JDBPC Christmas Party

Thanks to Jim and Margie for the JDBPC Christmas party, Friday, December 15, 2006 at the Friendship Village Health Care Center.

The guests at the party included clients, family, friends and employees. The group was fun and in good Christmas spirit.

Margie and Jim mean so much to me. They have been my friends through the good times and every difficulty and obstacle. I love them both very much.

SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS

Yul is the Sole Survivor of SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS, but it was a tough fight between Ozzie and him. I believe the reason Yul won was he found the hidden Immunity Idol early in the game and used it to win him the million dollars. Although he won the game fair and square, Ozzie played a winning game too. He displayed more abilities of actual survival than Yul. Yul played a strategic game which is a product of screen play for television.

The series was boring for the most part, but the last few episodes and the competition of the leading characters, Yul and Ozzie, made it one of the best Survivor series.

Response to "A message gone bad"

In your article, “A message gone bad,” you call yourselves multimedia experts. To the pretentious multimedia experts at The Arizona Republic: If I believed for a moment that you know what the “sender” really grasps, I would not be writing this opinion. The issue with Officer Schofield and the litter-bugs goes beyond that one dimension. Yes, the society in the continental United States may agree with you, but the society in Hawaii and other parts of the world would laugh at the incident. To them, this story would be much-to-do-about-nothing.

In Hawaii, the melting-pod of many races, one race (senders) jests with another race (recipients) about its idiosyncrasies. The “sender” in this story had no harmful intentions, and I am sure that he is very apologetic. (Hasn’t The Arizona Republic been apologetic over the years?) Some of the recipients’ race was incensed. The “recipients” need to lighten up. As Rodney King once asked, “Why can’t we all just get along?” It takes both sides to get along. The race of the “recipients” has been more vocal about the idiosyncrasies of the “sender”. But that’s not important. We take it in stride—so should the recipients.

Officer Schofield, making a point on his show, was and is entertaining. I have watched him for several years and enjoy his programs, which are beneficial to the Tempe police force.