“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” ~~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote for the Day — Walter Sobchak
“Those rich f***s! This whole f***ing thing… I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this f***ing Trump could turn our nation into a Banana Republic.” ~~ Walter Sobchak
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Trump mistakes LBJ quote as a guideline
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” ~~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I went to Snopes.com to verify this quote. At the end of the article they stated:
” In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us.”
H. L. Mencken on Trump’s Inauguration…
A friend sent me this quote which perfectly describes the inauguration of Donald Trump:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by an incompetent, downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” — H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to say I am an American. I am thinking about getting a red maple leaf tattoo so people might accidentally mistake me for a Canadian.
What an awful day for our country.
Carly Fiorina – Only people with the “right talent” deserve a family centered life.
“When I was chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, we also offered paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave,” she said. “It’s pretty clear that the private sector, like Netflix, is doing the right thing because they know it helps them attract the right talent.” ~~ Carly Fiorina, one of the mob vying for the Republican presidential nomination.
As I readied myself for work this Monday morning, I was getting my morning cup of WTF by listening to the political news on NPR. I heard the above quote from Ms. Fiorina and my cup overflowed.
First and foremost came the thought that if you were not the “right talent” then you did not deserve paternity leave? That tells me all I need to know about the Ms. Fiorina’s world view. Compassion apparently is not on her Rolodex or in her contact list. One can only assume that as the former head of a tech company she has dumped the Rolodex, but the rest of her views tend to point in the other direction.
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Wisdom is Where You Find It
Spent a few hours today with my mother, who is on the Alzheimer’s path. . .on a “good” day, she knows something is not right, and tries to figure out what that is. . .she is one smart lady. . .tough and practical. . .she did not know where she was going to sleep tonight. . .I tried to reassure her without triggering her. . .at one point, she looked at me and said, “When we were younger, the things we thought were hard were really pretty easy.” I am still making my back into the solar system after being blown away by that observation from a “demented” person. . .Mom, I am developing more and more admiration for your courage as a practicing human being dealing with what life has delivered to your front door step. . .I hope on some level you are aware of that fact. . .
A note from my brother James Michael
Hucksters selling you a ray-gun-proof magic hat…
The following quote is from an op-ed piece in the New York Times. I found it exceeding rich and to the point.
‘“Do you think that storm was from global warming?” everyone asked after coastal New York and New Jersey were smashed by Hurricane Sandy. “Well, maybe,” was the best anyone could say; there have always been storms.
But the aliens are in the backyard, Granny, and it’s time to start hitting them with the cast-iron pans. The [climate] deniers are the equivalent of hucksters selling you a ray-gun-proof magic hat.‘
Hear that Ann Wagner?
Here is a link to the full article: The Aliens Have Landed
So It Goes
Robin sings in the choir at The Center for Spiritual Living here in St. Louis. They tend to end meditative/pray moments with the saying, “And so it is.” This sounded familiar to me and then I realized it is very, very close to Kurt Vonnegut’s famous saying, “So it goes.”
“Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut’s classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn’t notable for its unique wording so much as for how much emotion—and dismissal of emotion—it packs into three simple, world-weary words that simultaneously accept and dismiss everything. There’s a reason this quote graced practically every elegy written for Vonnegut over the past two weeks (yes, including ours): It neatly encompasses a whole way of life. More crudely put: “Shit happens, and it’s awful, but it’s also okay. We deal with it because we have to.”
~~ from an article by By Tasha Robinson, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, Noel Murray & Scott Gordon 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
And Another Thing I Do Not Understand
And another thing I do not understand is this. Why do Evangelicals always quote scripture to you like that is the final authority on everything? Obviously, if you are a non-believer, that is a logical argument of the dog chasing his own tail variety.
This branch of religion (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) has it roots in nomads who could not figure out for 40 years how to cross the Sinai Desert to get from Egypt to Israel. The distance is less than 500 kilometers. The piece de resistance is that while they wandered for 40 years in this barren place, food rained down from the heavens upon them. I can think of many places today that this would be a blessing indeed. I’ve yet to see it though.
Once they finally figured where the heck Israel was, they went on a genocidal tear to take the land from the inhabitants that were already there.
Then we get into Jesus, a religious figure with no historical record. It just seems improbably to me that a personage of this import would not put at least a minor verifiable page into history. All we really have is mythology. This puts him in the same company as Zeus, Thor, and Shiva.
Put that hound on a trail that I can see, feel, smell or otherwise sense, then get back to me.
Most welfare fraud by doctors, hospitals, pharmacies…
I’ve been looking for a statistic on the percentage of welfare/Medicare fraud by recipients. I kept seeing this quote all over the Internet. While I did not find the original study, I am going to trust the Boston Herald.
“A study in Massachusetts showed that more than 93 percent of the money recovered from welfare fraud came from vendors.”
Read the full story at the Boston Herald at this link: The real cheaters