Bailout Politics

A simple article from one of my favorite economists, Thomas Sowell.

Just the link, for those with weak hearts and think ALL economists think alike.

Bailout Politics

Day Thirty

I disappear - Metallica

Hey, hey, hey
Here I go now, here I go into new days
Hey, hey, hey
Here I go now, here I go into new days
I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Yeah, hey, hey, heeee-heeeey
Here I go into new days

Hey, hey, hey
Ain't no mercy, ain't no mercy there for me
Hey, hey, hey
Ain't no mercy, ain't no mercy there for me
I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Yeah, hey, hey, heeee-heeeey
Ain't no mercy, ain't no mercy there for me

Do you bury me when I'm gone?
Do you teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong, than it's time I disappear

Hey, hey, hey
And i went, then I went on down that road
Hey, hey, hey
And i went, then I went on down that road
I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Hey, hey, heeeeee-heeeeey
And i went, then I went on down that road

Do you bury me when I'm gone?
Do you teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong, than it's time I disappear x2

I'm gone! I'm gone! I'm gone baby!

Do you bury me when I'm gone?
Do you teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong, than it's time I disappear x2
Oh, disappear

My Friend Ron Paul Speaks.

This is from Townhall.com So if you don't like reading stuff from the other side, you are warned to look away.

No Cheers for the Bailout, an Interview with Ron Paul. by Bill Steigerwald

You can't pin any blame for the country's financial meltdown on Congressman Ron Paul. The libertarian Texas Republican and former Pittsburgher has been warning for two decades about the unhappy -- and inevitable -- economic consequences of a loose monetary policy, fiscal irresponsibility and too much meddling in the marketplace by the federal government.

Not surprisingly, Rep. Paul says he is "positively opposed" to what he calls the Bush administration's "slipshod" $700 billion bailout plan. As Paul warned the House of Representatives Wednesday, "Our economy faces a bleak future, particularly if the latest $700 billion bailout plan ends up passing. We risk committing the same errors that prolonged the misery of the Great Depression, namely keeping prices from falling."

I talked to Paul by phone from Washington early Thursday evening as the Beltway political powers were still meeting and trying to agree on how to fix the problem they are largely responsible for creating.

Q: I suspect we won't hear you cheering about the bailout -- or "The Rescue" -- as they are trying to call it?

A: No way. I think that it's just going to bring more problems. You can't stop a problem of too much spending and too much deficits and too much monetary inflation with more of it. So I’m positively opposed to the bailout and believe it will just delay the correction that is required. We need to correct the imbalances and if you interfere, you just delay it and make it more difficult and make the problems worse for ourselves.

Q: Did you see President Bush’s 15-minute speech on the economic crisis Thursday night?

A: I did see part of it.

Q: Do you think he is telling the story as straight as he should be or is he glossing over some things?

A: Well, I’m sure he’s glossing over. I imagine he believes what he’s saying. But you know I was just on the (House) floor and a couple other members came over and showed me some articles and letters they’ve received. One was from a banker who’s involved with 1,500 banks in the South. He was positively opposed to the bailout. He said, “Why punish all of us when just a few people have really messed up?” Someone else came along with a chart that showed that credit has not frozen up and that there’s as much credit available in the last couple weeks as there was in the last six months. So that means the (bailout supporters) are working on some propaganda to sort of frighten members of Congress into voting for it. If you don’t vote for it, and there’s a problem, then you’re going to be blamed for it.

Q: Is this truly a national crisis? So many of national crises really are regionalized or localized problems.

A: I think of it as a crisis. I've been talking about it for a long time and have said we will have a financial disruption and an attack on the dollar. But I think the way they are talking is that if you don't pass it this weekend then by Monday the market might go down 10,000 points. I think it's not that type of crisis, but I think it's very significant that if we continue our ways we'll eventually destroy the dollar. Yet what they are doing is bringing that on because they are doing the wrong thing.

Q: You pin most of the blame for this crisis on government.

A: Oh yeah. More specifically, the Federal Reserve. (It's) responsible for the booms and the busts. You can't have this type of a boom cycle without a Federal Reserve and a central bank and it can be bounded with other parts of the government. Legislation might push an excessive amount of money into certain areas in addition to the easy-money system, and that's what I think happened. There were these affirmative action programs where banks were literally encouraged or told they had to make bad loans. The Community Reinvestment Act tells them they can be fined a lot of money for denying loans that are risky. It's sort of ironic.

And if one looks at the total problem of inflation, in which prices go up because of the increases in the money supply, certain areas go up much faster than others. So medical care and education and houses went up much faster but then there has to be corrections. They get out of whack and these prices have to come down. So we see the correction and the sooner you get the prices down, the better it is for everybody.

Q: From what I understand the major problem goes back to housing, housing, housing. Home prices were inflated and now the bubble has burst and you argue that prices should be allowed to fall to whatever their real level should be and not be propped up by a federal bailout.

A: That's right, and I accuse (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben) Bernanke of being a price-fixer. He wants to buy these illiquid assets and keep the price up and they may be worthless. So they want you to limit your thinking to the immediate problem -- the downturn in the housing market. But they don't want to talk about who caused the upturn and the excesses in the housing market -- and that was government. They don't talk about the cause. They just say, "We're here now. What are we going to do about it?" In medicine, you can't really treat a disease very well if you don't know the exact cause.

