new wife (my Ellen) which was great and the kids were all grown up. I found myself somewhere between feeling young and feeling OLD. 

At sixty-five, I was retired, the wife was still great, the kids had moved on, I was on Medicare and didn't have to worry about health insurance - I was feeling young again.

Now, I'm soon going to be seventy-four and these are the best years of my life. I still have a great wife, my grandkids are wonderful, I love my new home in Las Vegas, I'm greatly enjoying my writing and my blogging, NFL Football just started and Basketball is soon to come - When life is great you can't help feeling young. When life sucks it's too easy to feel OLD.

The sad part is seeing friends and other people looking OLD and feeling OLD even though they are much younger than I. Sooo, that leads me to ask: "what about you." Do you still feel young or are you feeling OLD because you're spending too much time focused on your aching bones and the life that's past you bye?

If you're in the latter, you're probably not a happy camper and OLD age seems to be coming at you faster than ever. If you love life and still are able to find new and interesting things that fill your day, you most likely are happy and still feel that "young at heart" pulling at your future.

It's just my opinion, but I believe OLD is a state of mind and young is a state of mind. Therefore, even if you have bad health, even if you have a bad job, even if you have a lousy social life, you can choose to feel:

OLD OR YOUNG - You Choose

The Chopped Liver Diet

The Chopped Liver Diet

It's the Jewish Holiday and I just remembered something my father (Sam) said to me when I was twenty years old. It's called "The Chopped Liver Diet." This is how the diet works:

* Eat Ellen's Chopped Liver for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do this for seven or eight days. 

* The next day you have a Heart Attack. 

* You're in intensive care and the doctors are doing their best to unclog your arteries.

* After the successful operation, the doctor says you're going to be fine, but I have to put you on a very strict diet.

* Three weeks later you lost twenty pounds.

Now tell me, what other diet would lose you twenty pounds in a month. The answer is only: 

The Chopped Liver Diet