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Five Things Angry Birds Taught (or reminded) Me About Life

I am not an addict. I am not one of those people who can't stop
playing Angry Birds. I have been playing intermittently since it first
came out. And over that time this is what I've gleaned:

1. If you do the same thing over and over, don't expect different results.
2. Be persistent, it nearly always pays off.
3. If you're stuck, move on and come back later or ask for help.
4. Sometimes it's the slightest change or adjustment in your approach
that can make all the difference between success and mediocrity.
5. Flicking birds as ordnance at stuff is fun.

There are other posts like this out on the interwebs, but this is my
experience that I wanted to share with you. Keep on flickin'!

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- Patrick Henry -

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people  demanded it.  That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

  Of  the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the  land...all because of public pressure.

I'm 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.

  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.

  Congressional Reform Act of  2011

    1.   No Tenure / No  Pension. A  Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 

  2.   Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the 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.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.  Congressmen 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.

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.  Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS

Ask your doctor if meshugazole is right for you.

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