Q: The $700 billion figure. If you multiply roughly 3 million homes in foreclosure by $100,000 -- assuming they are underwater on their mortgages by an average of $100,000 -- that's "only" $300 billion.

A: So where's all this money going, huh?

Q: Yes.

A: Propping up derivatives; that's the scam. It's the so-called "illiquid assets." I think that's a misnomer. I think it's "worthless assets" that are being bought up so some of these big guys don't get wiped out.

Q: You say a $700 billion bailout is only a temporary fix.

A: Yeah, it is. If you come to the conclusion that you have to liquidate debt, the faster you get it over with the sooner the economy goes back to work. So they're propping up the prices artificially on houses and at the same time they are saying, "How can we stimulate housing growth?" Well, there are too many houses. You want the supply and demand of houses to adjust, so you let the prices of houses come down and let the houses get in the hands of people who really want them and can afford them and you quit building houses for a while.

So, yeah, you have a booming economy when you deceive the people and you stimulate the economy with easy credit. But you've got to make up for it eventually, and that's the part that nobody likes. We have prevented any attempt at correction essentially over the past 20 years. So we have a bigger bubble than ever before, which means we'll have a bigger correction than ever before. So the only question is, should it be a short, tough correction or a very long, tough correction?

Q: What is your solution for avoiding this kind of sudden national emergency?

A: You need to allow a liquidation of debt, which means bankruptcies. You should treat it like Lehman Brothers -- let them go broke and the good assets will be bought up. But you should restore confidence and encourage business activity. It isn't a lack of regulation that was the problem, it was the lack of the market being allowed to work.

We don't need more Sarbanes-Oxley (financial reporting) regulations like those that came out of Enron. But we should assure the markets that we are going to live within our means. I think the federal budget ought to be balanced. You could do that rather quickly by changing our foreign policy. But people aren't quite willing to give up the welfare-warfare state. But if you did that, things could come back very quickly.

and a link if you wish to venture deeper into the Light Side.

Day Twenty-Nine

Underdog - Audio Adrenaline

I am so weak and I'm so tired
It's hard for me to
Find enough strength to feed the fires
That fuel my ego
And consequently all my pride has all but died
Which leaves me
Down on my knees
Back to the place I
Should have started from

[CHORUS]
Been beat up
Been broken down
Nowhere but up
When you're facedown
On the ground
I'm in last place
If I place at all
But there's hope for this underdog!
That's the way, uh-huh, we like it!
That's the way, uh-huh, we like it!
You can call me the underdog

I'm in this race to win a prize
The odds against me
The world has plans for my demise
What they don't see
Is that a winner is not judged by his small size
But by the substitute he picks to run the race
And mine's already won

Day Twenty-Eight

Flying - Grammatrain

Last night i dreamed a strange, peculiar dream
A child slept underneath a great birds wing
Laid on the ground, where warmth was found
Until he woke and crawled away on hands and knees

Flying in my dream
Flying in my dream

A snake told stories, to the child, untrue
The child bent down and felt its poison tooth
Started to die, The bird did fly
Swallowed the snake, to save the child and then it died

Flying in my dream
Flying in my dream

The dead bird lay, for three whole days
Then spread its wings and flew away

I woke up early, while the sun still slept
This strange dream circulating in my head
Stared at the ceiling, pondered its meaning
The dream would not leave although i left my bed

Flying in my dream
Flying in my dream

The dead bird lay, for three whole days
Then spread its wings and flew away

Day Twenty-Seven

Alien - Third Day

I'm what your looking for
No need to search any more
I'm in need of your saving

You can give me hope
Rescue my wretched soul
You are the one I am praying

I am just like the alien
the fatherless and the widow
I am just like the alien
the fatherless and the widow

Keep your watch over me
Sustain the life in me
Frustrate the ways of every wicked man

Let me inside your home
Father defend my cause
Plead for my case and my innocence

I am just like the alien
the fatherless and the widow
I am just like the alien
the fatherless and the widow

Just like the alien,
I'm a stranger in a strange land
Just like the fatherless I am in need
of someone to take my hand
Just like the widow,
I need you right now to understand and
save me. Won't you save me?

Day Twenty-Six

Lost the Plot - Newsboys

When you come back again
would you bring me something from the fridge?
Heard a rumor that the end is near
but I just got comfortable here.

sigh.
Let's be blunt.
I'm a little distracted.
What do you want?

Headaches and bad faith
are all that I've got.
First I misplaced the ending
then I lost the plot.

Out among the free-range sheep
while the big birds sharpen their claws.
For a time we stuck with the shepherd
but you wouldn't play Santa Claus.

sigh.
Let's be blunt.
We're a little distracted.
What do you want?

Once we could follow,
now we cannot.
You would not fit our image,
so we lost the plot.

Once we could hear you,
now our senses are shot.
We've forgotten our first love.
We have lost the plot, lost the plot

(interlude)
When I saw you for the first time
you were hanging with a thief
And I knew my hands were dirty,
and I dropped my gaze.
Then you said I was forgiven
and you welcomed me with laughter.
I was happy ever after.
I was counting the days
when you'd come back again.
we'll be waiting for you
When you comin' back again?
we'll be ready for you
Maybe we'll wake up when...
maybe we'll wake up when
you come back again.

lies.
Let's be blunt.
We're a little unfaithful.
What do you want?

