Artificial Timetables

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from Tom Toles
washingtonpost.com

[jimboloco]

I will make informed financial decisions, understanding the difference between wants and needs.

I will communicate with my family about money matters so that we are all working toward the same goals.

I will be aware of the effects of advertising on the financial decisions I make, and resolve not to be influenced by them.

I will take care of my finances today by tracking expenses and creating a budget that is flexible and realistic.

I will take care of my finances tomorrow by saving for my future.

I will meet the credit obligations I have made on time and as agreed.

I will continue my personal education about financial health, budgeting, credit, and personal debt.

I will plan for periodic expenses, including the next holiday season.

By good example, I will teach my children the importance of budgeting, saving, and the wise use of credit.

Finally, if I am over-obligated, I will take the necessary steps to seek assistance.

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Good for you jim
sounds like a good way to live.
If I had a family I hope I would do the same.
Not sure what it had to do with the the cartoon
But who am I to quibble about that.

As for myself
I will continue
as I am

I will give all my money away
Because that is what I have always done

I will live like there is no tomorrow
Because that is what I have always done

I will never change
I won't even try to change anymore

I will accept myself as I am
I think that is a wise thing to do for someone my age. Who is just starting out in life.






I been trying to set aside a little for my final expenses
I would not like to leave that for Homeboy to take care of.
I been saving dimes and nickels for months.




Every thing is an open book for me jimbo
my life is an open book
I got hardly any secretes left.
And I have run out of enemies too.

Nobody can judge me more than I judge myself

From that pale mist
Ghost swore to priest:
'There sits no higher court
Than man's red heart

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp? ... poem=33203

[jimboloco]

I have artificial timetables
even while they turn
and Baghdad burns
I'll earn my keep
while mothers weep
and patrons of the national pastime
stand and shout "no!"
when the umpire calls wrong;
why the missus smiled in church this morn.

what's funnier than a priest
confronting a ghost?
a dinausaur in the garden of eden
eating apples from the tree of knowledge.

How can you ever change
when you are at home on the range?

in the aftermath of constipated illusions
i shit my pants

sorry i ai'nt got my shit together
this came from my non-voting east texas step sister

[stilltrucking]

Voting is about the only thing that keeps me going these days

I have always thought that Adam should have ate a peach instead.

When are the good people in the main stream churches going to stand up
Why do the heathens like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, james hagee get all the ink

youse is a poetz jimbo
did you know it

As I face the forlorn rags of old age with no money
I wistfully think of the thirty thousand dollars my baby sister's divorce cost me.

oh well
what is more precious than a sister
god rest your soul margaret.

[jimboloco]

mercy
margaret is my deceased little sister, too
she was marching in washington when i had my uso call home from vietnam
god rest your soul margaret.

she used to sing
"yank my doodle
it's a dandy!"

[stilltrucking]

I remember that picture she took of you.
The one where you were reading that book.
But I forgot the name of the book.

[tarbaby]

My sister's name is Elke. Named after her great aunt who died.

Misunderstanding here jim

I was just trying to think abiut how would I even begin to deal with her death. Been a long eight month medical melodrama I have posted the details here and there, maybe you saw them.

I been thinking about Spinoza's god a lot lately. Not sure how the body and soul are entangled.

Etanglement is a spook bizness jim.
Quantum mechanically speaking that is.

I don't know much about Tibetan Buddhism, just enough to sound like a google poser. All those bardos. I have a dim understanding of that.


Jitterbug believes in life eternal
I suppose I do too.
But I got a dim understanding

I believe the body and soul are one, but I have a dim understanding of quantum physics

I always prayed that I would die before my siblings.


You know what jim?

after all this I forgot what I was going to say.

Something about
this line I wrote

god rest your soul margaret.

God bless your soul margeret might have been better wording.?

Darkest before the dawn.

Smuts had the brain of a Jew; not of the Jew who produced great music and art, nor of the Jew who handled the intricacies of small businesses or of big finance, but of the Jew who pondered over the minutiae of the Scriptures, who cogitated the labyrinthine arguments of the Talmud, and laboured out the erudite, dry-as-dust philosophies of Spinoza.

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboa ... chap47.htm