This song is so amazing. Makes me cry everytime I hear it.
I'm gonna be here for you baby
And I'll be a man of my own word
Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard
I wanna sleep with you forever
And I wanna die in your arms
In a cabin by a meadow where the wild bees swarm
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us
I wanna honor your mother
And I wanna learn from your paw
I wanna steal your attention like a bad outlaw
And I wanna stand out in a crowd for you
A man among men
I wanna make your world better than it's ever been
We'll follow the rainbow
Wherever the four winds blow
And there'll be a new day
Comin' your way
I'm gonna be here for you from now on
This you know somehow
You've been stretched to the limits but it's alright now
And I'm gonna make you a promise
If there's life after this
I'm gonna be there to meet you with a warm, wet kiss
Mmm hummm
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust makin' memories of us
Ohhh
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll win your trust makin memories of us
Mmmmm
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Excuse Me Sir
*** A friend of mine wrote this***
Viacom:
I am writing to thank you for your coverage of last week's MTV Video Music Awards. I have looked forward to and watched this event for years. This will be my last.
I hope that someone in your organization sees the problem with that broadcast. Inviting a man from the UK to host the VMAs was a very diplomatic move and I commend you for it. However, you lost that support when that host called our sitting President a “retard” and the Royal Family “inbred.” He went on to speak of the masturbation habits of teenage boys and Alex Rodriguez’s use of a baseball bat on Madonna. Uncomfortable yet? Good, so was I.
The show continued with a performance from “Lil Wayne.” This man currently faces drug and weapons charges for which he may spend a lifetime in prison. While I admire your appreciation for his right to a trial by jury; I do take offense to the bandana that was hanging out of his barely covered ass. Did you notice the red? In the event that you were too naïve to see it; that was a salute to the “Bloods”; a gang that is well known for its violent rape, murder and drug dealing activities. I hope that you and your sponsors are happy to have given a worldwide spotlight to such an organization.
I remember the great moments of past VMAs. For the first time ever, I can say that I was genuinely offended by your show. As someone who considers themself a fan of Howard Stern and other “dirty” shows, I am SHOCKED to be writing a letter to a media company to complain of being offended. Your show tonight was not only objectionable but obscene. This is the last time that I will watch any show on your network. I will be sending a copy of this letter to all sponsors of MTV and other Viacom stations and encourage friends and family to boycott their products.
Kiss My Ass.
Viacom:
I am writing to thank you for your coverage of last week's MTV Video Music Awards. I have looked forward to and watched this event for years. This will be my last.
I hope that someone in your organization sees the problem with that broadcast. Inviting a man from the UK to host the VMAs was a very diplomatic move and I commend you for it. However, you lost that support when that host called our sitting President a “retard” and the Royal Family “inbred.” He went on to speak of the masturbation habits of teenage boys and Alex Rodriguez’s use of a baseball bat on Madonna. Uncomfortable yet? Good, so was I.
The show continued with a performance from “Lil Wayne.” This man currently faces drug and weapons charges for which he may spend a lifetime in prison. While I admire your appreciation for his right to a trial by jury; I do take offense to the bandana that was hanging out of his barely covered ass. Did you notice the red? In the event that you were too naïve to see it; that was a salute to the “Bloods”; a gang that is well known for its violent rape, murder and drug dealing activities. I hope that you and your sponsors are happy to have given a worldwide spotlight to such an organization.
I remember the great moments of past VMAs. For the first time ever, I can say that I was genuinely offended by your show. As someone who considers themself a fan of Howard Stern and other “dirty” shows, I am SHOCKED to be writing a letter to a media company to complain of being offended. Your show tonight was not only objectionable but obscene. This is the last time that I will watch any show on your network. I will be sending a copy of this letter to all sponsors of MTV and other Viacom stations and encourage friends and family to boycott their products.
Kiss My Ass.
Friday, September 12, 2008
McCain's health care plan will cost you $7500.00
Yes, you read that right. The average American family will spend an extra $7,500 on health insurance if John McCain's proposed health care reform is passed into law.
