Christmas 2010
May you
and yours have god health and Christmas Cheer throughout the New Year.
Another Christmas. Where’d the
stuff in between go?
Through another year, my sister worked harder and longer to get done
what most of us take for granted. Tommy
Brubeck bounced his glass eye on a Selective Service desktop to get out of
jungle fighting those rapacious little brown empire-seeking Vietnamese. It was a lot healthier for him to play Blue
and Gold football than to take his stance across the jungle line bayoneting the
ballyhooed terrible Red Dominoed Gooks.
My sister uses what little she sees out of
her one non-glass eye to scrimmage everyday in the game of life. Today, the trumped-up and unpaid for Iraq War
that helped destroy the Middle Class makes it harder to find programs that help
her play those daily games. But she
keeps pushing through chores, traveling to see her
Again, a significant part of my
year was spent working the belief that if Christ, Santa Claus, Buddha, or
Mohammed were spying on Earth, they’d push the world’s once undisputed moral
leader, and the rest of the world next, to field an American World Service Corps (AWSC) of at least a million Americans a year to:
“Do
unto the less fortunate as you would do unto me… This is my commandment,
that you love one another as I have loved you.”
Our two non-profits, People’s Lobby
Inc. and its Education Foundation (501c3)
continued pushing their citizen-initiated legislative proposals that would
enhance the effectiveness of all do-good organizations, help the needy, learn,
and reduce the likelihood of future wars.
They’d deploy a lot more apostolic-like humans to try doing simple
miracles on blue-green earth, rather than talk about such in classrooms, on bar
stools, in pews, or during faux-news.
Congressman
In the Senate race, thanks to non-disclosing Super PACS (Political
Action Committees) empowered by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision,
Sestak was dramatically outspent. The
beneficiary and Senate winner was Republican Pat Toomey, whom Tea Party leader Dick Armey referred
to as the earliest Tea Party candidate.
So, People’s Lobby’s (PLI) lost another charismatic, articulate, real
world experienced, potential original AWSC Congressional Proposal sponsor.
Good ideas take a long time.
Unfortunately, great ideas sometimes take longer, even when grounded in
simple common sense that starts with lessons learned in kindergarten.
Click here
if interested in reviewing some print, audio, and video coverage of these
topics and PLI’s work.
If implemented generations ago, PLI’s proposals
would have saved us from falling into today’s crippling economic disaster,
which stems from a dumbed-down public policy 
IQ
that dumped a once strong and respected
How the world of news has changed.
Today, the closest we get to some accurate, investigative, and in-depth
news, which was findable in the Cronkite era and when 60 Minutes had
competition, is through laughing and crying over in-depth news coverage by guys
like Stewart and Colbert.
In the meantime, you can help push the legislative sleigh uphill again by
signing our new
letter to Congress, which implores them to employ and deploy a
million additional Americans annually in a 21st century army that
works to fix worldwide crises while building smarts, good will, and economies
in the process. Imagine having a million
American elves a year spreading good cheer and health for at least the next 27
years…
In October, I rewarded myself by rekindling some Habitat building
habits while visiting a friend in
A chunk of the year was spent
finishing a book that revolves around a burly guy who served as a Santa Claus
to many of us, while we made and played with big tinker toy like objects at his
ever rising and evolving Rubelian Castle of Recycled Junk. If you’d like to learn more about a phun but thought provoking book that works for young, old, and
those frolicking in between, click – Every Town Needs a
Castle, Especially if Made of Recycled Junk and Spunk.
As you’ve probably noticed in your meanderings, memorable memories are
not made by breaths taken but by the moments that takes one’s breaths away,
elicits laughter, etches zany stories, builds pride, or brings tears.
And great teachers aren’t just found in classrooms or at the North
Pole; they can even teach from and live in Californian junkyards.
Thanks to Mafia Kingpin Tony Demarco and Peanutied Charlie Schultz,
here’s a link that gives you the underlying message of this Old & New Year
Letter and the Castling Book.
May you and yours have a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Dwayne
Ho, Ho, Ho!