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Happy New Year!

My core wishes for 2014:
  • I get a meaningful job.
  • My and Donna’s families stay healthy.
  • We strengthen our relationships with family and friends, and expand our circle of friends.
  • J.D. finds rewarding employment.
  • I appreciate and show my gratitude for all the many blessings given to me.
  • We all work to make the world just a little better.
  • All your wishes come true.

My stretch wishes:
  • President Obama, who I voted for twice, stops disappointing me so greatly.
  • The U.S. Congress rises to the challenges facing our country and stops its idiotic, dysfunctional, partisan, scorched-earth, ideological, negative, egocentric, win-at-all-costs, hold-the-country-hostage, self-enrichment approach to governance.
  • The U.S. government dismantles its surveillance-state apparatus before someone with bad intent makes things really ugly.
  • The Supreme Court decides that no, corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as people.
  • Dan Snyder has an epiphany about the difference between his skills making money and those of building a consistently competitive professional football organization.
  • Peter Angelos comes to the realization that Baltimore is not a small market and allows his general manager to acquire the few pieces the Orioles need to be competitive in the American League East division.

I hope you have a spectacular 2014 and you do your part to help others have a great year.

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