Are you still listening?
`Cause we're obviously not
We've forgotten our first love
We have lost the plot.

And why are you still calling?
You forgave, we forgot.
We're such experts at stalling
now we've lost the plot. lost the plot
lost the plot, lost the plot

When you come back again
would you bring me something from the fridge?
Heard a rumor that the end is near
but I just got comfortable here.

Day Twenty-Five

Space-Dye Vest - Dream Theater

Falling through pages of martens on angels
Feeling my heart pull west
I saw the future dressed as a stranger
Love in a space-dye vest

Love is an act of blood and Im bleeding
A pool in the shape of a heart
Beauty projection in the reflection
Always the worst way to start

But hes the sort who cant know
Anyone intimately, least of all a
Woman. he doesnt know what a woman
Is. he wants you for a possession,
Something to look at like a painting or an ivory box.
Something to own and to display. he doesnt want you to be real,
Or to think or to live. he doesnt love you, but I love you.
I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when
I hold you in my arms. its our last chance... its our last chance...

Now that youre gone Im trying to take it
Learning to swallow the rage
Found a new girl I think we can make it
As long as she stays on the page

This is not how I want it to end
And Ill never be open again

...i was gonna move out...ummm...get,
Get a job, get my own place, ummm,
But... I go into the mall where i
Want to work and they tell me, im,
I was too young...

Some people, gave advice before,
About facing the facts, about
Facing reality. and this is, this
Without a doubt, is his biggest
Challenge ever. hes going to have to face it.
Youre gonna have to try, hes gonna to have to try and,
Uh, and, and, and get some help here. I mean no one can
Say they know how he feels.

That, so they say that, in ya know
Like, houston or something, youd
Say its a hundred and eighty degrees,
But its a dry heat
. in houston they say that?
Oh, maybe not. Im all mixed up.
Dry until they hit the swimming pool.

...i get up with the sun... listen.
You have your own room to sleep in,
I dont care what you do. I dont
Care when. that door gets locked,
That door gets locked at night by nine oclock.
If youre not in this house by nine oclock, then youd better find some
Place to sleep. because youre not going to be a bum in this house.
Supper is ready...

Theres no one to take my blame
If they wanted to
Theres nothing to keep me sane
And its all the same to you
Theres nowhere to set my aim
So Im everywhere
Never come near me again
Do you really think I need you

Ill never be open again, I could never be open again.
Ill never be open again, I could never be open again.

And Ill smile and Ill learn to pretend
And Ill never be open again
And Ill have no more dreams to defend
And Ill never be open again

Let them eat Steak!

Ok, I started today off in a not so good mood. I was up until 2AM last night trying to get a virus of my computer, while also trying to figure out where it came from.

Knowing i still had some work on that today, I went to work with a lot of stuff to do today. I had to go to the bank and track down some old check card numbers that were attached to my account in the past.

After multiple run a rounds, and i mean that truthfully, (i had to actually, go back to the back after i was on my way home.)

So, after everything was figured out and still looking ahead to the daunting task of finishing the fixes on my computer. I decided to stop for steak. I went to Applebees. Thanks Bill. I still had the gift card from last century.

and now i think i have my computer running properly again but we will see.

Day Twenty-Four

You're Gone, I'm Here - Precious Death

You're cold and I'm here talkin' to myself
'bout you and everybody else
My words are hard to swallow but
here's a few that you can take with you

Well, it's killing me, but one day you'll be seeing me, yeah

You're gone, and I'm here,
and i think about the things I never told you
While you were on planet, right beside me
You're gone and I'm here now
I guess I waited one day too long, for tomorrow

I haven't slept for two days
and I don't think I'll sleep tomorrow
You're gone and I'm here
could be twenty years before I follow you to glory
where one day you'll be seeing me, yeah

You're gone, and I'm here,
and i think about the things I never told you
While you were on planet, right beside me
You're gone and I'm here now
I guess I waited one day too long, for tomorrow

Well, it's killing me, but one day you'll be seeing me, yeah

You're gone, and I'm here,
and i think about the things I never told you
While you were on planet, right beside me
You're gone and I'm here now
I guess I waited one day too long

You're gone, and I'm here,
and i think about the things I never told you
While you were on planet, right beside me
You're gone and I'm here now
I guess I waited one day too long, I guess I waited one day too long, for tomorrow

OK, This has got to be....

OK, This has got to be the funniest thing i have heard in a long time.

On Fox News, reporting about new child size exercise equipment. I actually heard the following.

From Dr. Jennifer Walden of Lenox Hill Hospital

"...It is not a complete substitute for exercise, but kids have a higher rate of childhood obesity..."

Now I will certainly admit that she may have just been trying to quote some cool findings. but I am not certain I have met many adults that are suffering from childhood obesity. So the fact that childhood obesity strikes kids at a higher rate really doesn't surprise me.

