May Week 1, 2010
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May Week 1, 2010
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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967)
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778) Heart attack? Monday, May 03, 2010 Colville Tuesday, May 04, 2010 OK, this is going to be a rant. I listened to that fella on CNN... What
he and his self-serving compatriots are saying, actually saying, is, 'Punish
those stupid people, they caused the problem'. The unspoken other side of that
'diatribe' is "Reward the people (like the fella ranting on CNN) who took
advantage of them".
Rick Santelli on
Youtube is blaming the victims for being too dumb to realize the game was
rigged. Sorry, to me, that's just wrong. Without regulation by a strong government 'Of The People' we are all the mercy of any business that is smart and ruthless enough to figure out a way to take our money, and that is what Mr. Santelli and the Tea Partiers are actually saying they want. I believed in Smith Barney and I
believe that the people I dealt with at Smith Barney believed what they were
preaching. But I lost half my retirement because I believed that the people I
was trusting were regulated by a strong government, I was wrong. The SEC and
their sister agencies that I believed were on my side were actually being
controlled and manipulated by Congressmen who were in turned being controlled by
the Chairman of Goldman Sachs and their ilk. The SEC that was put in place by a
Democrat had been defanged by Reagan and the Bush tag-team. The SEC was
powerless to deal with the 'Creative Accounting' done by WorldCom, ENRON, Global
Crossing, Robinson Accounting and all the others. They were totally
outmaneuvered by Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and all the other 'too big to
fail' Big boys. Wednesday, May 05, 2010 We are leaving for Niagara in the morning... six of us in a minivan... yeah, I know... I am old enough to know better... I am sure the girls will keep Facebook updated with our progress. Thursday, May 06, 2010
Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and
red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as
men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions,
making the gods resemble themselves. -Xenophanes, philosopher and poet (c.570-475
BCE)
We left for Buffalo wedged into the KIA Minivan like sardines. We made it to Kellogg Idaho and I decided that the tires needed to be replaced. The tread was warn but what ws worrying me was a vibration. Looking at the tires closely I saw that the inside of the tires were all worn. The alignment was way off. I got tires and an alignment and we were back on the road in 45 minutes. Les Schwab in Kellogg Idaho, I highly recomend them for fast, competent, courteous service. Snow all afternoon in Montana, We made it to Miles City and got a Motel 6... recommendation, not so much. Friday, May 07, 2010 We were in Minnesota... more snow Saturday, May 08, 2010 We slept in Ohio... snowed just outside Chicago... lots of rain.
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. Reality is an illusion that is brought upon by the lack of alcohol. A woman drove me to drink. I sure regret I didn't get a chance to thank her. What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor. Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beer Holder. If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so if you get wasted all of the time, you'll have the time of your life. The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. Diet Coke with lemon – didn’t that used to be called Pledge? Jay Leno We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Alfred E. Newman The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried. Mignon McLaughlin Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.Sam Levenson Vegetarian: an old Indian word for bad hunter Author unknown It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. Julia Child In Mexico, we have a word for sushi: bait. José Simons I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good – if it’s the pepper or the oni. Ulrik Stephens I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2000 of something. Mitch Hedberg Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. --P. J. O’Rourke I’ve been on a diet for 2 weeks and all I’ve lost is 2 weeks. -Totie Fields I love Thanksgiving turkey…it’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. Arnold Schwarzenegger Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. -George Carlin Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety- six dollars and I’m still hungry. --Mike Kalin I’ll have a double cappuccino, half-caf, non-fat milk, with enough foam to be aesthetically pleasing, but not so much that it would leave a moustache.--Niles Crane, Frasier Fun-sized Snickers? Who’s this fun for? Not me. I need six or seven of these babies in a row to start having fun. --Jeff Carlin I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. --W.C. Fields Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. --Jay Leno The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. Andy Rooney The only two things I don’t eat for breakfast are lunch and dinner. Author unknown We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Mander Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. Jim Davis The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. Julia Child Pepperidge Farm bread… that’s fancy bread. You can tell it’s fancy because it’s wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn’t open. That’s why I don’t buy it. I don’t need another step between me and toast. Mitch Hedberg I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. Money can't buy poverty. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. --Oprah Winfrey Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. --Rita Rudner I hate women because they always know where things are. --Voltaire Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. --Claudette Colbert My mother was 88 years old, she never used glasses. Drank right out of the bottle. --Henny Youngman My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. --Groucho Marx She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.--Gypsy Rose Lee What's a rigmarole: Lead in a movie about a mother trucker.-Ken Pinkham The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. --Elayne Boosler Does your Mother know you are reading this? --Marsha in Texas Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules. The remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.