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Psyche's Muse
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4/23/2016 4:23:07 AM
...my take on the Donald Trump Donation of $100,000 to the 911 Museum
Trump Donates $100.000
"Jaw-Dropping" was the response to that $100,000...
Below is a little story explaining “my” take on this $100,000. It's from a 1980’s Discussion in the kitchen at work about Elvis Presley giving away "Brand New Cadillacs"
...earlier in the shift, during a bullshit session on the smoke bench a cam padre asked to bum a smoke, saying he’d forgotten to bring any with him. I tell him, “Hell, man, I’ve got a whole carton in my car. Let me give just you a pack.” He tried to refuse saying that he’d rather bum one as needed during the night, but I wouldn’t hear it, saying, ”Look. You put up with listening to all my bullshit and to show my appreciation for that... HERE! Consider it a gift. And I promise you this... YOUR gift to me is worth WAY MORE than this stupid pack of cigarettes will ever be... thank YOU”.
Anyway, back to the “Elvis” discussion later that night:
The conversation was going like this: He’s SO AWSOME! He’s SO THOUGHTFUL! He’s SO GENEROUS! He is SO GIVING! SO CONSIDERATE! And while this is going on several people discuss what Elvis’s net worth is. I do a little calculating and say, “I have an question for everybody. If you give a pack of cigarettes away would that be MORE or LESS of a gift based upon what it actually costs you when compared to an Elvis Cadillac?” Most thought it absurd and said NO WAY could that pack of cigarettes equal one of those Cadillacs. I said, “You’re RIGHT! That pack of cigarettes is nearly TWICE the gift when coming from somebody like us. Isn’t it amazing how we view things through eyes filled with covetousness, pride, and greed instead of valuing the more true nature of the gift and it’s giver?” Needless to say, at this point the whole conversation stopped(I’ll assume that now you understand why I valued as precious my com padre’s willingness to listen to my type of bullshit on the smoke bench. Haha!). And “NO” I did not bring to light the fact that I’d given away a pack of cigarettes that night... that was not the point... but it WAS the INSPIRATION for the CALCULATION.
Of course, at the end of our shift I did fill my com padre in on the fact that I’d “given him a Cadillac” that night. He said, “So, you’re trying to be like Elvis?”...”No” I said, “But maybe this information will serve us well the next time we give our wives a dozen roses or something... we could explain to them the comparative values”...to which he replied ”Nah! ...they’d still prefer the Cadillac... I wouldn’t even bring something like that up... but, good luck to you if you want to try it... and by the way, thanks again for the cigs, man!”... He gives me a ‘thumbs up’ and walks away.
In closing:
It is a GOOD and AWSOME thing when the wealthy “give” things. It’s just that we need to remember that whenever they do... it is “usually” for ulterior motives or maybe just the PRAISE associated with it. Am I any different? Nah. I’d given those cigarettes thinking that whenever I needed to bum one I wouldn’t have to feel guilty when asking. So was I selfish in offering my gift? ...hoping to get something in return? Apparently so. Most of us are like little mice feeding on the crumbs that fall from the table of the wealthy. Sometimes they’ll drop a whole piece of bread. Is this an act of God? YES!!! ...and so are the crumbs, and so are the mice, and so are the wealthy. So what is my point? Who th’ fuck knows! I am “MAKING A POINT” though... just pointing out and saying “LOOKY HERE!” We should watch “HOW” we judge others... for we are judging the very Angels! And we should watch “HOW” we view gifts too. And never forget “money” as being a motivation for becoming a Judas. –M-
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4/23/2016 9:06:53 AM
Point made and noted.
Drop in the bucket to a billionaire, 100k.
This is probably more than I feel like revealing,
but I'm going to say this much anyway.
I wrote to Mr Trump at one point
not terribly long ago,
and asked him, just out of a humanitarian impetus,
to reach into his pocket,
and buy Flint Michigan, an entire new pipe system.
