Here is are a few points I’d like to see in new immigration laws that SHOULD be passed by our Congress. Read the entire post before you pass judgment. (Thanks, Ron!)

1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation’s language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. 4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land… options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.

Too strict? The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO!

These sound fine to me. Now, how can we get these laws to be America’s Immigration Laws?

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Listening to: Danny Elfman – The Little Things
via FoxyTunes

I don’t watch much network TV. It’s usually movies and sports for me. I do watch the occasional cable TV movie, but most of the movies I watch are on the Showtime or Starz multiplexes or DVDs. I really don’t like watching commercials; not just because I think they are silly but some are just out and out lies.

Speaking of lies, listening to commercials for our local cable TV and Internet provider here is rather interesting. The commercial is a young married couple talking while their laptop computer is running and goes something like this:

Her: Come on, honey, I it’s time to go to the party!
Him: Wait! I’m uploading photos to our web site…
Her: Why don’t we go to our neighbor’s? They have “lightening fast” {provider name} Cable Internet. It’s much faster than our DSL!
Him: Maybe we should switch?

OK. First off, the cable internet provider is the ONLY cable Internet provider in town. It is also only provided here in town. The DSL provider (which I subscribe to) is the ONLY DSL provider in town. It is a major national Internet provider.

Also, I used to subscribe to the cable Internet provider (still do subscribe to their cable TV as they are the only game in town), but now I subscribe to the DSL provider. I left the cable provider for a number of reasons. I was having to reboot my cable modem and my wireless router weekly because for some reason unknown to the cable provider, my cable modem signal would just drop. Also, at the time I used the web space provided by them and asked about using PHP on that web site. The answer I got from all levels of their tech support is “PHP is a security risk and we do not allow it on our web space.” WTF? PHP a security risk? Riiiiiight. Over half of the web pages on the Internet are served up by PHP!

So, I changed to the DSL provider. At the same time I changed my telephone service to the same company. The first thing I noticed was an increase of speed, both downstream and upstream. At that time the cable provider had a 1Mb/256Kb downstream/upstream; the DSL provider had a 1.5Mb/768Kb connection. The cable provider does not offer that package any more. The DSL provider does offer the same package. Difference in price at the time: $39.99 for cable Internet vs. $26.99 for DSL. That’s $13 per month less for faster service!

Fast forward to today. The DSL provider still offers that package for $19.99 now. The cable provider offers a slower connection (512Kb/256Kb) for $21.95. I currently have the next faster DSL package (7Mb/5Mb) for $25 per month. The cable provider has what they call a Turbo package (5Mb/1Mb) for $39.99. The cable provider has a maximum residential package called Mega (10Mb/3Mb) for $59.95; the DSL provider has a maximum residential package (20Mb/5mb) for $45.

So going back to the original beef, how in the heck can the cable internet provider make the claim that their service is in any way, shape or form FASTER than DSL? If they compare their faster service with the DSL basic service? And the cost? Not even close! No thank you, I’ll stick with my reliable, fast DSL service!

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Now playing: Weezer – Pork & Beans
via FoxyTunes

So, have YOU got an opinion on the Arizona immigration law? You know, the law that is more restrictive to police there than the federal border laws? The law that is more lenient to the illegal alien (that’s right, ILLEGAL) than the federal law? The one that the media is bashing every chance they get? Well, here’s the text from an email (thanks, Ron!) that explains illegal immigration in an easy to understand way. It’s an old email, but it is still valid (maybe because the feds aren’t doing their job?):

A lady wrote the best letter in the editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV. Her point: Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let’s say I break into your house.

Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, ‘No! I like it here. It’s better than my house. I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

• You are Required to let me stay in your house
• You are Required to feed me
• You are Required to add me to your family’s insurance plan
• You are Required to Educate my kids
• You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family

My husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest. (except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house. And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, and I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so that you can communicate with me.

Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?!

If you agree, let me know (in English). If not blow it off……… along with your future Social Security funds and a lot of the former benefits of being an American Citizen.

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Listening to: Buckcherry – Everything
via FoxyTunes

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
If a liberal is down-and-out, he wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
If a liberal doesn’t like a talk show host, he demands that all of them be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
If a liberal is a non-believer, he wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it or may choose a job that provides it.
If a liberal decides he he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he will show it so his friends and share the bookmark to this website so they can have a good laugh.
If a liberal reads this, he will delete the bookmark to this website because he’s “offended”.

