Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. - Jean Paul
It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. - P. J. O'Rourke
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. - Georges Clemenceau
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. - Katherine Mansfield
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. - Thomas Fuller
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Thomas Fuller
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. - Ellen DeGeneres
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. - James Thurber
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. - Ellen DeGeneres
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. - James Thurber
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
We are exactly where we have chosen to be. - Vernon Howard
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. - Johnny Carson
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. - Johnny Carson
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Monday, December 26, 2011
When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,I remained silent;I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
~Martin Niemöller
When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,I remained silent;I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
~Martin Niemöller
The Russian Götterdämmerung
“Revolution!”, shouted a guy at the next table in an ordinary Moscow cafe. It is in the air. It is creeping into every corner – revolution is everywhere. People who haven’t given a damn about politics during their entire lives are now wearing the white ribbon – the symbol of resistance. Voting fraud ...
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Joseph Brodsky
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Jack Handey
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. - Paul Valery
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Jack Handey
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. - Paul Valery
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. - Dr. Seuss
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. - Fred Thompson
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. - Peter York
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. - Fred Thompson
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. - Peter York
Friday, December 23, 2011
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Theodore Roosevelt
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. - Bob Thaves
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. - J. R. R. Tolkien
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. - Sue Murphy
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. - Bob Thaves
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. - J. R. R. Tolkien
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. - Sue Murphy
Thursday, December 22, 2011
National Science Foundation Admits CO2 Won’t Cause Problematic Global Warming
This won’t come as much of a surprise — except to moonbats:
Read MoreAccording to a recent study funded by the National Science Foundation’s Paleoclimate Program, climate change may be far less sensitive to carbon dioxide fluctuations than previously predicted.The most notable predictions of CO2-based climate change....
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. - Lillian Carter
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. - Lillian Carter
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Leftist Media Types Meet With Obama, The Planning Begins
On December 19th, President Obama hosted a coffee with a bunch of Leftist blogger/media types in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Read More.“The group chatted with the president ...
Crone that championed philosophy promoting shared poverty declares that the ‘solution’ is more of it
WRITTEN BY: BOB - DEC• 21•11
Frances Fox-Piven proves that you simply can’t teach an old statist new tricks. To contemplate the possibility of a broad movement that embraces the tens of millions of the poorest Americans immediately raises the question of why the people who have been hurt the most by the trends of the past several decades have...
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Frances Fox-Piven proves that you simply can’t teach an old statist new tricks. To contemplate the possibility of a broad movement that embraces the tens of millions of the poorest Americans immediately raises the question of why the people who have been hurt the most by the trends of the past several decades have...
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. - Sir Winston Churchill
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. - Will Rogers
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. - Edward Chilton
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. - Sir Winston Churchill
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. - Will Rogers
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. - Edward Chilton
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. - Soren Kierkegaard
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy
The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. - Woody Allen
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy
The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. - Woody Allen
Monday, December 19, 2011
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. - Aaron McGruder
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. - Eric Hoffer
I have seen the future and it doesn't work. - Robert Fulford
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. - Aaron McGruder
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. - Eric Hoffer
I have seen the future and it doesn't work. - Robert Fulford
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. - Nicolas Chamfort
If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer. - Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide
If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer. - Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/16/2011
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/16/2011: Christopher Hitchens, the prolific opinion writer and polemicist, is dead at the age of 62. During the course of his career Mr. Hitchens man...
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Bridgstocke
Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Bridgstocke
Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Deadly Double Game of Using Religion for Political Expediency: How Mainstream Media Have Gone Medieval on the American People
Reading through world history, it is fascinating to find precedents for the manipulation of public opinion. One of the most effective techniques has been the employment of religious sentiment to sway not only the public, but the kings and nobility. Such tactics bear...
Nothing concentrates the mind more than reading about oneself in the past tense. Christopher Hitchens
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. - Meister Eckhart
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. - Samuel Butler
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. - Emile Chartier
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. - Meister Eckhart
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. - Samuel Butler
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. - Emile Chartier
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
Thursday, December 15, 2011
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger. - Randy K. Milholland
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger. - Randy K. Milholland
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Winning is a habit. - Leo Durocher
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. - Chuck Reid
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. - Chuck Reid
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
One for the Obama Hall of Shame: Iran Refuses to Return Drone
In the most embarrassing foreign policy moment for any president since Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama has asked Iran for its fallen drone back.
Yes, the ....
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. - Horace Walpole
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - M. Cartmill
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. - Horace Walpole
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - M. Cartmill
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa
Monday, December 12, 2011
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. - Jose Ortega y Gasset
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. - Thomas Mann
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen
Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. - Thomas Mann
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen
Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Lord Monckton Breaks Down the Green Movement’s Mad Scramble to Form An Eco-Fascist World Government
The environmentalist movement is growing madder by the day. Spurned by the majority of the public despite unrelenting waves of statist propaganda, the eco-fascist consorts at the Durban, South Africa climate conference have deemed themselves the Mad Ludwigs to take over the planet and enslave us all to a high envirowacko council.
It’s unclear how other people are going to react...
Durban: what the media are not telling you
DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve.
Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers...
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic." - Richard Pryor
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. - William Wrigley Jr.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. - Rita Rudner
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic." - Richard Pryor
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. - William Wrigley Jr.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. - Rita Rudner
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
Friday, December 9, 2011
Marxist Democrat Cringes As Russian Immigrants Compare Communism to…Democrats!
Posted by LaborUnionReport
There is just no way to describe this without a smirk and a chuckle. When you read how some of New York’s Russian immigrants (who know Soviet-style Communism all-too-well) are aligning with Republicans—because they view Democrats’ policies to be too similar to the failed policies of their homeland—there is just something richly ironic there. However, when you read how their never-met-a-Marxist-she-didn’t-love Democrat legislator reacts to be having her party compared to Soviet Russia, now that is just over-the-top funny:
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Canadian universities failing to protect free speech: report
A “disconcerting” number of Canadian universities have failed in their mission to protect free speech and in the process are helping to erode open debate in the larger society, a new report contends.
“If censorship is OK on a university campus, I think there is a spin-off effect that harms the health of free speech outside the university as well,” Calgary lawyer John Carpay, one of the authors of The 2011 Campus Free Speech Index, said Thursday. “Taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to these institutions that promise to be a forum for frank debate. It’s disconcerting to see this.”
Tyranny and Crisis: Democracy, State-Run Education and the Press
The initial post in this series showed that the American republic has persevered through crises since its inception. The next...
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