I was born to love no one
No one to love me

Only the wind in the long green grass
The frost in a broken tree.

I was made to love magic
All its wonder to know

But you all lost that magic
Many many years ago.

I was born to use my eyes
Dream with the sun and the skies

To float away in a lifelong song
In the mist where melody flies.

I was made to love magic…

I was born to sail away
Into a land of forever

Not to be tied to an old stone grave
In your land of never.

I was made to love magic
All its wonder to know

But you all lost that magic
Many many many years ago

My friend and me
Looking through her red box of memories

Faded I’m sure
But love seems to stick in the things you know

Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like a sonnet, my lord

Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like no sonnet, my lord

My lord

Why can’t you see
That nature has its way of warning me?

Eyes open wide
Looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye

Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like no sonnet, my lord

Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like no sonnet, my lord
My lord

Sinking fast within a boat without a hull
My lord

Dreaming about the day
when I can see you there

My side
By my side

Here we go again and
my head is gone, my lord

I stop to say hello
‘Cause I think you should know by now

By now
By now

By now
By now

By now
Oh, by now
Oh, by now

Oh, by now
Oh, by now

Other than getting elected to the Senate, just what will comedians do with the Queen of Alaska getting out of politics? This is the first time I’ve seen only one story on Memeorandum.com.  From the moment we all heard her name for the first time, Sarah Palin has been one big bag of jaw-dropping whackadoodle.  Her exit from official duties (jury’s out on continued meida abuse) was no different. Her resignation speech was as incoherent and void of logic or facts as anything she ever said on a national stage.

Naturally, this is good news for John McCain (who should be ashamed for letting this woman get anywhere near the White House). 

Rachel Sklar has a nice rundown of L’afarre Palin and her 10 months of WTF, as does just about everyone, everywhere.  My sense, however, is that now that she won’t be distracted by the pesky duties of governing Alaska, she can now devote her time to what she and her family really believe is imporatant — faux outrage and scathing screeds against trumped-up delusional crap, 24/7.

First, jobs were getting lost before Dec 2007. I was laid off by a real estate broker of 35 years, six months before the recession officially began. He didn’t close his doors till Dec 2007, but I was a cost-saving measure as the housing bubble popped, so I’m clearly a victim of the official recession.

Second, as they note in the article, there’s now 30 million Americans unemployed. And 14.5 million lost their jobs since the official start of the recession. By comparison, at the peak of the Great Depression, 22 million were jobless.

That’s right, in actual numbers more Americans are jobless now. 33% more are. And while that’s a smaller percentage of all working age Americans, we now have more Americans desperate, trying to survive. And that’s a dilemma our government still has no answer for.

And it’s predicted to get worse yet before it gets better. The bottom could be 9 months away.

Buddy, can you spare some work?