They need one,
everyone keeps hemming and hawing and dicking around,
Governor Rich Synder is an absolutely reprehensible human being,
who forget incarcerated, should be dropped down a mile long hole
that has a giant carnivorous worm with gnarly gnangly teeth at the bottom....
So yes, that's the gist,
I asked Mr Trump,
to pay the several, possibly several hundred million, it would take,
to give Flint Michigan, an entire fresh new pipe system.
Now, here's a part, that is true, that I'm embarrassed admitting.
I'm honest to a fault though, and as I've spilled this out....
I also pointed out, that if he did that
(not my motivation for asking him to do it, he has money,
they need help, I'd read his book and read how he'd helped
Annabel Hill, a widow who was being muscled by a bank,
and thought he might help, in the course of writing to him,
I realized, 'hey he might pick up a vote or two if he does this'...)
that he might pick up a vote or two if he does that.
It's a lot of money, several million.
But to a Billionaire?
It's a pack of cigarettes.
Well if bloody well is if you buy them in New York City!
And F*** You Mike Bloomberg,
you're the reason they are. Another goddamned useless Billionaire.
Thanks for nothing the goddamned lot of you.
Yes, moral of the story,
that was too big a drop from too large a bucket,
Mr Trump did not grant that request I made on behalf of Flint, Michigan.
Thanks Loads, Money Bags!
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Larree
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4/23/2016 10:23:56 AM
I think it is great when people give anything for good causes no matter what their motivations may be. Giving is giving.
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Larree
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4/23/2016 10:45:37 AM
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Re: Flint, MI, and other places in need of repair.
I believe that Donald Trump is the perfect presidential choice if you want a leader with the knowledge and skill to create the kind of huge infrastructure projects we need to start up right now if we are going to keep up with the rest of the world.
Airports, roads, water systems, etc.; all in need of repair. Trump is the only presidential candidate who can fix all of that stuff on time and under budget.
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Psyche's Muse
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4/24/2016 6:14:29 AM
..AMEN! to that LAREE!!! ...maybe even build a "Fucking" Pyramid... or TWO!!
...and yeah, "The Donald" would DEFINITELY KNOW ALL of and about the "ins and outs" both the "crooked and the straight" paths of use toward getting "ANYTHING" done... He is also "LOOSE" enough with his mouth that he'd be willing to "Let The Cat Out Of The Bag" if that were needed/necessary... meaning "I don't think he'd PUSSY OUT" if it comes to that... but then you can never "Know" anything like that until the time comes... so, yeah, it's all about "BELIEF" now... and "The Donald" sure seems to bring more valuable potential to the table than the others... although maybe "K"-Sick(seems decent enough, hell= "coulda - woulda - shoulda", but I think he's a wimp... but could be wrong about that too)
***What is MORE "Believable" to me is that "Everything"; "All of It" is a "Scam"... a "Show"... a Predestined, Premeditated, Pretence Of Purity.
...all that aside, Donald Trump seems the one and only hope to supply the most potential for the "Outrageous" the "Lively" and the "Unexpected"...all "Surprises" aren't "Good" things, BUT ...ALL "REALLY GOOD" things have always been a surprise to me... in fact that element of "Surprise" is what made them "REALLY" good(instead of simply "good").
...say we're all of us "drawing straws" to determine "winners and losers" where the "winners" "live" and the loser "dies",,, being on the "short end of the stick" here would be a "Very Bad" thing... i.e."There is not enough to go around”. So, “We need to do some pruning!”... and “It has been decided/determined by the 'experts' that 1/3 of us must leave(die). This is the only way we can ever hope to achieve "Sustainable Development'(the new Law of the Land)" So, now 1/3 of us "stick drawers" will be "let go" for the "good"(well being) of the 2/3. Imagine you have drawn a stick considered to be on the "short" end of the spectrum... and you wait and you wait... until "Finally" you get the word... words you are hoping and praying to hear... "YOU ARE SAFE!" Wow! What a Relief! What a Surprise! What “GOOD” News!!!
