HAPPY NEW YEAR

My New Year's Present to Parents is my mother's LEGO trick.

Before you let any age child play with a LEGO product, you put down a large sheet. Then when they are done playing you just pick up the sheet by the four corners and the pieces are ready to put away.

The only thing the kids have to do is to keep the pieces on the sheet. But most children do not want to lose the neato cannon balls and light sabers, so they will cooperate.

You can do the same thing on the table you use for your LEGOs. 

HAPPY 2015!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Christmas is like a country wide birthday party. If you do not see your family, you phone your family.

Do not overdo presents for children. A cardboard box big enough to climb into is often the child's favorite toy. Buying presents for children because YOU want to play with the toy is OK. But only disabled children need an electric car.

Adult gifts can be inexpensive if the gift shows that you really KNOW the person getting the gift.

Did you know that they now have bubble stuff where you can hold the bubbles and the bubbles glow in the dark?

I think books, real books that you can touch, are a good present. You can take real books to places like the beach and not worry about sand ruining your expensive electronics. You can lend the book out to other people. And NOTHING looks better on shelves than real books. (When I still had my book collection, the first thing people said when entering my usually really messy house was "look at all the books.")

If your friend cooks, cooking gadgets are always welcome. If you are on a limited budget, then check out Cost Plus World Market. Their kitchen gadgets are unusual and fun.

If you can not afford a present, reach out and say, "Happy Holidays!" Just the exchange of good cheer is a present in itself.

BELIEVING WHAT YOU READ

I read a review of the new Hobbit movie that proved that the critic had not even SEEN the movie. This makes me think that the reviews of ANNIE are either racist or the critic failed to take a child with him.

I need to also give fair warning that after the coming solstice, harming an endangered species will bring bad luck and helping an endangered species will bring good luck.

I believe that all pagans are going to use the power of the people who care about saving endangered species. They will use this power to put a powerful bad luck curse on whoever helps to harm an endangered species.

Eating a part of an endangered species will be especially dangerous.

It might be possible for a powerful person to deflect the effect of the spell on objects such as ivory or rhinoceros horn. However, the effect will deflect upon their business associates.

As pagans know, having a specific focus, such as a dagger or an ivory carving, will make the spell even more effective. The spell should have no effect on ivory which is legal to sell in the US.

All my books say solstice is a magically powerful time of the year.

All of my books also say that it is A VERY BAD IDEA to anger the local medicine man, shaman, or witch doctor.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! %<)

VIOLENT PROTESTS HURT MINORITIES

Cops use extra force against black and brown men in a conscious and/or unconscious belief that black and brown men are more violent. By using violence you make the problem MUCH WORSE.

Putting the general public at risk because of your actions is WRONG. Freeways are DANGEROUS. The freeway is dangerous to protesters, dangerous to the cops who have to protect protesters, and dangerous for the driving public. When you stop the traffic on the freeway, you are doing exactly what you accused Governor Christie of doing.

People who are caught in a traffic jam caused by protesters are NEVER won over to your cause. Instead, their anger stops them from even considering whether you have a righteous grievance.

If you have so much energy and commitment, let me suggest that you start attending court hearings in your area. Take a notebook and write down every time you believe that a judge has ruled unfairly against a black or brown person. (When attending court you must not take any drugs or weapons with you. You must sit and be quiet. Most courts require notes to be taken with pen and paper.)

Or you could just sit at home watching TV and count the number of times black or brown people appear, and the number of times they are allowed to talk. Then publish the results, which we all know are going to be horrible.

We all have a strong sympathy for people who come from our home town, or who look like us. The first step to stopping discrimination is to TALK to people who do NOT look exactly like you look.

STREET PROTESTS

Street protests are useful to bring attention to a problem that has been ignored for too long.

But once you have drawn attention to the matter, it is time to leave the streets. Technology has made it possible to communicate with each other in case the problem gets worse or does not get resolved.

Right now, protesters could be killing small businesses as the Christmas shoppers stay away from the protest area.

In a democracy, it takes time to solve hard problems. Police officers shooting black and brown people is part of a problem that has existed since the US was founded. May I again suggest that the LA Police have solved some of these problems, and you should ask them how they did it?

Here are three possible helps for the police officer shooting problem.

1. Immediately start a federal data base where ALL law enforcement shootings are reported. It would be good to track the ethnicity of all involved in the shooting. THIS NEEDS TO START BY JANUARY 1.

2. Assess whether the fines people are required to pay for small offenses are so large that they would throw someone into homelessness. $100 is not much to you, but it is a fortune to someone on welfare. Denmark sets fines by a percentage of income.

3. Make certain that your "broken window" policing has not become "harass minorities" policing.

It is Holiday time. ENJOY THE SEASON!

But do not forget to let us all know if another horrible shooting happens.

"LET THEM EAT PAIN" *

THE DEA IS TORTURING THE DISABLED IN ORDER TO INCREASE THEIR BUDGET AND THEIR POWER.

I have a bunion, which is VERY PAINFUL. I had to wait AN HOUR for codeine pain medication. The DEA has decided that ALL patients who get pain medication are addicts.

Now a patient MUST see a doctor EACH TIME pain mediation needs to be renewed. Codeine needs to have a HARD COPY of the prescription in order to get pain medication. This meant that I had to sit for AN HOUR while IN PAIN.

The ABLED **  at the DEA think that all pain is temporary or a fantasy designed to feed addiction.

Of course, the results are already clear. Some of the disabled are buying brown Mexican heroin instead of using the medications that their doctors think is safe.

Doctors are incredibly frightened of the DEA, because the DEA punishes disobedient doctors by taking away the doctor's authority to prescribe ANY medication.

* Marie Antoinette lost her head after saying, "Let them eat cake."

** An ABLED person is the opposite of a DISABLED person. ABLED persons often can not imagine the pain of a bunion or arthritis. They think if someone can walk 10 steps then the person should be able to climb a mountain.