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@edgarblythe,

"Happiness is the result of my decision to be happy. There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."
Richard Carlson

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@Lustig Andrei,

Making faces at babies when their moms aren't looking because it feels like the right thing to do.

Unknown

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@edgarblythe,

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

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@edgarblythe,

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Marilyn Monroe.

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

I can truthfully say I know of no other recreation that will do so much toward keeping a woman in good health and perfect figure than a few hours spent occasionally at trap shooting.

Annie Oakley

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

Today is Phil Ochs' birthday.

My life was once a joy to me,
Never knowing, I was growing, everyday.
My life was once a toy to me,
And I wound it and I found it ran away.
So I raced through the night
with a face at my feet, like a god I would write,
All the melodies were sweet, and the women were white.
It was easy to survive, my life was so alive.
My life was once a flag to me
And I waved it and behaved like I was told.
My life was once a drag to me
And I loudly, and I proudly, lost control
I was drawn by a dream
I was loved by a lie, every serf on the scene
Begged me to buy.
But I slipped through the scheme
So lucky to fail
My life was not for sale.
My life is now a myth to me
Like the drifter, with his laughter in the dawn.
My life is now a death to me
So I'll mold it and I'll hold it till I'm born
So I turned to the land
Where I'm so out of place
Throw a curse on the plan
In return for the grace
To know where I stand
Take everything I own
Take your tap from my phone
And leave my life alone
My life alone.

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@edgarblythe,

@all

"A film is --or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings."
Stanley Kubrick

(I have seen a quote very close to this attributed to Alfred Hitchcock as well. But today marks the 41st anniversary of the world premiere of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, so I thought it appropriate to quote Stan.)

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@Lustig Andrei,

@all
“There's no doomsday scheme made specifically for mankind,
only higher agenda and priority than human race preservation.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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@edgarblythe,

Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-ding-dong-ding

~The Ronettes

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@George,

hutsit-ralsit-on-da-rillarai and a brawla-brawla suit.[Spelling???]

allegedly a Swedish song

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@Lustig Andrei,

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey.

~Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston

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@George,

I believe you are a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

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@Lustig Andrei,

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

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@edgarblythe,

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

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@edgarblythe,

On this blustery day in NYC where the End of Times is supposed to be scheduled, a quote from an esteemed American philosopher:

Chicken Little wrote:

THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

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@tsarstepan,

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

I believe you are a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

I do not now, nor have I ever played football in Minnesota.

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@George,

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
~Virgil (P Vergilius Maro)

Someday we may look back on this and laugh.
(Literally, '"Perhaps it will be pleasing someday to have remembered these things")

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@George,

At this time Charybdis sucked down the seas salt water, but I reached high in the air above me, to where the tall fig tree grew, and caught hold of it and clung like a bat; there was no place where I could firmly brace my feet, or climb up it, for the roots of it were far from me, and the branches hung out far, big and long branches that overshadowered Charybdis. Inexorably I hung on, waiting for her to vomit the keel and mast back up again. I longed for them, and they came late; at the time when a man leaves the law court, for dinner, after judging the many disputes brought him by litigious young men; that was the time it took the timbers to appear from Charybdis.

Odysseus

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@Lustig Andrei,

Is happiness for you, Merry, the terrorism, the torture, the rapes, the napalming of villages, the carpet bombing of civilians, the multiple instances of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US?

Is it happiness, bordering on ecstasy knowing that your top leaders are world leaders in terrorizing and murdering world citizens?

Is it happiness knowing that the US is the largest terrorist training body on the planet, that it is responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions, that it is responsible for untold human suffering, certainly untold by you and your confreres - what a wonderful group to be a member of, doncha figure, Merry?

Is it happiness knowing that the US is the dictionary definition of perfidy and hypocrisy?

Quote:

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The Morality of Hypocrites...

What ? Hypocrites have morals ? Well yes, they pretend to have morals -- I call it a fake morality.
One of the best examples of fake morality - i.e the morality of Hypocrites is Iraq. Masha'Allah, no one can supersede today's Iraqis with hypocrisy. They have graduated in Hypocrisy with Honors, and some even acquired a Doctorate in the art of Hypocrisy --- just like they are purchasing their "PhDs" in today's Iraq.

Since 2003, when those ignorant, dumb, killers, psychopaths, fucked up idiots, clueless barbarians, stinking backward filth called the Americans (and the Brits) landed in Iraq, ever since that day Iraq has become a beacon of "morality" - the morality of Hypocrites. A mirror image of the "morality" of America and of course how could I forget the "morality" of Iran.

Ever since this "liberation", "Human Rights & Individual Freedoms" - oh the worshiped words of Western "democracies" - have been totally eroded, trampled upon, spat upon - to the utter silence of these "well meaning" "self sacrificing" Western "democracies"

Forget for a moment the secret dungeons where rape and torture run galore, and forget the executions, one after another with no trial, forget silencer guns and arbitrary arrests, forget these basics -- for they do not exist in today's Iraq

Forget for a moment Iraq being indexed as the most corrupt country in the world, after poor Somalia, forget the embezzlement in billions of $$$, forget the smuggling of oil, the commissions on phony deals, the acquisition of obsolete technology, the expired medicine and medical equipment on the black market, the promotions canapés in government ministries ( promotion canapé basically means you are promoted if you lay down on a couch with your legs in the air or if you bend over - whatever suits best) forget parochial clientélisme; patronage and partisans of a sectarian quota system where a barber and vegetable vendor suddenly become an ambassador or minister with a "PhD" (of course), just because he happens to be either a Shiite or a Kurd...

Forget the prostitution and pimping rings in the Green Zone, forget the 10$ Muta'a temporary marriages in the "Holy Cities"....

Forget all the above, because in the new Iraq all the above is unimportant. It has nothing to do with morality, absolutely nothing.

What is really important though is that you dress modestly --- modestly as in clad, modestly as in ninja, modestly as in a walking tent...

You see modesty is really centered around you, the ordinary Iraqi trying to breathe...A veil is no longer enough, you need more...you need to look like an Iranian shadow in a chador...only then will you be considered modestly dressed. You need to follow the example of our female parliamentarians, the ones who assist sessions dressed like tents in rubber flip flops -- another set of "PhD's" has been awarded to them (of course) As for our honorable non veiled or slightly veiled female parliamentarians, they hardly ever assist any sessions, most of the time they direct their affairs from abroad and just fly into Baghdad at the end of the month to cash in their hefty paychecks.

So in the new Iraq, having a scarf on your head is not enough unless you "work" in the Green Zone. Wearing lipstick or some bright color or God forbid your ankle shows and you are immediately perceived as lacking "morals". (article here)

And as if that was not enough in the new "democratic" Iraq (vomit), the "morality police" which consists of "army special forces" cracks down on the few night clubs and alcohol shops left open in Baghdad (article here) vandalizing the places, beating clients and performing artists - ordinary Iraqis - who need to breathe, something other than DU and Shiite lamentations. Most likely the army "special forces aka morality police" will drink the stuff themselves, after their evening Husseiniyat or the "moral" ones in their midst will trade it in the black market or smuggle it to the "Holy Cities" for another set of "moral" clients in turbans.

Posted by Layla Anwar at 6.9.12

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.ca/

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