(Thanks, Ron!)
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Listening to: Toadies – Possum Kingdom
via FoxyTunes

Saw this line in a comment on a tech blog:

By the time most currently existing Windows computers have finished loading the security software, paging is already beating on the [hard] drive like Gallagher on a watermelon.

I know it’s pretty geeky, but it’s also funny (and true!). The entire blog post and its comments can be read by clicking here. The article is about how nearly all typical computer users would do better with Linux than with Windows – and I’d have to agree.

So the health care bill passed. Ouch. Yeah, we’ll regret that long before it’s secrets have been revealed. I say secrets because Obama’s campaign promises of transparency and all just didn’t happen to this one. But that’s not what I’m posting about. Yeah, I’m disappointed about it being passed… by why all the hate? ESPECIALLY against all those who wanted this monster passed. That’s what I’m most puzzled about. Of course, if I honestly look at the last 40-50 years of rhetoric from the Democratic party I shouldn’t be surprised at all. They have been pushing class envy since I’ve been alive. All of this rich vs. poor mentality really comes to a head on the Yahoo postings. Here’s a few examples:

First, from a poster named “Calvin”:

I can understand why some people would be against this bill. Heck they’re the one who’s going to have to pay more taxes to cover the cost of this bill. But you know what…they make enough money to secure themselves financially for the rest of their lives so go ahead…cried and moan all you want….RICH PEOPLE…..you finally get what you deserve…The war of the classes between rich and poor is getting a little bit narrower now thanks to this bill. I don’t mind one bit seeing a spoil little rich guy have to give a little bit of his money to help out his own citizens if u know what I mean.

OK, the bill (according to the Democratic Party leaders) is to mainly be funded by those who make more than $200,000 per year. I am not in that group, but I am simply appalled by this mentality. The rich “finally get what they deserve”? Really? So, Calvin, none of these people worked hard all their lives to get where they are so they can enjoy the fruits of all their years of hard work? Or did they work so that the government can take an inordinate amount of their money from them so that others can have health care? People who make that kind of money are NOT to be despised; they are to be admired. Isn’t that why we work in the first place? To get on the path to becoming “rich”? And now you want to punish them for working like that? Jeez.

Next, from a poster called “Georgia Girl”:

about time 200.000 and over pays i payed for 40 years i was called middle class now bush took my job and the tea party people are here so now they can pay for voteing for bush.my job left in 1999

Now this is just silly. About time they paid? So they haven’t been paying? Really? Bush took your job? So you were President? Your job left in 1999… what have you done since then to get another? All you want to do is punish those who make $200,000 or more and that’s just hateful.

Next is a popular sentiment from a poster called “Jasmine”:

So individuals are motivated to prosper by greed? Those individuals really need to grow up. And if requiring health insurance is unconstitutional, then so is requiring car insurance.

No, I’m not motivated to prosper out of greed. I want to provide for my family. I don’t want my family to worry about me or have to take on any financial burden when I retire. If that’s greed, then I guess I’m greedy. And the car insurance analogy just doesn’t make sense. It has NEVER made sense, even when Obama used it as a reference. We will be forced to have health insurance – to buy it essentially – simply by being a citizen of the United States. And if Jasmine stopped and thought about it, she’d realize that you do not HAVE to carry auto insurance. You can have a driver’s license and not have auto insurance. Only when you BUY a car do you have to carry auto insurance; well, when you register the car anyway. There are literally millions who do not own a car but rely on public transportation, walking and bicycling to get around – no required auto insurance there. But this disaster of a health care bill REQUIRES everyone to have health insurance. And for those of you who want to say it won’t be required, why can the IRS levy fines against those who don’t have it?

Next, a poster going by the handle “Sparky”:

You people who say, “Health care is not a right” are the biggest whack jobs of them all. People wonder why the rest of the world looks at us as “ugly americans”?!?!?! What ever happened to being one nation, under god?? Wake up righty…

Well, Sparky, I hate to burst your bubble but health care is not a right. Look in the Constitution. Where does it say anything about health care? (Where does it state anything about separation of church and state? Well, that’s another argument entirely.) It doesn’t. I’m not saying health care isn’t necessary, I’m just saying it isn’t a right. Food is also necessary, but it’s not a right – I have to work to make money to get food. What’s next, Sparky? Are we going to make food a right?

