Then somewhere along in the eighties, on the British comedy, “Yes, Prime Minister, Nigel Hawthorne, the British Minister of Health, said to Paul Eddington, the Prime Minister, not a direct quote but to the effect, “Oh no Mr. Prime Minister, you have it all wrong.  We do not need to ban smoking for good health care, we need to promote it.  For if you do not smoke, you will live a long life and that will cost the government more money.

Then along comes today, December 11, 2008 and on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer says basically the same thing, if O’Bama wants a national health care plan, and is also promoting good health habits, the two will not work together and we will bankrupt the system.  Basically what Charles said was, if you want to be a good citizen, then have a heart attack at fifty, and you will save the government money.  

So my posted blog today says basically the following:  1.  LIVE FAST:  Smoke three packs a day, drink a fifth a day, smoke 20 or more cigars, eat all the fattening fried spam that you can stomach, and chase all that down with a dozen diet cokes for the aspertame affect.  2.  LOVE HARD:  Have all the sex you want, get your doctor to prescribe viagra, tell him you lost it and get another script.  Take double doses, and make sure you have five or six girlfriends, preferably one or two with AIDS, to add to your shortness of life, and breath for that matter!! 3.  DIE YOUNG:  By the time you accomplish numbers 1 and 2, (if you ask the teacher permission first) you won’t have to worry about number 3, it will just occur automatically.  If we will all just adhere to this proven and steadfast plan, there will be no need for a national health care plan, and our government and our youth will benifit.  We will be off the government social security rolls, and the young won’t have to put up with our old indogent @zz’s.  Of course there was Benjamin Franklin, who did mostly all of the above, with the exception of AIDS which had not yet been invented, but yet lived to the ripe old age of 84 and 3 months.  Go figure????????

So I am here to tell you that when it comes to politics I do not know shit from shinola.  But like so many of us who supported that old bald headed comb over white headed guy will do,I will not spend this day having “the day after blues”, a new song title (after giving it some thought) that I must write.  What I AM going to do, is what I know best and that is music and writing.  Continuing to learn my craft as a musician, as I study each week at the Halehulumamu with Auntie Jo on her Uke and Hawaiian Music.  I am learning to sing in Hawaiian, and play my uke, continuing to write songs and record. I am Continuing to play the gigs the Good Lord sends my way, as I forge ahead with yet another new style and the only music I know,

“BoogieWoogieCountryWesternGospelBlues’n'Rock’n'Roll, and now Hawaiian.”

In closing this chapter of my blog, I shall crawl into my politics hole, (until I re-emerge in 2010) I do so wish to apologize to anyone I may have offended and thank you all for putting up with my verbal cajoling and antics.  I never ever mean to hurt feelings or offend anyone in any way, but rather to bring provocitive thought and banter to the table.  I know that no matter who is in the White House the country will become stronger and survive.  Perhaps this has been a wake up call to us all, to not crawl back in our shells and to become pro active in the rebirth of America.  After all we are all Americans in this boat together.

I wish you all the best over the next four years, but before I am a Republocrat or a Demopublican, or the independant Maverick I truly am, I am first and foremost a patriotic American. As my daddy before me was and I am an old soldier, as such, it is my and our duty to follow and support our new President for the good and betterment of the country.  I will always put my country first and work to change her for the better.  God Bless you all, God Bless our troups, and God Bless America.