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Edit: I changed No Act of God to ONLY Act of God

Five For Fighting - Chances

With minor revisions....

Chances are when said and done
Who'll be the lucky ones
Who make it all the way?
Though you say I could be your answer
Nothing lasts forever
No matter how it feels today

Chances are we´ll find a new equation
Chances roll away from me
Chances are all they hope to be

Don't get me wrong I'd never say never
Cause though love can change the weather
ONLY act of God can pull me away from you

I´m just a realistic man
A bottle filled with shells and sand
Afraid to love beyond what I can lose when it comes to you
And though I see us through yeah

Chances are we´ll find two destinations
Chances roll away from me
Still chances are more than expectations
The possibilities
Over me
Eight to five, two to one
Lay your money on the sun
until you crash what have you done?
Is there a better bet than love?
What you are is what you breathe
You gotta cry before you sing

Chances chances

Chances lost are hopes torn up pages
Maybe this time
Chances are we´ll be the combination
Chances come and carry me
Chances are waiting to be taken
And I can see
Chances are the fascination
Chances won't escape from me
Chances are only what we make them
And all I need

Word

Reciprocation is a good word

A Song

A Good Song I remembered 

Mitch McVicker

Heaven Is Waiting

I don't need no woman to kiss me.
And I don't need no man to stand by my side.
I don't need to slake my thirst with whiskey.
Don't need to shuffle cards to pass the time.
'Cause the stars are bright and silvery.
And with the dry ache of a lone coyote's whine,
My Savior's calling, and I'm listening.
Time to saddle up my pony and ride.

'Cause heaven is waiting
Just past the horizon.
Just over the mesas.
Across the great divide.
And faith is blazing
This trail that I ride on up this mountain
I'm prayin' I have the strength to climb

I ain't looking for no seven golden cities,
But I know there's a fortune somewhere to find.
There's a peace that I hear whisperin' through the pinyons
And a love that's taller than the ponderosa pines.

And heaven is waiting
Just past the horizon.
Just over the mesas.
Across the great divide.
And faith is blazing
This trail that I ride on up this mountain
I'm prayin' I have the strength to climb

So don't ask for no lengthy explanation
When there ain't no reason quite wild enough.
No words could be as tender.
It's greater than the fears that we imagine.
More than the warmth that we remember.
It's always just beyond the pass
And I must go

'Cause heaven is waiting
Just past the horizon.
Just over the mesas.
Across the great divide.
And faith is blazing
This trail that I ride on up this mountain
I'm prayin' I have the strength to climb

Oh, heaven is waiting
Oh, heaven is waiting
Heaven is waiting

Advice that Hits Home

Hold It With an Open Hand

Such a difficult thing to do when it is something that you treasure the most

Are you ok with God taketh and God giveth? SIGH

HOLD IT WITH AN OPEN HAND

BEING CONTENT IRREGARDLESS OF THE STATE YOU ARE IN

BEING CONTENT WITH GOD

Greenspan Defends Low-Rate Policy according to WSJ

According to http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704207504575129630378724708.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

Greenspan said in a paper, "The Crisis," that he will present at a Brookings Institution conference Friday. "Given history, we believed that any declines in home prices would be gradual. Destabilizing debt problems were not perceived to arise under those conditions."

Mr. Greenspan's reputation has been tarnished by the crisis. Widely hailed when he left office in January 2006 as one of the greatest central bankers ever, he is now blamed by many for advocating deregulation and low interest rates during the 1990s and 2000s.

Current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that failed supervision was a key ingredient in the crisis. In response he has beefed up the Fed's oversight of the nation's biggest banks and become more aggressive about enforcing consumer-protection rules. But like Mr. Greenspan, he has argued against the idea that low rates fueled the boom.

In Mr. Greenspan's 48-page review of the causes and consequences of the crisis, the text of which was released by Brookings, he acknowledged that the regulatory system failed, that Fed officials didn't take seriously enough the risks building in the subprime mortgage market last decade, that regulators more broadly didn't demand that banks hold enough capital and that he didn't do enough to rein in "megabanks" that posed a risk to the financial system.

He offered a full-throated defense of the interest-rate policies he championed. Low rates did play a role in spurring a housing bubble last decade, Mr. Greenspan said. But it wasn't the short-term rates he controlled, he said. It was longer-term rates, which were driven lower by a flood of savings released by emerging markets into the global financial system.

The Fed pushed its benchmark interest rate—the federal funds rate—to 1% in 2003, to fend off a dangerous bout of deflation. Mr. Greenspan says rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages drove the housing boom, not the overnight lending rates the Fed controls. Because of the flood of foreign capital, he said, longer-term rates became less closely linked to the federal funds rate during the boom, something he described at the time as a "conundrum."

"Could the breakdown that so devastated global financial markets have been prevented?" Mr. Greenspan asked. "Given the in appropriately low level of financial intermediary capital (ie excessive leverage) and two decades of virtual unrelenting prosperity, low inflation and low long-term interest rates, I very much doubt it."

The best solution today, he says, is to demand that banks hold more capital. He dismisses the idea that a new "systemic risk" regulator, as Congress is now considering, might prevent the next crisis.

"The current sad state of economic forecasting should give governments pause on the issue," he says.

Mr. Greenspan offered a detailed defense in a dispute he has had with old friend John Taylor, the Stanford University professor and former Bush administration official who has blamed the Fed's low rates for the financial crisis.

Team Names

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(500) Days of Summer

A good line, very good line: "My names Tom, nice to meet you. I'm Autumn." Last line in the movie (500) Days of Summer