Day Twenty-Three

Waisting Time - Collective Soul

Something's going wrong inside of you
Burdens bearing down and seeping through
Well, I don't want to bleed anymore for you
And I don't want to breathe any hatred too

Sitting while your world just floats around
Now you want to move 'cause it's crashing down
Well, I don't want to sing you guarantees
And I don't want to cling to our use to be's
So take your heart, take your soul
Just get yourself on out of here
Yeah, take your hurt, take your pain
Just get yourself on out of here

Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't see what you think I see
Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't want what you think I need

Here are two lists of books.
List one. Books I have read that I really enjoyed.

The 2000 Year Legacy - Dennis H. Jennison
Slander - Ann Coulter
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
Give Me A Break - John Stossel
The Ten Things You Can't Say In America - Larry Elder
Infinite Loop - Michael S. Malone
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
The Fair Tax Book - Neal Boortz & John Linder
If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat - Hugh Hewitt
Harry Potter Collection - J. K. Rowling
Legend of Drizzt Collection - R. A. Salvatore
This Present Darkness & Piercing The Darkness - Frank E. Peretti

List Two, These are books i really want to read, hopefully before the year is over.

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Basic Economics & Applied Economics - Thomas Sowell
The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
The Iliad & The Odyssey - Homer
Somebody's Got To Say It - Neal Boortz
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel
*Intercessory Prayer - Dutch Sheets

Day Twenty-Two

Mysterious Ways - U2

ohnny take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love

She's slippy
Your're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel

(on your knees boy)
She's the wave
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights
One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright

We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights

Some Funny Things!!

So a couple weeks ago. I wasn't feeling the best. I came home early from work and took a nap. I woke up after a few hours and had a miserable headache. I called work and set up someone to take care of my shift.

After my phone calls, I sat there and just got more nauseated. then I spent most of the night in the bathroom, dry heaving. (now don't get disgusted). But it was at this point, I began to realize, how in the deep history of time, people could honestly believe when someone was ill they were actually possessed by demons.

I was convulsing and making some pretty ungodly noises. I actually laughed at that thought.

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Something that actually heard on the TV. I think it was one of the Law and Order shows. This phrase keeps popping into my head and it just makes me chuckle. the actor was referring to a vehicle the suspect owned.

"Just big enough for a headless torso."

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Why did the skeleton not go to the dance? It had no body to go with!

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Day Twenty-One

Summertime - Will Smith

Summer, summer, summertime
Time to sit back and unwind

Here it is the groove slightly transformed
Just a bit of a break from the norm
Just a little somethin to break the monotony
Of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be
A little bit out of control its cool to dance
But what about the groove that soothes that moves romance
Give me a soft subtle mix
And if aint broke then dont try to fix it
And think of the summers of the past
Adjust the base and let the alpine blast
Pop in my cd and let me run a rhyme
And put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime

Chorus

School is out and its a sort of a buzz
A back then I didnt really know what it was
But now I see what have of this
The way that people respond to summer madness
The weather is hot and girls are dressing less
And checking out the fellas to tell em whos best
Riding around in your jeep or your benzos
Or in your nissan sitting on lorenzos
Back in philly we be out in the park
A place called the plateau is where everybody goes
Guys out hunting and girls doing likewise
Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes
She turn around to see what you beeping at
Its like the summers a natural afradesiac
And with a pen and pad I compose this rhyme
To hit you and get you equipped for the summer time

Chorus

Its late in the day and I aint been on the court yet
Hustle to the mall to get me a short set
Yeah I got on sneaks but I need a new pair
Cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there
The temperatures about 88
Hop in the water plug just for old times sake
Break to ya crib change your clothes once more
Cause youre invited to a barbeque thats starting at 4
Sitting with your friends cause yall remincise
About the days growing up and the first person you kiss
And as I think back makes me wonder how
The smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia
All the kids playing out front
Little boys messin round with the girls playing double-dutch
While the djs spinning a tune as the old folks dance at your family
Reunion
Then six oclock rolls around
You just finished wiping your car down
Its time to cruise so you head to the summertime hangout
It looks like a car show
Everybody come lookin real fine
Fresh from the barber shop or fly from the beauty salon
Every moment frontin and maxin
Chillin in the car they spent all day waxin
Leanin to the side but you cant spead through
Two miles an hour so everybody sees you
Theres an air of love and of happiness
And this is the fresh princes new defintion of summer madness

Chorus

One more movie on my going to see list.

I don't want anyone to say, I can't get into sappy love stories.

Who is to blame?

So I keep hearing there is a massive financial meltdown in banking and on Wall Street.

Where I stand it is much ado about nothing. I count myself lucky for that.

5 years ago i was in the market to buy a house. I was single, making nearly $50k a year. I truly believed it was time to take advantage of the great deals. Today, i am back to my post college salary, and can barely squeak by on my month to month rent. Why did i not by a house when i had the great opportunity.

First and foremost, I am intelligent. I always do the most research possible. I looked at my present situation, added to that several varying scenarios for the future, and told myself, "This is too risky for me to take out a huge loan for a house" Might I add, I am also a seer. (only joking)

You ask why i tell this story, when the subject of my post is 'Who is to blame?' Well I know if i was in the boat of no longer being able to pay off my loan. I would be the first to step up and say it was my fault. I have friends and family that are going through the possibility of losing houses, and yet they only look at what they could do or could have done differently.

So i guess my first idea of who is to blame is the person that took out the loan. In a 'desperate' need to get out of the shackles of renting, they forged into a new territory without the full knowledge of what is completely at stake.

