Blog Ninjas present The Mystery Challenge #4! The topic was proposed by Mr. President of Textual Relations, the winner of MTC #3. Below you will find all the entries for this challenge. Please visit and read them all. Once you’ve read all the entries, please vote for your favorite. Members of the forum may vote in the poll HERE. Guests can place their vote in this thread HERE. Voting concludes on Nov. 22nd.

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from Reason to Freedom (4 entries)
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Jayne – Read More
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Some Go Softly – Read More
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Jan – Read More

Welcome to Mystery Topic Challenge #4, presented by the newly named group that began it all, The Blog Ninjas. Below is my entry to this topic suggested by Mr. President of Textual Relations.

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If you were President/Prime Minister for a day, with the power to do absolutely anything (Supreme Court? What Supreme Court?), what would you do and why?

I’ve thought about this subject for seven days. I’ve considered how to approach it both sarcastically and seriously. What I finally came up with is the truth: I don’t want to be president. I wasn’t a child that aspired to be president one day. Especially after the first president whose name I knew and watched often on the news wound up resigning. Nixon, that was.

If I were to become president against all my ability to avoid the post I would have to do my best. Running away at that point would reflect badly upon the United States, and god’s teeth does our appearance to the rest of the world need an overhaul.

The cleanup would have to start at home. You cannot go around improving everyone else’s property when your own is cluttered with rusted out wrecks atop wooden blocks, high weeds, and men in their underwear sitting on a sagging front porch.

I’d have to begin with helping those in my own backyard. I’d shake up Medicare, Medi-Cal, Medicaid and every little branch in between. Not only is the system verging on the edge of banckruptcy, it’s riddled with fraud. Fraud perpetrated by doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, insurance, and the public at large.

Next thing I would do is go after the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service is an entity that’s getting to powerful for its own good. Seizing property and destroying lives and never admitting that it can make a mistake. The IRS is due for an extreme audit.

I doubt there’s much more I could do. I’m sure that would take at least four years to dig into those two huge issues and I’m more than certain that I’d ever tick off so many factions that I’d either get assassinated or not re-elected to a second term.

However, there’s no worry of me ever becoming president… I haven’t the funds.

This post is an entry in the Mystery Topic Challenge currently finishing up at Blog Explosion. You can find more information HERE. Please be sure to read all the other great articles by clicking on that link! If you want to participate in future challenges, please visit the official new home of The Mystery Topic Challenge HERE.

As the winner of the first challenge, Romi chose our next topic which was: “If your life were like Bill Murray’s in Groundhog Day (where he lives one day over and over), which day would you want to re-live forever, and why?”

At first I thought this might be a pretty easy challenge topic to write about, but the longer I’ve had to ponder it, the less appealing it is. Not the challenge, the prospect of having to live one day in my life over and over again.

I’ve had days where there have been very special moments, but those days have had other moments I wouldn’t care to face day after day. It would be hell.

Then, there are a couple of days that were perfect but I wouldn’t want to re-live those again and again, because that would tarnish such a lovely memory. Badly. Again, it would be hell.

If I were stuck in the constantly rewinding loop of one day I would not even have death as an escape. I think I’ve had nightmares like this and I’ve been very grateful for being able to wake from them.

So, if my life were like Bill Murray’s, I wouldn’t be very happy. I doubt that I would cope as well as he did. However, as I was discussing this with my husband, he reminded me of something we both saw in Bill Murray’s characters’ eyes when he finally broke the cycle; as much as he was happy to be living again, there was a weariness to him. Think of it – all those people have known him for 24 hours or less. If he spent a year or more re-living Groundhog’s Day think of all the memories of those people he’d have… and none of them shared by others. I cannot fathom how that might feel.

In conclusion, I can’t honestly answer this. I don’t want to have to live any day of my life over and over again. A visit back in time is all right, but never would I wish to be caught in an endless loop in which there is no escape.

Please read the other entries and then go vote for the best.

Political Friends: Read Post
Ghostworks: Read Post
Zybron: Read Post
lifeasme66: Read Post
SomeGoSoftly: Read Post
Mr. President: Read Post
jml918 (jean): Read Post
jayne d’Arcy: Read Post

After reading all the entries, please vote for your favorite: HERE Please note: You do not have to sign up at the MTC forum to vote. Voting closes on Oct. 8th at midnight PST