Juice Newton - Sunshine

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Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like dancing
Some man's gone he's tried to run my life, he don't know what he's asking
When he tells me I better get in line, I can't hear what he's saying
When I grow up, I'm gonna make it mine, these ain't dues I been payin'

How much does it cost?
I'll buy it!
The time is all we've lost
I'll try it!
He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine--sunshine...

Sunshine, go away today, I don't feel much like dancin'
Some man's gone he's tried to run my life, he don't know what he's asking
Working starts to make me wonder where fruits of what I do are going
When he says in love and war all is fair, but he's got cards he ain't showing

How much does it cost?
I'll buy it!
The time is all we've lost--I'll try it!
He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine--sunshine...

Sunshine, come on back another day,
I promise you I'll be singing
This old world, she's gonna turn around,
brand new bells 'il be ringing 

Name Your ( John Wiley) Price

Tim,

Driving around today...almost ran off the road when I saw this statue of Dallas' most famous County Commissioner in HAWAII !

Don A.

Sent from my iPhone

Fight Club

Fight Club

from the book:

Fight club is not football on television. You aren’t watching a bunch of men you don’t know halfway around the world beating on each other live by satellite with a two-minute delay, commercials pitching beer every ten minutes, and a pause now for station identification. After you’ve been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex. 

According to my boss, there are fewer and fewer gentlemen in business and more thugs.


I tell Tyler, Marla Singer doesn’t need a lover, she needs a case worker.


Until today, it really pissed me off that I’d become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.

The blood, is it mine?
Yeah, I say. Some of it.
This is a wrong answer.


She doesn’t say a thing about her collagen trust fund.  

I said to the medical student, you must not see a lot of birthmarks around here.


Even a week after fight club, you’ve got no problem driving inside the speed limit. Maybe you’ve been passing black shit, internal injuries, for two days, but you are so cool. Other cars drive around you. Cars tailgate. You get the finger from other drivers. Total strangers hate you. It’s absolutely nothing personal. After fight club, you’re so relaxed, you just cannot care. You don’t even turn the radio on.


“What you have to consider,” he says, “is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
How Tyler saw it was that getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God’s hate is better than His indifference.

My wish right now is for me to die. I am nothing in the world compared to Tyler.
I am helpless.
I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things.
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it “Entourage.”

The tears were really coming now, and one fat stripe rolled along the barrel of the gun and down the loop around the trigger to burst flat against my index finger. Raymond Hessel closed both eyes so I pressed the gun hard against his temple so he would always feel it pressing right there and I was beside him and this was his life and he could be dead at any moment.
This wasn’t a cheap gun, and I wondered if salt might fuck it up.

I call Marla from my Seattle motel room to ask if we’ve ever done it.
   You know.
   Long distance, Marla says, “What?”
   Slept together.
   “What!”
   Have I ever, you know, had sex with her?
   “Christ!”
   Well?
   “Well?” she says.
   Have we ever had sex?
   “You are such a piece of shit.”
   Have we had sex?
   “I could kill you!”
   Is that a yes or a no?
“I knew this would happen,” Marla says. “You’re such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.” 

You sit on the shag carpet at opposite sides of the meditation circle and try to summon up your power animal while Marla glares at you with her black eye. You close your eyes and meditate to the palace of the seven doors, and you can still feel Marla’s glare. You cradle your inner child.
Marla glares.
Then it’s time to hug.
Open your eyes.
We should all choose a partner.
Marla crosses the room in three quick steps and slaps me hard across the face.
Share yourself completely.

from the movie:

[after vigorous sex with Tyler Durden]
Marla Singer: My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school.




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the great pains I've always taken never to be too strict

The Word of the Day for July 14 is:

lenient  \LEEN-yunt\  adjective
1 : exerting a soothing or easing influence : relieving pain or stress
2 : of mild and tolerant disposition; especially : indulgent

Examples:
The judge decided to be lenient because it was a first offense, but warned that the defendant would not be so lucky a second time.

