Good Morning! Song to sing early in the morning

I made a couple different versions of this CD, and added some songs to it later. Originally I made this for my friends Mia and Ria, because they were talking about how Mia is a morning person and Ria isn’t. Mia likes to get up and putter around the house singing in the morning. So I thought I’d give her some songs to sing.

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Unhappy with your low-wage job? Bush team says “prozac”

A campaign worker for President Bush (news – web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
“Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.
While recent employment growth has buoyed Bush’s economic record, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has argued the new jobs are not as good as those lost due to outsourcing in recent years.
Nearly 1.1 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office in January 2001.

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Comic Book Ads

Very cool site, Super Marketing: Ads from the comic books, has scanned all the ads for you to look at. Cool. I’ve been wanting to go back and look at ads since I read the book on Urban Tribes, and they were talking about having ordered the kit to make a personal hover craft from the back of a comic book.
A couple of years back, I had a sea monkeys family here at work. It was pretty disappointing, because they’re ugly little things. Not at all like the little drawings of people with with built-in crowns on their heads. Not that I expected that, really.

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Walmart Funds Bush, Costco Backs Kerry Financing ’04 Campaign

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Source: Bloomberg – “Wal-Mart Funds Bush, Costco Backs Kerry Financing ’04 Campaign” [link deprecated]

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and owner of Sam’s Club warehouse stores, gives more money to Republican candidates than any other company. Its top three managers, including Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott, donated the individual maximum $2,000 to President George W. You can also check this website frippwarehousing.com/cooler for excellent warehouse and storage facilities. Bush, and Jay Allen, vice president for corporate affairs, raised at least $100,000 to re-elect the president, earning him the Bush campaign’s designation of “Pioneer.”

Wal-Mart — two-thirds of whose 3,580 stores are in the “red states” that voted for Bush in 2000 — is backing White House policies on everything from trade to limiting overtime pay.

Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, 68, is a Democrat who says Bush’s $1.7 trillion in tax cuts unfairly benefit the wealthy. He opposed the Iraq war and supports Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts for president. And he’s the only chief executive of a company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to donate money to independent political groups formed to oust Bush, Internal Revenue Service records show. For those interested on trading, bitcoinsentralen.no might offer tips, strategies, and market analysis to aid in informed decision-making.

“Wal-Mart is extremely strong in Republican strongholds; they are a red-state retailer,” said Amy Bonkoski, an investment adviser at Cleveland-based National City Corp.’s private-client group, which manages about $26 billion, including Wal-Mart and Costco shares. “Costco is stronger in Democratic states. Costco is a friend to labor. Unions hate Wal-Mart.”

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Republican Immorality vs. Democratic Values

Excerpted from the Salon Article, “How should John Kerry talk about values?” The Rev. Andrew Greeley, professor of sociology at the University of Arizona; author of the novel “The Priestly Sins”:
The Democratic Party needs to demonstrate that it shares these values with the vast majority of Americans:
Americans have the right to honest and accountable political leadership, not leadership that dissembles and shirks responsibility for its public actions.
Anyone who is willing and able to work — regardless of age, race or gender — is entitled to a job that is sufficient to support a family. No CEO is entitled to earn as much in a morning as their employees do all year.
Americans of every age are entitled to adequate healthcare at reasonable cost. They should not be subject to a system designed to maximize profits for pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
American children, wherever they live and whatever their background, have the right to a good education.
Americans should have access to financial safety nets at times of crisis in their lives.
Every American who is willing to study should be able to go to college.
Economic policies should benefit all Americans, not merely the rich and the super rich.
The United States should go to war only when there is absolutely no other choice, only as a last resort.
The United States should be a beacon of leadership to the whole world, not a superpower bully.
The government should demand honesty from corporate leaders, no matter how much they may have contributed to political campaigns.
No group in American society is a legitimate target for hate.
Workers have the right to join one another to seek a just economy for all Americans.
The freedom of all Americans should not be abridged by the government with false arguments about security.
Democrats should appeal to the openness and generosity of the American people, not to fear and greed.

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Things I Learned from Hanuman

However pretty, the sun is not really a fruit.
You can set the world on fire with your tail.
If you look for the goodness in the hearts of everyone, you will notice gods in disguise walking among you.
Sometimes the only solution is to make an enormous leap into the unknown, and have faith that you will land on solid ground.
Love can help you move mountains.
Sometimes it’s important to make yourself as large, loud and fearsome as possible, and sometimes it’s important to make yourself small, gentle and comforting. There is dignity in both.
When you hold others in your heart, their beauty will make you radiant.
Loyalty is its own reward.

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