But i am not done.

(Made up story)
I am a bank, I offer loans to new home buyers. I did my job by very strict rules. I was only able to loan to those people I could assuredly say will pay the loan back(preferably at the full length of the loan), and for homes in safe and secure areas.

Somewhere along the line an entity more powerful than I, stepped in and said "you can no longer 'redline' certain areas and people of certain stature, you must find a way to give out those loans." So i went to the drawing board to find a solution to the problem, typically I do not oblige such demands, but when they come from the government both state and federal, I tend to do what I can to follow their instructions.

So, following the governments directive, I began loaning money to people and in places I most certainly would not have in the past. Giving them opportunities for lower down payments longer more secure interest rates.
(end of story)

That story is where i come with my second idea of who is to blame. Government, both states and Federal, all Legislative, executive and judicial branches. For amazingly it usually takes all three to screw up that bad.

(another made up story0
Here I am again, a bank. Facing some tough times, I have given out many loans in the past few years and many of which to people that I normally wouldn't consider. But now i am getting demands from my shareholders that i need to make more money. And if there is anyone I listen to more strictly than the government, it is my shareholders.

So back to the drawing board to figure out a way to turn these loans into some profit. Bingo, refinancing. I will get those people to reinvest the equity they have in their newly purchased home. Showing I have recovered fully from the first loan. In essence I will borrow money to Peter, so peter can pay me back. (oh I don't want to fail to mention, the second loan to Peter was worth more than the first and most likely not under the same, much more affordable, but not nearly as moneymaking as the first)
(end of this story)

So my third idea of who is to blame. The Banks, they took advantage of a rising economy and good housing market and pushed people into the refinancing game.

Although i do believe some of what the banks did was underhanded. It could have easily been stopped by being intelligent with your money and your loan. Unfortunately a lot people take what is given to them, and when offered more money, they take it, not ever realizing the cost to themselves or their future.

So back to the question at the top of my post. Well the answer is EVERYONE. but that isn't sexy or headline grabbing, so you probably won't see that as a headline. Plus in a major election year, you won't see anyone ever taking personal responsibility for any of their own actions, and you will certainly not see anyone blaming the citizens for not educating themselves fully.

So now that the blame game is over. How do we fix it? Let me think on that one. I have some ideas of what do once we are free of this strait. But currently I have mixed emotions on how to fix it. I am not one for putting people out on the streets, but i am also not into footing the bill for someone elses ignorance(especially when that someone else is an elected official)

Stay tuned, for my thoughts on where to go from here. (and trust me i don't think either major party candidate has it right!)

Day Twenty

Empire - Queensryche

Last night the word came down, ten dead in Chinatown.
Innocent, their only crime was being in the wrong place, at the wrong time
Too bad, people say what's wrong with the kids today
Tell you right now they've got nothing to lose

They're building EMPIRE!

Johnny used to work after school
at the cinema show.
Gotta hustle if he wants an education
he's got a long way to go.
Now he's out on the street all day
selling Crack to the people who pay.
Got an AK-47 for his best friend
business the American way.

Eastside meets Westside downtown.
No time, the walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE! Can't you hear it calling?
Black man, trapped again. hold his chain in his hand.
Brother killing brother for the profit of another,
Game point, nobody wins. Decline, right on time.
What happened to the dream sublime?
Tear it all down, we'll put it up again. Another EMPIRE?

Eastside meets Westside downtown.
No time, no line, the walls fall down.

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it coming EMPIRE!
Can't someone here stop it...??!!

Day Nineteen

Black and Blue - Van Halen

Slip n' slide, push it in
Bitch sure got the rhythm
I'm holding back, oh yeah, I got the control
Hooked into her system

Don't draw the line
Honey, I ain't through with you
The harder the better
Let's do it 'til we're black and blue

Well, you never know when love will come
Gotta get it while you got it
A little bit of everything, even when it hurts
Sure feels good

Don't draw the line
Honey, I ain't through with you
The harder the better
Let's do it 'til we're black and blue

Yo mama!
Black and blue
Black and blue, yo mama!
Black and blue
Gotta, gotta, gotta, get it right
Black and blue

Don't draw the line
Honey I ain't through with you
The harder the better
We'll do it 'til we're black and blue
Don't draw the line
Baby, I ain't through with you
The harder the better
Let's do it 'til we're black and blue
The wetter the better
Let's do it 'til we're black and blue
Do it 'til we're blck and blue
The wetter the better
Let's do it 'til we're black and blue

Masters of Song Fu

After being a solid visitor of quickstopentertainment.com for the past year. Mainly to download the nearly weekly SModCast. I discovered a gem that i often saw listed on the front page but never, until now, took the time to investigate.

Masters of Song Fu!

So on your next excursion on the information super highway. Check out Masters of Song Fu at QuickstopEntertainment.com.

http://www.quickstopent.com/

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/category/masters-of-song-fu/

Day Eightteen

Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard

Step inside, walk this way
You and me babe, Hey, hey!

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah

Hey!
C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

Listen! red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little
Tease a little more
Easy operator come a knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

[guitar solo]

You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
'Cos I'm hot, say what, sticky sweet
From my head, my head, to my feet

Do you take sugar? one lump or two?

