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What’s Left When There are no Rights?

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When one considers the manner in which life in these United States seems to be going, one would have to wonder if we have all gone mad.

There seems to be a movement afoot whereby everyone is crying about their rights. I got a right to do this, or I got a right to do that. It is a violation of my rights if you don’t let me do this or that or the other thing.

We have become a society caught up in protecting what we perceive as our rights. Law suits are cropping up all over the place and court rooms are crowded with RIGHTS seekers who demand reward for purported infringements upon their personal rights or freedoms.

Our precious founding documents are being manipulated in court rooms around the country and maligned in judge’s chambers regularly.

A nation founded on the belief that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL and endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights has been twisted to include rights for a few while denying the rights of the many. ALL men are inclusive but the new movement underfoot seems to be exclusive to certain groups and those with a special political agenda or personal vendettas.

Our rich heritage is being eroded by this misconception that I am free and you are not the boss of me attitude seeping into our society as sewage.The very fabric of our society is being eroded by the acidic effect of this cancerous demon of personal rights and freedoms.

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Hunger

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Did you ever stop to think about hunger? I mean it is something we often take for granted. I mean we get hungry we eat. After a while we get hungry again. Some are more susceptable to hunger than others. Some can go through a day and not think about food. Others, myself included, enjoy a good meal. The smell of a steak sizzling on the fire or chili simmering on the stove. Yum Yum I can almost taste it now.

Alot of life is something like hunger. Hunger is so ingrained in who we are that we do not think about it anymore than we think about breathing or going to pee. Hunger is a real motivating force though when you think about it. Many people will do many strange things under the influence of hunger. I mean have you ever gotten in the way of someone having a chocolate attack and needing a fix? FOR REAL best get out the way fast. Anyway if we never got hungry how would our lives be different? Would we change the way we act? Would our social lives change drastically? I mean how many events on your social calender has anything to do with food?

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RESOLUTION OR REVOLUTION: by Tim Timmons

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The Top 10 New Year’s resolutions as reflected in most polls in the USA are:

1) Spend More Time with Family & Friends
2) Fit in Fitness
3) Tame the Bulge
4) Quit Smoking
5) Enjoy Life More
6) Quit Drinking
7) Get Out of Debt
8) Learn Something New
9) Help Others
10) Get Organized

I’m sure most of us are able to claim one or more of these as our own personal resolutions. I know I can. I have kept only a few of my New Year’s resolves. It certainly makes me a better person just to reflect on and evaluate my life each year and for that there is no doubt a little improvement in some areas.

However, I am through with any medium to high expectations that may come through my New Year’s resolutions. Life is too short to count on resolutions to make significant changes in my life. Resolutions can only REFORM what I already have going for me or not going for me. In 2007 I am for revolution. Revolution can TRANSFORM my life.

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Happy New Year!

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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Are Brick and Mortar Record Stores the Next Dinosaur to become extinct?

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The Great Tower Falls – Does the demise of Tower Records signal the end of the Record Store as we know it!?


We’ve seen vinyl turn to tape. Tape turn to CD. Is it now the time for CD’s to turn to Mp3’s? Is this good bye to tangible media, cover art, lining inserts, and “thank you’s” from the band? Will music become what the ATM card is to the paper dollar? We know it’s there, but we can’t SEE it? My gut feeling says it’s bound to happen in our lifetime and that kids of today and tomorrow are going to miss out on the great music experience known as the trip to the record store only to be replaced by “Come over to my house and you can pillage my mp3 collection”.

Overpriced music and videos have led to the rapid expansion of the alternative music marketplace. Being able to pick, choose and buy the music and videos we really like has opened up the download file swapping phenom we know as electronic media. Being able to get instant delivery of the product via download has enabled the music industry to market their products directly to the consumer, if of course they choose to go that route. I feel that the overly strict copyright laws imposed on the consuming public has led, in my opinion, to the rise of this media buying rebellion. This current generation has grown tired of being forced to buy mediocre music on cds in order to get the one or two good songs they really want. Not since the disappearance of the vinyl 45 single has the public been offered the ability to purchase that latest hit by XYZ band in a convenient consumer friendly format. Gone are the days of production company CD’s whose demise is long overdue. Let ’em R.I.P.