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Issue #45; May 19, 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 #45, May 19, 2003 Dear Boomer Al I’ve enjoyed your column, but lately you seem to be harsher and a little nastier than usual. I like the old Boomer Al better. What gives? Just my opinion. John Dear John That’s a funny way to start, Dear John … oh well. John, you need to lighten up. Go buy a red rubber nose and wear it to work for a week. I happen to have a pretty dry sense of humor. Some people find it pretty funny and others are so serious that it all goes over their heads. I do try to give the best advice I can but I also try to maintain a certain sense of humor about it. I do not let this sway me however when it comes to saying it as I see it. If I were to please everyone who reads this column it would be so milk toast I wouldn’t even read it. Maybe I’ll start wearing a beanie with a propeller when I write the column to maintain perspective. If you like the old Boomer Al, you’ll be happy to know I get older every day. Al Dear Boomer Al You’re the first thing I read when I open the paper. We’re proud of our growing community and the CSC News has steadily improved. You have added a touch of class to the paper. You usually have some pretty good advice and you seem to speak from the heart. How much do you read? I’m an avid reader and I try to get my kids to read more but to no avail. Any advice? Keep up the good work. Thanks! Cindy Dear Cindy I hope you don’t mind that I shortened your note a little. Your comments are very kind and I thank you for them. I have a very busy mind and many interests. I have done a great deal of reading, but I tend to be obsessive when I get onto a topic that really interests me. I’m a classic ADHD and I’ve found that although it has caused me some issues over the years it has also allowed me to learn to enjoy being multi-tasked and fast. :) Reading can be a joy but there are so many distractions today that many kids never develop the hunger for reading. If you want your kids to be readers you have to develop the habit with them when they are young by reading with them daily. Kids will learn to connect books with relaxing time with mom or dad when you can share ideas and learn to communicate. Kids need to be intellectually stimulated by adults. You will find that children from homes where mom and dad read to them regularly usually will continue the habit throughout their lives. I have learned in my older years the value of benefiting from the wisdom of others. Much of that wisdom has been recorded in books. Reading many books on one subject allows a person to develop a balanced perspective on issues and our world. People who do not read are forced to live by what they hear only. Freedom requires an informed and well read electorate. Most people do not read enough primarily because reading is a chore to them for some reason or another. Leaders are readers in every walk of life. Thanks for your question. Al Need to buy or sell a house ... check this out! _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ The sudden surge in terrorist attacks in Arab countries seems to confirm that we have indeed hurt the terrorist cause. Now they are attacking their own people. I say good. perhaps the Arab world, especially the Saudis will begin to wake up to the fact that those narrow minded schools they run in Saudi Arabia are bearing fruit. Elliot Ness died last week. The last of the great TV G-Men. Well there is Chuck Berris from the Gong Show. He was a government hit man :) If you're under forty you're lost right now. The "Hand Ringers" are at it again. I read a column here in Florida this morning that made me want to throw up. This guy Joe Crankshank or something wrote a long list of what he considered idiot moves by our president and his administration. That's OK, it's America, but he failed to offer one single alternative on anything. Not one single opinion even on how he would have done things differently. He doesn't know, that's why. In other words he's a typical modern day liberal weenie who simply writes to tow the liberal line but has no clue as to what to do about anything. I for one feel that Iraq was AOK. I don't like war anymore than the next guy, but I feel we have turned the cheek enough in this modern world. These terrorist thugs speak only one language. Kadafi quieted down when Reagan put a missle in his bedroom and he's been quiet ever since. Watch the Middle East dominos fall one after another over the next few years because of what Bush did. Don't think for one minute these guys aren't feeling the heat in the Middle East. They know this President meant what he said, "You're either with us or you're against us." The Saudi's have launched a media forgive us tour this week. Watch for more cooperation as the months pass. Now we need to shoot a few dozen looters to calm down the natives in Iraq. Now as for the French. I wonder what they will say about Moroco. Seems this was one of their colonies at one time. Just my opinion. Don't like it? So tell me off at ... The Forum at Boomer Journals _.·´¯) Boomer Ha Ha! (¯`·._ "A friend is always happy for your success ... provided it doesn't surpass his own." _.·´¯)Attitude Counts! (¯`·._ "No Man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." Nathaniel Hawthorne How many of us have become lost is a world that we try to fit into instead of becoming the person we were meant to be. It is so hard to hear our own heart through the noise of wanting acceptance and popularity. 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 Home Business E-book ... Typical "Boomer Al" irreverent humor and lessons from over the years. Remember that it's an e-file ... not a paper book so download it after you pay for it :) 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! 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