Thursday, February 23, 2006
You've been tagged questions
1: Black and White or Color; how do you prefer your movies?
2: What is the one single subject that bores you to near-death?
3: MP3s, CDs, Tapes or Records: what is your favorite mediumfor prerecorded music?
4: You are handed one first class trip plane ticket to anywhere in the world and ten million dollars cash. All of this is yours provided that you leave and not tell anyone where you are going … Ever. This includes family, friends, everyone. Would you take the money and ticket and run?
5: Seriously, what do you consider the world’s most pressing issue now?
6: How would you rectify the world’s most pressing issue?
7: You are given the chance to go back and change one thing in your life; what would that be?
8: You are given the chance to go back and change one event in world history, what would that be?
9: A night at the opera, or a night at the Grand Ole’ Opry –Which do you choose?
10: What is the one great unsolved crime of all time you’d like to solve?
11: One famous author can come to dinner with you. Who would that be, and what would you serve for the meal?
12: You discover that John Lennon was right, that there is no hell below us, and above us there is only sky — what’s the first immoral thing you might do to celebrate this fact?
2: What is the one single subject that bores you to near-death?
3: MP3s, CDs, Tapes or Records: what is your favorite mediumfor prerecorded music?
4: You are handed one first class trip plane ticket to anywhere in the world and ten million dollars cash. All of this is yours provided that you leave and not tell anyone where you are going … Ever. This includes family, friends, everyone. Would you take the money and ticket and run?
5: Seriously, what do you consider the world’s most pressing issue now?
6: How would you rectify the world’s most pressing issue?
7: You are given the chance to go back and change one thing in your life; what would that be?
8: You are given the chance to go back and change one event in world history, what would that be?
9: A night at the opera, or a night at the Grand Ole’ Opry –Which do you choose?
10: What is the one great unsolved crime of all time you’d like to solve?
11: One famous author can come to dinner with you. Who would that be, and what would you serve for the meal?
12: You discover that John Lennon was right, that there is no hell below us, and above us there is only sky — what’s the first immoral thing you might do to celebrate this fact?
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Dana Milbank stories that have vanished
Another Course Change in the Air Force One Story
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 5, 2003; Page A09
The White House yesterday made a third approach in its attempt to land the controversy about whether a plane spotted Air Force One on its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day.
The story gained altitude when White House communications director Dan Bartlett walked into the media cabin on the return flight from Baghdad and announced that Air Force One had come within sight of a British Airways flight over water. The British Airways pilot, Bartlett said, radioed to ask, "Did I just see Air Force One?," and, after a pause, the Air Force One pilot radioed back, "Gulfstream 5." After a long silence, Bartlett said, the British Airways pilot seemed to realize he was in on a secret and said, "Oh."
A gripping account, except: There was no British Airways flight involved. And President Bush's pilot had no such conversation with any aircraft.
The trouble began earlier this week when British Airways told Reuters that two of its planes were in the area at the time and that neither radioed the president's plane, nor did either hear another aircraft make such an inquiry.
The White House then brought out Version 2.0: Bartlett said the pilot of a British Airways plane had the conversation with air traffic control in London, not Air Force One, while the two planes were flying off the western coast of England just before daybreak. But British Airways said that did not happen either. And Britain's National Air Traffic Services agreed.
This wrinkle forced the White House to come out with Version 3.0 yesterday. Press secretary Scott McClellan said that the aircraft inquiring about Air Force One was, in fact, "a non-UK operator." The spokesman said there had been a British Airways plane "that was in the vicinity of Air Force One as it was crossing over for a good portion of that flight." The presidential pilots thought the query "was coming from a pilot with a British accent, and so that's why they had concluded that it was a British Airways plane."
The White House released a statement from Britain's air traffic service confirming that a "non-UK operator" radioed the control center in Swanwick, England, at "0930 Zulu" time to ask if the aircraft behind it was Air Force One.
