You’ve no doubt seen this commercial, but have you really LISTENED to it.
It seems there’s a subliminal message embedded in the audio.
Take another listen..

When I’m not pretending to be working, I’m often screwing off on the Internet, particularly on Facebook. What? You know you spend 7 hours out of every 8 hour workday on there too. It’s the real cause of the recession, lost productivity due to Facebook, but that’s another post.

Anyway, Kari always has some sort of witty status, and Brad and I often have funny comments to make. But today Chad kicked both our asses..

Last night I was talking to a young, good looking woman. She asked me if I liked breasts or legs.

“Breasts or Legs?”, she insisted.

I told her what I really liked was a shaved snatch.

Apparently I’m not welcome back at KFC anymore.

People always talk about making a New Years Resolution. Psychologically, the idea of a new beginning gives us a sense of optimism and hope. That’s a great way to approach your life and the start of a New Year, with hope and belief that things can change. But did you follow through with your resolutions? Our initial enthusiasm gets worn down by the routines and patterns that we have established in our life. As the years progress we have in fact reinforced the notion that it’s okay not to follow through. We have grown accustomed to our behavior and don’t hold ourselves accountable. We, in fact, know that for the most part we will not follow through with our resolutions.

So why do it? Screw resolutions, let’s have a REVOLUTION!

2009 has been a year of obstacles for so many. Not only do so many want change, but so many need change. However, we cannot wish or wait for change. We cannot expect the economy, government, society or any others to create the changes we need. We need to look within ourselves, to be the change we want to manifest in our lives.

The only obstacle between you and creating change is yourself. It’s time for you to start believing in your power. It’s time to get resolved to act. It’s time for change, real change. Free yourself of what holds you back. Free yourself from a mindset of waiting, negative expectations and lack of follow through with consistent action. You no longer should live within the limitations of your resolutions and wishes. It’s time for you to revolt against your pattern of thinking that is holding you back. It’s time to forget about resolutions and declare 2010 a year of revolution, the Personal Freedom Revolution of 2010. A year we become free of our old patterns and set our lives in a direction we want. A year of real change!

Join me, Nobody™, at Tools To Life. It’s 100% free, and it can help you make the changes in your life that you need. They don’t pay me to post this stuff, I do it simply because I use Tools and believe that it can help you.

Finally, health care “reform” I can believe in.  And it explains how the mess came about to begin with.

I didn’t write this, it’s from Clark Howard

“For months, there have been angry words and both sides of the aisle have been talking past each other. But tonight I propose we go to a health care system that we can afford and that will allow market forces to finally enter health care in the United States.

We must address head-on that the federal government deficits we are running are not sustainable. The commitments to seniors with Medicare and the impoverished with Medicaid are not sustainable. We can not afford as a federal government to provide for the health care of the citizenry. It’s just not possible.

In addition, our current system is based largely on luck. Either you’re lucky enough to work for an employer that provides health coverage or you unlucky enough to be self-employed, work for a smaller employer or have a pre-existing condition that makes you a pariah for insurers.

Employer provided health care was an accident of history. It only exists because of a move by employers some 50 years ago to provide health care as a back-door way to give raises during the days of wage price controls — when the feds said that employers couldn’t give pay raises.

Unfortunately, it’s grown into an unsustainable haphazard system. If you go back 50 years, an employee would be a “lifer” at a job and there was a reciprocal relationship between employer and employee. Today it doesn’t work like that. Employers add or subtract employees at will and we pick up and move as we see fit.

But many times someone may have an illness and can’t leave an employer because of health coverage. We need a new system to address the fact that we don’t stay put for a long time. We need to move away from centralization of health care from government or employers.

We also need to introduce the marketplace. How can this be done? We need to create an individual health insurance market where each individual in each family buys his or her own coverage. We can’t allow employers to be the sole source of safe venue for coverage, but instead have to create an insurance market based on the principles of standardized policies.

Insurers will be allowed to charge what they wish based on age/sex, but we need standard policies you can pick and choose from.

Choice is the key to driving smart decisions. Some like the structure of an HMO, some like the freedom of a traditional fee-for-service plan. Others want an in-between option like a PPO with a list of cheap in-network providers and more costly out-of-network ones. Yet others, such as entrepreneurs, love HSAs, where you take a high-deductible health insurance plan and you are essentially your own insurer for routine things.

We should allow Americans to choose from all 4 options, but the coverage should be standardized across all insurance companies so consumers can comparison shop.

Not everybody should have to buy the same HMO or the same PPO coverage. I think there should be 3 levels of choice in each — 3 different HMOs, 3 PPOs, 3 traditional plans and 3 HSAs, each with different levels of coverage.

For example, a basic plan would provide only generics medications and no experimental treatments. Each level would have different care for you. But you would have the choice of what you want to buy.

If an employer wants to subsidize the health care with a voucher, that’s fine, but you would still be in control of the purchase. So even if you left your employer, you would still have insurance.

If someone chooses not to buy insurance, that’s fine too. If you do become ill, you’ll be barred from buying coverage for 24 months. Otherwise, the healthy would never buy until they’re sick.

The moral choice is so key here. If we rely on government or an employer to decide what coverage is good for us, we give them the power of life and death over us. But if we make our own choice, then it puts us in control and eliminates the moral dilemma of will we tax ourselves more to provide more coverage or tax less to provide less coverage.

And for those without means, both sides of the aisle seem to agree on a voucher system that would scale back as the level of income rises. I think that’s a reasonable option. But I can tell you that we can not solve the cost issue with health care, without having a collision with morality, if we do not put the patient in charge. That’s the key.

You must be the person who decides what coverage you want, what coverage you choose not to buy and who you buy it from. It’s that simple. Health care costs account for one-sixth of our economy and we have to get control of that one-sixth, but at the same time provide true power back where it belongs — with the American people.”

Watch what you say online…  It could come back to bite you in the ass.

If speech is not independent and untrammeled,

if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear,

it makes no difference under what form of government you live,

you are a subject and not a citizen.