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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~~ Octavia Butler
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“I outlived Michael Jackson. Bet you didn’t see that coming.” ~~ Keith Richards
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“Finally, there is the matter of maintaining a respectable image of American life before the world! Among the qualities that the American government must exhibit is dignity. In turn the principle government spokesman must strive to display it. In war and in peace, I’ve no respect for the desk pounder, and have despised the loud and slick talker. If my own ideas and practices in this matter have sprung from weakness I do not know. But they were and are deliberate or, rather, natural to me. They are not accidental.” ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, letter to Henry Luce, August 1960
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“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late.” ~~ Jonathan Swift
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“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” – Madeleine Albright
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“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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“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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“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.”
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.
“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.
When I was searching the Internet to make sure Continue reading “Carly Fiorina – Only people with the “right talent” deserve a family centered life.”