That seems to check out, but mysteries remain. Who was this "non-UK operator"? And how is it that a British Airways plane could have been with Air Force One "for a good portion" of the flight if the president's plane was averaging 665 mph -- far beyond the speed of commercial aircraft?
AND THIS
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 28, 2003; Page A01
Three images tell the story of George W. Bush's presidency.
The first, of Bush and bullhorn atop the rubble at New York's Ground Zero on Sept. 14, 2001, came to symbolize his transformation into a powerful wartime president. The second, of Bush in flight suit with "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, became the symbol of Bush's unrealized optimism about the U.S. military's victory in Iraq.
Yesterday, Nov. 27, 2003, brought an equally vivid but more complex image of Bush. His stealthy landing in Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day portrayed a leader well aware of the chaotic and dangerous situation in Iraq but determined to assure the Iraqi people that the United States will not, as he has put it, "cut and run."
While the troops cheered the moment, it is too soon to know whether the image of Bush in his Army jacket yesterday will become a symbol of strong leadership or a symbol of unwarranted bravado.
Iraqis may be reassured that the United States will put down the insurgency and restore order in their country. Or they may take the image of Bush landing unannounced at night without lights and not venturing from a heavily fortified military installation as confirmation that the security situation in Iraq is dire indeed.
But one thing is certain. Bush's Thanksgiving Day surprise ties him, for better or worse, ever more tightly to the outcome of the Iraq struggle.
"It raises the stakes," said Rich Bond, a former head of the Republican Party. "When you're playing poker and somebody is coming at you, a great way to deter them is to raise the stakes. George Bush just placed his stature in an extraordinary way to reassert his commitment to Iraq."
There is nothing novel about presidential visits to war zones at holiday time. Bill Clinton went to Kosovo for Thanksgiving in 1999, Lyndon B. Johnson went to Vietnam for Christmas in 1967, and President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Korean battle fronts in 1952. Richard M. Nixon also traveled to Vietnam, in 1969.
It is also not unprecedented for a president to make unannounced trips in wartime under intense security. Franklin D. Roosevelt's trips to Yalta and other ports during World War II make that clear. And while people may debate the wisdom of sending Air Force One into an area known to have frequent antiaircraft fire, security experts said the secret defensive technologies on Air Force One put the plane at little risk compared with the DHL aircraft that was struck over Baghdad a few days ago.
In contrast to Bush's carrier landing, which they immediately branded a stunt, Bush's critics yesterday did not begrudge him the trip to Iraq, nor the necessary secrecy, nor even the disinformation the White House used to lead people to believe he would be at home on his ranch in Texas all day. Rather, they said the visit may come to reinforce their view that the administration has led the United States into a lonely occupation of Iraq without an obvious exit strategy.
Bush's entourage was fitted with ballistic vests, and the plane came in with neither running lights nor cabin lights, parking on a dark landing strip. "The message to the Iraqis is Bush doesn't think their country is secure," said Sidney Blumenthal, a former adviser to Clinton. "It underscores the insecurity, and it conveys insularity."
Chris Lehane, a strategist for retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark's presidential campaign, said Democrats would not fault Bush for visiting the troops.
"It's absolutely appropriate to be honoring our soldiers overseas in battle on a day like Thanksgiving," he said. "It's more important to honor them every day, which includes allowing us to appropriately honor the heroes who come back in caskets and giving our troops a strategy so they're not there next Thanksgiving."
Bush, in his brief words to the troops, had little of the braggadocio from his May 1 speech and much of the grim determination from his bullhorn speech.
There were no pithy slogans on banners behind him. "You're engaged in a difficult mission," he said, with a poor amplification quality that fit the improvised nature of the trip. "Those who attack our coalition forces and kill innocent Iraqis are testing our will."
But, he added to applause, "We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost in casualties, defeat a brutal dictator and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins."
The message fit the mood of the weary soldiers. In the audience, Staff Sgt. Gerrie Stokes Holloman of Baltimore said she feels "depressed" being in Iraq but buoyed by Bush's visit: "For the most part, people are tired and want to go home. But the support and encouragement we get from our leadership builds a bond with our soldiers."