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
Pour some sugar on me
Oh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
Get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me
Ooh
Pour some sugar on me
Yeah! Sugar me!

Day Seventeen

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake

I dont know where Im going
But, I sure know where Ive been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time
But, here I go again
Here I go again

Tho I keep searching for an answer,
I never seem to find what Im looking for
Oh lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

Im just another heart in need of rescue,
Waiting on loves sweet charity
An Im gonna hold on
For the rest of my days,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go...

An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time...

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go,
Here I go again...

The Truth about Corporate Taxes

Before i begin my, what i surely hope unneeded, lessen on Corporate Taxes, let me start with two quotes i recently read, that just caught my eye.

"A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence."
- Jean-François Revel

"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

After a long self-debate about posting on this subject, I finally decided it would be decent thing to do. I am under the firm belief that all my readers (both of them) are extremely intelligent. But to those readers i implore to pass this type of information on to the less educated.

Lets take a look at how a business works. First most people go into business to make money. (that is what we typically call profit). In some cases people don't go into business to make money but to do good. (we typically call these Non-Profit Organizations) and although their main goal may not be to make money. they surely are not in it to lose money.

So that being out of the way, How does a business go about making money? In the simplest terms, they take more money in than they spend. Again in simple terms they provide a service or manufacture a product and charge a sum slightly(sometimes not so slightly) more than it costs to provide the service or manufacture the product.

What costs to manufacture a product or provide a service? there are the simple and easy answers(all of which are true) Labor, Material, and Facilities. These are the basic three, but there is one that most people tend to leave out. That last one is Fees and Taxes. I certainly hope you are not surprised. When a provider of services or manufacturer of products looks at how much it costs to do what they do, they add in the fees and taxes it costs them to do so. Am i saying what you think I am saying? Yes. Taxes get added into the cost of the products and services you buy every day.

So think about this when someone says they want to raise corporate taxes, or they want to charge a company for making too much profit. Corporations may get charged for taxes but they are certainly not the ones paying for them, they pass that(as well as all the other) expense on to you.

The question you have to ask yourself, and your elected officials. How does raising corporate taxes help the working people of America?

My hope is that, the continuous call to raise corporate taxes and fine large profits is merely an attempt at class warfare. Because if it is not that, I fear that those, calling for such ideas, truly believe this takes money from the corporate coffers, which only leads me to believe them to be, too ignorant to lead.

Day Sixteen

Rock Me Amadeus - Falco

Ooo rock me Amadeus
Rock me Amadeus...
Rock rock rock rock me Amadeus
Rock me all the time to the top

He was a Punker
And he lived in the big city
It was Vienna, was Vienna
Where he did everything
He had debts, for he drank
But all the women loved him
And each one shouted:
Come on and rock me Amadeus

Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, oh oh oh Amadeus

He was Superstar
He was popular
He was so exalted
Because he had flair
He was a virtuose
Was a rock idol
And everyone shouted:
Come on and rock me Amadeus

Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, oh oh oh Amadeus

Come on and rock me Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, oh oh oh Amadeus

It was around 1780
And it was in Vienna
No plastic money anymore
The banks against him
From which his debts came
It was common knowledge
He was a women's man
Women loved his punk

Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, oh oh oh Amadeus

Come and rock me Amadeus...

Baby baby do it to me rock me
Baby baby do it to me rock me
Baby baby do it to me rock me
Yes yes yes
Baby baby do it to me rock me
Baby baby do it to me rock me
Baby baby do it to me rock me

Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus
Amadeus Amadeus, oh oh oh Amadeus...

Day Fifteen

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and chicks for free
Now that aint workin thats the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy thats his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot hes a millionaire

We gotta install microwave ovesns
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs

I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And hes up there, whats that? hawaiian noises?
Bangin on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Get your money for nothin get your chicks for free

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs, lord

Now that aint workin thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and your chicks for free
Money for nothin and chicks for free

Day Fourteen

Missing You - John Waite

Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath
An’ I’m still standing here
And you’re miles away
And I wonder why you left
And there’s a storm that’s raging
Through my frozen heart tonight

I hear your name, in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time, just thinking about you
And it’s almost driving me wild
But it’s my heart that’s breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

And I ain’t missing you at all
Since you’ve been gone, away
I ain’t missing you
No matter, what I might say

There’s a message, in the wires
And I’m sending you a signal tonight
You don’t know, how desperate I’ve become
And it looks like I’m losing this fight
But it’s my heart that’s breaking
Down this long dusty road of mine

And I ain’t missing you at all
Since you’ve been gone, away
I ain’t missing you
No matter, what my friends say

And there’s a message that I’m sending out
Like a telegram to your soul
If I can’t bridge this distance
Can’t stop this heartache all alone

I ain’t missing you at all
Since you’ve been gone, away
I ain’t missing you
No matter, what my friends say
I ain’t missing you
Since you’ve been gone, away
I ain’t missing you, yeah
No matter, what your friends say
Hey, yeah, yeah,
Yea-i-yeah, I ain’t missing you at all
Since you’ve been gone, away
I ain’t missing you,
No, no matter what

Day Thirteen

She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And failed me in biology

When I'm dancing close to her
"Blinding me with science - science!"
I can smell the chemicals
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
"Science!"

