The Watercooler for 10/29/09 5:00 PM

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> Job at the FBI
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> The FBI had an opening for an assassin.
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> After all the background checks, interviews
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> and testing were done, there were 3 finalists;
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> two men and a woman.
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> For the final test, the FBI agents took one of
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> the men to a large metal door and handed
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> him a gun.
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> 'We must know that you will follow your
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> Instructions no matter what the circumstances.
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> Inside the room you will find your wife sitting
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> in a chair .. . . kill her!!'
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> The man said, 'You can't be serious. I could
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> never shoot my wife.'
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> The agent said, 'Then you're not the right man
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> for this job. Take your wife and go home.'
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> The second man was given the same instructions.
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> He took the gun and went into the room. All was
>  quiet for about 5 minutes.
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> The man came out with tears in his eyes, 'I tried,
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> but I can't kill my wife.' The agent said, 'You don't
>  have what it takes. Take your wife and go home.'
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>

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> Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the
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> same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the
>  gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one
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> after another.  They heard screaming, crashing,
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> banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was
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> quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the
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> woman, wiping the sweat from her brow.
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> 'This gun is loaded with blanks' she said.  'I had to
>  beat him to death with the friggin chair.'
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> MORAL:
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> Women are crazy. Don't mess with them
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rain here again today but the storm is headed straight north

big old cyclone though to dump on both Pat and me

Got a pretty day goin' here.  Topped off by a fire.  I'm happy.

I am too.  Walter is doing a great job in my bathroom and he's also  going to get Medicare.  I gave him booklets and phone numbers and it's gonna get done.  :-)

Yana Kunichoff | Significant Changes to Bush-Era Military Commissions Signed Into Law
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "President Barack Obama signed a Defense Department spending bill into law Wednesday, which includes a provision that will change the way military commissions are structured. Human rights organizations and legal advocacy groups believe these controversial Bush-Era commissions primarily deny defendants the protections that federal courts provide and have responded with disappointment to their inclusion in defense legislation by a president who, during his presidential campaign, was quoted as saying he would 'reject the Military Commissions Act.'"
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Spiritual practices and ideas often equate life-energy with the breath

Also the results of the question of the day.

I loved all the "Don Juan" books. :-)

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Politicians Fined for Environmental Negligence

An Argentine court has fined the country’s environmental secretary and two politicians for failing to clean up the polluted Riachuelo River that winds through Buenos Aires, a move unique and commendable for its accountability of politicians to citizens’ concerns.

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes."

~ Kahlil Gibran, 20th century Syrian-born mystic poet, philosopher, and artist from The Prophet

Gibran says it another way as well: "God rests in reason...God moves in passion."

Here’s to passion and reason.

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Act Now to Pressure “Management”

Today the House unveiled its healthcare reform package. And the news is all bad.

The Kucinich Amendment, which would give the states a clear path for enacting their own single-payer legislation, was stripped from the bill.

The Weiner Amendment, which would substitute the clean, clear language of HR 676 for the behemoth of a introduced, may not be given its vote in the House—in spite of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s promise.

While single payer hangs in the balance, PDA will continue to fight for single payer at the state level. Meanwhile, we have a small window of opportunity to get the Kucinich Amendment back in the bill and to make sure that Speaker Pelosi follows through on her promise to allow a vote on single-payer—the first ever in the House.

Democratic House leaders can insert what is called a “Manager’s Amendment” into legislation, even when it is closed to any other amendments. The managers are the majority and minority members who “manage” debate for the bill on each side.