Happy New Year

Let me repeat that!! Happy New Year. Eat peas and cabbage before midnight!!!!!

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?

All across America, indeed around the world, we have all been talking about what we got for Christmas. I didn't get what I wanted the most of all. What did I want? I guess it was an unrealistic wish, I suppose. That is what Christmas is all about, asking for things that you won't get. All I wanted for Christmas was all the Americans who are serving overseas to come home. Yeah, I know...just like wishing for world peace.

See what I mean about Santa

See what I mean about Santa? I am sure that someone thought I was making that up.

Ridiculous over FAT

The latest and greatest big news is that a complaint has been made that Santa Claus is too fat. This is setting a bad example for youngsters. That is so insane!! A mythical person has more influence on children causing them to be overweight than anything else. Forget about, overeating, lack of parental control or the sodas available in the schools; it's Santa making our kids fat! Let me repeat what I said earlier, "That is insane!!"

Well, time to fight back. I am so upset with all the images of Jesus Christ being a gaunt, skinny fellow. Just look! Jesus needs to put on some weight. He is causing junior teens to be too skinny. Wrong example. What about Buddha? I have to write a letter to the Dalai Lama and express my concern that all those images of the rolly-polly Buddha is causing obesity among certain segments of the population. Buddha needs a diet! Another, wrong example.

Who cares if Santa is a little rotund? He had been that way for dozens of decades or longer. Okay, people lets focus on the real issues! It's not Santa making kids fat, it's the lifestyles they are allowed to live. I bet the person who decided to blame Santa for their fat kids just pulled away from McDonald's for the 5th night in a row because they are too lazy to cook or too stupid know how.

WAKE UP! GET A LIFE!

Confused Christians

This is complimentary to the post about atheists. This time I am talking about those Christians who think that they have the market on the right faith.

I'm working with a mix of guys from all over the state and from different backgrounds. We were talking about faith and I was baited with a question about my faith. I was asked that, if I died and God judged me to spend eternity in Hell because what I believed was wrong. The guy asking said that 'what if so'n so was right and I was wrong. Admittedly, I almost went ballistic. He was saying that my faith was wrong and his was right. I asserted that there was no way to know who's faith was right based on their interruption. Maybe I should not have lot my temper, but Christ never said that there was a 'right' way or wrong way be believe as long as we believed in him.

It is hard to tell which is better...those who have no faith or those whose faith they believe is better. Let every one life and believe as they will. I do know that it is better to be tolerant of the faith of others. let them tend to their own souls.

Good conduct

Our high school football team recently returned from the Tennessee 1A state championship with a terrible loss. (I'm not going to tell the score.) But, that isn't the plot for this little opinion.

Before the game, the stadium at Middle Tennessee State University played ads relating to how all players should play fairly and with good conduct. That is great! Because we all know how we hate unsportsman-like conduct and sore losers. Well, before the first half, our football coach was verbally abusing the referees. Guess what! He earned a 15 yard penalty for unsportsman-like conduct. How can we expect our schools to teach kids to be good sports when their teachers can't manage to do it themselves?

I think that is is terrible that a coach should get a penalty for bad behavior.