Next up, a poster named “Lawrence”:

Agreed. i have more faith in Obama than i ever had trust in Bush. This is not some self serving act.

No it isn’t a self-serving act. If it were then Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court and all staffers would be subject to this bill – BUT THEY AREN’T! I’m quite proud of one of my own US Senators, Charles Grassley, for introducing an amendment to the bill that would require all on Capitol Hill to have to use the plan they are pushing on the good people of this country. However, Harry Reid has said that what Grassley is doing is just a stall/delay tactic. (sarcasm on) SMART, Harry! Real SMART! (sarcasm off)

Well, this post has gone on long enough. I can’t say I’m happy with the bill being passed, but it was. I can only hope that our Congress figures out what exactly is in the bill and then repeals most of it and gives us our choices back.

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Now playing: Spatterdash – Vander Veer
via FoxyTunes

I saw this on a reply thread for a blog out there:

Let me get this straight……we’re trying to pass a health care plan… written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it,… passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it …but exempts themselves from it,… to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it …and who smokes, …with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,… all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, …and financed by a country that’s broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

Interesting indeed!

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term; that they didn’t pay into Social Security; that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.

The latest is to exempt themselves from the health care reform that is being considered…in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Ask each person contact a minimum of Twenty people on their address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States

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Listening to: Theory Of A Deadman – Bad Girlfriend
via FoxyTunes

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it.

Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!!

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

• That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary. (No longer Voluntary)
• That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program. (Now 7.65% on the first $90,000)
• That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year. (No longer tax deductible)
• That the money the participants paid would be put into an independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund and would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program and no other Government program. The fund would have covered Social Security payments for 100+ years. (Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent.)
• That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. (Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed)

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’. You may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US.

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country and at age 65 began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it, in order to get their votes!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! (Thanks, Ron!)

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”.

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We Shall Overcome”. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is later found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2010.
(Thanks, Ron!)

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Listening to: Blues Brothers – Sweet Home Chicago
via FoxyTunes

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer terrorist attacks without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. (These events are actual events. They really happened! Do you remember them?)

HERE’S THE TEST

• 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
1. Superman
2. Jay Leno
3. Harry Potter
4. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
1. Olga Corbett
2. Sitting Bull
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
1. Lost Norwegians
2. Elvis
3. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• During the 1980′s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
1. John Dillinger
2. The King of Sweden
3. The Boy Scouts
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
1. A pizza delivery boy
2. Pee Wee Herman
3. Geraldo Rivera
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
1. The Smurfs
2. Davey Jones
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
1. Captain Kidd
2. Charles Lindberg
3. Mother Teresa
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
1. Scooby Doo
2. The Tooth Fairy
3. The Sundance Kid
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
1. Richard Simmons
2. Grandma Moses
3. Michael Jordan
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
1. Mr. Rogers
2. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’s women problems
3. The World Wrestling Federation
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
1. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
2. The Supreme Court of Florida
3. Mr Bean
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 2002 the United States began to fight a war in Afghanistan against:
1. Enron
2. The Lutheran Church
3. The NFL
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
• In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
1. Bonnie and Clyde
2. Captain Kangaroo
3. Billy Graham
4. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

And now we can add: In 2009, 31 people wounded and 13 American Soldiers murdered on base at Fort Hood by a Major who was….. You guessed it – A Muslim male extremist between the age of 17 and 40

No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people.

Instead we conduct random searches of a 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, an 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and a Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest we be guilty of profiling.

As the writer of the award winning story “Forrest Gump” so aptly put it, “Stupid is as stupid does.” (Thanks, Ron!)

I am posting this for all my readers and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you as e-friends. The proposal is to promote a “Congressional Reform Act of 2009.” It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (but not the incumbents).

I know many of you will say, “this is impossible.” Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress – the entity that represents us.

We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House. These people will become American heroes.. Please add any ideas on how to get this done.

Thanks,

A Fellow American

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Congressional Reform Act of 2009

• Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
  • Two Six-year Senate terms
  • Six Two-year House terms
  • One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
• No Tenure / No Pension. A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
• Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
• Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
• Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
• Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
• Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
• All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/10. The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work. (Thanks, Ron)

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Listening to: Puddle Of Mudd – Control
via FoxyTunes