Retired Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, a commander during the 1991 Persian Gulf War who maintains extensive ties to the Army, predicted the visit would boost soldiers' morale. The visit "brought tears to my eyes," McCaffrey said. "This is the kind of thing that will have a major impact on their level of trust with their own commander in chief."
The visit's impact on U.S. public opinion and on the Iraqi public is not yet knowable. Though it will be to history to judge whether this third major image of Bush's presidency will become shorthand for a failed occupation or a successful war, both supporters and critics yesterday said it was appropriate to make a holiday visit to the soldiers he sent to battle -- and to bind further his political fortunes to the outcome of the mission in Iraq.
"The fact that it's on Thanksgiving is a little bit contrived, but I don't have any problem with it," said Michael O'Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution and a frequent critic of the president's Iraq policy. "It's politics the way it's supposed to be, in a sense."
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 5, 2003; Page A09
The White House yesterday made a third approach in its attempt to land the controversy about whether a plane spotted Air Force One on its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day.
The story gained altitude when White House communications director Dan Bartlett walked into the media cabin on the return flight from Baghdad and announced that Air Force One had come within sight of a British Airways flight over water. The British Airways pilot, Bartlett said, radioed to ask, "Did I just see Air Force One?," and, after a pause, the Air Force One pilot radioed back, "Gulfstream 5." After a long silence, Bartlett said, the British Airways pilot seemed to realize he was in on a secret and said, "Oh."
A gripping account, except: There was no British Airways flight involved. And President Bush's pilot had no such conversation with any aircraft.
The trouble began earlier this week when British Airways told Reuters that two of its planes were in the area at the time and that neither radioed the president's plane, nor did either hear another aircraft make such an inquiry.
The White House then brought out Version 2.0: Bartlett said the pilot of a British Airways plane had the conversation with air traffic control in London, not Air Force One, while the two planes were flying off the western coast of England just before daybreak. But British Airways said that did not happen either. And Britain's National Air Traffic Services agreed.
This wrinkle forced the White House to come out with Version 3.0 yesterday. Press secretary Scott McClellan said that the aircraft inquiring about Air Force One was, in fact, "a non-UK operator." The spokesman said there had been a British Airways plane "that was in the vicinity of Air Force One as it was crossing over for a good portion of that flight." The presidential pilots thought the query "was coming from a pilot with a British accent, and so that's why they had concluded that it was a British Airways plane."
The White House released a statement from Britain's air traffic service confirming that a "non-UK operator" radioed the control center in Swanwick, England, at "0930 Zulu" time to ask if the aircraft behind it was Air Force One.
That seems to check out, but mysteries remain. Who was this "non-UK operator"? And how is it that a British Airways plane could have been with Air Force One "for a good portion" of the flight if the president's plane was averaging 665 mph -- far beyond the speed of commercial aircraft?
AND THIS
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 28, 2003; Page A01
Three images tell the story of George W. Bush's presidency.
The first, of Bush and bullhorn atop the rubble at New York's Ground Zero on Sept. 14, 2001, came to symbolize his transformation into a powerful wartime president. The second, of Bush in flight suit with "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, became the symbol of Bush's unrealized optimism about the U.S. military's victory in Iraq.
Yesterday, Nov. 27, 2003, brought an equally vivid but more complex image of Bush. His stealthy landing in Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day portrayed a leader well aware of the chaotic and dangerous situation in Iraq but determined to assure the Iraqi people that the United States will not, as he has put it, "cut and run."
While the troops cheered the moment, it is too soon to know whether the image of Bush in his Army jacket yesterday will become a symbol of strong leadership or a symbol of unwarranted bravado.
Iraqis may be reassured that the United States will put down the insurgency and restore order in their country. Or they may take the image of Bush landing unannounced at night without lights and not venturing from a heavily fortified military installation as confirmation that the security situation in Iraq is dire indeed.
But one thing is certain. Bush's Thanksgiving Day surprise ties him, for better or worse, ever more tightly to the outcome of the Iraq struggle.
