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Issue #24; December 16, 2002 Ask Boomer Al is the fun newsletter of BoomerJournals.com. If you don't want to receive it, we don't want to send it to you. Unsubscribe info is located at the bottom of each issue. _.·´¯) Contents (¯`·._ 1) This week's questions 2) What's up with this? 3) Boomer HA! HA! 4) Attitude Counts! _.·´¯) Questions (¯`·._ Ask Boomer Al Issue #25; Dec 23, 2002 Dear Al, I look forward to your column every week. Recently I lost a love one due to a drunk driver. I’m furious! What more can I do to help get these killers off the road? Enraged Dear Enraged, I am so sorry to hear about the tragic loss of your loved one in such a needless way. While there are some habitual drunks who do get behind the wheel all too often, most fatalities actually occur with otherwise responsible people who for one moment in time paid a price for alcohol induced bad judgment. There are things you can do. Don’t put yourself in that same position. Be brave enough to intervene when you see friends or family about to test fate. Perhaps a member of your family can arrange to visit the schools and tell their story. Pay to take an ad in your local newspaper in memory of your loved one with a caution to others. Holiday parties find many social drinkers testing their limits so be sure you’re home party doesn’t turn a drunk loose on your neighborhood roads. Anger, while understandable, will not cure the problem. The police are fighting a losing battle unless we take on a share of the responsibility to be responsible citizens. Drunkenness has all too long been associated with fun. Drinking doesn’t need to include drunkenness for a good time. I do feel it’s time for professional athletes to find another way to celebrate victory rather than drink and spray booze around the locker room. It’s a poor example for our kids and leaves a message that stupid behavior and booze in combination are just good fun. Hopefully time will bring healing to your family over this sad situation. Al Dear Boomer Al, Your column is the first thing that I look at when the paper comes out. I believe you’re helping many people. I have a teenage son and daughter who both smoke. My ex-husband smokes also. I don’t. What can I do to convince them to stop? Thanks Al. Love, Don Dear Don, Thanks for the kind remarks. I hope that is true. The one thing you have to accept is that you can’t make anyone, especially an addicted person, do anything they don’t want to do. Althugh I do not smoke now I smoked for years. I quit several times, once for ten years and went back if you can believe it. It’s just too bad the teens have chosen to ignore the available information on the hazards of smoking. A summer ago I was sitting by my mother’s bed watching her struggle for every breath as she was dying an awful death from emphysema. Her quality of life was gone for the last three years of her life. I took her death very hard and struggled to be strong for her as she wasted away. She told me she started to smoke in her twenties just to be part of the crowd. It killed her despite the fact that she had quit twenty years earlier. You can’t make someone worry about their own health if they don’t care themselves. Love them and encourage them but by no means obsess about their personal choices. Despite my encouragement, mom desperately wanted to die. She suffered so. I don’t know the words or I would use them to get others to quit smoking too. It’s a personal choice and a serious addiction. Al PS; I wrote the following holiday article for publication last year at this time. I thought perhaps some of you would enjoy reading it. "Memories of Christmas Past" And another for the kids! *wink* Happy Holidays! Rocky and the Christmas Monsters Need to buy or sell a house ... check this out! _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ I feel Trent Lott did the right thing stepping down. I can't wait to see what the next Democratic political crisis will be. I get the feeling an Iraqi war will happen. Prepare for the burning oil fields not unlike Kuwait. We have to go in. Saddam's son is worse than Saddam ever thought of being. That's the future folks. Have you noticed how some major colleges are dropping men's sports while the women's sports are thriving. Have we managed to swing the pendulum too far? So many women write to me asking where all the real men have gone. If you stack the odds of the average guy making it in today's world it's tough. Is it tougher for women than men today? I feel that’s a stereotype that no longer works, not that there aren’t a good number of single moms out there struggling day in and day out. Look at these statistics from Dr. Aaron Kipnes, author of “Knights Without Armor”. Men are: 70% of all assault victims 80% of all homicide victims 85% of the homeless 90% of persons with AIDS 93% of persons killed on the job Men die on average eight years earlier than women. The popular attitude is, so what? If it were the other way around, the outcry would be deafening, countless studies would be undertaken, and millions of dollars would be thrown at the disaster. As it is, there are numerous advocate groups devoted to women’s health issues because of the so called imbalance that is not supported by the facts. Some liberal will send me a nasty note I'm sure. Just my opinion. Don't like it? So tell me off at ... The Forum at Boomer Journals _.·´¯) Boomer Ha Ha! (¯`·._ A bore is someone who goes on talking while you're trying to interrupt. _.·´¯)Attitude Counts! (¯`·._ Life can indeed be a wonderful thing when all is well. We all know that things are not destined to always be such. I makes this time of year all the more difficult for some who are forced to face life's challenges during a season when all are so festive. Look to your blessings and be thankful for what you have regardless of how meager. Take a momnet to notice those around you who are suffering for whatever reason. Sometimes just a smile, a hug, or an act of kindness can change someone's reality for just a brief moment. Love is only truly love when it is given away. Serve others at every opportunity. The personal rewards will lift your spirit and brighten your day as surely as it does for those you've helped. Merry Christmas, Al, Helen, and Rocky Check out my new Home Business E-book ... Typical "Boomer Al" irreverent humor and lessons from over the years. Basics of Small and Home Based Business Have fun. It's later than you think. Al Automotive tips on buying, leasing, repair rip-offs, automobile insurance reduction, and more! 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