Funnel Of Love

Here I go,

Going down, down, down,

My mind is a blank,

My head is spinning around and around,

As I go deep into the funnel of love.

It’s such a crazy, crazy feeling,

I get weak in the knees,

My poor old head is a reelin’,

As I go deep into the funnel of love.

I tried and I tried, to run and hide,

I even tried to run away,

Ya just can’t run from the funnel of love,

It’s gonna get ya someday.

It’s such a crazy, crazy feeling,

I get weak in the knees,

My poor old head is a reelin’,

As I go deep into the funnel of love.

I tried and I tried, to run and hide,

I even tried to run away,

Ya just can’t run from the funnel of love,

It’s gonna get ya someday.

Here I go, going down, down, down,

My mind is a blank,

My head is spinning around and around,

As I go deep into the funnel of love,

Deep into the funnel of love,

Deep into the funnel of love.

58 Reverse Funnel System *Personal* Sales In 7 Measly Weeks.

To Kill an American

Written by an Australian Dentist

You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is…so they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

‘An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It’s been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.’

The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell: Full Narrative Version

Change of regime in the USA : strategic implication for the Indian subcontinent

Obama’s takeover could actually be a dampener for all those hoping to see more positive action in favour of India. His primary concern will be restoration of the US economy. US strategic interests in Asia will therefore be intimately tied in with strategies for growth of the US economy. In spite of rhetoric, economic calculations will impose restrictions on where and how far Obama will go. It seems most unlikely that Obama will increase overseas military commitments and war or surgical strikes against Iran is most unlikely unless Iran deliberates provokes US into a position where it will be embarrassed internationally if it does not retaliate. Obama will try to hold the “line” rather than expand or contract. His main tactic will be to retain the bluster to outshine Bush in foreign affairs but basically do nothing. He will try to achieve more with bluffs and diplomatic pressure and nerve wars rather than do anything that escalates military commitments. He will be under pressure to be seen not to retreat compared to Bush’s legacy, which will be a dampener for those within and outside US who hope that Obama will reverse many of the aggressive Bush moves.

For the subcontinent, Obama’s main strategic steps will be to reassure and to a certain extent increase cooperation with India mainly in the economic arena. Obama will also see to it that Indian regimes are not penalized at the elections by not taking aggressive retaliatory measures against Pakistan. Obama’s tactic will be to increase public visibility of military collaboration with India, and a declared programme of strengthening defence capabilities of India, and maybe even some kind of enhanced NATO type guarantee of alliance/protection in case of third party aggression. Similarly Obama will see to it that any Pakistani regime is not penalized by the people, by holding off India from POK. If India can bargain here properly, it can wrangle out an agreement to station troops on the eastern border of Afghanistan as part of a strategy of anti-terror and disruption of Taleban supply lines to the POK.

The key here again will be to stabilize rather than expand. This is here where Obama and US policy will begin to unravel. The situation in the Afghan+Pakistan front needs expansion and dynamic rather than stabilization. Stabilization of control would mean the beginning of loss of initiative on NATO part and the turning point of the campaign. The reason static war would be disastrous for the US, is because of the peculiar ground situation. So far the anti-US forces have been fighting Chinese Red army style mobile warfare. Such war style can only be matched by continuous positional movement and encirclement of mobile warriors. As soon as this movement is lost, the mobile warriors gain advantage. For now, in an unfamiliar and unaccustomed territory, positional static NATO can be picked off at ease by its opponents.

Obama’s concentration on economic affairs out of necessity, is likely to lead to less stress on foreign affairs that are seen to be expensive and without direct long term benefits. This in turn is likely to lead to less clarity on strategic military objectives, and a corresponding confusion in the military command over operations. It will not be as if Obama himself will be directly responsible, but his preoccupation with internal affairs and priority to world economic manipulation will lead to a neglect of military expansion and therefore adoption of stop-gap stabilization tactics. Obama will try to get India onboard for the US economic recovery programme, and formulate joint policies to counter China. Strategically, this can benefit the entire Indian subcontinent, especially those economies in a position technologically and educationally to benefit from such US-India relationship - especially India, Bangladesh and SriLanka. But this will also be a great opportunity for India to push through in strategic initiatives of its own about the central Asian republics. India can shrewdly play around to force US acceptance of Indian military presence, if India offers to provide substantial military and economic help directly to the Afghan government. Most diplomatic pressures are only effective when the other party realizes that the pressurizing party will go ahead and do something anyway - and that it is better to join in before it is too late to appear to be a reliable “friend”.

