"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
H.L. Mencken
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ”
― Goldie Hawn
“How very wet this water is.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
"The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours."
Peggy Fleming
"---we dwindled into popularity". Rojack in An American Dream.
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. ~Richard Lewis
“Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he is Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red S is the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race, sort of like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plumpton.”
― Quentin Tarantino
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E.E. Cummings
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.
Ada Lovelace
(It is something like her 197TH birthday today.)
"Three things can happen when you throw the football. Two of them are bad."
~attributed to various college football coaches who favored the ground game
"It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side."
Molly Ivins
Rocky: she fills gaps.
Paulie: What's 'gaps'?
Rocky: I dunno, she's got gaps, I got gaps, together we fill gaps.
- Sylvester Stallone
If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days.
Permanently.
I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the USA but now -- oddly enough -- a foreign country.
I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more than enough money.
One year's military budget of 330 billion dollars is equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.
That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated.
- William Blum
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days.
Permanently.
I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the USA but now -- oddly enough -- a foreign country.
I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more than enough money.
One year's military budget of 330 billion dollars is equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.
That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated.
- William Blum
And
THIS would ostensibly stop terrorist attacks on the United States???
That is too hilarious for words. Thank you, JTT, for providing the best laugh of the day so far. What you've quoted is a guaranteed prescription for the collapse of the United States as an independent country and its becoming a dependency on whoever wants to come in with a stronger armed force and taking over.
That is a hoot!!!
@Lustig Andrei,
I long suspected it, Merry, but I really didn't ever want to believe that you are this stupid. But you are. Stunningly stupid.
@JTT,
Thank you. Coming from you that's a serious compliment.
@JTT,
You're right, of course. I didn't read the last line the first time.
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Don't you think it's appropriate to apologize for your war crimes, to pay reparations for those crimes, to hold the war criminals responsible for those war crimes to account?
@JTT,
Of course it's appropriate. Who's arguing with that? The naivetee resides in the absurd hope that doing so would somehow end the attacks on this country.
@JTT,
These don't seem to be quotes.
of course I am two whiskey sours down...but still...
