The Chokin’ Kind
Posted on | August 28, 2004 | No Comments
I only meant to love you
Didn’t you know it babe
Didn’t you know it
Why couldn’t you be content
With the love I gave oh yeah
I gave you my heart
But you wanted my mind, oh yeah
Your love scared me to death, boy
Oh it’s the chokin kind
That’s all it is
You can kill a girl
With a bottle of poison or a knife
I know you can
And hurt him more to take his pride
And run his life
Oh it’s a shame its a shame boy
Whatever it is boy
I surely hope you find, oh yeah
I tell you that hat hmmm don’t fit my head
Oh, it’s the chokin kind
It makes me wanna mmm mmm mmm mmm
Oh yeah, oh listen to me
When you fall in love again boy
Take a tip from me oh yeah
If you don’t like the peach then walk on by the tree
That’s what you better do, honey
Find what you want boy
Keep it, treat it, sweet and kind, oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh let it breathe, don’t go making it the chokin kind
Oh no, don’t break your heart baby
Oh no, I know you love me truly really I do, honey
Oh but I tell you your love scares me to death boy
It’s the chokin kind
That’s all it is
I got to say it again
It’s that old chokin kind
~Joss Stone
Life…
Posted on | August 25, 2004 | No Comments
is good… think about it.
Forgiveness
Posted on | August 5, 2004 | No Comments
I got the call today
And I didn’t want to hear
But I knew that it would come
An old true friend of ours
Was talking on the phone
She said you’d found someone
And I thought of all the bad luck
And the struggles we went through
How I lost me, and you lost you
What are all these voices
Outside love’s open door
Make us throw off our contentment
And beg for something more
I’m learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew
I’m learning again
I’ve been trying to get down
To the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it’s about
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Even if, Even if you don’t love me anymore
Ah these times are so uncertain
There’s a yearning undefined
People filled with rage
We all need a little tenderness
How can love survive
In such a graceless age
Oh the trust and self-assurance
That lead to happiness
They’re the very things we kill I guess
Oh pride and competition
Cannot fill these empty arms
And the work I put between us
You know it doesn’t keep me warm
I’m learning to live without you now
But I miss you baby
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I figured out
I have to learn again
I’ve been trying to get down
To the heart of the matter
But everything changesgets weak
And my friends seem to scatter
But I think it’s about
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Even if, Even if you don’t love me anymore
There are people in your life
Who’ve come and gone
They let you down
You know they hurt your pride
You better put it all behind you babe
‘Cuz life goes on
You keep carrying that anger
It’ll eat you up inside baby
I’ve been trying to get down
To the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it’s about
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Even if, Even if you don’t love me
I’ve been trying to get down
To the heart of the matter
Because the flesh will get weak
And the ashes will scatter
But I think it’s about
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Even if, Even if you don’t love me
Long as I can see the light
Posted on | June 22, 2004 | No Comments
Put a candle in the window
Cause I feel I’ve got to move
Though I’m goin’, goin’ I’ll be comin’ home soon
Long as I can see the light
Pack my bag and let’s get moving
Cause I’m bound to drift a while
When I’m gone, gone you don’t have to worry
Long as I can see the light
Guess I’ve got that old travelin’ bone
Cause this feeling won’t leave me alone
But I won’t, won’t be losing my way
Long as I can see the light
A Truly Universal Issue…
Posted on | June 21, 2004 | 15 Comments
A friend sent this little gem in so I added it and with the comments… hmmmm
From: Tim McNees
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:06 AM
Subject: A Truly Universal Issue…
Love him or loath him, he nailed this one right on the head………….
By Rush Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving the country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don’t criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I just can’t let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you’re going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.. Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there’s a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it’s not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don’t you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It’s just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own U.S. Congress just voted themselves a raise, and many of you don’t know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month, and most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They also do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn’t have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed you in harm’s way receive a pension of $15,000 per month. I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
“When do we finally do something about this?” If this doesn’t seem fair to you, it is time to forward this to as many people as you can.If your interested there is more……………………
This must be a campaign issue in 2004. Keep it going. SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth the read. It’s short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congressmen do not pay into Social Security. Many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die, except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000 – that’s Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each.
Their cost for this excellent plan is $00.00. These little perks they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan.
From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into — every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer) –we can expect to get an average $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one month to equal Senator Bill Bradley’s benefits!
Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. And that change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us and then watch how fast they would fix it.
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve. WE, each one of us… can make a difference..
How many people can YOU send this to?