When I started writing these columns many years ago, I often identified little things I called ‘truisms’ or ‘Perry’s law’. These are just little quirks in life that we all seem to encounter from time to time. What’s amazing is how true they are and how often they do actually happen.

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I suppose I’m just naive or something, but I always thought being a member of the United States Congress was an honorable position and one we should all look up to for guidance and inspiration.

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I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer and perhaps someone can explain a few things to me, or at least I hope so.

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In my opinion anyone who thinks that being married is a 50/50 type of relationship is one of the following:

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The current Queen Elizabeth has gone hi-tech. She now has a face book page and is on twitter. I’m sure you’d want to know all about this, so I’d like to bring everyone up to date. Can’t afford to be left behind when important things are happening around the globe, can we? I mean the economy is in ruins and we are in a state of war in a couple of pueen-victoria-is-probably-turning-laces, but the daily activities of the Queen…well, it doesn’t’ get much more important than that.

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I’d like to focus our attention on things that we are told but cannot do anything about. My question is….why are we told in the first place? Do we care or do we want to care?

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When I started writing these columns many years ago, I often identified little things I called ‘truisms’ or ‘Perry’s law’. These are just little quirks in life that we all seem to encounter from time to time. What’s amazing is how true they are and how often they do actually happen.

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Having spent a few days these past weeks with some of my bachelor friends I can safely say that this type of life is not good for them and I’m certain for me. I don’t think I would survive for very long in that kind of an environment. I need help. I need help all of the time.

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The process of getting older brings with it a number of challenges for all of us. If you are thirty or younger and you think these will not apply to you, think again …they will come before you know it. Be prepared.

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Everyone in the country seems to have their panties in a wad over the current healthcare issue. It’s hard to go an hour of the day without someone speaking out for or against it. What you hear is pretty well determined by where you happen to be standing at any given time. Move ten feet in any direction and you are fairly certain to hear an opposing viewpoint.

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For those of you with fathers, take time out this coming Sunday to do something special for him. I was with one of my sons last weekend and we got to talking about how quickly time goes by. We were comparing dates in my life as compared to dates in his. You know how you do; you look back twenty or thirty years and begin to realize how quickly time goes by.

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Each and every week for the past twenty or so years I’ve sat down and knocked out one of these columns. Each week that goes by, I search for something new to write about. In all of these years I cannot think of a single thing that I’ve written about more than once or twice. I seem to do a lot about men and women, but that just seems natural to me.

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This is National Friendship Week. Whatever that is. Anyway, someone who reportedly is a friend of mine sent this over to me to review. Since I have been out of town and somewhat short on time, it just seems to be the right thing to do and use this information, besides I think it fits my mood at this time. So here it goes:

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I trust your holiday was joyful. Now that you’ve had your fill of pie and cakes and have drifted off into a sugar high state of mind, I’m going to bring you back into the world of reality.

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Here it is Thanksgiving again and as usual everyone will still be trying to figure out the best way to cook a turkey. You’d think by this time in our lives we would have figured it out, but since we only cook one a year, I suppose it’s only natural to forget. Do they even sell turkeys in July? I’ll have to check next summer.

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Two weeks ago, when the election was over, I was in Germany and have to tell you what I read and heard hacked me off.

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I was raised in a middle class family. I knew we weren’t rich, but I didn’t think we were poor either. We always had a roof over our heads, heat, and food on the table. I had several pairs of shoes and got new blue jeans (I hated those) each year when school started. Most of my friends were in the same situation.

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If you can read this, then it means the world has not ended and we are all still here. I’m referring to a column I wrote a couple of weeks ago describing what might happen when the CERN project (in Europe) gets cranked up on September 10^th. If we’re lucky nothing will happen, but if they manage to recreate a black hole that swallows up the earth, then my column writing days are over.

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Last month I read a report that stated that the good old US government had paid out more than ninety two million of our hard earned dollars to Medicare fraud. It seems so called medical suppliers have been billing the government for wheelchairs and other pieces of home equipment for people who had already died. Not only had the patients died, but so had a large number of doctors who had originally prescribed whatever was needed.

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Dear Queen:

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I have just returned from another trip to Germany and the Netherlands. This time, I did not want to drive myself through the countryside, so I choose to take a train. Let me tell you, those folks know how to do it. The trains are clean, fast and most of all on time. If yours is scheduled to leave at 12:02, then you had better be on the platform waiting with your luggage because the train will leave at 12:02. Not, 12:03, the train will leave at 12:02.

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I don’t know about you, but going to a funeral and meeting someone you haven’t seen in a number of years and saying… “It’s so good to see you..” doesn’t seem quite right to me…does it to you?

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Let’s see….the word ….illegal, what was the meaning of that word again?

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I’ve noticed that over the years my columns have swung from humorous and satirical to more, shall we say…political. It wasn’t intended to be that way, but during the week while I’m thinking of subjects to write about, the government continues to be a never-ending source of new material which diverts me away from humor.

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Somewhere I’ve read that we have a government ‘Of the people, by the people and FOR the people’. However I am beginning to believe that some of those IN the government believe it should be. ‘Of the people, by the people and for US.’

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I don’t know about you, but by the time my giddy up gets up and gone, I’m worn out and ready to head for the barn. It seems to me that each and every day gets shorter and shorter and I have more and more to accomplish. I envy people who seem to have extra time on their hands.

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First off, let me tell you that I am not rich, but I am not cheap either. I have traveled all over the world and stayed in some of the nicer hotels available and I’ve stayed in some dumps as well.

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This morning brought the news that health care spending in this country will equal nearly 20% of our national gross domestic product by the year 2017. This means that nearly one fifth of our entire economy will go towards medical and health related spending in that year. Our health care cost by 2017 should reach approximately 4.3 trillion dollars per year. A number that is double what we spent in the year 2007.

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I keep thinking that sooner or later I’ll run out of things to criticize the government about. However that does not seem to be the case as about the time I start to work on some column article about life on Mars or the importance of tree bark in our lives, along comes some news blurb out of the blue that I can really sink my teeth into.

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About the time I think I’ve seen it all or at least most of it, something new comes along that makes me just want to scratch my head and wonder about life on Planet Earth.

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Maybe I was absent the day that my school explained the definition of the word…. ‘public’. As it is used in the phrase ‘public servant’. You know those folks that work for some governmental function which as I recall was funded by those of us out here known as ‘taxpayers’.

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Somehow the word insurance is beginning to have a different meaning to me after the events of a few weeks ago. You know what insurance is, the premiums you pay are just a long term pay out for the money you may receive. You pay out a couple of thousand a year for your home owners policy and as long as you don’t have a claim then everything stays about the same. Put in a claim and watch those old premiums rise to take in to account what the company paid out for your claim. I’m not aware that anyone out there gives you any credit for the years of premium you paid without having any claims.

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“Help, I’ve fallen into a quandary and can’t get up…..”

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I’m beginning to believe that the older I get, the mellower I become. Now what’s got me puzzled is that I don’t know if this is a good or a bad thing. Those who have lived around me for any length of time can give you their opinion and that and two dollars might buy you a cup of coffee.

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Someone once told me that if they ever have any reason to appear before any court of judge, they didn’t want justice, they wanted mercy.

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