Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[PhantomSac]

[Chorus]

I was thinking bout her, thinkin' bout me

Thinkin' bout us, what we gon' be

Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream

So I traveled back, down that road

Will she come back, no one knows

I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream

 

I was at the top and now its like I'm in the basement

Number one spot and now she find her a replacement

I swear now I can't take it, knowing somebody's got my baby

And now you ain't around baby I can't think

I should've put it down, should've got the ring

Cause I can still feel it in the air

See her pretty face run my fingers through her hair

My lover, my life, my shawty, my wife

She left me, I'm tied

Cause I knew that it just ain't right

 

[Chorus]

 

When I be ridin' man I swear I see her face at every turn

Tryna get my Usher on but I can't let it Burn

And I just hopes she know that she the only one I yearn for

More and more I miss her, when will I learn

Didn't give her all my love, I guess now I got my payback

Now I'm in the club thinking all about my baby

Hey, she was so easy to love

But wait, I guess that love wasn't enough

I'm going through it every time that I'm alone

And now I'm missing, wishing she'd pick up the phone

But she made the decision that she wanted to move on

Cause I was wrong

 

[Chorus]

 

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

And now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything

Said if you ever loved somebody put your hands up

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up

Now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything

 

[Chorus: x2]

 

 

 

Read more: Nelly - Just A Dream Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[PhantomSac]

C'mon, uhh, uhh

I guess he's back 'urr derrty, S-T-L derby

I'm like Magic to Kareem, mayne you tell me I ain't Worthy

I ain't speakin 'bout a jersey, I'm speakin 'bout income

Did you hear that Elizabeth? Here come the big one

I put mo' money in the community than you got in yo' budget

I wipe my ass with yo' advance to the toilet then flush it

My last stance be a stance of a General Custard

I hot dog cause I can, I got the cheese and mustard

I got the stats of a hall of famer - in just two records

That's why I'm back up at the Superbowl - with Julius Peppers

I got that cain't stop, won't stop, in my veins

That's why they cain't stop, won't stop, screamin the name

NELLY! NELLY! Go tell a friend to tell a friend

I'ma keep the same grin whether I, lose or win

Up, or down ten, I'ma fight to the end

Breathing hardLet's go

 

Ain't no way they can stop me now Nelly

Cause I'm on my way, I can feel my ring comin

It's the blood of a champion, pumpin

Deep inside my veins, too much pride to be runnin

I'ma get what I can and more, even if

My blood, my sweat, and my tears don't mean nothin

It's the heart of a champion (it's the heart of me)

(It's the heart of a ) in me

 

I'm the first pick, the first round, signin bonus profound

Playin for his hometown, reppin for the home ground

And gettin buffer like Michael Riggs, tell 'em again

I gets buffer like Michael Riggs, heard what I said?

The MV-P of the game, intensity still the same

I'm shootin out from my reign, with Peyton Manning type aim

Can't stop me from scorin so they results are just hackin

So there's, three of us now - me, A.I. and Shaq'n

From the look to the as I say

Hover man with more heart than Hallmark on Valentine's Day

I'm the one that you've been Raven about, like Ray Lewis

I think it hard to go and change your route

Cause you don't know if I'm blitzin or if I'm sittin and readin

Waitin for you to go and trip, drop back and throw up a brick, man

 

AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW

AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW

 

It's like a big time decision made on how I can twurk it

If hard work pays off then easy work is worthless

My work habit ain't no habit man, I do it on purpose

I push myself to the limit so my talent'll surface

So now it's, curtains and drapes, on anybody who hates

Dislikin what I'm recitin, bitin what I've been writin

I've been dogfightin, scratchin and clawin on every height

Tryin to make you remember me like you +Remember the Titans+

Cause I'm a warrior, my daddy was a soldier

A Vietnam vet, lil' derrty I thought I told ya

I'm supposed ta, whip up your town in Testarossas

Heatin like Folgers mayne, I'm young black and rich

As good as it gets, and givin your point guard fits

He think he done seen pressure mayne, but he ain't seen shhhh

 

AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW

AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - BLOW

 

Ain't no way they can stop me now Nelly

Cause I'm on my way, I can feel my ring comin

It's the blood of a champion, pumpin

Deep inside my veins, too much pride to be runnin

I'ma get what I can and more, even if

My blood, my sweat, and my tears don't mean nothin

It's the heart of a champion (it's the heart of me)

(It's the heart of a ) in me

 

Ain't no way they can stop me now Nelly

Cause I'm on my way, I can feel my ring comin

It's the blood of a champion, pumpin

Deep inside my veins, too much pride to be runnin

I'ma get what I can and more, even if

My blood, my sweat, and my tears don't mean nothin

It's the heart of a champion (it's the heart of me)

(It's the heart of a ) in me

[Zelandakh]

JOHN LEGEND LYRICS

"All Of Me"

This one happens to be on my main playlist - here is the link for anyone that wants to hear it as well as read the words.

