The sun came up this morning on my clean desk. I cleaned all day yesterday just to have it empty for the first workday of the New Year, and I’m sure that by close of business it will be a hurricane, But it’s a nice thing to admire, even if it’s only for a few minutes.

Big Bernie is a truck driving man, crisscrossing the country in his rig almost seven days a week. He delivers cargo to a number of rough and tumble areas, and he learned long ago to protect himself. He has just about everything I offer either in his cab, or on his person at all times.

He had a delivery to make in a nasty neighborhood in Chicago not long ago, and he got there early. He had been in the saddle for about six hours and decided to get out and stretch himself out a bit. He looked around, checking the area to see if anybody was lurking around, and didn’t notice anything unusual.

The last thing he did before he stepped down was check to make sure that The Runt:

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was in his pocket. Bernie walked back and forth in the big lot, and stopped to stretch every now and then. Looking up from one of his stretches he saw a Doberman moving toward him. Instinctively he grabbed The Runt out of his pocket and turned it on just as the dog got close. The sound and flash

spooked the dog. He backed off and circled, and Bernie pressed the button again.

The dog retreated.

I don’t know if this will work all the time, but I thought I would pass it along. I might have to test this out and report back to you on my findings.

I do know that there are sounds that animals fear, and this may be a kind of lightning in a bottle. It has a couple of elements going for it, sparks for one, which the dog probably interpreted as fire, or lightening, and the cackling,

which is unnatural, and probably spooky to an animal.

It does fit in with my theory on most mooks though, that being that they don’t like to experience any kind of surprise.

Have a happy, and safe, New Year, and the best to you and yours in 2009.

Stay aware, alert, and have a plan.

Aloha kaua,

Nui (Big) Kahuna

P.S. Congratulations to the Cardinals, Chargers, Eagles, and Ravens. Stay tuned for predictions from The Big Kahuna.

I have a habit of reading several newspapers every day, and somedays I add a magazine or two. I am thinking of adjusting this daily practice because the new media slogan should be, “All the depressing news fit to print, or read, or listen to.”

The Washington Post and the New York Times, along with several of the leading magazines are the king, queen, and royal court of this cry me a river journalism.

2008 wasn’t a great year. We all know that, and we’re making adjustments.

But the end of the world is not yet in sight for most of us, and we’re going to bounce back. The work that will key the bounceback will not be in Washington, or New York, where the root causes of all the collapse and consternation lie.

The comeback will be led by small businessmen and women who work smart, and hard, and who can read a balance sheet. When someone in their organization comes up with a wild hairy ass idea, they’ll smile, shake their head, and say no, unlike the esteemed Congress, which put it’s head where the moon don’t shine a long time ago, and can’t find its way out.

In a matter of weeks we’ll be looking at various billion dollar packages guaranteed to save us, written by the same idiots who got us into this mess in the first place.

And of course, the politicians will be blaming all this on W, who is riding quietly into the sunset. That should buy them a year, but then there’s going to be another election. That means the people get a chance to let the politicians know what they’re thinking, and if suitable progress has been made.

I know what I’m thinking right now, and that is I’m going to be paying very close attention to what is happening, and who is getting money for what.

It’s time to make the politicians, and their acolytes in the media, play by the same rules as everyone else. We should adopt the Billy Jay rule, which is to reward those who work hard and play by the rules. In fact, we should beat the Democrats to death with this rule.

Last year my business was better than it was the year before. This year it will be better than in 2008. The reason is simple. I follow the golden rule.

It has never failed me, and it won’t fail you either.

That doesn’t mean I turn the other cheek.

If someone tries to do me harm, or my family, or friends, they are in a heap of trouble. You start something with me, you are definitely deranged.

And it’s no different for you. You never initiate, but you always reply.

At Big Kahuna, I have all the replies you’ll need to make your point, and dissappear into the mist.

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Shut out the bad news bears in 2009. Stop reading the newspapers and magazines, and listening to the putrid nightly news, and I guarantee you feel better instantly.

Stay aware, alert. and have a plan.

Aloha kaua,

Nui (Big) Kahuna

This morning I’ve been sitting at my desk reading emails from here, there, and everywhere. Many just say “Happy New Year!” Others contain things like summaries of what happened in 2008, and some have advice about the same silly resolutions that are made year in, year out.

2009 is a year that will bring historic change, and not all of it will be good. Some change is necessary every year, as our world is not a static thing. But other changes that are being proposed are preposterous, and we need to be ready to oppose them.

Only a few big changes have any chance of happening because:

ALL THE MONEY IS GONE!

That’s right. We will be saved from the majority of the social engineering by this simple fact. There just simply isn’t any more money to pass out to the “greedy hands people.” The Democratic majority has two years to get the country turned around, even if they don’t realize it now. It probably hasn’t dawned on them that we can’t spend our way out of this.

There isn’t going to be any federal tax increase on anyone. Obama knows that this would be a disaster, but the Democratics on the state and local level will not cut spending, so you can count on them to try to tax anything and everything in sight.

Where I live the county school budget is facing a huge shortfall, as property values have fallen by more than 25%. But there is no talk of cutbacks, which is what would happen in any business. No, they want a new tax assessment to pay the way for their extremely bloated budget. And if you oppose the fat in their budget you are labeled anti-education.

So get ready to be labeled in 2009, as city, state, and federal officials try to ram these tax increases on you. The net effect of all this will be an economy that may not recover, or won’t recover until all the scoundrels are tossed out of office. (And that includes gutless Republican hog feeders too.)

With so many people out of work, expect mook behavior to be on the rise. They won’t work, so to keep up they’re going to have to take more of what is yours. (Their own version of spreading the wealth.)

To keep what’s rightfully yours…you are going to have to be more vigilant, and be a card carrying Kahuna Kommando, ready for reaction at any time. Remember I said reaction because a Kahuna Kommando doesn’t go looking for trouble, and never initiates conflict.

But when a mook brings his game to the neighborhood, a Kommando is certainly ready to finish it with any number of tools from the catalog.

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Stay aware, alert, and have a plan.

Aloha kaua, and Happy New Year!

Nui (Big) Kahuna