...and then you’ll think of that “other” group ...the “1/3” ...ooooo ....uuuugh! “Grandma! Let me take your place, Grandma!” “Mamma!!!” Daddy!!!” “It’ll be alright son.”
What’s interesting to note(for all you “Bible Thumpers”) is that this is mentioned in the book of Revelation... “After” the 1/3 is destroyed... 1/3 of the sea, 1/3 of this and 1/3 of that... Frighteningly so the number “Saved” is 2/3 ...and divide 2 by 3 and you’ll get .666 ...2/3 of 100 is 66.6 ...so quite a few of us are actually gonna WANT to be counted in “THAT” Number I would think! It’s just such a shame we are always fighting, scratching and clawing our way “supposedly” to the top... only to discover the victims in our wake... It’s ME! MINE! MY WAY! ...maybe there ARE “too many” of us. The human population is like loads and loads of sperm... no rhyme, no reason. The “Father Way” is lost and forgotten... making everyone of us “Bastard Children” one and all... from the eldest unto youngest. “Da Da!” “Abba!” “Father!” “COME!”... and no that does not mean more loads of sperm, but “Purpose”...Recognition of a goal having an objective NOT based upon MONEY= like a Judas MotherFucker!) ironic isn’t it... EVERY “DADDY” cannot EVER be a “daddy” unless he first beCOMES a “Mother” FUCKER!!! ...Long Live The King!!!
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Psyche's Muse
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4/24/2016 6:16:23 AM
Speaking of a “King” of sorts, Hello there American Lesley Jane. What you did there would not have seemed “weird” or even “strange” in times past... although, depending on where you were living, it may be a rather “dangerous” thing to do. So, good for you! You have a “REAL” set of balls. I’ll give you that(thanks for sharing). Any nail that “sticks up” for itself is always at risk of getting hammered, so thank the Good Lord for making nails like you. Whether or not you are deemed “successful” by the “worldly” or “recognized” “musical” standards doesn’t “really” matter to me... what matters more is your enthusiasm and energy which inspires “LIFE” and this is ALWAYS GOOD! That makes you a person worthy of “envy”(... or maybe “emulation” would be a better term?)...
As for those insane “Cigarette Smoker Persecutions”
I was standing in a parking lot smoking when a woman comes by with her child in a shopping cart. She gave me “the look”, you’ll know the “the look” if you’re a smoker. So she speeds up and races past me staying far away from me and near to the ass-ends of cars parked there. Now two of these cars had their engines running. She runs her child right through this exhaust as if nothing was wrong with it. In fact when she stops up ahead at her vehicle she places her child “RIGHT INSIDE A CLOUD OF EXHAUST FUMES... DARK AND ALMOST BLACK!!!???” So, as I make my way toward her she keeps glancing back at me... as if she is trying to hurry up and get her kid inside before I come by with my “MOTHERFUCKIN’ CIGARETTE”. When I get beside her she looks at me again and I GIVE HER “The Look”(you fool!)... and say, “I think you’d better get your kid out of all that smoke”. She gives me some other kind of “Look”, scoffs, and then grabs the buggy and moves the kid around to a “safer” location.
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Psyche's Muse
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4/24/2016 6:16:55 AM
And speaking about “revealing “ something that you feel you might ought not, ALJ, I’ve got something for you so you won’t have to feel so naked and alone in this matter(it is time for “Revelation” anyhow, ain’t it?)
I’ve had a long career(if you’d call it that) in the Oil Industry(36yrs) at a refinery. And when I was elected Safety Committee Chairperson I thought, “Wow! Finally! What I think and say will REALLY matter now! Finally! Thank God! Hallelujah!” Hell, I learned rather quickly that I was NOTHING more than one of those fucking nails sticking up. Anyway, fuck them!
