Your Quote of the Day

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."

Or when they are doing Afghanistan and Iraq: a retrospective."

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"The job of politicians and CEOs is to look very much like human beings. But they are peculiarly constrained by their public roles. It doesn't really matter whether leaders are personally moral or not, because in their public lives they're constrained from acting with the kind of compassion and reason we associate with the idea of being fully human. Their highest priority must at all times be the defense of profits, to which logic and morality are always without question subordinated. . . Where decency threatens profits, our leaders have no choice but to abandon their humanity as if it did not exist, or to risk disappearing from public view."
David Edwards

"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance."
-- Al Bernstein

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"The US is most assuredly NOT what it has been erroneously described as over many many years, ie. a beneficient country seeking justice and freedom for all. What truth are we then left with?"

- jtt

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

“May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.”

Traditional Irish

"What if I told you most Muslims view Islamic terrorists the same way most Christians view the Westboro Baptist Church?"

Morpheus

I would be skeptical of your statement.

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there."
--Josh Billings

that's your problem

You tell him, Bear, because Morpheus was correct...and you were right to offer the quote.

MY GUESS: Many Muslims thing about Islamic "terrorists" the way many Christians think of Mother Teresa...or the early Christian martyrs.

For a guy who worked for one of the great war criminals of WWII, and seemed to brag about it, this,

MY GUESS: Many Muslims thing about Islamic "terrorists" the way many Christians think of Mother Teresa...or the early Christian martyrs.

seems a little much, Frank.

Plenty of American lives are saved by Muslims. I don't have the figures, but there are more and more Muslim doctors and nurses in this country.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza

Difficult medicine to swallow.

Absolutely. And I am sure there are many, many Muslims who are offended greatly by some of the moves made in Jihad...but that does not impact on the point I was making.