Wednesday, June 4, 2014

AESOP'S FABLE OF THE SUN & THE WIND: 7 CHOICES HAPPY PEOPLE MAKE, LIKE SHERIFF BABEU, WITH THE PRIMARIES OVER, HOPEFULLY ALL SHERIFFS WILL FOLLOW, SHERIFF BABEU, OF PINAL COUNTY, DIDN'T CATCH STATE--SENT A LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, THAT HE IS A CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED SHERIFF, REFUSES TO ENFORCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDERS, THAT COME BY WAY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER, ESPECIALLY ON GUN CONTROL, THAT CIRCUMVENTS CONGRESS & LEGISLATION--CAN'T GET IT PASSED CONGRESS, NO DICE--YOU ARE NOT A KING OR DICTATOR, LIKE BUSH, THAT IS EASIER, THIS IS A REPUBLIC, AND DAMN IT, WE ARE PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED US--CITIZENS ARE THE MOST POWERFUL PLAYERS! CITIZENS, NEED NOT BE SWAYED BY A NEW MOVEMENT TO CONSOLIDATE SHERIFF & POLICE DEPARTMENTS, DIFFERENT ANIMALS, WITH DIFFERENT JOBS--NEWLY ELECTED SHERIFFS, THAT CAME FROM COP SHOPS, NO LONGER THE MAYOR'S BOY OR GIRL, YOU ARE THE PEOPLE'S MAN OR WOMAN--GOOD LUCK, NO COUNTRY FOR STUPID MEN AND WOMEN, TOUGH JOB, JUST GOT TOUGHER! CARRY THE TORCH OF FREEDOM, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DISARM AND CHARGE AN ATF OFFICER, FBI AGENT, OR THROW THEIR ASSES IN JAIL! GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS THE WORLD--DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!

Competition Between the Sun & the Wind, With a Traveler

Once there was a traveler, walking down the road, and the wind and the sun were talking, and suddenly one challenged the other, to which one could make the traveler take of his coat.  The wind offered to go first, so the wind, blew and blew, but the traveler pulled his coat tighter and tighter around him.  So the wind blew, even stronger and stronger, the traveler, again, reacted by tightening his grasp on the coat, and even overlapped, one side over the other, to secure the gaps, and keep the wind out.

Now it was the sun's turn.  The sun just warmed the traveler with its rays, and the walker, relaxed his grip on the coat, leaving the coat open to let some coolness in, and then with the increased warmth of the sun, the traveler, completely took his coat off, and carried in his arms.  And like in all Aesop's fables, there is a moral to the story . . . you get a person or people to go your way, more by being warm to them, or warming them to your ideas, that by blowing at them in a furious onslaught, either of wind or ideas; humans react better to one approach, better than the other!

Happiness 101--It is a Choice!

Last night I was listening to the Herman Kane or Cane Radio Program, on I assume a conservative radio frequency, that my roommate and landlord listens to, as I sat in he recliner and read, listened and thought about the days news, events, and comings and goings, a very rewarding day . . . stump the former law professor, both of us, constitutional law attorneys, he having taught at 3 law schools, and me having made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but I know enough to get him and I did . . . he was honest, as are most Montanans, and admitted the question was too hard for him to answer, but attempted and did an admirable job, fun luncheon at Jake's Restaurant in Missoula, Montana!  

I guess you could call it, pay back for all the times law professors of years passed, used the Socratic Method of questioning on me, and I didn't know the answer . . . generally in front of 180 similarly scared shit-less, law students, until I decided, we all looked stupid, whether we were prepared or not, so finally, I just decided to look stupid 5 times in any given semester, rather than stress out and brief all my cases, writing cheat notes on recipe cards.  Ah, back in the day . . .

Socrates or Aristotle, had a young man approach him, while he was walking on the beach one day, contemplating the mysteries of life, and asked the scholar if he would be his teacher.  Socrates, let's assume the legal profession, used the method of the smartest guy on the block, and we will say it is him, wisely said to the young man, well we will see how bad you want to be my student.  So the teacher took the potentially future student into the sea, and grabbed him by the neck and forced his head under the water, and held it there, until the kid, scratched, grabbed at the older man's toga, kicked, bobbed up and down, fighting for breath . . . finally, when the student was about to drown, the model for all law professors, Socrates, allowed the young man to come up out of the water.

Of course the younger man and alleged, wanna be pupil, was pissed as hell, and said, why did you do that?  Socrates said, when you want to know what I have to teach, as bad as you wanted air, I will be your teacher.  The story ends there, and we don't know if the young man walked away from the teacher, or he decided he wanted to learn that bad.  I however, may not have wanted to learn that bad while I was in law school, but, for some reason, I took my oath of being an officer of the court, and someone who was to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Utah, very seriously, enough to take Socrates challenge to heart, and sought knowledge on that subject, as bad as I want breath, for freedom is everything, and knowledge is the guardian of freedom!

The Constitution is the moral, ethical, legal, noble, most valuable, and most fought for, happiness, we as citizens can go for . . . so bitching and moaning about what ails America is not enough!  We have to actually put our mouths, heart, mind, actions, lives, money, and harmony in line with what we believe, took an oath to do, and that is all part of the game.  However, I don't think Socrates, read or learned from Aesop's Fable of the sun and the wind, but he did get his point across, and most likely had a great student!  