 

Sadly, there is still an enormous stigma in the Western world towards mental illness and a corresponding lack of support and funding for sufferers. I think that one day people will look back at this time much as we do towards locking up patients a century ago. Sadly I suspect that will not be within my lifetime.

[y66]

Second saddest day in the history of sports (after October 9, 2015 and the events that lead up to it, of course)?

[y66]

A Machine to Explain Monetary Policy. Why Not?

[kenberg]

This is in the "It had to happen" department.

 

 

The local grocery also sells gas, and as we buy groceries we "earn" points that discount the gas price. Today the gas price had fallen to $1.95 a gallon and, when I went to fill up, I found that I had a discount of $2.20 per gallon. Hmm. Would the register that keeps a running track of the price now run backward? Does it understand about negative numbers? Would I be allowed to summon other drivers and put some gas in their cars?

 

No such luck. It let me fill my tank for free and told me i had a discount of 20 cents a gallon for the next time I came in. So it ate a nickel of my discount. Very wicked.

[Aberlour10]

+++breaking+++news+++

 

A DJ from local radio station in Austria barricaded himself in the studio and played two hours long the same song Last Christmas by Wham. Alone his 4y old son could get him to give it up.

 

 

 

[Cyberyeti]

+++breaking+++news+++

 

A DJ from local radio station in Austria barricaded himself in the studio and played two hours long the same song Last Christmas by Wham. Alone his 4y old son could get him to give it up.

 

Apparently the station didn't fire him, just made him work Christmas night and new years eve

[y66]

Bidoun, an Influential Magazine of the Middle East, Extends Its Reach

[y66]

The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery by Karl Ove Knaussgard. Wow. This guy can write.

 

Edit:

[y66]

The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

 

It is heartening to know there are still guys like Rob Bilott out there and law firms capable of doing the right thing when it conflicts with their bottom line.

 

Scary to think this story almost didn't get told and that PFOA is only 1 of 60,000 unregulated chemicals.

[y66]

Udacity offers job guarantee for new enrollees in its Nanodegree Plus program: you get a job within six months of graduation, or they give you 100% of your tuition back.

[mike777]

Udacity offers job guarantee for new enrollees in its Nanodegree Plus program: you get a job within six months of graduation, or they give you 100% of your tuition back.

 

who guarantees udacity whatever that is

 

in any case if your point is there is not guarantee in life ..ok ok ok

[y66]

Two serious fishermen are in a boat on their favorite lake. For two hours, it's all business: changing lures, casting and moving to the next spot. But no luck. Then one guy becomes restless and his buddy says: "that's the second time you've moved your foot in the last twenty minutes. Did you come out here to fish or to dance?"

[y66]

Fire at Virginia Smokehouse Leaves Pork-to-Table Movement Reeling

 

A sad day for pork lovers. A happy day for pigs. So it goes ...

[Aberlour10]

All I can say: cricket thread is dead

[jjbrr]

http://i.imgur.com/y26VFSa.gif

[y66]

Post Sand Snakes traumatic stress disorder?

[y66]

El New York Times lanzó nytimes.com/es hoy para los lectores que prefieren el español.

[kenberg]

El New York Times lanzó nytimes.com/es hoy para los lectores que prefieren el español.

 

Buena suerte.

I won't embarrass myself by attempting to say more.

[y66]

The NYT Upshot published a primer on negative interest rates today. Excerpt:

 

A decade ago, negative interest rates were a theoretical curiosity that economists would discuss almost as a parlor game. Two years ago, it began showing up as an unconventional step that a few small countries considered. Now, it is the stated policy of some of the most powerful global central banks, including the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.

 

On Thursday, Sweden’s central bank lowered its bank lending rate to a negative 0.5 percent from a negative 0.35 percent, and said it could cut further still; European bank stocks were hammered partly because investors feared what negative rates could do to bank profits. The Federal Reserve chairwoman, Janet Yellen, acknowledged in congressional testimony Wednesday and Thursday that the American central bank was taking a look at the strategy, though she emphasized no such move was envisioned.

 

But as negative rates — in which depositors pay to hold money in bank accounts — become a more common fixture, there are many unknowns about what these policies mean for finance, for the economy and even for the definition of money. More

[kenberg]

The NYT Upshot published a primer on negative interest rates today. Excerpt:

 

 

 

 

A little competition might be healthy. If folks in Sweden would like to send me their money, I will agree to take it and only charge them 0.4% to do so.

[Al_U_Card]

Gee...banks charging us to "hold" our money....fox meet henhouse.

 

Back to Savings&loan and leave the robbery to thieves and the gambling to the casinos.

