tag:fubar.com,2010:blog-345911 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:08:02 -0800 A fubar user blog. http://www.fubar.com/blog/345911 noreply@fubar.com (DarkSoul) fubar tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogRSS-345911.post-1168801 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:08:02 -0800 2012-01-21T23:08:02-08:00 <h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span class="messageBody" style="font-size: small;">Got this email a little bit ago. Share if you agree with what it says:<br /> <br /> Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.<br /> <br /> In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> _*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_<br /> <br /> 1. No Tenure / No Pension.<br /> <br /> A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office.<br /> <br /> 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social<br /> Security.<br /> <br /> All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the<br /> Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.<br /> <br /> 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all<br /> Americans do.<br /> <br /> 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.<br /> Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.<br /> <br /> 5. Congress loses their current health care system and<br /> participates in the same health care system as the American people.<br /> <br /> 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the<br /> American people.<br /> <br /> 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.<br /> <br /> Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.<br /> <br /> If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Don't you think it's time?</span></span></h6> noreply@fubar.com (DarkSoul) http://www.fubar.com/blog/345911/1168801#viewcomments http://www.fubar.com/blog/345911/1168801 tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogRSS-345911.post-1168174 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:13:50 -0800 2012-01-13T16:13:50-08:00 <h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span class="messageBody"><br /> <span style="font-size: small;">If you start with a cage containing five monkeys, and, inside </span><span style="font-size: small;">the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top, and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs, and climb toward the banana.</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.<br /> <br /> Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.<br /> <br /> Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage, and replace it with a new one.<br /> <br /> The new monkey sees the banana, and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him.<br /> <br /> After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.<br /> <br /> Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs, and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.<br /> <br /> Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.<br /> <br /> Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.<br /> <br /> Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.<br /> <br /> Why, you ask?<br /> <br /> Because in their minds... that is the way it has always been!<br /> <br /> This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.</span></span></span></h6> noreply@fubar.com (DarkSoul) http://www.fubar.com/blog/345911/1168174#viewcomments http://www.fubar.com/blog/345911/1168174