Hopes For The New Year — Is This Asking For Too Much?
Now that I’ve reported my not-so-fearless forecasts for 2008, it is time to offer some hopes for the next 365. It’s probably too much to ask for, but what the heck -you have to aim high.
I would hope that American voters would be able to see through fear tactics and phony claims and elect a President that, at the very least, has the emotional disposition to run a country. That’s a weird request, but emotions and the stability of the candidate is something people don’t pay attention to. Are Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, McCain and the rest of the squad ready for prime time? Do they have the character and emotional stability to make good decisions? I am not suggesting a psychiatric exam, but there are emotional traits that make a good President. Think about that.
In 2008, it would be good to see a real change in the way we conserve our energy. Everyone things Green, but few act Green. We can help save the world, and also send a message to the oil barons, here and abroad. Drive well, but take public transit at least one day a week.
This year would also be a great time for celebrities in trouble to follow the lead of others and put their hearts, money and energy into doing something for others. After a while, there are diminishing returns for the brat pack of boozed-up, drug addicted stars, who really in the long run, offer not much of anything. There’s plenty of good gossip to go around without these bums .
2008 would be the right year for the nation to finally adopt laws for seat belts in school buses. What hypocrisy it is to have them required in cars, and not in the buses that transport our kids.
In this New Year, it would be nice to see a true, genuine government effort to enforce product and drug safety, instead of the half-hearted regulation of these industries.
Overseas, we look for stability in Iraq, some peace in the Middle East, and hopes that we select our friends based on the people who really support us. The Musharrif’s of the world need to be genuine, or find new allies. Same for the on-again, off-again friendship of the French government.
May 2008 see the beginning of real democracy in Cuba, for the first time in almost 50 years.
We wish Michael Nutter well in his first year as Mayor of Philadelphia. May his dreams come true, and with them, ours, for a safer and cleaner city.
Finally, this is a year when should all individually reflect on how we treat others. To those who respond to this report, thank you for contributing, and please remain spirited, but civil.
Happy New Year.
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Another prediction for 2008:
Larry Beatleboy will continue to opine with his editorial insights on topics across the boards.
And if you kids play nice, you can still hear his “insights” on KYW1060 and on CN8, along with Boston Barry Nolan.
Every day, its a treat to get some profound insights from an insider expert like Beatleboy.
Topics coming soon:
1) My thoughts on the Nutter Years
2) John Street’s Legacy
3) Roosevelt Boulevard Woes
4) Why the Evening Bulletin still sucks
5) Comcast vs Verizon.. the new Ali vs Frazier
6) Why I like the porn theater at 22nd and Market, and nobody else does
7) Lynn Doyle’s secret dessert recipes
8) How much I still despise the Stars on 45 ripoff version of the Beatles.
9) Blue Route woes
10) Sugarhouse Casino…the end of western civilization as we know it
11) An Insiders Guide to PHL airport including the secret entrance to Terminal F
12) Why I miss the good old days of tv shows like Hard Copy
13) 10 reasons Mike Huckabee wouldnt work at the Famous Deli
14) Delaware Avenue Woes
15) The Jason Michaels link to Kim Jung Il
Happy and healthy new year to you and your family.
The Republicans have made it clear that they planned to make Immigration their wedge issue this election. Unfortunately for them, when their race became clsoe they let the cat out of the bag and have already been attacking each other on the issue here in Iowa and elsewhere, giving the Demos an early look at what they would see next Fall and also showing that even the R’s can’t agree as to what to do about the issue. Once we start having veggie shortages because of the state laws punishing illegal worker hirers that are now going into effect, this may be a dead issue by next year. It’s always hard for Americans and the press to stay focused on an issue for very long. If we are lucky, maybe by the time of the Conventions in 2008, emotions will have cooled and we could have a rational discussion about immigration, which would be an advantage for McCain.
Immigration is not the issue. It is ILLEGAL immigration. There’s a big difference.
Good point Joe D
Spiderman — You need your own web site…
and you need to reveal yourself.
Why are you hiding beneath the name of a comic book character.
Are you a comic?
By the way, was Jason Michaels actually seen in North Korea?
King Arturo: You are a giant in the business of serving others!!!!
Happy New Year to the Southwest King who has inspired so many.
Larry
Happy New Year Mr. Kane. Is the point of this blog to offer valuable insight into various issues Phillyites can’t get anywhere else? If so, my opinion is you’re not succeeding.
After reading your column, I agree it’s a good and desirable trait for a president to have emotional stability, but I’m not sure I had to “think about that” for more than a second or two.
I will also offer that it’s a important for a president to have vision in at least one eye as well as have the ability to communicate in some form. But thanks for your unique insight anyway, Mr. Kane. Keep it up, Sport.
Kevin: What’s obvious to you may not be so obvious to everyone.
But thanks, Sport.
ALSO KEVIN, THIS IS THE PEOPLE’S BLOG. IF YOU NEED MORE INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION, THERE ARE LOTS OF SITES WRITTEN BY MUCH MORE INSIGHTFUL PEOPLE.. maybe
I Do like your sense of humor.
Jason Michaels hit a SK cop,
snuck over the parallel, and
then was welcomed into NK.
CN8 covered it.
Kevin D, Larry has no clue.
Mr. Kane thanks for clarifying what level you’re operating at. THe people need to know, will the sun rise tomorrow adn does a good presidential candidate possess an uncanny ability to accurately predict that? THanks, Sport.
Had you included “hope for world peace” and “puppies for every boy and girl,” I would have accused you of plagiarizing this 2008 wishlist from the question-and-answer part of the local elementary school talent show / beauty pageant. Smart move, Sport, but I’m onto you.