Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Time	Event
2:35a	I'm Sick! Despite what my obituary is going to say, and it should be in the paper on Friday or Saturday, I imagine, rest assured that I am sick. The reason for that is that my obit will be written by my staff and they wouldn't know a fatal illness if it sat on their heads. Even the ones who are trained and licensed to practice medicine. This reminds me of what Jack Benny went though. It's actually more than a reminder, it's a full blown case of history repeating itself yet again. Jack told everyone for a year and a half that he was seriously ill while everyone, including his doctors said he was a hypochondriac and nothing was wrong with him. Then, his doctors suddenly discovered that he had stomach cancer and he died in less than a year. He wanted to have "I told you I was sick!" put on his headstone but they ultimately went with something else. And the same thing is is happening to me right now. But I'm not even worried about that. I'm worried about you. You see, whatever I have is worse than cancer, AIDS and the plague. Times ten. My throat hurts, I'm tired, I'm having body aches and I'm short tempered, impatient and unable to concentrate on anything for any length of time. And I don't want any of you to have to go through this unimaginable suffering but I can't get anyone in the medical industry to listen, so a cure will never be found. Hence, my frustration. Maybe, when I'm on the other side, some of the symptoms will go away and enable me to do research and find a cure. Then, all I have to do is figure out a way to get the information back to you here. And communicating like that across dimensions isn't easy. There goes my plans for a relaxing, stress free Afterlife. But it's OK. I don't mind at all. Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Coast To Coast AM----George Noory, WOC AM 1420 (Comment on this)
5:09p	Two Problems, One Solution I'm not a politician. I don't even play one on TV. Anymore. And I'm not in the process of losing my house. Even though that wouldn't be such a big deal since I'm rapidly dying of a new disease...which seems to be in relapse tonight but I'm sure it will be back soon. Having said all that, though, I still want to humbly propose a solution to a major problem that we have here in the US that also happens to be a partial solution to another major problem. The problem is all the scams that sprung up because of the foreclosure crisis, such as this one: Don't Believe TV Ads Fraudsters running rescue operations like to advertise with promises of saving homeowners from foreclosure. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that most of these claims violate federal law, because it's a guarantee that cannot be met. More on This Scam More From Forbes: http://realestate.aol.com/photo-galleries/finance/foreclosure-scams?pg=2 The solution is to pass legislation that says that if someone falls for a scam like this, it will work. One way or another. Whether or not the scammer can or will stop the foreclosure, it will be stopped anyway, because either way, the homeowner is off the hook. Let the scammer and the bank fight over who owes what. That would send a clear message to the scammers: Scam all you want but in the end, it won't be a scam. It would also send a clear message to the banks, and whoever buys all their bad debt: Commit all the fraud you want to entice people to make horrible choices because in the end, it will be you, not your victims who clean up the mess and suffers because of it. I admit it's not a perfect solution but it's a start in the right direction. Let's stop pretending that people did this to themselves (You can make that argument but it really doesn't hold up very well, even if you're me and had to listen for years to people telling you how dumb you were for not turning your house into an ATM) and make the giant corporations that caused the problem fix the problem. Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Coast To Coast AM----Monday June 2nd, 2008 (Comment on this)

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