[y66]

For possible inclusion in the OBBOHTT Guide to Saying Farewell to Those With Whom We May Disagree:

 

Posted on April 9, 2013 by yanisv aka Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens and former Finance Minister of Greece.

 

Farewell Mrs Thatcher: In spite of everything, you are being missed already

 

For the purposes of full disclosure, I write these words as someone who, back in the late ‘70s and throughout the ‘80s, joined countless picket lines and demonstrations against Mrs Thatcher’s regime, shouting on top of his voice (and to the detriment of his vocal chords): “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out, Out, Out!”. Indeed, when I was putting this blog together, three years ago, I went so far as to write in the ‘About’ page: “My break from Britain occurred in 1987 on the night of Mrs Thatcher’s third election victory. It was too much to bear. Soon I started planning my escape.” And while my views on the Iron Lady have not changed one iota, I feel the need to express my sorrow for her passing; a sorrow that I have been feeling well before her death; indeed one that began to creep up on me a few short years after her ‘admirers’ in the Tory party sent her packing.

 

As the tributes fly in, following the announcement of Mrs Thatcher’s death, perhaps this small tribute from someone who opposed almost everything she stood for, and certainly her main economic, social and foreign policies, may be of some significance. Indeed, Mrs Thatcher was the sort of person that would appreciate a sworn enemy’s eulogy a lot more than the platitudes of the many sycophants that are piling up.

 

So, why is someone who kept screaming at ‘her’ “Out! Out! Out!” (when in government) is missing her after her final exit? The reason is simple and has to do with a combination of two attributes: First, she was the last British politician to have meant what she said. A ‘conviction politician’ as those rare birds were once called. Secondly, she had a sense of history that informed her actions. While I abhorred both her convictions and her historical take of the past, at least she had convictions and did base her thinking on an historical take that extended beyond the past… week of events. This combination is sorely missed in our current predicament when politicians are mere market research-driven simulations, and in which to have convictions is considered outdated, a sign of weakness, a relic of an antiquated past. With Mrs Thatcher, at least you could trust that she meant what she said. Oh how I miss that in a politician…

 

A time of death is not a time to offer a full critique of the life that just ended. It is a time to reflect generously on that life’s effect on all of us. I shall never forget the feeling of admiration for the way she addressed the House of Commons, of her formidable defence of her government and her philosophy (which was, in my estimation, that much more impressive given that both her government and her philosophy were indefensible). If I delve a little more (see below) on her contradictions, it is not out of an urge to diminish Mrs Thatcher; in fact, I believe deeply that we are all contradictory creatures and that the greater our ambition the greater the antinomies within us. And by golly, did Mrs Thatcher display great ambition and, thus, great contradictions!

 

She was the first woman Prime Minister but had little sympathy for the suffragettes (and the women’s movement in general) that broke the barriers to women’s progress, thus allowing her to rise up. She wanted to liberate Britons from the state but ended up granting Whitehall (Britain’s London-based functionaries) hitherto unheard of authoritarian powers. She sought to impose libertarian values, only to discover that she needed an autocratic state in order to do so (which explains nicely her fondness for, and defence of, General Pinochet). She preached judiciousness, on matters economic, and thrift, yet her government built the ‘British Miracle’ on the twin bubbles of real estate and the City created by spivs who worshipped her. She was keen to see the end of the old Etonian ruling circle but, unwittingly, created the conditions for the resurgence of that aristocratic clique (just take a look at the present cabinet). She championed a ‘share owners’ democracy’ but delivered a Britain in which ownership of businesses (and wealth) is more concentrated in the hands of a minority than at the time she became Prime Minister. She campaigned against totalitarianism in Moscow while insisting that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist who deserved to languish in gaol. Above all other contradictions, she argued passionately about a return to the Victorian moral life but gave rise to a regime in which it was impossible to imagine anything good being done for its own sake (as opposed to for profit).

 

Despite all these contradictions, the world was a better place when it allowed formidable personalities, like that of Mrs Thatcher, to rise to the top. It is highly questionable whether someone of Mrs Thatcher’s strong convictions and bravado could rise again to a position of genuine power. And this is, surely, a sad reflection on the world after Thatcher.

 

Lastly, on Europe, while it is true that Mrs Thatcher only turned against the European Union when the Labour Party turned pro-European, she was quite right on what monetary union meant in the absence of democratic checks and balances. Undoubtedly, her hostility to the Eurozone project had little to do with her commitment to democracy (given the way in which she diminished democracy at home, especially at the local government and regional level) and a great deal with having to cede her own prime ministerial power to Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin. Whatever her motives, nonetheless, she was spot on when, in her final parliamentary speech as Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, famously said about the Eurozone: “It’s all politics. Who controls interest rates is political. A single currency is about the politics of Europe.” Europe’s leaders and citizens can do a lot worse than to remember, and mark, these words.

[gwnn]

http://i.imgur.com/JYbphKv.gif