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MISGUIDED!

– May 31, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

When I saw the article in the Albany Herald and the announcement on TV about Mayor Hubbard’s misguided program to clean up the City of Albany, I had to laugh.  First, this is the big program that she is promoting to help our city.  This is what she thinks is the most important thing she can do to help the city.  We have this huge poverty problem, children having children all over the place, gangs running wild, crime in general such that a person is afraid to go down town or to go to the local grocery store because they feel they might be robbed, and on and on.  And she thinks that what she should be doing is picking up after kids and adults acting like kids that are making our city look like a dump!  Of course, what I am writing is my opinion but I feel that most of you reading my column agree with me.  If you don’t, or if you do, I would appreciate your writing to me at the Journal and expressing your opinion.

When you are constantly picking up after your children and not performing the job of a parent, what happens?  Do things get better in your home when you don’t teach your children to respect others and their city by not destroying the appearance of their city?  No, things get worse and worse.   The total lack of respect of the young kids coming up today in our city to me is incredible.  You can’t go anywhere that you don’t hear the Rap Music? blasting from the cars of youngsters and young adults.  By the way, isn’t that illegal?  Why don’t the police stop that like they are supposed to do?

We have young people walking around with their pants hung low and their underwear showing!  That is one of most disgusting things I have seen being done by many of the young people today.  And when you watch any of the so called music today, we see these rappers with their hands constantly on their crotches pulling on themselves and being as obnoxious as they could possibly be.  What wonderful parents they must have, if they have any, and what wonderful examples they are to all our children as they are growing up!  And the Mayor thinks that organizing all the people who didn’t destroy the appearance of our city with litter and graffiti and getting THEM to pick up after those who caused the litter, is ridiculous, in my opinion.  Be a leader, Ms. Mayor.  We don’t need more of the same that we have had in this city, for as long as I have lived here.

So, who needs to be cleaning up our city instead of Neighborhood Watch groups, church groups and on and on?  She has picked the wrong people to do this.  We need to make those who have done it, clean up the city but not those who didn’t cause this problem which is one of the reasons new companies don’t want to locate here!

We have jails full of people who are just sitting there getting free meals, free lodging, free medical care, and free exercise equipment, etc. who need to be put to work cleaning up our city.  When gang members are arrested, how many times are they forced to paint over the graffiti wherever it is in the area.  No, to my knowledge, this not happening.  These people are just sitting back and laughing at a program to get others to pick up their litter and paint over their works of arts.  The Mayor’s program, in my opinion, just encourages the youngsters with no fathers and mothers that are still not adults, to keep doing what they have been doing.  Quit coddling these criminals and put them to work.  One idea is to get them to manufacture the clothing and supplies use by the inmates and the staff that takes care of and supervises them that are in our prisons across the state, and the nation, for that matter.

Yes, cleaning up our city is important but not by the people the Mayor has chosen to do it.  Doing this, is just another  example of not being a parent and not teaching these young people to respect others and their communities.  Do you think that the Mayor’s proposed program will stop this littering in our city and area?  No, it won’t.  It’s just another lost opportunity to teach some valuable lessons.  Ms. Mayor, please be a leader.

Please Ms. Mayor, rethink what you are suggesting and organizing and get your efforts put where they will do the most good for our city.  Do things that are much more important, or don’t you think pregnancies gone wild is less important that a cleanup program by people not responsible for the litter, in my opinion.

 

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

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WATCH OUT AMERICA!

– May 11, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

I have always heard that the Media is about as far Left in Politics as anyone could be.  They really make me mad when I see them support all the leftist politicians and all the leftist ideas.  To me, they seem to live in a completely different world than I do.  Why do they act this way?  Who is confusing them and causing them to be this way.

Is it the professors in the universities and colleges and then their students who become teachers in our schools across the nation that are teaching our kids these liberal ideas?   I think they are the ones that are influencing our children across the U.S.A. in ways that many of us do not approve.

We, the general public and we are the ones that should be directing what is being taught in our schools.  It is our responsibility to step in when communism and socialism is being taught that is contrary to what the general public believes and wants taught to our kids.  Don’t sit idly by and not speak up when things are being taught in which we do not believe.

Our kids are on the TV and radio for many hours every day and these leftist ideas are pounded into our kid’s brains, just like the Nazis did.  We need to take a more active interest and have something to say regarding what is being taught.  We need to see to it that teachers that are hired teach both the Liberal and the Conservative side to things and then let our children determine what it is that they think is correct.    These are our schools that our children attend and we can’t continue to sit by and not control what is going on in our schools.

