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What’s the deal? I can’t believe we just throw money at companies and their leadership when they have flat out proven they “suck” at their job. A recent article I read says that 1.6 BILLION yeah, that’s what I said 1.6 BILLION went to the executives of bailed out banks. What a joke! We’ve made bad deals, bad investments, bad decisions, but give us more money so we’ll be motivated to do better. I am so fed up with this mentality. Why don’t we just pay them a fairly normal salary like 500,000 or something that most of us could only dream of and the rest based on Results, there’s a concept. Some of these folks make well over 30 mil a year with all their perks. It’s a joke. We need to be paying them less not more and if they perform and the company performs and makes money give them some incentives. How can you bonus someone when you lost millions upon millions of dollars? I don’t get it. In my honest opinion if you are an executive in a company asking for a taxpayer handout… STEP ASIDE.

A little boy of three sittin’ on the floor
Looks up and says, “Daddy, what is war?”
“son, that’s when people fight and die”
The little boy of three says “Daddy, why?”
A young man of seventeen in Sunday school
Being taught the golden rule
And by the time another year has gone around
It may be his turn to lay his life down
Can you blame the voice of youth for asking
“What is truth?”
-johnny cash

Well I found my old CD on Amazon. Kind of funny to find it there Expensive!!! If you want it, let me know I have new copies and they are much cheaper!!!

Solo Project circa 1997

A fun article about the body clock and when is the best time for certain activities, like naps, doctor’s appointments. See it here.

120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

• One must obtain a permit from the city to throw hay in a cesspool.
• It is illegal to own a green or smelly animal hide.
• Bowling on the sidewalk is illegal.
• Driving a herd of cattle down a street is against the law.
•  It is illegal to plant a garden in any public street.
• Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

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1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.”
3. Specify that your drive-through order is “TO-GO.”
4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
7. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what you think.”
8. Practice making fax and modem noises.
9. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and “cc” them to your boss.
10. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
11. Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophesy.”
12. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
13. Disassemble your pen and “accidentally” flip the ink cartridge across the room.
14. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
15. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way.”
16. Staple pages in the middle of the page.
17. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.
18. Honk and wave to strangers.
19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
20. TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
21. type only in lowercase.
22. dont use any punctuation either
23. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
24. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.
    “DO YOU HEAR THAT?”
    “What?”
    “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
25. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
26. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “No, wait, I messed it up,” and repeat.
27. Ask people what gender they are.
28. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
29. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
30. Sing along at the opera.
31. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
32. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about “psychological profiles.”

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