"It raises the stakes," said Rich Bond, a former head of the Republican Party. "When you're playing poker and somebody is coming at you, a great way to deter them is to raise the stakes. George Bush just placed his stature in an extraordinary way to reassert his commitment to Iraq."
There is nothing novel about presidential visits to war zones at holiday time. Bill Clinton went to Kosovo for Thanksgiving in 1999, Lyndon B. Johnson went to Vietnam for Christmas in 1967, and President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Korean battle fronts in 1952. Richard M. Nixon also traveled to Vietnam, in 1969.
It is also not unprecedented for a president to make unannounced trips in wartime under intense security. Franklin D. Roosevelt's trips to Yalta and other ports during World War II make that clear. And while people may debate the wisdom of sending Air Force One into an area known to have frequent antiaircraft fire, security experts said the secret defensive technologies on Air Force One put the plane at little risk compared with the DHL aircraft that was struck over Baghdad a few days ago.
In contrast to Bush's carrier landing, which they immediately branded a stunt, Bush's critics yesterday did not begrudge him the trip to Iraq, nor the necessary secrecy, nor even the disinformation the White House used to lead people to believe he would be at home on his ranch in Texas all day. Rather, they said the visit may come to reinforce their view that the administration has led the United States into a lonely occupation of Iraq without an obvious exit strategy.
Bush's entourage was fitted with ballistic vests, and the plane came in with neither running lights nor cabin lights, parking on a dark landing strip. "The message to the Iraqis is Bush doesn't think their country is secure," said Sidney Blumenthal, a former adviser to Clinton. "It underscores the insecurity, and it conveys insularity."
Chris Lehane, a strategist for retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark's presidential campaign, said Democrats would not fault Bush for visiting the troops.
"It's absolutely appropriate to be honoring our soldiers overseas in battle on a day like Thanksgiving," he said. "It's more important to honor them every day, which includes allowing us to appropriately honor the heroes who come back in caskets and giving our troops a strategy so they're not there next Thanksgiving."
Bush, in his brief words to the troops, had little of the braggadocio from his May 1 speech and much of the grim determination from his bullhorn speech.
There were no pithy slogans on banners behind him. "You're engaged in a difficult mission," he said, with a poor amplification quality that fit the improvised nature of the trip. "Those who attack our coalition forces and kill innocent Iraqis are testing our will."
But, he added to applause, "We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost in casualties, defeat a brutal dictator and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins."
The message fit the mood of the weary soldiers. In the audience, Staff Sgt. Gerrie Stokes Holloman of Baltimore said she feels "depressed" being in Iraq but buoyed by Bush's visit: "For the most part, people are tired and want to go home. But the support and encouragement we get from our leadership builds a bond with our soldiers."
Retired Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, a commander during the 1991 Persian Gulf War who maintains extensive ties to the Army, predicted the visit would boost soldiers' morale. The visit "brought tears to my eyes," McCaffrey said. "This is the kind of thing that will have a major impact on their level of trust with their own commander in chief."
The visit's impact on U.S. public opinion and on the Iraqi public is not yet knowable. Though it will be to history to judge whether this third major image of Bush's presidency will become shorthand for a failed occupation or a successful war, both supporters and critics yesterday said it was appropriate to make a holiday visit to the soldiers he sent to battle -- and to bind further his political fortunes to the outcome of the mission in Iraq.
"The fact that it's on Thanksgiving is a little bit contrived, but I don't have any problem with it," said Michael O'Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution and a frequent critic of the president's Iraq policy. "It's politics the way it's supposed to be, in a sense."