Other examples of what must be changed are to rid our educational system of hiring people who not the best that we can find…not people who are rated 34th on the list of candidates available.  Can you believe that a local school board did that?

Also, children learn and behave much like the way they see others act…not based upon what these people see.  When Principals, teachers, and other school officials lie and receive lunches for which they are not qualified.  What do you think that does to the minds of our students?  Don’t you think that some of these students will do the same thing when they grow up?

Right now, locally, over $400,000 in taxpayers money is still missing and not accounted for in the local school system.  Aren’t we going to find our where that missing money went?  Time keeps passing with no one being charged with stealing that money.  I demand that the crooks be found!  Some of that money belongs to me and to you also!

Watch out America!  Many things are being taught our children that a great many people don’t like and which I think needs to be corrected besides all the stealing going on that isn’t corrected.  What do you think about the Hollywood group putting our movies that make our kids think that it is OK to live together and have babies before you are married?

How about the people in the media professing that religion is only for stupid people, that it is OK and a marriage if men marry each other or women marry each other, that cheating is OK, just don’t get caught, finally to have the President of the United States doing what he did and trying to convince people that everyone is doing that and it is OK.  The President of our country acting like that and not getting impeached is, to me, disgraceful.

What do our kids think and what does the rest of the world think when they have always thought that America was this wonderful country to be admired?  Kind of disgusting, don’t you think?  How proud are you to see all these things going on here in our country?  Get out there and do your part to change things for the better.  I am trying.  You need too also.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

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WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A CHAMPION!

– April 27, 2012Posted in: Ted Anderson

 

 

I know a person who is the example of excellence, if you have any children who would like to know what takes to be like that.  I know this person very well and can tell you what she has done to be exceptional at everything she does.

Her saga started when she was almost a baby…about 4 years old in Wausau, Wisconsin where she first took swimming lessons.  She seemed to really love the water.

She moved to Milan, Michigan and was put in a swim club run by one of the best swim coaches in the area.  This young coach really knew what he was doing and was winning swim meet after swim meet and against swim club much bigger than his.  This experience really taught her a lot and prepared her for what was to come. In elementary school, she started to win all kinds of awards and her room at home became loaded with all kinds of trophies and ribbons.

She got to high school (about 800 and Class B in Michigan).  Now is who she took off, especially in the Breast Stroke.  What did it take to become this Champion that she was becoming?  Well, let’s see.  She had beautiful facilities where she practiced and swam in the Home meets.  She was at the pool practicing 6 days a week (every day except Sunday).  Each day, she swam over 7 miles so that was 42 miles a week or more!  Yes, you read that correctly.  Man, what a great looking girl she became with very blonde hair with all the boys after her.  Her dad had quite a job keeping the boys away as she continued her quest to become a champion swimmer.  It wasn’t long before she became First Team All-State in Michigan in the Breast Stroke.

Then, something happened that caused her to hurt her development.  She got Crohn’s Disease and was put in the hospital for six weeks on IVs without any food or water for six weeks.  This rested her digestive system and caused the severe pains to go away.  This Crohn’s Disease is incurable and can flare up are any time some unknown reasons.  She was worn out by the time she went to college (Michigan State) and did not continue her career in swimming.

She had a Crohn’s attack just before starting college which delayed entrance and has had a couple other attacks and surgeries since.  These surgeries involved removing part of her small intestine and part of her large intestine and reattaching the two together again.

She has done very well since the third operation, a year ago.  She is doing so well that she joined the Woman’s Iron Man work outs and started competing in these extremely tough regimen which most of you may be aware.  This is after all the Crohn’s problems and now 50 years old  She has three children, one graduated and being married in Seattle where she immediately got a position at Microsoft after she finished college at Central Michigan and then getting her Master’s at Michigan State. Her sister has graduated also from Central Michigan and is going to be an elementary school teacher.  The third child is attending Lansing Junior College.  This period of time while she and her husband has been raising her three children, she got involved with Silpada Silver Jewelry and naturally has been a top sales producer for that company.

It is remarkable what she has accomplished so far in her life and shows what a person can do if they are willing to work hard, very hard.  By now, I am sure that you have figured out that this person is my daughter.  I love her very much and am extremely proud of her, as you can tell.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

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WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY!

– April 20, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

April usually provides us Albanians with some fantastic weekends, weather wise, and this year (2012) has not disappointed us if you like sunshine and 90 degree temperatures!  But, there is more to life than just great weather.  In fact, it can be bad if it attracts people from all over the United States to come here then to live and turn our area into an overcrowded place we might not like.