US current needs coincides with India’s on the economic front, primarily against Chinese capture of world markets, and I think there will be no problems in the evolution of collaboration here. But overall this economic movement will subtly and in a very complex way, leave its mark on the military/political strategic scenario, whereby the US and the NATO will ultimately retreat from the Afghan front. This is both a danger as well as an opportunity for India, if it has the correct leadership.

BARRACK OBAMA APPROVES INDIA WAR PAKISTAN if needed

Psychology: Questions to Consider.

Growing Up In An Alcoholic Household

If someone close to you has, or has had, a drinking problem, the following questions may help you in determining whether alcoholism affected your childhood or present life:

1. Do you find yourself constantly seeking approval, acceptance, and affirmation?

In certain aspects, yes.  It’s not that I seek accolades or status and power, it’s moreso trying to balance the awful negativity of my own mind.  I am self-aware enough to realize that some of these things I feel have no true basis and yet… Still I feel them.  It helps me in those heavier times to hear the approval from those I love - helps me remember that it really just is “my stupid head”.

2. Do you fail to recognize your own accomplishments?

Hahahaha….  Do I even have to answer this one?  See Question 1.  It directly relates to this one.  Honestly, as I’m growing older and working through some of the issues, i have far fewer problems seeing my “worth”.  It’s not always clear and it’s not always easy but compared with five years ago - it’s a huge difference.

3. Do you fear criticism?

I used to.  It really kept me from doing a lot of things.  I hated it because I am self-critical to a fault and then to add insult to that injury… It’s a double-rejection and I couldn’t handle it.  I don’t see it the same anymore.  Honestly, it’s probably because I care less.  Those who want to be critical or criticise my choices, talents or ideas have no place in my life anymore.

4. Do you overextend yourself?

Yes.

5. Have you had problems with your own compulsive behavior?

Not really.  I tend to catch my “compulsions” before they run too rampant.  I guess that defeats the purpuse of having them but… My compulsions tend not to be of the “garden variety”.

I am not an excessive spender, addict or gambler.

I don’t drive recklessly.

My biggest compulsion when faced with painful situations is to run.  I want to hide and run where no one can hurt me anymore.

6. Are you a perfectionist?

Yes.

7. Do you feel uneasy when your life is going too smoothly? Are you continually anticipating problems?

Wow.  The simplest answer:  Yes.

I constantly anticipate problems because there has never been a point in my life where I had the chance to just stop and “catch my breath”.  It’s always been that struggle to push forward only to come within fingertips of realizing a dream, only to have Life pull the carpet out from underneath of me.  It’s happened time and time and time again.

I’ve never gotten a break.  I’ve had to work for everything and anything I’ve ever gotten in this world.  Not just the typical “work for it” character building.  I’ve had to push hard enough to cry and to bleed, over and and over and over again.

It’s why I have no faith in the promises of others anymore.  It’s never been proven to me that they hold any weight at all.

8. Do you feel more alive in the midst of a crisis?

If by alive - you mean emotionally pained?  Sometimes.  And that’s temporary for me after all, because at a certain point, when the pain is too heavy, I simply shut myself down.

9. Do you respond with anxiety to authority figures and angry people?

Yes.  I am relatively meek when it comes to authority figures.

10. Do you still feel responsible for others, as you did for the problem drinker in your life?

No.

11. Do you care for others easily, yet find it difficult to care for yourself?

Dear God, yes.

12. Do you isolate yourself from other people?

See Question 11.

13. Do you feel that individuals and society in general are taking advantage of you?

Sometimes.  Depends on the individual.  I don’t feel that society as a whole takes advantage of me.

14. Do you have trouble with intimate relationships?

Only in forming them.  It takes a great deal of trust to get me to that point and it’s one of my hardest hurdles - to trust.

15. Do you confuse pity with love, as you did with the problem drinker?

No.  Never did.

16. Do you attract and seek people who tend to be compulsive?

No.

17. Do you cling to relationships because you are afraid of being alone?

I used to.  I got over that when Ana left.  I had to make peace with the person I was (and am).  I had to learn to - at the very least - accept myself, flaws and strengths alike.

18. Do you often mistrust your own feelings and the feelings expressed by others?

Mine, no.  Others, yes.

19. Is it hard for you to express emotions?

Incredibly and almost impossibly.

20. Do you think you’ve been affected by someone else’s drinking?

Gee… You tell me, Einstein.