So in my early years there I filed a complaint(it was not my first I assure you that) about a “Safety/Firefighting Procedure” in my area. For us to follow it as written would actually rip open our tanks, which are filled with 350 degree product and this could kill people, namely the firefighters who would be standing in the area of the tank fire. The “Standard” practice in case of fire was to hook up firewater hoses to foam lines mixing water and soap creating a barrier to snuff out the fire by injecting it into the tank that was on fire. Cool! This works perfectly fine... except NOT on HOT product like we had in our tanks. You would literally “tar and feather” people(without the feathers of course... although there were many a nesting bird AND some pigeons that could be involved). Putting this “foam/water” mixture into any vessel whose temperature is above boiling would cause catastrophic failure of the vessel when the water turning into steam is expanding by 1000 or 2000 times in a matter of seconds.
For a documented “Safety Procedure” which is both reviewed and checked bi-yearly to have been “THIS” wrong is unbelievable. I feel it was because someone did not care enough. But “for them” something had been missed or (government sure likes these kinds of excuses) ugh... “failed to connect the dots”, “dropped the ball”, etc.
Anyway, getting back to my main point of “EVIL CIGARETTES”
I go to the office of Material Safety Date Sheets. This is THE place where you’ll find ALL the IMPORTANT INFORMATION(double checked/gone over with a fine tooth comb/you can TRUST these motherfuckin’ documents! –you here me boy!) ...THAT “place” is where I have to go to “TRY” and get this gross error of monstrous proportions remedied. So, in I go to the office. The “Head” of IHUSP will be in shortly so I wait... and wait. I think “Hell, I grab one of those stupid books and read it”... I grab one that says something like “The Affects of Heavy Metals in Hydrocarbon Vapors”... just open it up somewhere midway, not thinking or trying... and let my eyes flow to the first sentence of a paragraph about 1/3 the way down the page on the left side(right side of the book). I can almost quote it I think. The light aromatic vapors of naphthas and other aromatic hydrocarbon components used in gasolines and various other products contain non-biodegradable metallic molecules, which when inhaled into the lungs “WILL” CAUSE LUNG CANCER. The cancer risks associated with this is negligible BECAUSE cancer stemming from this type exposure usually won’t occur until a person is in their seventies or eighties(Life expectancy for adults in US at this time is 65 or something). BUT! A person smoking cigarettes will accelerate this process where they could possibly began developing these lung cancers while in their thirties!!!! BUTT!!??(as in a cigarette?) ASSHOLES!
I get up immediately and walk toward the door(there’s a copy machine right outside and I am smiling and shouting “Eurika!”. At this time they have just recently “outlawed/banished” smoking in all buildings... while not providing smoke places with roofs or walls. We were “forced” to sit facing the ass-end of vehicles in the parking lot to smoke our cigarettes...in the rain, heat, and cold... and most times these vehicles, field trucks, were left there idling away... blowing “cancer causing” vapors right at “us” smokers... who I’ve just discovered of all people we are the most vulnerable to that exhaust( yeah, like an idiot I’m still believing that things are being done based on TRUE information... FOOL!...) In walks the “Head” of IHUSP and he says, ”Where are you going with that?”...”To make a copy!” said I. “Oh, NO you are NOT” said he. “Why not?” I say, “I was told this was “OUR” information... not “YOURS” ...and also that my input is welcome and desired and even expected of me. My Supervisor is so happy that I am here doing this(changing that firefighting procedure) that he told me ANYTHING ELSE I find to BE SURE and NOTIFY HIM about it. Well, both he and I smoke and I find this here extremely interesting.”...while showing him the paragraph in the book. He takes the book and opens to an appendage page and reads something about proprietary information and disclosure and yadda, yadda, yadda, telling me that if I copy anything from that book I could be fired from my job. If any of that information leaves his office(without tracking or forms filled out I guess) I would be criminally prosecuted, as well as fired AND FINED(not sure how big a fine). “You’re shittin’ me, man... right?”