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Odd links
Friday, February 03, 2006
Quotes for rotating title
“When you’re up against a barrier, clarity is right there on the other side.” By: Gary Michael Durst, Ph.D. (Objective Observer's mentor)
Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy. George W. Bush-1/31/06
If the glove fit it wouldn't have fallen off
“The only “intuitive” interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” By: Bruce Ediger
Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. Ann Coulter
“The hardest thing for a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.” Richard Braunstein
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
Ronald Reagan
"Government cannot make you richer, but it sure can make you poorer." - Chuck Bates
"The government that gives a lot, takes a lot." - David Brownlow
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -
Ronald Reagan
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases." - Hippocrates, Aphorisms
"You can see a lot by just looking." - Yogi Berra
"Who depends on another man's table often dines late." - John Ray
"Other people are not your property." - Roderick T. Long
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." - Judge Learned Hand
"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from." - Thomas Sowell
"I would rather be governed by 2000 people selected at random from the Boston telephone directory, than by the 2000 faculty members at Harvard." - William F. Buckley
"This is supposed to be the land of free enterprise. It seems to be more and more, the land of the government do gooders doing no good!" - Kevin Zahrte
"The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." -Will Rogers
"As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse." - Paul Craig Roberts
"What if you were an idiot, and what if you were a member of Congress?" But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
"If a politician promises to help you by hamstringing your neighbor, it's a pretty good bet he just told your neighbor the same thing about you!" - Dave Dawson
"You can not reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into in the first place." - Jonathan Swift
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Henrik Ibsen:
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
Groucho Marx:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
George Burns:
"Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
Carl Sandberg:
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. By: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. By: Simone Weil
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat. By: Will Rogers
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. By: Thomas Jefferson
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. By Vince Lombardi.
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." —Andy Tant
The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. By: Johnny Cash
Limitations? I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. By: Johnny Cash
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. By: Bob Dylan
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. By: Bob Dylan
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. By: Daniel Boone
After all, if an x-ray is poor, there is a chance that injuries could go undetected or diseases could go undiagnosed. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. By: Adrienne Rich
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people." - Unknown
Jimmy Buffett :
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
American proverb:
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
By: Mark Twain
I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?
By: Ashleigh Brilliant
People use statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
By: Andrew Lang
Some people are useless on top of the ground; they ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
By: Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
By: George Burns
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"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." By: James Brown
"Always move toward your demons. They take their power from your retreat." By: Thom Rutledge
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." By: Hubert H. Humphrey
"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums." By: Stephen Wright
"My school colors were clear. We used to say, "I'm not naked, I'm in the band." By: Stephen Wright
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple". By: Barry Switzer
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public". By: George Jessel
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all". By: Sam Ewing
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read". By: Groucho Marx
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” -W. C. Fields
France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet paper. By: Billy Wilder
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. By: Abraham Lincoln
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. By: Steven Wright
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. By: Robert Copeland
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. By: Sir Barnett Cocks
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. By:
Martin Mull
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. By: George Bernard Shaw
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. By: Will Rogers
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. By: Bob Wells
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. By: Edward Abbey
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. By: W. C. Fields
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. By: Sidney J. Harris
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
By: Elbert Hubbard
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. By: Will Rogers
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. By: Steven Wright
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. By: Alfred Korzybski
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. By: Albert Einstein
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. By: Alan Bennett
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. By: James Brown
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment." By: Malcolm Hein
"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment". By: Willis Player
"I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months". By: W.C. Fields
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure". By: Abraham Lincoln
"I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth on 'em, and they think it's hell." By: Harry Truman
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." By: Mark Twain
"When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler." - Gene Simmons on why he voted for George Bush in 2004.