Mmm - but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry

When she's dancing next to me
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
I can hear machinery
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"

It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology

"Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!"
I -
I don't believe it!
There she goes again!
She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions

But! - it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with - with science!"
She blinded me with -

Update on things i am looking forward to...

Entourage season opener looked good. Heading for another great season.

True Blood looked alright. I am leaving the jury out on this one. I can't decide, if the previews give it more appeal that it deserves. I will know more in a couple episodes.

Adding to the list.

Zach and Miri, Make a Porno



A Threevening with Kevin Smith

Trailer Omitted, because those goofballs and View Askew apparently want to keep this their little secret. But Imagine short clips of a fat man wearing a trenchcoat telling anecdotal stories about his life.

Quantum of Solace



And of course the most highly anticipated movie (at least for me)
Watchmen

Day Twelve

Faithfully - Journey

Highway run
Into the midnight sun
Wheels go round and round
Youre on my mind
Restless hearts
Sleep alone tonight
Sendin' all my love
Along the wire

They say that the road
Aint no place to start a family
Right down the line
Its been you and me
And lovin a music man
Aint always what its supposed to be
Oh girl you stand by me
Im forever yours...faithfully

Circus life
Under the big top world
We all need the clowns
To make us smile
Through space and time
Always another show
Wondering where I am
Lost without you

And being apart aint easy
On this love affair
Two strangers learn to fall in love again
I get the joy
Of rediscovering you
Oh girl, you stand by me
Im forever yours...faithfully

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Faithfully, Im still yours
Im forever yours
Ever yours...faithfully

Titanic or Dark Knight

With the possible theatrical re-release of The Dark Knight. There is speculation that The Dark Knight could surpase the titanic box office record set by the aforementioned Titanic.

Domestic grosses of the two movies are quite close, with Titanic only edging the Batman sequel by just over $85 million. An amount that could seriously take a licking with a re-release. The only hinderance to that number would be the DVD release of the movie a short month prior to the theatrical re-release.

World-Wide grosses is a completely different story. It is frankly, in this writers opinion that no movie will even come close to the record set by Titanics, $1.835 Billion. Due to the vast influx of piracy and the current trend of simultaneous world-wide release, it will be very difficult for a movie to get that close to the $2 billion mark again.

Case in point the 2nd and 3rd largest grossing films world-wide Just scratched over the $1billion mark.(Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, $1.13 billion and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $1.06 billion).

A true testament to what James Cameron did with Titanic. Two relatively new stars, in a story where everyone knows the ending. The two closest movies(and not really that close) had a HUGE franchise behind them.

Side Note: Just imagine what Titanic could have grossed if James had picked Orlando Bloom over Leo. (for those that don't get that, He is in three of the top 5 grossing movies of all time)

Day Eleven

The Theme from Greatest American Hero(Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
It should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free eee eee.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

It's like a light of a new day,
It came from out of the blue.
Breaking me out of the spell I was in,
Making all of my wishes come true ue ue.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free eee eee.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

Voting with the President

I have seen several commercials for John McCain and Others indicating they voted with George Bush 80-90% of the time. I am curious. I have read the constitution, and i don't recall ever seeing anywhere in it, the president getting to vote in either the house or the senate.

So are these ads touting the fact, that these people voted for a bill signed by the president? Again, going back to my rereading of the constitution, I don't see anywhere in it, that a bill can get to the president without a majority of both the House and the Senate first passing it. And when i look at the make up of both the House and the Senate, it appears they are both controlled by the Democrats.

So, unless these commercials are hoping the American people are idiots(or government school educated) I am not really sure what they are trying to say. Hey Congress voted with President Bush 100% of the time.(or at least, All but 4 times)

Day Ten

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape."

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.

"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..

"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."

Day Nine

Run Like Hell - Pink Flyod

You better make your face up,
In your favorite disguise,
With your button-down lips,
And your roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile,
And your hungry heart,
Feel the bile rising,
From your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters,
As the cockleshell shatters,
And the hammers batter,
Down your door,
You better run.

You better run all day,
And run all night.
And keep your dirty feelings deep inside.
And if youre taking your girlfriend out tonight,
You better park the car well out of sight.
cause if they catch you in the back seat,
Trying to pick her locks,
Theyre gonna send you back to mother,
In a cardboard box.
You better run!

Day Eight

Dust in the Wind - Kansas

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Flash before my eyes of curiosity

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/jI ]
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind

Day Seven

Hotel California - Eagles

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
this could be heaven or this could be hell
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the captain,
please bring me my wine
He said, we havent had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the masters chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just cant kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

Day Six (Belated)

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I'm just a poor boy ,i need no sympathy-
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
A little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
Mama, life had just begun,
But now Ive gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters-

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-

I see a little silhouette of a man,
Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But Im just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
Hes just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-cant do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

Unemployment

Two consecutive months of increased unemployment. This is an interesting thing, certainly not a good thing.

I read a lot of information, but i do try to avoid the opinion laced news as often as possible, so I may have missed someone bring forth a connection here. So maybe some of my more avid reader, readers can enlighten me.

Has anyone tied the fact that this sudden upswing in unemployment corresponds so dramatically with the recent increase of the minimum wage.

