#7 is the one I wanted to quote... but the whole list is fookin true

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I was watching TV at Baby's the other night, and her youngest daughter (~23) was there. Some blurb about gov't getting in her business prompted her (daughter) to utter this jewel:

Now get off the fucking lawn.

How can you tell how many ideas have been forgotten? How can you know this is the most successful parasite when we can only count the successes?

OUTSTANDING SIR!

If it was good, it won't be forgotten, and can't be killed.

On Theodore Roosevelt:

~Robert Brockway @ cracked.com

~Undertoad 10/31/12

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~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Word.

~Mason Tvert, co-director of the Colorado pro-legalization campaign

Paraphrasing:

~Jim Stafford

saw this in IM's Sig. From Maybell C apparently.

Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.

exactly. it's a shame it's so hard for so many swans to get past having been an ugly duckling. We need to improve our cygnet pride fostering skills

~Margaret Thatcher

Brought to mind by another thread, but didn't want to intrude on anyone's grief..

From a different tavern in a different time and a different place, but still no less a truism

~ White Calf in "People of the Fire" by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

~Family Guy

or your grandmas' bra...

"When I was 20 I worried about what people thought about me.
When I was 40 I couldn't care what they thought of me.
Now I am 60 and I realize they were not thinking about me at all."

Just a joke, but has its own wisdom

Welcome to the cellar Old Bunyip!

Thank you Big V.
I think I have lurked long enough.
I like your Marcus Aurelius signature, too.

:-)

Thanks for your kind words about my signature, I try to live up to it each day; I confess I am confused a bit about your signature. I find trust to be a necessary part of love. I don't think I can love anyone I don't trust. The converse is true of course, there are many I trust but do not love.

Lastly, I am happy to have you paddle while I steer. :D

Now you are getting tricky, Big V!
I have had a pretty rugged life where many people who loved me (and I loved) let me down. Proved not worthy of my trust but I loved them for what they were. They did what they thought was best.
Now I try to love or have compassion for "many" but am aware that only "few" are really trustworthy in regard to me.
Hence the "paddling of my own canoe" = I go my own way, not someone else's.
Which means, kind Sir, if you came aboard,you would paddle while I would steer
;)

I'm with Bunyip--there are plenty of people whom I love and accept as flawed individuals, but that doesn't mean that they have my own best interests at heart as well. I don't trust them to do the right thing in certain situations, or maybe even any situation, but I love them nonetheless.

I couldn't agree more, and couldn't have said it better.

It's not personal...

--Texas Native, Lyndon Baines Johnson, "LBJ"


He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.

~Hugh Leonard

'Up Where We Belong' --Jennings/Nitzsche/Sainte-Marie

~Gravdigr

~Richard Phillips, Capt. of the Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked by Somali pirates April 2009 - in Sept. 22 issue of Parade magazine



ETA: Here's a link to the Parade Magazine mini-interview w/Richard Phillips & Tom Hanks, who plays Phillips in the film "Captain Phillips".

It's a decent read.

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche never saw me dance. xoxoxoBruce

~Gertrude Stein


I find this to be true, in my case. Even today, I still feel like I am 20-ish. Not physically, by any means, not even emotionally. Would that be spiritually, then?

You feel 20? Old man.

I still feel like I'm 9.

~Ray Price

~Billboard

He died three days later. When the man was done, he was done.

I admire that.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

~ Wikipedia article on 'Comfort Object'

We're just good friends!
That bear lies!

~Richard Petty (upon being asked if Danica Patrick will ever win a NASCAR Cup race)

~Charles Dickens

Oh that's lovely.

~Maj. Gen. Lloyd B. Ramsey (U.S. Army, retired), speaking (in an affidavit) of the late Lt. Garlin Murl Conner, Clinton County, KY, the second-most highly decorated soldier of World War II*, who, it appears, will not be receiving the Medal Honor, due to a filing technicality.:mad:

*The most highly decorated being Audie Murphy.

Bummer, but He doesn't care now.

And the people who claim they're doing it for him, where've you been for 70 years? Day late and a dollar short, people, what did you do for him when he was alive? Take him to a ball game, or feed the ducks at the park, maybe just sit and talk to him. He was 79 and in poor health when he died, I'm sure he could have used some company the last year or three.

His wife has been working on this for 17 years. She didn't know there was a statute of limitations on it. And as far as 'company the last year or three', nowhere does it say he died alone or lonely.

Also: Regarding "he doesn't care now", I seriously doubt Conner was the kind of man who would've worried about a medal.

I have to admit to being a little baffled by the perceived tone of Bruce's post. Perhaps I've inadvertently struck a nerve...

Reading about this guy, and all the shit he did, I think he got short changed, but didn't strike me as the type of guy that felt entitled to the CM or resented not getting it. Now he's dead so he doesn't care either way.

Sure, a good ewe wife will do that you know.
17 years... wonder why? Did he ask her to? For him? For her? Doing it out of love? Perceived obligation?

Two military historians dug into it, talked to witnesses, are thoroughly convinced the man deserved it. But back in the day he pissed somebody off, or they decided he had enough medals, or they were busy trying to get home. Out of sight out of mind, war's over, let's get on with life.

You can, however, bet the farm, when this stuff makes the news the politicians will be front and center smiling for the camera and shaking his hand off. And Ramsey, how did he help besides dictating a glowing appraisal?

I've seen so many of these WW II vets struggle with health issues for their last few years. They get isolated for lack of mobility, friends are dropping like flies, and the TV becomes their companion. Then they die and people who hadn't given them a thought come out of the woodwork singing hosannas.

I certainly don't want you to think I have anything against Conner, far from it. He was a hero in the finest sense of the word, and got shortchanged. But the people rushing to "honor" him, make me wonder what their motive is? How will what they are doing to "honor" him, help them? :eyebrow:

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

- Mason Cooley

I could fill a page with quotes from the late, great Tony Benn. They just don't make them like that any more.

The Guardian's been putting together favourite Benn quotes, here's a couple:



From elsewhere:

"When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?"

On equal marriage and the Church of England.

I admired and even venerated Tony Benn for as long as I've been politically aware.
Of course there were views he held which I didn't; and he never set himself up as some sort of guru that would have demanded it. In fact he would have been revolted by it.

But I have to say in later years it was the way he tied an anti-war message with terrorism which conflicted my views with his.

I can't pull rank. He lived through the Blitz, and through The Troubles.

So if he really felt that Western intervention in Iraq was the reason for Muslims to kill each other, or go overseas and kill civilians (the way the IRA killed other Christians) then I might be missing something.

I'll never deny his was a powerful voice though.
And the world need more like him.
Born privileged, privately and expensively educated.

Oh, I disagreed with Benn on lots of things. His stance on Europe, for one.

The other day I was impressed with...

That was supposed to have a smiley; to comment on where and when and what situation he was born in is completely unfair.

But, yes,
The man dedicated his life to working in politics outside of the strictures of Westminster, which was why he never was all that successful inside it.
If'n you call making a Minister, even a Shadow Minister unsuccessful.

Every interview I've heard, from Red Ken, Degsy and many others on the other side of the political spectrum, they've said they may not have agreed with him on everything. But they got to meet the man, and talk to him, be charmed by him, drink tea with him. And I envy them that.

I wasn't very familiar with the guy, and he may have said other things to indicate he believed this... but based on the quotes above, I got the impression that he wasn't saying we caused their behavior, just that we were no better than them.

Sounds like a sharp mind, I guess he bears further reading.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare,”

– James Madison, “Political Observations” from Letters and Other Writings.

Anthony Bourdain
:haha:

Bravo, Mr. Bourdain.