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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." By: Winston Churchill
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
By: Anne Frank
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
By: Abraham Lincoln
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." By: Confucius
"I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest." By: Steven Pearl
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid." By: Heinrich Heine
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- - - Mark Twain
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
- - - Sydney Smith
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
- - - Mark Twain
I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doing.--Unknown
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.--Unknown
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
By: Buckminster Fuller
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." By: Plato
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform." By: Susan B. Anthony
"People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half." By: Jane Haddam
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." By: Plato
"Important principles may and must be inflexible." By: Abraham Lincoln
"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg." By: Robert Coles
Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy. George W. Bush-1/31/06
If the glove fit it wouldn't have fallen off
“The only “intuitive” interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” By: Bruce Ediger
Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. Ann Coulter
“The hardest thing for a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.” Richard Braunstein
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
Ronald Reagan
"Government cannot make you richer, but it sure can make you poorer." - Chuck Bates
"The government that gives a lot, takes a lot." - David Brownlow
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -
Ronald Reagan
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases." - Hippocrates, Aphorisms
"You can see a lot by just looking." - Yogi Berra
"Who depends on another man's table often dines late." - John Ray
"Other people are not your property." - Roderick T. Long
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." - Judge Learned Hand
"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from." - Thomas Sowell
"I would rather be governed by 2000 people selected at random from the Boston telephone directory, than by the 2000 faculty members at Harvard." - William F. Buckley
"This is supposed to be the land of free enterprise. It seems to be more and more, the land of the government do gooders doing no good!" - Kevin Zahrte
"The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." -Will Rogers
"As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse." - Paul Craig Roberts
"What if you were an idiot, and what if you were a member of Congress?" But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
"If a politician promises to help you by hamstringing your neighbor, it's a pretty good bet he just told your neighbor the same thing about you!" - Dave Dawson
"You can not reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into in the first place." - Jonathan Swift
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Henrik Ibsen:
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
Groucho Marx:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
George Burns:
"Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
Carl Sandberg:
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. By: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. By: Simone Weil
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat. By: Will Rogers
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. By: Thomas Jefferson
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. By Vince Lombardi.
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." —Andy Tant
The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. By: Johnny Cash
Limitations? I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. By: Johnny Cash
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. By: Bob Dylan
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. By: Bob Dylan
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. By: Daniel Boone
After all, if an x-ray is poor, there is a chance that injuries could go undetected or diseases could go undiagnosed. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. By: Adrienne Rich
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people." - Unknown
Jimmy Buffett :
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
American proverb:
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
By: Mark Twain
I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?
By: Ashleigh Brilliant
People use statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
By: Andrew Lang
Some people are useless on top of the ground; they ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
By: Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
By: George Burns
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"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." By: James Brown
"Always move toward your demons. They take their power from your retreat." By: Thom Rutledge
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." By: Hubert H. Humphrey
"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums." By: Stephen Wright
"My school colors were clear. We used to say, "I'm not naked, I'm in the band." By: Stephen Wright
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple". By: Barry Switzer
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public". By: George Jessel
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all". By: Sam Ewing
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read". By: Groucho Marx
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” -W. C. Fields
France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet paper. By: Billy Wilder
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. By: Abraham Lincoln
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. By: Steven Wright
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. By: Robert Copeland
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. By: Sir Barnett Cocks
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. By:
Martin Mull
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. By: George Bernard Shaw
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. By: Will Rogers
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. By: Bob Wells
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. By: Edward Abbey
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. By: W. C. Fields
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. By: Sidney J. Harris
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
By: Elbert Hubbard
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. By: Will Rogers
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. By: Steven Wright
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. By: Alfred Korzybski
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. By: Albert Einstein
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. By: Alan Bennett
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. By: James Brown
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment." By: Malcolm Hein
"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment". By: Willis Player
"I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months". By: W.C. Fields
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure". By: Abraham Lincoln
"I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth on 'em, and they think it's hell." By: Harry Truman
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." By: Mark Twain
"When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler." - Gene Simmons on why he voted for George Bush in 2004.
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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." By: Winston Churchill
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
By: Anne Frank
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
By: Abraham Lincoln
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." By: Confucius
"I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest." By: Steven Pearl
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid." By: Heinrich Heine
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- - - Mark Twain
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
- - - Sydney Smith
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
- - - Mark Twain
I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doing.--Unknown
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.--Unknown
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
By: Buckminster Fuller
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." By: Plato
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform." By: Susan B. Anthony
"People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half." By: Jane Haddam
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." By: Plato
"Important principles may and must be inflexible." By: Abraham Lincoln
"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg." By: Robert Coles