. “Nope!” he replies, “really, I wouldn’t care so much about you taking that risk, but I would probably get fired as well for allowing this information or any of this documentation to get out. So, for the sake of MY job, please don’t do it.” I left the book on his desk and we began work on getting that “Insane and Totally Unsafe” procedure removed or altered, corrected. Spent over an hour that day... called and checked on it regularly... went by unannounced a few times to follow-up personally. I went by our facility’s fire station and made sure they all knew the dangers... talked to Department Heads, 2nd Line Supervisors, refinery Superintendents... and after ELEVEN MONTHS !!! STILL NO CHANGES!!! I even had signs made and posted them at the foam lines of 12 to 14 tanks(4 foam lines each) AND this was all just “EXTRA” work that I did BECAUSE I GAVE A SHIT! (FOOL!) I spent DAYS(hours at a time) trying to resolve what should have been a simple resolution. Instead I had to get mechanical crews(I begged for this AFTER TWO YEARS GO BY) to place metal blinds in these foam lines so that it would become “IMPOSSIBLE” for anyone to mistakenly “Follow the Safety Procedure for a fire” on one of our tanks as directed to do by the “Experts”(...yeah, ex-“spirts” ...wasted, wriggling, useless things) Eight years before I retired I once again checked to see if the MSDS Firefighting Protocol had ever been changed and it had not. They said, “Ya’ll have got all them foam lines blinded away don’t ya?” ...”what’s th’ problem then? It’s really no big deal, huh?” ...it makes me want to cry( C R Y ! ! ! ! !) ...fuck it!
-M-
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Larree
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4/24/2016 7:56:32 AM
I have followed Donald's career for years. I read 'Art of the Deal' many years ago, and again recently. I like to follow the careers of successful people. I don't buy into the leftist media created fear that is being pushed on us. I recognize that Donald has a business side and a show business side. And once he gets down to business as president he will do a fantastic job. Much better than any career politician could ever do. Hillary is the one people should fear most. She is the one who will push the button. We do not want her answering the phone at 3 AM.
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Holo Lukaloa
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4/24/2016 11:45:28 AM
I don't see how anyone in their right mind can believe that Hillary would be more likely to push the button than Trump. Basically if that's what you believe, your whole array of beliefs are utter nonsense.
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Larree
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4/24/2016 11:54:59 AM
Well Holo, my lad, she would be first in line to push that button. She is the momma hawk of momma hawks, junior. So you just go on and vote for Hillary Patton...I mean, Clinton.
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Holo Lukaloa
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4/24/2016 12:06:18 PM
well you obviously don't even follow politics. Anyway thanks for your 2 cents though it isn't even worth that.
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Lars Mars
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4/24/2016 12:45:05 PM
I think Donald thought he was buying the naming rights for the 911 Museum.
He's in for a disappointment if he did.
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Larree
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4/24/2016 1:45:33 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, junior. Whatevah you say, kid.
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Holo Lukaloa
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4/24/2016 1:50:23 PM
It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. - Bill Murray
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Larree
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4/24/2016 2:39:42 PM
I know. It's really hard with you. You go straight for the racist bigot card and I just roll my eyes.
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4/25/2016 7:49:41 AM
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Well. To Larree. Jeez, I do like you more and more, and I'm sorry we've had such tiffs in the past.
I am, myself, so sick of all the political hullabaloo that I kind of don't care anymore.
May The Best President Win.
It's obviously down to Hillary versus Donald; This is who The People Have Picked.
Kasich and Cruz have now become so desperate, they're 'joining forces' to 'stop Trump', and if the past recent history has any clue about this, that should work out
'real well' for 'em.
You know, and thanks Psycho Muse, I'll have a word or two with you momentarily,
Things Have A Habit Of Happening As They Are Meant To.
So, if we're meant, to have a Woman President, By Golly We Will.
And if we're meant to have Donald Trump for a President. Again. We Will.
We, Shall, See.
Now, mentioning, as you did, Psyche,
"Hammered".
