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Last night we held the Pasadena premiere of the movie that Dave, Brian and I have worked on so long.  The event was excellent.  attendance was well over 200 people, the equipment worked, and most of the comments were positive.  We got lots of leads for new screenings and even had some groupies.

One of the best things to come out of the event was meeting Bob Gordon who moderated the very short panel discussion after the screening.  Bob is a former head of the screen actors guild and has a call in show called From Left Field 

I’m pretty sure that our politics disagree but I could tell in the few minutes that we spoke that our objectives are the same:  To make sure that the trend toward liberty and prosperity continues.

Bob did a great job moderating the panel and giving each of us a chance to speak.  Thank him for me by visiting his web site and making a comment.

This is a new book by Mark Krikorian the president of The Center for Immigration Studies.

In my review on Amazon I wrote: “The New Case Against Immigration” is not a “new case”. Its arguments are based on the same fears that stopped immigration in the 1920’s. In the words of Michelle Wucker author of Lockout “they were wrong then and they are wrong now.”

The rest of my review of the book is on Amazon and is mostly unfavorable. Krikorian is a good writer and a clever manipulator of emotional arguments. One example is he doesn’t say “population growth” he says “artificial, government engineered population growth.” Of course I do the same thing with lines like “the right to live where you choose.”

You can read all of my review on Amazon here. You would be doing me a great service by taking a minute to follow the link and rate my review. Thanks.

“The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.”

Hungarian Proverb

I am not making this up.

I took this picture of the largest zucchini to ever grow in our garden. I realized that it had no scale to show how big it was. So I put it on a chair.

It all of a sudden looked like a penguin. I took another picture.

Note that I wrote “that ever grew” not “that I ever grew. I have no idea why they are so big this year. If I did I’d be able to grow them every year.

I put the green arm chairs from the old family room out by the street on Saturday morning.  These were the most comfortable chairs we had ever owned but they were getting a little long in the tooth.

goodbye wonderful green chairs

I made a small sign that said “Free, Gratis” and put it on them and went back in the house to get my camera to take a picture and got distracted. By the time I got back, fifteen minutes later, they were gone.

What a great country. What a relief. For some reason I’d been hanging on to them for eight months trying to sell them or give them to someone I knew. They filled a quarter of the garage and were an even bigger mental burden.

Many of the projects I want to work on begin with “first clean the garage …” and when the chairs were in there I couldn’t get myself started cleaning it. Possessions are a burden that often won’t let go of you. In this case Less is More!

Why did it take me so long? We will never have room for those chairs again. Our new chairs are better in every way but it still took almost a year to let them go. They also appear in lots of pictures so we can remember them. In fact we could probably make a green chair album. But we won’t.

Give something away that you aren’t using anymore. It will make you and the person who gets it feel better.