The popular Mystery Topic Challenge is on vacation over the holidays, but since we don’t want anyone to suffer withdrawal we’ve come up with a challenge that you squeeze in between visits with relatives, eggnog and mistletoe.

END OF THE YEAR HOLIDAY CHALLENGE

Subject: The End of 2007

You can approach this any way you wish. Take photographs, draw or paint a picture, write a poem, a short story, or a series of posts. It’s up to you to debate, discuss, or amuse yourselves over what the End of the Year means to you. Is it an illicit kiss under the mistletoe? Is it a foreboding of more headaches, worries in the coming year? Is it bittersweet memories? Or thoughts upon the months that have passed? Will you showcase favorite posts, photos, artwork? It’s up to you.

Number of Entries: At least one. If you’re very inspired write a dozen, or more.

Posting Time: Any day or night between now and January 6th.

When you’ve posted an entry, be sure to come back to this thread with the direct URL so everyone can visit.

Who Can Participate? Anyone and everyone. Guests and members are welcomed to participate in this challenge. The more the merrier.

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.

Leaf – Read More
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from Reason to Freedom (4 entries)
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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.