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So many things in life are left unsaid.  Most times its because people are just so damned lazy.

An example of this is shoes.  If you have normal to wide feet they throw the geometry of your big toe off and cause bunyans.  The main ball joint undergoes a process where it acretes bony deposit.  Just wearing sandals instead of shoes really helps alot.

Simple lesson right ?  Everyone should know it right ?  Except they don’t.  Even when it comes to important issues of health people are downright lazy and incommunicative.

It explains alot about the world.

FollowUp: Looks like I angered the shoo lobby with this one!  His comment is that bunyans are more plentiful among people who damage their feet.  A little hint:  feet are under large stresses due to the loading.  Just walking can damage your feet if you have them mechanically positioned incorrectly. My feet are a control group. The left foot is a bit less wide than the right one.  With all the walking of the hiking I have done in Arizona this so called “damage” ( wear ) has occurred to the right foot only.   This is because the mechanics of the right foot has been thrown off more in the shoe due to being wider.  Having worn hiking sandals for as much of the mundane daily life as possible I have seen the swelling of the joint and surrounding tissue abate quite a bit.

Opponents of Poland’s former communist regime reportedly want to pay a posthumous homage to US President Ronald Reagan by erecting his statue in the place of a Soviet-era monument.

We conservatives should make a project of helping this effort with donations and otherwise.  The profile of this project should be a high as possible.  The counterpoint with lefty midgets stature will be stark.  Reagan out of office for near 20 years is still a figure that looms large with all subsequent presidents appearing miniature in comparison.  Most of his predecessors also.  You have to go back to Lincoln and beyond to meet his equal.  His authenticity rings out clearly through time.  Let’s make a point of this by getting this statue built and put in place.

There are many places you can go in the world where you will find people who are more open and friendly than the United States.  Have you ever walked up to a stranger in the USA and started talking?  Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.  Its a chancy proposition.  Yet of all the people including and especially the poor of Brazil I have yet to receive a negative reaction.  Since I’m not the royal variety I talk to everyone when I am there.  The lowly guy who stands watch over the parked cars for a pocket change tip.   The guy who pulls a huge cart by his own muscle.  The super cute young girl on the bus.  Its easy for me because I don’t view anyone no matter their occupation as being better or worse, having more or less status than I.  

In the extreme majority of cases that I observe in Brazil I see that poverty and living conditions are choices.  People who are generally happy and healthy in spite of not having alot of material goods carry on by inertia not changing their circumstances.  Nor do I advocate they make a different choice.  This is where I differ with the lib-dems and many others view.   Its obvious to me that poor Brazilians are more happy than many if not most Americans.  Somehow they have realized that happiness is more important than the material. 

Here in the states its popular to think in terms of “oh he had no options so he had to turn to crime”.  “Poverty” is used as an excuse for so much here.  Yet being poor is really just a choice people make here.  If we are to be truly happy we have to have a full range of options available to us including being “poor”.   Its only after we accept that we must allow ourselves to be happy in all conditions including difficult circumstances that we are truly happy. 

For this reason the lib-dems preoccupation with expropriating everyones wealth comes off as mightily unhealthy.  All it does is portray them in the clearest focus as wannabe rich people.   They’re never going to represent the poor this way. They only end up representing the resentful.   How about a real choice dems?   It would be so much more compassionate to speak the truth and allow the poor to make their choices consciously.  Either way the choice to be happy is yours.  Your time on this Earth is limited.  Smile whereever you are at.