One of the good things about this weather is that it gets people out traveling and visiting lonesome relatives.  We, being from the Chicago area, get lonesome being so far away from our children, especially.  Like most fathers, I think, I am very attached to my daughter, who I love very much.  This beautiful weekend brought her to Albany for a visit.  She and her family live in Lansing, Michigan and soon all three of her kids will soon be gone from home because of marriage, just graduating from college and starting her first job or just starting college and moving into different housing.  She might be getting a little lonely herself!

Anyway, our daughter spent three nights at our home and we had a great time.  While here, we took her to our Little Theatre and saw “HARVEY.”  Also, today, we went to Chehaw Park to the Indian Festival and to check out the animals.  We had a late lunch today and then packed her up and put her on a Delta Jet back to Lansing.

Others, had happy weekends also but they didn’t end quite as happy as ours did.  Why, because they had to see their young relatives board that same Delta Jet to a location in the service where they were stationed.

As my daughter was leaving, I thought to myself how much things have changed over the years.  When I was young, families  and their children weren’t spread all over this big country of ours and we could see each other frequently.  In fact, we all lived in the same towns or cities and, if we wanted to, we could see each other  every day, if we wanted to do so.  Who would have ever thought that we would all get spread all over the place like many of us are today.

So, appreciate it if you happen to be close to your children, or other relatives that you so dearly love.  Not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as the circumstances dictate.

So, take advantage of the beautiful weather in April and surprise those that you care a lot about.  Get on a plane or in the car or train and do some visiting that will make them very happy, as our daughter did to us.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

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A cause for shame…for all of us

– April 12, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

It is simply terrible what is going on in America today.  To accuse a person of murder or of doing something wrong when they do not have the facts is criminal.  I am referring to the  Trayvon Martin situation.  How dare the Media, the President, Jessie Jackson, Al not so Sharpton, and others make this incident into a Black/White issue like is the case for everything that happens in the Albany, Ga area.  It is very disgusting to me and my wife every time we see this happening.

When I see Al “not so sharp” Sharpton and Jessie Jackson appear on the scene every time there is anything going one between blacks and whites especially if there is a chance that whites may have done something to blacks.  Where were these turkeys when recently, a number of blacks were killed in Chicago, I think 10, by a bunch of other blacks.  They were nowhere to be scene let alone heard from.  Don’t blacks count?  Isn’t it disgusting to you what these twins do whenever they have a chance to get into the news?  They don’t care a bit about justice but only getting publicity for themselves.

And, now, our President is pulling the same thing.  He is supposed to be so smart yet he jumps into this Trayvon Martin situation making statements without knowing the facts only because he, and they, think that this is a racial issue with a white doing something bad to a black.  I would think that he, of all people, would be smarter than to pull something like he has done.  I never had much respect for this community organizer and now I have no respect for him at all!

Let me tell you a short story about what once happened to me.  I was accused of doing something wrong when I hadn’t with the accusers not having the facts.  It made me realize what a situation like this really feels like.  Since this incident I was involved in, I am very careful to never accuse anyone of anything until I know the facts because things are not always what they appear to be and you can do a lot of harm accusing people of things that they did not do.

I was at a Detroit Tiger baseball game in Detroit after I had given a presentation to 40 plus Standard Oil dealers, sales, and marketing people at their training school in the Detroit area.  I was invited to go with the class to a Detroit Tiger game and we all sat together.  During the game, one of my students sitting behind me stood up and started yelling derogatory things to the black players on the field.  This guy had just got through telling me what a great job I had done at the training school.

I turned around and said “Don’t do that!”  He immediately turned into a monster and started threatening me and get this, my family.  On the way out of the stadium after the game, he started walking on the heels of my shoes and was continuing to threaten me.  I could not believe what he was doing and not one Standard Oil salesmen around me would step in and control this Standard Oil new sales employee!

I was worried that he might actually follow me home and hurt my family so I stayed at a local motel and went to the Standard Oil Regional office the next morning to tell them what had happened.

They said that I must have done something else to him the cause him the act like he did.  They just would not believe me.  As a result of this, I decided to quit my job with Atlas Supply Co. training Standard Oil sales people all over the U.S.A.  See what harm that people can cause when they say things without knowing the facts?

Incidentally, the person in question at the ballgame, didn’t show up for work a couple weeks later.  His Standard Oil company car was found at the Detroit airport.  He was found in jail in Hawaii.

