Heaven Hi!!!

Coming from Ben Stein, I would have to say, touche.

Ben Stein commented in reference to Christmas, 

“I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu.

If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this Happen?” (regarding Katrina)

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.

And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?

In light of recent events…terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.”

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says

Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?”

No Mr. Stein, I’m not.

My youngest son Will and I had a great time barbecuing the turkey. We used a lot of spices, she was so kicking hot we thought we should dress her. The Kicking Barbie was a big hit and a lot of fun.

Heaven Hi!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Hope your holiday season is off to a happy, healthy start!
If your like me, I’m enjoying the great energy this time of year brings and looking forward to all the upcoming celebrations with family and friends.
This year Santa, in the guise of my Acting4Real team, has delivered a present early—The Acting4Real blog our labor of love, Acting4Real.com, has finally arrived in all its splendor. To see the finished work and a place to post info and articles overwhelms me emotionally—.Now what I most look forward to is delivering the Acting for Real secrets to the many people I believe will be helped—to be part of enriching and empowering their lives.
My love of coaching actors and business people and openly sharing the universal truths I’ve learned along my own life journey, has developed into a desire to expand my circle of influence to touch the masses—thus the book—and the launch of the Acting for Real Website. The Acting for Real Online Community will feature a wealth of tools and insights, self-exploration exercises, articles and forums, and more… secrets of the stars that anyone can use to improve their lives and achieve lasting fulfillment.
It is my greatest Christmas wish that Acting for Real will find its way into the hands and homes of anyone and everyone who needs to realize their full potential—and live the life that they love and they will embrace the techniques it reveals to help drive them to success in all their endeavors.
Drop me a line to let me know how you’re doing—and get in touch any time to comment on future blogs as well as what you would like to see offered in the Acting4Real Website Community.
Be BOP!

Ps. If you would like the recipe or how to dress Kicking Barbie, let me know.

Heaven Hi!

Why do we strike? Is it because we are mad as hell and want take it any more. Or we need a Cesar Chavez to tells us to boycott grapes or Henry Fonda in the “Grapes of Wrath” we gotta hold out Ma . Is it because we are sick and tired of taking the short end of the stick.

There was a study done where two people could split up one hundred dollars only if they could agree on who would get the short end of the stick. if they could not agree then no one got any thing. Guess what, when the short end became less than a 70/30 split one would call off the deal, they would rather take nothing than the short end.

Now we have unions to make sure, we don’t get the short end and it’s called a strike, but hold on who is getting the short end of the stick in the writers strike is it the writers or the big bad producers, what’s at stake here, the writers say it the future the producers say its the unknown and I say it’s about Pain.

Studios argue that it is too early to know how much money they can make from offering entertainment on the Internet, cell phones, iPods and other devices.
To me it sounds like the studios are reading from the same 1984 script that the writers have long regretted a decision they made to accept the short end of the stick of home video sales because studios said the technology was untested and that costs were high.

The guilds have tried and failed for two decades to increase video payments, even as DVDs have become more profitable for studios than box office receipts.

Almost everyone agrees that if it’s not on the page it’s not on the stage, set or the net. When the supply of new scripted episodes gets shot network prime time schedules would quickly devolve to repeats.

OK, so maybe mandatory withdrawal from a few shows would not be an entirely negative experience. But still. We are all going to feel the pain!

So what do you say “Deal or no Deal” Please some one take the short end of the stick. What’s your feel about the strike? Is it impacting you? What’s your opinion? Leave me a comment and let me know how you feel.

Be Bop!

Thom