- Cathy Guisewite What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.- Margaret Deland, The Rising Tide, 1916 Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. - Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife, 1991 Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.- W. Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965 My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.- Alan Alda Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother--she looks like my father.--Tony Randall Neither Papa nor Mama nor the schools taught me about sex, at least not officially. I wanted to know, but no one sat down to give me a sex organ recital. Mama certainly couldn't do it, in spite of the fact that she had given birth to ten children. When asked if she had ever heard of "sex appeal," she said, "I gave already."-- Sam Levenson The child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose, and his mother's mouth. Which leaves his mother with a pretty blank expression.--Robert Benchley Mothers mold the children's minds. Some of you have done well. There are a lot of moldy-minded kids around.--Norm Crosby I was playing with my navel. My mother said, "All right, keep playin' with your navel, pretty soon you're gonna break it wide open, the air's gonna come right out of your body, you'll fly around the room backwards for thirty seconds, land and be flat as a piece of paper, nothin' but your little eyes buggin' out." I used to carry Band-Aids in case I had an accident.--Bill Cosby I think I'd be a good mother--maybe a little overprotective. Like I would never let the kid out--of my body.--Wendy Liebman My mother had a problem because she grew up during the Great Depression. And I had problems because I grew up during her great depression.--Jane Stroll My mom was a little weird. When I was little my mom would make chocolate frosting. And she'd let me lick the beaters. And then she'd turn them off.--Marty Cohen There's not a lot of warmth between me and my mother. I asked her about it. I said, "Mrs. Stoller ..."--Fred Stoller Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are." --Cary Grant He's so old his blood type was discontinued." --Bill Dana Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt. Studs Terkel I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated. Studs Terkel I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. Studs Terkel I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life. Studs Terkel Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people. Studs Terkel I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace. Studs Terkel She has so many wrinkles on her forehead she has to screw her hat on. I personally don't mind growing old, but my body's taking it badly. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. --Truths for Mature Humans
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again; skinned knees are easier to fix than
broken hearts. -Anonymous Grandpa was always going on about the good old days and the lower cost of living in particular. "When I was a kid, my mom could send me to the store, and I'd get a salami, two pints of milk, six oranges, two loaves o' bread, a magazine, and some new blue jeans, all for a dollar!" Then Grandpa said sadly, "You can't do that anymore. They got those video cameras everywhere you look." 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? Beer is good food. It's better to have a beer in the hand than gas in the tank. Beer. It's not just for breakfast anymore. A beer in the hand beats two in the bush. I envy paranoids.... They actually feel that people are paying attention to them. One more drink and I'll be under the host. You can heat your home with oil and use 800 gal. a year or keep comfortably warm all winter with half that quantity of beer. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of Mankind is beer. The wheel was also a fine invention, but it does not go nearly as well with pizza. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals, such as hydrogen and oxygen for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. I don't work out. It cuts into my drinking time. People who drink light beer don't like the taste of beer, they just like to pee a lot. I don't have a drinking problem. I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem! Draft beer, not people! Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little: Edmund Burke Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power: Benito Mussolini "It is clear that American citizens are the target of choice of international terrorists. Americans comprise only about 5 percent of the world's population. However, according to State Department statistics, during the decade of the 1990's, 36 percent of all worldwide terrorist acts were directed against U.S. interests." Attorney General John Ashcroft, 05/09/01 "Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people":
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I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr
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"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy." Aldous Huxley:
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The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all
part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to
one particular color or border. -Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1942)
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors,
trip about him at command. -John Milton, poet (1608-1674)
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand
up to Him. -Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983)
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.
The whole thing is evil. -Charles Mayo, physician and founder of the Mayo Clinic
(1865-1939)
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who
express their real opinions. -Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. -Immanuel Kant, philosopher
(1724-1804)
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. -George Marshall, US
Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're
alive, it isn't. -Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual
flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually
falling through disuse. -Cornelius Conway Felton, educator (1807-1862) So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. " Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut.
Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta.
Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.": Chalmers Johnson, Sorrows of Empire |
