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Issue #41; April 14, 2003 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 #41; April 14, 2003 Dear Boomer Al My wife and I both work and we’re 31 years old. We’ve saved up $35,000 to invest in our own business. I’m willing to keep working so she can run it with my help until we can afford for both of us to run it. We just started looking. Any ideas? Thanks. Mark Dear Mark, I remember being there myself at about the same age. I was the one who desperately wanted to be on my own. Daily I would read the “bizop” section of the newspaper. There are indeed many businesses that you could pursue. You might take time to look at franchises. You do have to share the wealth but it’s a good turnkey approach for some people. I know for example that Subway was the fastest growing franchise in America for a while and is a turnkey business that seems affordable. A friend owned three of them and said he earned 25% ROI. Some businesses are seasonal especially in the cold states where you live. Not knowing your tastes and talents it’s hard to know. Something you may not have considered is getting into the real estate investing field. You have enough money to get going and it would be something you could do part time and keep your jobs. For a small investment you could buy Carlton Sheets training program. He has been the most successful trainer of the last twenty years or so. Good luck to you. You’re on the right track to success. Just think before you act and find a mentor you can rely on for guidance. Avoid personal debt. Business debt is another matter. Al Dear Al I like your column. I agree with your comments about the war. Don’t you think people that protest against the war should be punished? In my eyes they are traitors to our country! Concerned Patriot Dear Patriot I share your love of country and do get frustrated when I see people marching around repeating some of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. Peaceful assembly is one of the freedoms we enjoy in America. Civil disobedience is often associated with demonstrations because it’s about getting on the news. Frankly the coverage of these demonstrations has been very sparse because they are weak, small, and basically a very small national minority. I feel demonstrators who break the law should be charged accordingly however I defend their right to express themselves and their point of view regardless of who agrees. We will see demonstrators until our troops come home. I’m much more concerned with how that will be accomplished than I was with the war actually. I feel that demonstrations in the free nations of the world embolden the misfits and fundamentalist rabble rousers in these regions who could wreak untold havoc with the process. Al Need to buy or sell a house ... check this out! _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ I watched with amazement, along with much of the free world, wondering what joy people were getting out of destroying their own country through burning and looting following the fall of Saddam's regime. Yet was it so strange? Was it any stranger than seeing the LA South Side burning to the ground and businesses being looted following the Rodney King verdict? Was it any stranger than the LA Raider fans setting fires and over turning cars after their team got whipped in the playoffs? Seems to me that I recall riots during and after soccer matches in England and South America. There seems to be an uncontrollable release of tension following events where stress and anticipation either positive or negative seem to lead to temporary insanity by otherwise reasonable people. Not that Iraqi citizens could be considered reasonable after twenty-five years of oppression. Circumstances are indeed very different yet the human reaction to being surpressed in some way is to release in some unpredictable way the pent up frustration and anger or joy if that would be the case. Our troops are in a tough spot because the Middle Eastern world is no different than anyone else in this regard except in one big way; they fundamentally hate us. Why? Let's start with the Crusades and our Christian heritage. They were a bloodbath. How about the Inquisition when the Moors, who were part of an advanced and cultured civilization, were run out of Europe. They had pioneered in areas such as mathamatics, medicine, astronomy, and the written word. Our young nation can't relate to societies that have homes older than our nation's existance. I remember a few years back when on a trip to Bruge, Belgium known as the Venice of Europe. It's many canals lined by 400 year old homes and churches was hard for an American to relate to. We consider a ten year old home as dated and in need of extensive renovation. Few North or South Americans for that matter have any concept of history in that way except for our native residents. Our support for Israel all these years, who is seen as an occupying power, eats away at the people of the region. Israel was destroyed by the Roman invaders and basically ceased being a county. Their biblical claim to the home of their ancestors would never have been tolerated in any country yet they were awarded this land as a reperation for the debacle of WWII, but not by the people who called it home. Here we are now in Babylon itself with all of its astounding Biblical history behind us complicated by centuries of tribal revalries and attempts at genocide one of the other. We are seen as the power who prevented the destruction of the Israeli state by the people of the region. We have been portrayed as the evil empire by the fundamentalist muslim world. Add in irresponsible clerics in Iran and Egypt urging civil unrest and Syria just sitting there looking nasty and arrogant mixed in with our twenty year old kids with more fire power than the world has ever known and an American people fed up to here with Jihads and Fatwas and terrorist threats, not to mention a lingering fear that the second shoe after 9/11 could fall any day. Add in the protesters who are stupidly encouraging this insane behavior while trying to do just the opposite and you have a powder keg. I say we must pray for wisdom for our leaders in Washington and for God to intervene in the events of the day. One almost gets the sense that we are seeing something unfold that is beyond all of us to control and understand without divine intervention. I think the Pope was on this track when he made his comments. That's probably why he's beem in prayer since this conflict began almost non-stop. Armmageddon anyone? Somehow the rest of the world saw 9/11 but failed to understand the fundamental change it caused in the way we now view the world. America now feels vulnerable and the terrorist have been responsible for a new age of "I'll warn you once and then I'll kick your a** before you try and kick mine." If I were Syria I would be very careful right now. One wrong move and it's over. Iran will self destruct. It's become obvious now. Yet somehow, the eternal optimist that is America will probably see it all through to some type of satisfying conclusion. I'm sure there were days after and during all our wars when all looked bleak and forboding and the could be's for the most part never happened. That's the beauty of being a conservative. The moral conviction that right will eventually become its own reward as the blood of the innocent fertilize the grounds of oppression and grow a new society of free people with self- determination who have greatness within their grasp if allowed to mature and develop. I know it's asking a lot and it doesn't alway work out. Look at the great nations that Japan and Germany became following the big wars of the past. The hand wringers were around then too. Will Iraq know such success? They could if they can break the fundamentalist chains that bind them to the past. They will need investment and protection. I say the call to a quick exit by our troops should be ignored. We need to stay and protect them so a new terrorist infection doesn't slip in and take over. We must also remain vigilant in Afganistan or it will also backslide into a new series of issues. Too bad the Congress refused their request for three billion in assistance. Cheap money compared to having to fight again. The liberal hand wringers could not have been more wrong. Hollywood will pay a price too. Goodbye West Wing, CNN as we knew it and most other left wing fools. Fox gets it and is also getting the ratings. America has spoken. Now I'm rambling ... Such fun! Just my opinion. Don't like it? So tell me off at ... The Forum at Boomer Journals _.·´¯) Boomer Ha Ha! (¯`·._ "Great boasters, little doers." French proverb "Believe a boaster as you would a liar." Italian proverb "He that blows in the fire will get sparks in his eyes." German proverb "Empty barrels make the most noise." American proverb :) _.·´¯)Attitude Counts! (¯`·._ "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller When you've done all you can or all has been done to you allow yourself a reasonable time for self-pity but by no means allow it to become a way of life. Move on. Our days grow shorter with every tick of the clock. Have fun. It's later than you think. Al Automotive tips on buying, leasing, repair rip-offs, automobile insurance reduction, and more! Read this page now 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 _.·´¯) General Info (¯`·._ Ask Boomer Al is an opt-in ezine available by subscription only. We do not use or endorse the use of spam. Your e-mail address is safe, and will never distributed for reason. Ask Boomer Al is a copyright @ BoomerJournals.com To contact us with feedback, questions or kudos, e-mail editor@BoomerJournals.com To subscribe, please go to: Subscribe Enter your email address, select "subscribe" and submit! To unsubscribe, please go to: Unsubscribe Enter the email address you would like to remove from our list. Select "unsubscribe" and submit the form. 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