Simplicity is the key to brilliance. -Bruce Lee

The Real Story Behind Valentine's Day

Let me introduce myself. My name is Valentine. I lived in Rome during the third century. That was long, long ago! At that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. I didn't like Emperor Claudius, and I wasn't the only one! A lot of people shared my feelings.

Claudius wanted to have a big army. He expected men to volunteer to join. Many men just did not want to fight in wars. They did not want to leave their wives and families. As you might have guessed, not many men signed up. This made Claudius furious. So what happened? He had a crazy idea. He thought that if men were not married, they would not mind joining the army. So Claudius decided not to allow any more marriages. Young people thought his new law was cruel. I thought it was preposterous! I certainly wasn't going to support that law!

Did I mention that I was a priest? One of my favorite activities was to marry couples. Even after Emperor Claudius passed his law, I kept on performing marriage ceremonies -- secretly, of course. It was really quite exciting. Imagine a small candlelit room with only the bride and groom and myself. We would whisper the words of the ceremony, listening all the while for the steps of soldiers.

One night, we did hear footsteps. It was scary! Thank goodness the couple I was marrying escaped in time. I was caught. (Not quite as light on my feet as I used to be, I guess.) I was thrown in jail and told that my punishment was death.

I tried to stay cheerful. And do you know what? Wonderful things happened. Many young people came to the jail to visit me. They threw flowers and notes up to my window. They wanted me to know that they, too, believed in love.

One of these young people was the daughter of the prison guard. Her father allowed her to visit me in the cell. Sometimes we would sit and talk for hours. She helped me to keep my spirits up. She agreed that I did the right thing by ignoring the Emperor and going ahead with the secret marriages. On the day I was to die, I left my friend a little note thanking her for her friendship and loyalty. I signed it, "Love from your Valentine."

I believe that note started the custom of exchanging love messages on Valentine's Day. It was written on the day I died, February 14, 269 A.D. Now, every year on this day, people remember. But most importantly, they think about love and friendship. And when they think of Emperor Claudius, they remember how he tried to stand in the way of love, and they laugh -- because they know that love can't be beaten!

Tony Williams feat. Kanye West - Another You

HAPPY VALENTINES FROM THE GOOD HUMANS AT AMNIMAL !!!

Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” -Thomas Jefferson

WHY NOT BAIL US ALL OUT ??

BAILOUT = 16.1 Trillion . enough money to give everyone in American $51,500, Or pay everyone in the ENTIRE WORLD $2,300. In case you want to do the math there is 312,989,299 Americans in the U.S we rounded up to 313 Million. And 6,993,259,512 in the World we rounded up to 7 billion. 

Because of the list listed below, I have no problem with someone going to the county building and getting themselves and their family if they have one, a bailout (i.e Food Stamps) What's $500 dollars a month to survive, compared to Trillions and Billions we handed out to companies. If you owe anyone of these companies listed below money, rather it be for a house you bought, or poor money management, which causes a overdraft or you to be in debt,  these companies are not giving any rope to work with you on your debt, their going to hang your ass from the highest tree they can find. Badger you, constantly call you make your life difficult. But the kicker in all this is while your at work, working to survive and pay off this debt to which ever company you owe, besides getting the money from you directly, they also taking it from you indirectly, when you get taxed on your check, some of that taxed money is going to help pay the Feds back for the bailout they gave these companies. We getting taxed by the Feds, and billed by the companies, we getting taxed by the Feds to bailout. Talk about a trap for that ass!! 

According to the results of the limited Fed audit, a total of $16.1 Trilion in secret loans were made by the Federal Reserve between December 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010.

The following is a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131 of the audit report….

Citigroup - $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
“All Other Borrowers” - $2.639 trillion

P.S .. OUR GOVERNMENT ONLY DOES WHAT WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALLOW THEM TO DO. AND UNTIL WE DRAW A LINE, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH THE LIMIT!!