This country of ours, and the Media especially, prints and says a lot of things that are not true with them not having the facts ahead of time.  And those  twins, they too are a disgrace and need to be controlled by the good people in our great company and stopped from making fools of themselves constantly and causing our country to look ridiculous  They cause a great deal of racial problems in this country instead of helping eliminating these problems.

It is time that the bashing of whites by blacks and of blacks by whites stopped.  We should be ashamed of ourselves to allow this to continue in our great country.

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

Tags: George Zimmerman, media, race, race relations, Shooting, Ted Anderson, Trayvon Martin
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Bullying has lingering effects

– April 5, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

Yes, bullying really does hurt and it lasts a long time…..take it from someone who was bullied in grammar school and to this day holds bad feelings about the person who did it to me.

First, I remember my first bullying incident which happened in 6th or 7th grade. I remember the person very well and what happened. It wasn’t until I fought back that it stopped. I was always taught to not fight by my parents even though I was a pretty good size when I was in grade school. As a result, I got a lot of Good Citizenship Awards but that didn’t stop me from getting bullied. It, in fact, made things worse! With a boy, though, there comes a time when all this has to come to a end. You either fight back and get the respect that stops it, you do violent things like what happened at Columbine, or sometimes it leads to other things that kids do to themselves when they feel like the whole world is against them.

When I got to high school, it started again, and stopped only after I again fought back and after I started playing football and showed how tough I could really be. I think that the game of football and other sports that require young boys to become men, so to speak, are important to males especially for them to gain the respect that is so important to them. Yes, respect is very important to males. Remember that girls. Don’t show your boyfriend or husband respect and you hurt them a great deal. In my opinion, it is one of causes of a lot of failed marriages. These are, at least, my feelings on the topic and I find that other writers about “males” agree with me.

As I got older and was still in high school, the bullying was tried on me one more time. I had borrowed my Grandmother’s new car and one of my best friends and I went double dating with a couple new girls from a near-by small town. The girls happened to be girlfriends of some fellas from that same town and they didn’t like it much that we came to their town and was screwing up their love life, I guess. Well, after our dates as we were heading home, they decided that they were going to do some bullying and run us out of their town.

As we were leaving their town, they suddenly showed up and started bumping into the back of my Grandmother’s car. Instead of stopping and engaging in an outnumbered fight, we left.

I happened to have a good friend who was a State Policeman and he went with me back the town in question, 5 miles away. He got in the back seat and got down so no one could see him when we got back in town. I looked all over the place trying to find these guys but they never showed their faces, darn it! They would have gotten quite a surprise, if they would have still been around and tried to cause any trouble again. The next day, I went to the Sheriff’s Dept. and swore out a warrant for the driver of the car bothering us. He was picked up, arrested , and put in jail over night. Never had a problem with those guys again! That’s what it took to stop this behavior, this time.

The reason that I said that bullying hurts and lasts a long time with those being bullied is that even today I harbor very bad feeling regarding those guys that did this to us. It was an embarrassment and gave me feelings that I cannot get rid of even to this day… over 50 years later! If I lived near those guys, I would still go after them to settle the score. I am not kidding. Just ask my wife.

So, bullying does a lot of damage to those being bullied, especially to males because respect is so important to them. We don’t forget things like what happened to us that one night even though it has been many moons since it happened. This is one of the reasons that is so important to teach kids as they are growing up to not do this. Do your part to teach others not to engage in this very hurtful activity.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

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Pay it all back

– March 30, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 

 

I have been wondering about this for many years and I have never been able to figure out why our government is so pitiful when it comes to handling OUR money.  They do a lot of stupid things, it seems to me, especially when our country is in such a pure financial condition.  What am I talking about?

Every day, I hear about how over crowded our jails and prisons are how much per year it costs to house and to take care of each prisoner.  It seems to me that not long ago, I heard that the cost was approaching $60,000 per head!  Did you know that?  And how much do these prisoners pay the government back to cover these expenses?  I’m sure that you have already guessed correctly, if you didn’t know already.  That’s right.  To the best of my knowledge, the prisoners don’t pay a penny back to us for all these costs that they have caused us…the general public!   Now, do you think that is right?  Now, I have to clear that up a little bit.  I have been in a couple prisons.  No, I didn’t break the law.  I was there on business.  At one of them, the prisoners were manufacturing shoes and other items that were to be used by the prisoners which would save us all quite a bit of money.

