Hanging out with Tanner in Texas

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did down in Texas at the Grimes. Make sure to speak out what you are thankful for and search for new things to be thankful for.

Have a Happy Holiday Season.

(P.S. - My brother-in-law was not harmed in the production of this movie).

Get your volunteer on...I did

I spent the morning at the STL food bank with my boy Sam (Happy B-day) and friends.

Together with other volunteers we packed 590 cases = 16380 lbs. = 13371 meals for the hungry.

What did you do this morning?

I have some talented friends

Get on National DO NOT Call registry!!

REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.

REMINDER.... all cell phone numbers are being released totelemarketing> companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:
888-382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON .. It takes about 20 seconds!

E.

My new hobby

I shot and edited this little piece for the young bruhz at my chapter. I know some of you who read this won't care for the music. But that's not really the point. The point is that I shot this with an $80 video camera and edited it with a program that's been on Aliah's MAC since she got it years ago.. If you put your mind to something its cool what you can come up with. We'll see what I come up with in the future.

In the mean time.. this is pretty cool if I say so myself.

Happy Birthday to me.

Today is my 32nd Birthday (yes 32 years people). The last year has been quite busy. Of course the best and most important change is I became a husband. Right now I am more proud than anything else. By far. But there are other things that I am proud of too. I've done more travelling this year than I EVER done in one year. That's great -its a big world out there - I'd suggest you check it out. I also had great times with my a lot of my family - some of the happiest times I would say and I am looking forward to more. My friends? I appreciate you all - its good to feel like people are concerned about your success and not just your failures-- thanks for that.

Business is good. SYGU future is looking bright. Let's get it.

What's ahead for year 33? Who knows? All I know is that I can't wait to find out!!

Correct me if I am wrong...

A report came out today saying that the U.S. employment rate slipped closer to 10%. Now I am not economist but I know that can't be good. It hasn't been anywhere near that since the 80's and Reganomics.

One thing that puzzles me about media and political spin when it comes to the unemployment rate - is when they try and depict it in a "good light". Like the unemployment rate "slowed" this week/month/year/etc. Slow or not that's still people losing their jobs right? Why don't we hear about how many people are getting back into the employment stream? Slow rate or not if the amount of people overall continues to grow (vs. just the rate/speed at which that number grows) - doesn't that mean more and more people with reliable income to pay for basic necessities OR elective financial protections (that's insurance people)?

So if the number of people who can't afford to pay for their own health care out of pocket OR through insurance grows daily - who is supposed to pay all of these "affordable" insurance plans via exchange or across state lines? Who is supposed to be able to wait for the time to allow for the market to correct itself and prices to come down on their own - without government intervention?

The public option is the only solution that will remedy (pun intended) this problem. It allows people who can't afford to catch a cold much less cancer to be able to get the health care they so desperately need. To me Universal Coverage or single payer plan would be better - but at least this gives people an "option" to keep what they have if they want too.

I am not really sure how this is going to play out. But I have a feeling that the unemployed are about to speak up.