I Don't Want To Be

I don't need to be anything other than a prison guard's son

I don't need to be anything other than a specialist's son

I don't have to be anyone other than the birth of two souls in one

Part of where I'm going is knowing where I'm coming from

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately

All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind

I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do

Or
who I'm supposed to be

I don't want to be anything other than me

I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn

I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn

I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn

Am I the only one who noticed?

I can't be the only one who's learned!

Can I have everyone's attention please?

If you're not like this and that, you're gonna have to leave

I came from the mountain; the crust of creation

My whole situation-made from clay to stone

And now I'm telling everybody

I don't want to be anything other than me

Disease Of Exploitation, Imperialism & Terrorism

Today is new day, a new year, a new age, and collectively we have awakened from a deep sleep.

Perhaps, we haven't been asleep at all –maybe we are all just learning how to stand up.

We all understand that there is some sort of underlying poison in our societies.  I think there is something behind the cracks.

I think Rumi knew this, and I think we all know this too.

There must be a fundamental endemic problem; a problem that causes all the other problems.

You see, we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Probably the biggest story we told ourselves is the scientific story.  Some of us tend to think that science is the ultimate truth, but Science is just a story.

Take Care Of Your Soul

How good or bad, happy or sad does it have to get?

Losing yourself, no cry for help

You don’t think you need it

And old friends are just a chore

But now you need them more than ever before

All that glitter and all that gold won’t buy you happy when you've been bought and sold

Riding white horses, you can’t control

With all your glitter and all of your gold

Gods Of War

Feelin' like it's all over, feelin' like there's no love 

Feelin' like it's not easy, breathin' life in the dust 

On a countdown to zero take a ride on the nightmare machine 

There ain't gonna be heroes 

There ain't gonna be anything 

Oh 

Here it comes, here comes the night 

Here it comes, hell in the night 

Here it comes, here comes the night

Your Children Will Be Next

The future teaches you to be alone

The present to be afraid and cold

So if I can shoot rabbits

Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today

But we'll forget it all again

Monuments put from pen to paper

Turns me into a gutless wonder

Modern Economics 101

Modest preemptive actions can obviate the need of more drastic actions at a later date.

You think that you've been taught things like confidence intervals in an elementary statistical course that would let you do this; but if you really studied carefully, you'd know that they don't let you do this.  A really principled frequentist can't produce a probability distribution.

The conclusion we want to point out when we think about valuation is the fact that means are scarce. I alluded to this already that as finite beings we can't will our ends to be attained.

A statistical description of the government's net-of-interest –surplus.

Deflation, I think that yields could drop to say, less than 1% on the 10 years and less than 2% on the 30 years...that would effectively be a takeover of monetary policy by the Congress.

Ron Paul Farewell Speech

Ron Paul's recent farewell speech is arguable the single most important speech in American history.

Dr. Paul lays out the fatal problems facing America while pulling no punches.

This speech is a must-read piece by anyone who seeks to understand the real reasons why America remains in a downward spiral of social and economic failure under the endless growth of Big Government and runaway debt.

Here's the full text:

This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I'll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: 

promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the principles of individual liberty.

It was my opinion, that the course the U.S. embarked on in the latter part of the 20th Century would bring us a major financial crisis and engulf us in a foreign policy that would overextend us and undermine our national security.

Dare To aRise

Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster boy with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision

so you might want to turn your head

cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

Refusal To Live A Lie - Animal Style

Fresh outta high school

Glad cus he hated it

Everybody in the senior class would call him gay but it

It never bothered him

His name Jonathon

Best friend Julie she was cool she went to Prom with him

The principle said prom was no place for a queer couple

If he showed up with a boy then there be real trouble