Happiness I.Q. & 7 Choices Happy People Make

My cousin was a happiness coach in Japan and wrote a book called the Happiness Quotion, and he came to the conclusion after studying, people he considered to be happy, successful, and self-actualized, that people needed basically three things to make them happy: (1) time, (2) health, and (3) only sufficient money to meet their basic needs, at the time about $10,000 per family member, and any amount much above that did not seem to make much difference on their happiness I.Q.

Radio Talk Show Host, Herman Kane or Cane, after bitching and moaning about the days events, on Stg. Bergdahl's release, the war on coal, and the fact that the Seattle City Council, decided to tackle wage inequality on its own, by raising the minimum wage to about $15.50 per hour, which he thought was a horrible idea, and I disagree, I love it that this city, cares enough about their workers, and hates federal regulations enough to act on their own, and decided, CEOs and people with millions for bonuses each years, can afford to pay lower level employees, a piddly little bit more without breaking the bank!  The host said that Seattle was the first to raise the minimum wage, but there is actually a city back east in New Jersey or Iowa, somewhere, that raised their minimum wage up to $16 per hour and it worked so well, that they are actually raising it to $20 per hour, over a few year time frame . . . Kudos to YOU!d

Anyway, our host, who seemed like a happy personality, seemed like he could hardly force himself to mention the 7 choices, happy people make each day to be happy.  But he did mention that he broke happiness, obviously something he had taught before to his listeners, that would make them happy . . . and I agree with him: (1) have something to do, (2) have someone to love, and (3) have something to hope for . . . all but the last of the 7 choices, he said, could fit into his model, good, I have to admit.  So here we go to the choices, but he did mention or the study he was quoting mentioned, that some people are just born happier than others, with genetics, external events, and attitude, making up the combo of what it takes to either be happy, get happy, or get rid of to then be happy.

7 Choices Happy People Make, to Make Themselves Happy

  • Happy people choose to exercise daily
  • Happy people choose to spend time in the outdoors . . . no wonder people in Montana are always happy; if you ask them who their day is going, great, wonderful, couldn't be better . . . total beauty everywhere in the outdoors, the second they step outside!
  • Happy people focus on family, making them happy
  • Happy people make time for friends . . . friends can fill in big gaps in family systems, take time for them
  • Happy people find meaning in their work . . . love your work and love what you do, find meaning
  • Happy people contribute to their community
  • Happy people get enough sleep!  I would ad this, from a commercial I saw, the very thin woman in the commercial was eating a diet dinner, and she said, I don't hate children, I was just hungry!

Don't Worry Be Happy--What if the World Just Adopted this Attitude for One Day?

This morning as the primary elections are done, don't worry be happy, our newly elected or choices are going to do a great job . . . the Ukraine, Russia, and nervous European nations, don't worry, be happy, all is going to be good; Syria, who also held elections, some cast vote with their blood, don't worry, Assad, is going to be better in his next 7 years, be happy; the new Unity Party in Palestine is going to be easier on Israel, and will work better, with Hamas involved, as the Afghanistan people about what happened when the Taliban wasn't asked to the G8 summit, to decide the future of a country they had major control over, don't worry, be happy!  Let's all just chill out, and be happy, if not just for one day . . . DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY!

I am right with the talk show host on this one . . . he has spoken on 33 college campuses, and he said, he has great faith in this new generation, they get it!  I think, this young people with so much access to social media, to news, to connections around the world . . . I had to smile, when someone, while in conflict, in the border towns on the east side of the Ukraine, is keeping people posted on his facebook!  Talk about facebook, the wife of, Zukerman, previous owner, or sole owner before going public, just gave $120 million to the San Francisco public school system, and then you have the millionaire that is making people happy in California, by hiding money all over cities . . . I bet he is getting more joy from that, than he did making the money, it doesn't make you happy!  

What was most revealing about the whole giving and finding money thing, was that most of the people who found the money said, they were giving it away, making other people happy . . . happiness is contagious! Pass it on!  Maybe we can catch the world on fire!

The say, more people commit suicide, right after getting that dream house, their perfect car, or a boat, job, or whatever, than at any other time, because, those things don't make you happy, and they realize it.  I remember, my sister, Rachel, who build her dream home at 3770 Sugar Leo Road, Bloomington or St. George, and after all the excitement of building it wore off, she said, we are still us . . . thinking that would fix the family, her marriage, or make them happy!  You have heard the saying, wherever you go, there you are.  Or I met the enemy, and the enemy was me! 

Invest in yourself, your family, friends, your work, community, and get exercise, outdoors and enough to sleep and eat.  Once, my son, Elliot, bass guitarist for God's Revolver and Maraloka, but before that, when he was in first grade, said, after being found after going AWOL, after kindergarten one day, being found, by his very busty and happy teacher, under the bushes with a little Indian girl, who didn't speak the language, making Elliot, crack up laughing each time she talked, and being a bit plump herself, said that I, his mother, who was thin and a runner at the time, I really think you would be more jolly mom, if you were fatter . . . wisdom out of the mouths of babes!

I am happy to pass the baton, in this relay race to preserve our freedoms to the Sheriffs of this country, who have stepped up and are shouldering the guard on citizens' freedoms, WE THE PEOPLE better get their backs, take it from a war torn veteran of the war to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, they will need your help . . . I had a dream last night, taking me back 24 years, when I embarked on this battle, when the Constitution used to hang by a thread, that it is time to go home, and preserve, protect and defend my family, that is hanging by a thread--a 20 year battle to get law enforcement to this point--GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY, GOD BLESS THE WORLD . . . I can finally, relax!  Thank you, Sheriffs!  Signing off!





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