Reznjun

i watched our president’s address last night. gotta admit he is a better communicator than the last one we had, by a long shot. he sounded like he answered each question, even the ones with multiple parts. the last president would get bent out of shape if he didnt like a question and wouldnt answer it.

i like how the president pointed out that he inherited the current problems we are facing. we all did. it wasnt our doing either. now we  have to deal with these problems. i cant get a handle on the urgency though. if the problems are that bad, maybe we shouldnt rush into this. we wont solve them in the first week. current unemployment is like 7.6%.  not at all like during the depression when it was around 25-30%.  kinda sounds like a salespitch. if you buy now we will throw in these ginshu knives free. and a free shamwow to the first 100 callers.

dont know what our vice president was talking about when he said ”we still have a 30% chance” of failing even if we did everything right. a risk we gotta take. there is always a chance for failure in anything. cant let that stop us. i believe this country will pull thru this. wont be overnight though.

indians wont be left out of the stimulus package. there will be around $2.8 billion for tribal infrastructure. some redneck said that amounted to a thousand bucks for every indian man, woman and child. no it wont be a check to each indian, no matter what he insinuated. it will go for schools, health clinics, roads, law enforcement and water projects.  even during hard times there is someone still trying to hate on indians. indians are trying to catch up, not just maintain.

say it aint so a-rod. the highest paid baseball player has kinda admitted using performance enhancing drugs. said he was young, naive and wasn’t even sure of what he took. i think there are other drug problems that we should be concerned with. we demand that athletes be bigger, faster and stronger. they train year round in the quest to be the champions. we demand nothing less. so when someone takes something to gain edge, we say whoa. billions of dollars are bet on the outcome of sporting events. we push athletes to be the best. so we are equally guilty. i wonder why the royals or chiefs dont take steriods if it would make them better. do we care how if we win. we can hang the banners then act indignant later.

i remember when my brothers and i would play baseball for hours in a hayfield. we used hub caps as bases, hay bales for a backstop. played for the love of the game. we past those days. anyone can aspire to be president but most will never be a pro ballplayer. even with steroids.

 i have taken advantage of the warm weather by walking. i walked each day last week for 14 miles. and twice so far this week. it is helping my back and my ribs. they are still sore. like jagger said ”what a drag it is getting old”.

the warm weather has me thinking of my garden. i will have to pull the remaining cornstalks to get ready to till. some tribal program asked me if i wanted my garden plowed last fall. i said yes and was told they would do it. they didnt. good thing i dont depend on someone else, otherwise i would never have a garden. and like biden says even if i do everything right there is a 30% chance i will fail. i take that chance every year. i wont go without a garden, especially now that we have so many foods recalled. i am getting anxious now to garden.