It just seems too convenient to miss this. Companies need to cut spending (due to higher gas prices, yes the high gas prices effect every single item you buy) At the same time someone tells them they are going to increase their spending by forcing them to pay their employees a higher wage. Sounds to me, like a great time for layoffs.

And now there are some that also want to increase the financial burden of these businesses by Increasing their tax burden. I wonder how many jobs that is going to cost?

Is this not common sense? Or am i missing a bigger picture? I accept any revelations.

Day Five

Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company

Baby, when I think about you
I think about love
Darlin’, don’t live without you
And your love
If I had those golden dreams
Of my yesterdays
I would wrap you in the heaven
’till I’m dyin’ on the way

Feel like makin’
Feel like makin’ love
Feel like makin’ love to you

Baby, if I think about you
I think about love
Darlin’ if I live without you
I live without love
If I had the sun and moon
I would give you both night and day
Of satisfyn’

Feel like makin’
Feel like makin’love
Feel like makin love to you

And if I had those golden dreams
Of my yesterdays
I would wrap you in the heaven
’til I’m dyin’ on the way

Feel like makin’ love
Feel like makin’ love
[repeat many times]
Feel like makin’ love to you

Day Four

Lady - Styx


Lady, when you're with me I'm smiling
Give me all your love
Your hands build me up when I'm sinking
Touch me and my troubles all fade
Lady, from the moment I saw you
Standing all alone
You gave all the love that I needed
So shy, like a child who has grown

'Cause you're my lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You're my lady

Lady, turns me on when I'm lonely
Give me all your charm
Evenings when she lays down beside me
She takes me gently into her arms

Lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You're my lady

Lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You're my ... lady

Experience?!?!

Lately I have been hearing a lot, and i mean "A LOT" of talk about experience, from both sides of the political spectrum. Obama has been an psuedo-absentee senator as he has run for president, Palin is a working mother that runs of the least populated states in the Union.

My question to all these pundits, Who exactly has the experience of running the worlds greatest country? The daily stress, the unending decisions, the overwhelming consequences. My answer is no one. There has never nor will there ever be a new president(or vice president for that matter) that can trully say they have the experience to hold the office. You can claim that running multi-billion dollar companies is a close match, or maybe running Large, Heavily Populated States. But no matter how close you get with any former life experiences, none of that could even reach the base of the mountain, of which at its peak is the presidency.

So lets cut out the experience to lead the country bit. It just isn't there from anyone. and let hold true to what really matters. Character, and Platform. Why are these too things the most important.

Platform is what they intend to do. Does it match with what you would like to see the president acomplish? Is it what you think is best for the country as a whole.

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Character is how much we can trust them to do what ever it takes to acomplish those goals. and How much they really believe it is what is best for the country as a whole.



Extra Note: When you raise taxes, my only request is you only take the water from their side of the bucket and not from our side. (Thanks Fred Thompson, One of the greatest things i have heard in recent history)

Day Three

The Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

Well we're big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kinda pills
That give us all kinda thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my picture on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover the cover of the Rollin' Stone

I got a freaky old lady
Name a Cocaine Katie
Who embroideries on my jeans
I got my poor ol' grey haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed
To blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my pictures on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smiling face
On the cover the cover of the Rollin' Stone

We gotta lotta little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who'll do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
Who's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer, but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my picture on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
Gonna see my picture on the cover
Gonna buy five copies for my mother
Gonna see my smiling face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Lucky Day

yes, Three posts in one day. Well honestly i just couldn't let that crap about UPS get me down so here are somethings I am much looking forward to in the near future.

UPStruction

This post is merely a rant.

I am fully and completely done with UPS. Despite the fact that every operator I have spoken to has been polite and kind, not one was able to help me. I work, like most people, therefore, i am not capable of being at home at any given time. So I requested my package to be delivered after 5pm, a request i felt was not complete out of reach to accommodate being the first attempted delivery was at 5:08 PM.

I was encouraged by the operator, and left work 1/2 hour early to assure i would be home for the delivery. To my surprise the UPS driver had already attempted to deliver the package at 2:10pm.

So as of this time, I am no longer sending or receiving packages from UPS. I request any correspondences, in the future be sent via USPS(yes i dread that too) or FedEx(A company that has, in the past, been more than happy to reschedule a delivery time for when i would be home)

If you do send me a package via UPS, I greatly apologize for your expense. It will be returned.

thus ends this rant.

Day Two

American Pie - Don McLean

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, theyd be happy for a while.

But february made me shiver
With every paper Id deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldnt take one more step.

I cant remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock n roll,
Can music save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

Well, I know that youre in love with him
`cause I saw you dancin in the gym.
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.

I was a lonely teenage broncin buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.

I started singin,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Now for ten years weve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin stone,
But thats not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from james dean
And a voice that came from you and me,

Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while lennon read a book of marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.

We were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?

We started singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack flash sat on a candlestick
Cause fire is the devils only friend.

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that satans spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died

He was singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where Id heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldnt play.

And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.

And they were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

They were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.

And It Begins

Joy to the World - Three Dog Night

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin'...

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now...

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

[electric piano]

You know I love the ladies
Love to have my fun
I'm a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straight shootin' son-of-a-gun
I said a straight shootin' son-of-a-gun

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the world
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

I wanna tell you
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

[fading]
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls