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Senator Corker: These are words you sent me in an op-ed..."Unfortunately, I believe the Obama administration’s proposal takes us in exactly the wrong direction. It would be, in Governor Bredesen’s words, “the mother of all unfunded mandates,” sending billions in costs to already overburdened states...and, Congress’s first objective should be to do no harm."   I totally agree with your assessment! If the Obama administration is to blame for this health care debacle, and intent on moving us in the wrong direction, your work is to remove this legislation entirely from consideration. Then do the right thing and begin the reform in a step-by-step process. One large package will never fix this issue.  It will kill health care as I and the vast majority of Americans have known Health Care.  I pay premiums and am happy with my service provides.  We can all agree the biggest issue we all face is to ensure ALL Americans have access to Health Care. This should be whe...

I can actually say that I personally have never charged friends for helping them out or doing something for them.  Never have, never will!  That's just me! I can say I have helped my son do jobs for friends when he has had to charge them for his services - when he needed the money.  Rightly and justly so - he needed to do so!  (This is not to say he has not helped me out when I needed money when I helped him do the work - he gave of HIS money)  I have discovered that when you help a friend out and not charge them for your help you always are welcomed as a friend.  When you charge them a service fee you eventully become a contractor.  I would rather be a full-time friend than a part-time contractor.  Two distinctly different terms.

If you don't have the time, make it!  If you have the time, give of it!  Bob Sever

In my previous blog I asserted that freedom of expression does entail freedom to offend. In fact, in many ways freedom of expression is the right to offend. No one ever fought for the right to say nonoffensive things. I salute those that fought for our rights...!

Now this is something that really gets my gourd.  They are selling "FAKE PINE" trees at stores for the Christmas Season.  Can you tell me just one thing that I would want to do with a fake pine tree in my house -since apparently its not a fake Christmas Tree.   I realize that it was only a custom and erecting a Christmas Tree can be traced to 16th century Germany, though neither an inventor nor a single town can be identified as the sole origin for the tradition.   The earliest that a "real" pine tree was ever used and decorated for Christmas was in 1521 in Germany (in the region of Alsace).  In the Cathedral of Strasbourg in 1539, the church record mentions the erection of a Christmas tree - not a pine tree!  I like the term - Christmas Tree. But, I know all this.., as I'm of German Decent, but now I am an American - just "American", thank you!!!  And, I/we celebrate Christmas!  A Christmas Tree has been a "tradition" for us ever sin...

I refuse to blame others for who I am, for if I do, then I lose the right to be my best...Bob Sever

If you choose not to take care of IT, IT will take care of IT, and you might not like what IT did with IT....Bob Sever

The question is:  "Will Obama send more troops to Afghanistan?"  He has only four choices, send none, keep the statuesque, bring them home, or send more Here is my prediction:  He will send more troops later, much later!  Here is why I think he will send more and why he has not yet sent them.  (When he sends them it will take months to get them in place) First, his procrastination is indicative of his inexperience as a military commander.  As seasoned commanders know, you have to choose, oftentimes without all the information at hand, but you have to choose, or the enemy will choose for you.   Second, he is listening too much to his inner circle who are even less experienced on these matters.  Third, his inner circle has told him to fear those that elected him to the job based on his campaign promises.  In other words, this is all about pandering!  It is so sad to use politics to base ones decisions on, but it i...