I'm afraid you are mistaken.
My getting 'hammered' days are now behind me. God said so.
Was very adamant about the whole thing. Not much of a 'gray area'
to work with. So I'm sober, oh, going on five months now.
Longest I've ever been so, like since I was 14.
No more smokin' greenery either, that's the thing I've been doing
steadily since I was friggin' 14! And now, I'm over a hundred.
No, I feel sometimes like I'm over a hundred. I'm physically 56 years old.
Or young. Depending on the day, or the time of day.
Psych Muse,
Well you can talk even more than I can,
that's impressive.
A Muse should be able to go on a bit, this is so.
I Am The Muse, besides being The King,
so I would say, you are off to a good start.
And your third whisky.
I hope you don't intend to get behind the wheel of a vehicle in that condition.
Oh and by the way,
I'm more of a hammer than I look, Dude. Or, whatever you are.
And I travel where I need to, when I need to, as I need to.
But I thank you for your 'heartfelt concern'.
God Bless, Much Love, ~Lesley Jane, Big Famous Whooptee Doo Who I Am.
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Two Silo Complex
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4/25/2016 8:43:59 AM
Well Psyche's Muse,
I have several points for you:
Point 1
"EVERY “DADDY” cannot EVER be a “daddy” unless he first beCOMES a “MF er”
Not true for at the time of said "f"ing the mother that was "f"d was not yet a mother.
It was only after said "f" ing and said child was conceived did the "mother" then become one.
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Two Silo Complex
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4/25/2016 8:45:49 AM
point 2
" It’s just such a shame we are always fighting, scratching and clawing our way “supposedly” to the top... only to discover the victims in our wake... It’s ME! MINE! MY WAY! ...maybe there ARE “too many” of us. The human population is like loads and loads of sperm... no rhyme, no reason."
There is a rhyme and there is a reason and to everything there is also a season if you please. We can and do "fight, scratch and claw our way “supposedly” to the top
but there are not always victims however there may be some who believe they are victims because they believe that they should have what ever it is that you fought scratched and clawed for.
You see the fact is success breeds jealousy. There are those that fight the good fight every day and they claw for every inch just to get knocked back another mile but eventually the inches add up and they make something for themselves. Then the victims come along with there wounded hearts crying that they were left behind and that you could have never made the success without them. The fact is they had nothing to do with it. The fact is they are lazy slobs who dare not get off their fat ass for fear of being knocked on it and causing an earthquake. Fact is Jack I made my inches on my own and you could to if you dared to try but I'll be damned if I will loose a single centimeter to you who only wants to bring me down for you are nothing but a spot left by my boot heel. So if there is a victim of their own making and I will not fall for their failure.
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Two Silo Complex
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4/25/2016 8:50:03 AM
Point 3
"The “Father Way” is lost and forgotten... making everyone of us “Bastard Children” one and all... from the eldest unto youngest. “Da Da!” “Abba!” “Father!” “COME!”... and no that does not mean more loads of sperm, but “Purpose”...Recognition of a goal having an objective NOT based upon MONEY= like a Judas "
The father never lost his way and a fool and his money are soon parted. Those who chase the dollar are running a race they can't win and will eventually succumb to exhaustion from all the running probably with less than what they started.
Things in life ain't free but the best things money can't buy and those never lose value or tarnish in time.
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4/25/2016 9:01:16 AM
Wow.
Ken, that was impressive.
Truly.
There's the hedgehog, there's the fox.
Most are foxes, chasing 'it' whatever 'it' is. Usually money, as you succinctly noted, K.
Me, I'm the hedgehog, right here, been here, ain't goin' nowhere, ain't tryin' to.
My thing is what it is and is set up where it is, they can't get to me, nor be me.
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Two Silo Complex
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4/25/2016 10:03:24 AM
ALJ your last point was very well said.
"My thing is what it is and is set up where it is, they can't get to me, nor be me."
I agree completely.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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