October 2011
76 posts
I may have given up on Halloween.
Halloween was always a really big thing for my family and I. My parents have been throwing a huge party for the past 14 years, and I have only ever missed one.
Last year I just couldn’t think of what to go as, and ended up throwing some crap together last second.. This year I was thinking as going as Ron Swanson. Now though, I fear that nobody would get the costume, and I would shave my wonderful beard for no reason. I think Halloween and I just don’t get along anymore.
It was always more fun in the past, but I can’t even get up the motivation to figure out a thing to be.
ichi kew hachi yon
New book day. It came in the mail today. I forgot I pre-ordered it a while back, and was happy to see it.
So far, I have literally read the insert and the first page. There was something very thought provoking in that tiny selection actually. But I couldn’t bring myself to begin such an endeavor at this time. I need to be able to sit, and enjoy for a while.
I feel pretty terrible about the “reading books for enjoyment” part of my life. I read so much on the internet that it could fill hundreds of pages of books a week, but I barely ever even pick up a nice hardcopy.
How about this.
1% of Americans can’t be that hard to find. They are in All Seeing America after all.
I bet if 1% of Americans went missing overnight, very few people would fucking care.
I bet if 1% of Americans shared their wealth after they went missing, this whole place would be a little happier.
Play
A good man is easy to kill.
I think I’ve been keeping myself busy lately in the wrong ways. Not good busy, but busy busy.
Nothing is getting done.
I can’t wait until Sunday. I don’t think I have anything planned after that day.
I kinda just want to walk away from my obligations, and relax for a while. I want to go for a long drive with a surprise at the end. Find out what it means to give up. Find out where I can go from there.
But I won’t.
Ned Hepburn: CLEVER THINKING: Help pass Warren Buffett's idea to stop the budget deficit. →
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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” Warren told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to
the Constitution, seven took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure.
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward the following message to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
- No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
- Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
- Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
- Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
- Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
- Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
- All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term’s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take
three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is
time.___________
This is one of the most effective strategies I’ve seen to stop this congress from further ruining the country.
N
Sounds good to me.
Radio in the middle of wisconsin is very much about Jesus and the packers.
“When Johnny was coaching with the Hornets in 1995 they had a good team. Glen Rice, Mourning, Johnson. Series was tied at 2 and Hornets had a chance to win game 5 in Chicago. On the biggest possession of the game, Mugsy had the ball with the Hornets down 1. Jordan backed off of him and told him: “shoot it you fucking midget.” Mugsy shot it, didn’t come close. A year later Mugsy actually told Johnny Bach that he believes that single play ruined his career. His shot never recovered.”
Michael Jordan is awesome.