I think that every one of our jails and prisons should be set up to manufacture everything that the prisoners need during their stay cooped up away from society.  They shouldn’t be just sitting around or exercising to build their muscles so they can overpower the guards.  Each and every one of  the prisoners need to be responsible for paying back the government (us) for all the costs of their incarceration.  They should not be given a free ride.   Do you suppose such a requirement could be an additional deterrent and cause them to think twice about a life of crime?   If they are in for life, well, then, they will need to work doing something all the time that they are imprisoned.

I surely like what that Sheriff in Arizona is doing with his prisoners.  You know, the one who has the prisoners living in tents instead of nice air conditioned rooms.  If I was put in one of those tents, sweating in the summer Arizona heat, I certainly would do every things I could to not do anything that would cause me to spend extra time there!  How about you?  If you agree with me, write your Congressman and insist that something must be done to make prisoners pay their way for every penny of cost while they are in a correctional facility.

Guess what, if you are to accomplish this in your State, the savings should have a  great effect on your taxes. Maybe a big affect on those taxes!

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

Tags: cost, crime, incarceration, prison, prisoners, Ted Anderson
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DON’T BE AFRAID!

– March 23, 2012Posted in: Ted Anderson

 


Don’t be afraid to take chances. The most successful people in the world have done so to achieve great things. Look at anyone you know who is successful and I will bet that that person took a chance to get where they are today. They surely weren’t afraid to leave home and get away from their parents and possibly even move to a location across this great land of ours. You have to go where the opportunities are. It doesn’t mean that you have to move a long ways away and never come home again. Right now, there are tremendous opportunities in Williston, North Dakota for just about any occupation you can think of. You just have to take advantage of opportunities like this where ever they present themselves. For one thing, it is important to do this in order to grow up and learn how to get alone on your own and not have others around to make decisions for you, plus making a move like to Williston could make you a great deal of money. But you would need to not be afraid to take a chance to some place a little unfamiliar.

One thing that I have found since I have moved South from the Midwest is that young people in this area of the country seem reluctant to move away from their home areas. I couldn’t believe it one day when I saw in the local newspaper that a very good athlete quit college and came back home to be closer to his relatives. This was a younger person about 20 years old with his whole life ahead of his self. He threw away the chance to meet new people in a different part of our country. It was a chance to learn about other parts of our country and to expand his mind.

I’ll never forget when I was about 30 years old and my children were in school in Michigan. I realized that I wasn’t making enough money to pay for my children’s college education and I was going to have to make some changes in employers and make more money than I currently was making. I had a good job and was very successful at what I was doing, had a lot of friends and we were very happy living where we were at the time near Ann Arbor, Michigan. However, I knew that I would need to take a chance and move to a strange company in a different part of the USA if I was going to have a chance of accomplishing all that I wanted to accomplish. It was involving a move to a new business and away from the comfortable situation that we had. I don’t need to tell you that I was afraid to do this…to gamble the word of a friend from college who I knew. I had set him up with his first date with the girl that he ended up marrying and who incidentally has now been married over 50 years like my wife and I. My neighbor friend convinced me to take the chance and to not be afraid of what I was planning to do… and man did it ever turn out to be one of the best moves we had every made! Throughout my life, I have made a lot of moves like that to take of advantage of opportunities that presented themselves to me and my family. I learned to not be afraid of the unknown and looked forward to the new experiences ahead of me and meeting new people. We have friends now all over the United States.

At the present time, it is tough to find a job and especially in a field that we really want. We may need to try something different at the current time. It is being said now that in our lifetime, we may have to change occupations many times so we better get used to it and roll with the flow. We might even discover an occupation you didn’t know about and find it to be something you really like. For example, after over 50 years in sales and management in the tire industry, I found out that I really like the insurance business. If I wouldn’t have taken a chance, I would never have found that out.

So don’t be afraid to take a chance to meet new people and to live in an area away from your current location. There are many wonderful opportunities out there. You just must not be afraid to make moves to find them out and who knows where just moves might lead. Just don’t be afraid to try something new.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

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I JUST DON’T GET IT!

– March 16, 2012Posted in: Ted Anderson

 

 

There has been all kinds of flack flying through the air about the dangers of our kids today participating in football, basketball, and all other sports that cause occasional blows to their heads. They have showed us pictures on television showing sports participants later in life with damage to their brains…so much so that they are impaired for life. None of us want any of our children to end up like what we have seen. Almost everyone has seen the pictures or/and the media information on this matter. It is pretty scary, I am sure every one of you will agree. It seems like that I hear, or see, information about this almost every day of the year.

Now, along comes the sport of MMA that has caught on all over the world. This has caused many of us (me for one) to stay up late almost every night of the year, at least I am, watching guys, and girls (for God’s sake) beating on each other unmercifully until blood is gushing out from every part of their bodies and all over the Octagons where they normally play this crazy game. For crying out loud, I have even seen my oldest grand-daughter watching this stuff late at night with one of her boyfriends. In fact, that is how that I got interested in it.

It has become so popular that the participants are playing to huge crows, some as big of 20,000 plus. The fever for this sport, if you want to call it a sport, is continuing to spread quickly all over the world and it is the biggest, most popular thing that I have ever seen is my short lifetime. I really have to admit that I love to watch it but my wife will tells you quickly how much she detests anything that has to do with it.

Ok, I have to agree that it is kind of crazy. It reminds me of the sport of kings that supposedly went on way back when. If you like blood, you will most certainly like this, if you haven’t yet become one of the fans of it. It is weird. I don’t like anyone getting hurt. At least, I thought that I didn’t but, for some reason, I like this sport.

Ok, let’s get to the point of my article. There is all this discussion about the trauma to the heads of participants of many other sports but not a darn thing is being said about the sport of MMA, or Mixed Martial Arts. Why not? This sport is much more harmful to the heads and brains of the participants than most any other sport that I can think of, at least at the moment. My God, or all sports that should be banned because of what it does to a person’s brain, this is Number One. I think that it is time to look closely at this sport and the hurt that it can do and the crippling effect it can have on a person later on in his or her life. This sport may do more damage to the brain of any sport that I can think of.

 

AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

 

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THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT I GET!

– March 8, 2012Posted in: Columns, Ted Anderson

 


I told you readers that I would be going to the hospital this past week to have a Heart Cauterization to find out what was going on in there. Was I having a problem with my stints or was something else wrong, or both. The stints were ok but found a vein almost blocked and some possible blockages in my lungs! Well, that certainly scared the heck out of me, as you can imagine. I have been feeling very tired and was getting worn out when walking only short distances. I knew SOMETHING was not quite right in there somewhere!

One of the results was to change my diet completely from what it has been all my life. After eating the way I have for 75 years, I am now getting the punishment for doing so. As you can imagine, I have to cut out all the foods that I have grown up on…all the ones that I love. No more fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. No more French fries. No more skin on chicken which I love so much. No more bacon and other meat except on rare occasions…and a lot more fish, especially salmon. Fast food places are a no no.

Well, I have pretty much quit going there by now so that wasn’t a big deal! Cut out the ice cream. Oh my God, this is going to be the toughest thing on the list of changes I must make. I eat ice cream almost every night and sometimes go back for seconds and thirds. Ok, this is probably one of the main reasons I am having these unwanted problems. But, I love ice cream so much! How am I going to do it! Lose about 40 pounds. Well, that should be easy now with the elimination of the number one offender to proper eating.

After having my one and only heart attack in 2008, I had lost about 65 pounds so I know that I can do it if I put my mind to it, again.

These past 75 years, my Grandmother, Mother, and my wife have dished out all the great food, called love, to me. All three were, or are, great cooks. It is all their fault, as you can see. I couldn’t refuse their cooking. It would have hurt their feelings and you know how emotional women are, right? This love has been coming my way from my wife now for 52, going on 53 years! Mercy, what am I going to do? I guess, if I want to live to my goal of 100 or more, I am going to need to listen to my doctors. It appears, after two nights and three days in the hospital, I have really no choice. The punishment coming my way must be met directly eye ball to eye ball!

I’m surely glad that I kept all those clothes after that I lost those 65 pounds in 2008. I have a complete set of leisure and dress clothes just waiting for me in my closet. I can use those clothes as I go along every step of the way in this new exercise of mine. See, Honey, I told you not to give those clothes to the Salvation Army because I might need them again sometime. You thought that I was crazy but I am right once in awhile.

Ok, I need to get started tomorrow. I say, tomorrow, instead of today because I want to raid the refrigerator just one more time before I get started. Oh, yeah, raiding the fridge is another serious problem that I have had all my life! It is 2:30 A.M. also and I think that I can get away with it and not wake her up at this time of the morning, if I am very quiet and careful. What do you think?

Some of you readers are friends of my wife so please don’t tell her what I am doing tonight. Love you all.

 


AndersonnewWritten by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com.

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