"Portugal agreed yesterday to accept an international aid plan of $116 billion that the country's caretaker prime minister, Jose Socrates, suggested would involve more lenient conditions than those imposed on Greece and Ireland in return for similar bailouts." -- From an article by Raphael Minder in the Boston Globe, May 4, 2011

Did you know?
"Lenient" is a word with a soothing history. It derives from the Latin verb "lenire," meaning "to soothe" or "to soften" (itself from "lenis," meaning "soft or mild"). The first, now archaic, sense of "lenient" referred to something soothing that relieved pain and stress. That meaning was shared by "lenitive," an earlier derivative of "lenire" that was commonly used with "electuary" ("lenitive electuary" being a medicated paste prepared with honey or another sweet and used by veterinarians to alleviate pain in the mouth). Linguists also borrowed "lenis" to describe speech sounds that are softened -- for instance, the "t" sound in "gutter" is lenis. By way of comparison, the "t" sound in "toe" is fortis.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

I've copied and pasted the text of an email sent to me.  

See this link for formal debunking.

My comments are below in red italics. I skip the debunking and proceed to the guts of the issue.

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Very important   

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, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

Texas adopted the 26th Amendment on April 27, 1971. I was 9 years old and don't recall whether "The people demanded it" or not.  It sounds like a good idea but I disagree with allowing anyone under 21 to vote.

Hitting the 18th birthday doesn't make one a voter.  This is a responsibility I've too often seen teenagers treat unfairly. A few more years of exploring humanity and its implications is usually necessary to vote wisely.

Q: Lebsack, We 18-year-olds can drink alcohol and fight wars - You don't think we should vote?

A: Darn tootin', Bucky, you're too young. 

Children have been drinking heavily and defending themselves against aggression since we walked out of the Garden - this doesn't mean they're smart enough to vote.  I say Let's give the squirts a few more years of seasoning to learn to make wise decisions ....and about the drinking age (We don't really enforce the drinking age, we enforce age modified alcohol sales/possession plus we've got laws against drunkenness... make that public drunkenness.) - it should be repealed - whether a child drinks should be a parental responsibility.  I disapprove of ever giving more power to the state.

Your argument about war fighting is silly.  The United States typically sends immatures to fight wars but that doesn't make it right. 

Anyone of any age has the right to defend themselves and their freedom against foreign aggression but you're not referring to self-defense. You're talking about joining the military for lack of any better option then being sent to fight a synthetic war.  This is both another issue for another day and it doesn't translate to a privilege to vote for public policy/public officials.

 

Of  the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the  land... all because of public  pressure. 

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
1.  Term  Limits.
 12 years only, one of the possible options  below..
   A. Two Six-year Senate terms

Disagree - 

One Six-year Senate term... plus the 17th Amendment should be repealed.

The founders meant for the Representatives to represent the people.

The founders meant for the Senators to represent the states.

Representatives should be elected by majority vote.
Senators were originally chosen by any method that state chose - voting, appointment, rock/paper/scissors (method is not important) - they went to the Senate to cast votes not according to their own desire but as INSTRUCTED by their state.  Since the states sent them to Washington DC the state could easily recall them if they failed their duty.  Often the governor or state legislature chose the senators.  Same story, if the governor or state legislators failed their duty they could be recalled.  
It's not so easy today with Senators being elected by popular vote for multiple terms.
Little term/ little damage.
Lots of terms/ lots of damage.






   B. Six Two-year House terms

Disagree - two two-year terms max.

 Plus - No Representative should be eligible to ever be in the Senate and vice-versa.

   C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
You're just asking for trouble.

2. No Tenure / No  Pension.
 A  Congressman collects a salary while in office and  receives no pay when they are out of  office. 

I'll leave this up to the individual states which should decide for themselves how to compensate those they send to the U.S. Congress.  

The federal government should pay them NOTHING.  The states send them to D.C. - let the states pay them.


3. 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.

see item #2 above
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan,  just as all Americans do.

copy/paste
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the  lower of CPI or 3%.

control C/control V
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American  people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
Do you really want to make this happen?

See item #2 above.  

Let each individual state provide for their own Congress persons while they are in D.C.


Salary
Staff
Housing
Junkets
Office
Research
all of it
The federal government supplies Congress with a roof ONLY - the U.S. Capitol building.
Talk about a cost cutting measure - turn in some faulty accounting to the folks back home and you're looking for a new job - as it should be.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11. 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 HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!   If  you agree with the above, pass it on.   If not, just delete it.
Please keep it going.

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