You are welcome, Diane. It was a lot to digest.
<Jjorge, I'll be sending you something soon. I'm getting used to my new computer.>
"Parrot, moth, shark, wolf, crocodile, ass, flea.
What germs, what jostling mobs there were in me."
Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
R.I.P.
"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
Donald Rumsfeld (1932- )
Piffka, old Rummy is a truly scary person; but then, people without any conscience should be considered dangerous.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's
Life of Johnson
...and speaking of scoundrels:
"This hyper-patriotic scoundrel...turned out to be avaricious, deceptive and as eager to sell himself as a male escort."
-Joe Conason on Randy (Duke) Cunningham
"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 adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Hi Olga! Hope your Christmas was full of simple pleasures.
"We deposed the secular socialist Saddam, whom bin Laden has long despised, ignited Sunni and Shiite fundamentalist fervor in Iraq, and have now provoked a 'defensive' jihad that has galvanized jihad-minded Muslims around the world. It's hard to imagine a set of policies better designed to sabotage the war on terrorism."
Peter Bergen, Mother Jones, July 2004
Piffka wrote:Hi Olga! Hope your Christmas was full of simple pleasures.
"We deposed the secular socialist Saddam, whom bin Laden has long despised, ignited Sunni and Shiite fundamentalist fervor in Iraq, and have now provoked a 'defensive' jihad that has galvanized jihad-minded Muslims around the world. It's hard to imagine a set of policies better designed to sabotage the war on terrorism."
Peter Bergen, Mother Jones, July 2004
He's absolutely
right, you know!
We won't talk of Christmas, Piffka! I'm very, very pleased it's passed!
All the best to you & yours for 2006, Piffka.
And may 2006 be a
much more serene & dignified sort of year than 2005, for all life forms on planet earth! That wouldn't take much, hey?
