Official Obama Anthem
well, he's earning the title eh?
Friday, June 12, 2009 by vStyler | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKdGWXTUG4
As capitalism (and journalism) is being slowly choked out of existence.... Get ready to dig deep 
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Reply #143 Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:51 PM
Holy Crap. The Dark Knight is on HBO HD and here I am wasting my time with you all. 
...wait a sec.... OJ??????????????????
Reply #144 Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:58 PM
When I came back (dad got sick) I was treated like a second class citizen (medically). Proved myself all over again.
Reply #145 Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:05 PM
I threw my arm out trying out for the St. Louis Cardinals. Went back to school. Dropped out for a construction job and worked my way to the top of my field. I could have cried over my misfortune in not making it to the big leagues but that that would just be bad energy wasted instead of looking for the positive.
Hell I even did most of it stoned so it really isn't all that hard to make a better life for yourself. You just have to want to.
31 days now clean after 30 years of being stoned. Yeah for me! 
Reply #146 Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:51 PM
31 days now clean after 30 years of being stoned.
The economy really sucks, doesn't it?
OK -- here's my story. When I had to hit the work force full time after my divorce, I got lucky. I knew how to type, I had volunteered as an EMT in the middle of nowhere in Kansas so I was aware of medical vocabulary, and the hospital that advertized they were looking for medical transcriptionists took a chance on me despite the fact that I had no prior work experience in that field and didn't have any education in that line of work. The one thing I DID have, as a willingness to work any hours they wanted me to work and I was willing to accept considerably less than the going rate for transcriptionists at that time. So basically I was in the right place at the right time with the right people, and I've been doing this for the past 13 years. I'm highly employable, but unfortunately, like most things in this economy, the work volumes are low, and since I get paid on production, that means my pay has decreased considerably. Plus, "technology" has kind of ruined my ability to hit the sorts of pay figures I used to make, because they've come out with voice recognition, and that means I've been essentially replaced by robots -- I still have to clean up the mess the robots make, because robots can't think, but they pay me way less to play janitor to the robots than they did before robots existed. However, I have a job, and I have job skills. If my kids wanted to do this, they would have to go into debt to do it the normal way, by going to college and then getting lucky at finding someone willing to hire newbies.
Things were a heck of a lot easier as far as becoming independent, when I grew up. Kids today have it a lot harder.
Reply #147 Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:33 PM
I have to disagree. They have the same opportunity to succeed as we did. They keep getting told it is harder for them because we have been conditioned by fear and we simply do the same to them. The world is a scary place but don't train people to think that way. 
We have the power to revolt right at our fingertips. If we could get enough people together we could make a difference. We wouldn't need funding, just good leadership. As a matter of fact no funding would be what keeps it all honest. Actually you would need funding to set up a bunch of websites but that's pretty cheap. A few dedicated volunteers and a shitload of signatures is all you the power you need. We could take back the country peacefully through boycotts and solidarity. We have the power, It is our country.
Think Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition but uncorrupted. He had the ability to make a difference and he squandered it making a living for himself and fighting stupid battles.
Reply #149 Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:49 AM
Got it in ONE, NT, have a cigar... those FOUR small words desribe exactly why the World is currently in a financial mess.
And those practicing it (the large-scale financial and political/power kind of greed) shot.
Reply #150 Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:00 AM
Of course, the second someone starts to discuss actually doing something instead of just whining everyone dissapears. 
Reply #151 Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:27 AM
When I went to Israel, I knew 2 words of Hebrew and couldn't read it nor write it. My dad was Protestant, anf my mom Jewish. I never really 'chose' because I didn't wish to seem to reject one of them until my dad told me he didn't really believe...so, after college I went to Israel...I figured I earned it working thru school and a full scholarship- room, board and tuition. So, I went and learned. Two days short of a year there I was drafted. Became an officer and interviewed for med school. Made a diagnosis...was right and got in. Wasn't easy, but learned to speak, read and write as well as a native born more or less.
When I came back (dad got sick) I was treated like a second class citizen (medically). Proved myself all over again.Looks like your hard work paid off. You earned where you are now.
Thank you...Xiandi...I think the same about you and your skills and dedication to your art. Just looking at what you accomplish is a thrill for me. 
Reply #153 Monday, June 15, 2009 11:41 PM
OK, let me elaborate. When my sister-in-law got divorced she couldn't keep up with all the credit card payments. They drove her nuts day after day, and one company actually came out and took the kids bicycles!
Thats poor money management. No offense but if she couldn't afford the bicycles then they should not have had any. I'm not for bailing out any individual that lived beyond their means.
Oh, she HAD the means.....until she got divorced. He didn't pay any of the bills that they made TOGETHER. He just left! Went to work in the coal mines of Virginia.
You can't MANAGE money you no longer have!
Reply #154 Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:00 AM
Sounds like she should have traded the bikes for a gun MG. 
I hear the mines aren't very healthy so maybe she'll get some payback in a different way.
Reply #155 Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:10 AM
Strange you should say that. He was moving a house trailer through the mountains there and it got stuck on a curve and when he tried to dislodge it, it tumbled over.
On him.
Squish.
Karma for him, and not the good kind!
Reply #156 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:27 AM
hmmm, think about this.
Hypothetically McCain won the election.
He puts his tax cuts into action permanently. This only leads to a quicker downfall of our economic system. People don't have money to spend so busineses keep laying off.
We still have troops entrenching in Iraq , afghanistan, and possibly action commencing with N. Korea.
The pressure has gotten to him as it has Obama only he is very old and he is worn down to a state where he is longer competent.
Palin is now acting President.
Reply #157 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:42 AM
Was he ever?
What more proof does anyone need? The running mate from Hell, and why McCain didn't get the vote. 
Reply #158 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:30 PM
Was he ever?
Palin is now acting President.
What more proof does anyone need? The running mate from Hell, and why McCain didn't get the vote.
Oh, come on, Starkers. This is not the first time in history a presidential candidate was clueless and let his little head do the thinking for him, and the conservative party doesn't hold a monopoly on that fault. Of all the reasons I disliked McCain, choosing Palin as a running mate, isn't one of them. As a matter of fact, I think it made him more likable in my eyes. It sure made things easy on comedians during the election, and anything that gets me to laugh is a good thing in my book.
Reply #159 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:12 PM
You really think that is why he picked Palin? He was told to pick Palin (by the Pentaverate) so Obummer had an even better shot at getting in.
So who's in this pentaverate?
The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettes, The Rothchilds and Col. Sanders before he went tets up. Oh, I hated the Col. with his wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face, Oh your gonna buy my chicken, Oohh.
Dad, how can you hate, the Col.?
Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave for it nightly, smartass!
Reply #160 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:53 PM
I wonder what tax you guys are paying to be complaining for 
You have to be making real money to be complaining about tax
I don't think (SKINNERS) make more $250,000 a year. I meant $250 from selling skins before taxes. People can't find jobs due to lack of education, now they're blaming THE MAN.
Stop bla bla bla and go get an education 
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Reply #141 Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:39 PM
John's just lucky I never got as serious as him with commercial skinning. He would be out of business by now.
Oh shooosh, you know I think your the best.
(behind Tiggz and probably even with Danillo)