Ezra Klein explains it better than I can:
Joe's taking a look at McCain's health insurance place and focusing on the fact that it exposes employer health care benefits to taxation. This is a tremendous tax increase, to the tune of $3.6 trillion over 10 years. But you won't pay most of it. Rather, as it becomes less affordable for employers to pay for health care, they'll stop doing it. Put another way: You're not going to pay higher taxes, you're going to lose your health care coverage. Then you'll be in the individual market where McCain will give you a fixed tax credit -- $5,000 for a family, or about 40 percent the cost of the average plan -- to purchase care.
There's a whole theory behind this approach. McCain wants to cut total health care spending. Along with his advisers, he thinks total health care spending is too high because employers by lavish plans and employees don't realize those plans are coming out of their paychecks. If the employees were buying the plans, they'd buy cheapers ones, and use less health care. All these premises are probably true. And the outcome will be that people have less health care, and can't access needed services, and go bankrupt a lot. The bottom line is that this isn't merely a tax increase. It's a governance philosophy that holds that the problem with health insurance is that you have too much of it, and John McCain aims to change that. He has, in other words, a policy that will pay down the federal debt with money raised through human misery.
For all his anti-tax rhetoric, John McCain only cares about cutting taxes for the ultra-rich (remember, this is a guy who owns so many houses he can't even count them and thinks if you make $4.9 MM a year you're middle-class). If letting the irresponsible Bush tax cuts expire is a "tax increase," removing a $3.6 TRILLION tax credit for businesses certainly an increase.
And while the Bush tax cuts merely put a hurting on the treasury, if McCain's health care proposal becomes law, people will die.
Insurance companies can and will deny individual coverage (for any or no reason whatsoever) to people who would have been covered under their employers' group plans, thus weeding out the people who need health insurance the most. After spending his entire life being the beneficiary of government-provided health care (through the military, in Congress and now via Medicare) McCain's proposal will make health care less accessible and more expensive for the rest of us. And while our current health care system has lots of problems, "health care is too accessible and too affordable" is not one of them.
There is only one way to make real progress towards addressing our healthcare crisis is by electing Barack Obama president.
Help me make this happen - donate to his campaign today.
Ezra Klein explains it better than I can:
Joe's taking a look at McCain's health insurance place and focusing on the fact that it exposes employer health care benefits to taxation. This is a tremendous tax increase, to the tune of $3.6 trillion over 10 years. But you won't pay most of it. Rather, as it becomes less affordable for employers to pay for health care, they'll stop doing it. Put another way: You're not going to pay higher taxes, you're going to lose your health care coverage. Then you'll be in the individual market where McCain will give you a fixed tax credit -- $5,000 for a family, or about 40 percent the cost of the average plan -- to purchase care.
There's a whole theory behind this approach. McCain wants to cut total health care spending. Along with his advisers, he thinks total health care spending is too high because employers by lavish plans and employees don't realize those plans are coming out of their paychecks. If the employees were buying the plans, they'd buy cheapers ones, and use less health care. All these premises are probably true. And the outcome will be that people have less health care, and can't access needed services, and go bankrupt a lot. The bottom line is that this isn't merely a tax increase. It's a governance philosophy that holds that the problem with health insurance is that you have too much of it, and John McCain aims to change that. He has, in other words, a policy that will pay down the federal debt with money raised through human misery.
For all his anti-tax rhetoric, John McCain only cares about cutting taxes for the ultra-rich (remember, this is a guy who owns so many houses he can't even count them and thinks if you make $4.9 MM a year you're middle-class). If letting the irresponsible Bush tax cuts expire is a "tax increase," removing a $3.6 TRILLION tax credit for businesses certainly an increase.
And while the Bush tax cuts merely put a hurting on the treasury, if McCain's health care proposal becomes law, people will die.
Insurance companies can and will deny individual coverage (for any or no reason whatsoever) to people who would have been covered under their employers' group plans, thus weeding out the people who need health insurance the most. After spending his entire life being the beneficiary of government-provided health care (through the military, in Congress and now via Medicare) McCain's proposal will make health care less accessible and more expensive for the rest of us. And while our current health care system has lots of problems, "health care is too accessible and too affordable" is not one of them.
There is only one way to make real progress towards addressing our healthcare crisis is by electing Barack Obama president.
Help me make this happen - donate to his campaign today.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
At the Beach
I dig his favorite toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs, I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, wish you were here
The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air saying:
I wish you were here, I wish you were
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs, I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, wish you were here
The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air saying:
I wish you were here, I wish you were
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
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