TLC's Place

Struggle II

2012-01-29T04:57:00.000-08:00

Man is man, so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external,........ And if we read the history of nations between the lines, we shall always find that the rise of a nation comes with an increase in the number of such men, and the fall begins when this pursuit after the Infinite, however vain the utilitarians may call it, has ceased.

That is to say, the mainspring of the strength of every race lies in its SPIRITUALITY and the death of that race begins the day that spirituality wanes and materialism gains ground.

--Swami Vivekananda

Many II

2012-01-28T04:20:00.001-08:00

"There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland."
--George W. Bush (1946- ) 43rd US President,
Yale Skull & Bones Society
Source: In a speech on August 7, 2002

Put

2012-01-27T09:26:00.000-08:00

"Put up with it and you will get more of it."
--Lynne Deal

Unless III

2012-01-26T09:25:00.001-08:00

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
--Dr. Seuss

Smart

2012-01-25T09:33:00.001-08:00

"How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?"
--Carl Sagan

Some Go To Prison, Others Get Government Jobs For The Same Thing

2012-01-24T22:53:00.000-08:00

Eureka man gets 27 years in child porn case

A 25-year-old Eureka man has been sentenced to serve more than 27 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in September to producing child pornography.

Source: Eureka Times-Standard, January 24, 2012

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And yet, if he worked for TSA, he would be reporting to work tomorrow morning, getting paid to molest children and take pictures of them naked.

Wake Up! Just because they have a badge doesn't make child molestation, and child porn, right, moral, or legal.

TLC

The Bay Area's New "Laboratory"

2012-01-24T22:34:00.000-08:00

There was an article in today’s SF Chronicle extolling how wonderful it is that Lawrence Berkeley "Laboratory" is building a big new "research facility" in Richmond.

Now if this was a laboratory with mad scientists, beakers, smoke, potions, computer simulations, that would be one thing.

But it's not.

Not a word in the SF Chronicle's article about what goes on in that "laboratory".

Well here's a hint:

"Extrapolation of Cancer Risks from Animals to Humans

Our ability to extrapolate cancer risks from animal experiments conducted at high doses to humans, typically exposed to doses that are orders of magnitude lower..."

And when you look at their form, isn't it interesting how the "scientist" fills in the blank on what type of animal (s)he will poison and slowly torture?

http://www.lbl.gov/ehs/health_services/harc/AWRCforms/FacilUse.doc

Will the SF Chronicle be likewise orgasmic if human extermination facilities are opened up there? That too could easily produce, "more than 800 jobs, attract spin-off enterprises and generate millions of dollar in tax revenue".And hey SF Chronicle--it's all about the money, right?Immoral subhuman bastards. How about doing some "experiments" on SF Chronicle editors, reporters, and stockholders? And the agents/employees of that "laboratory"?

TLC

Eternal

2012-01-24T09:28:00.000-08:00

"The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on."
--Ella Baker

Dare III

2012-01-23T09:18:00.001-08:00

"Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence."
--Juvenal

Break

2012-01-22T04:50:00.000-08:00

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where Do We Go From Here? Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, August 16, 1967

True

2012-01-21T04:52:00.001-08:00

All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've Been to the Mountaintop, Speech in Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968

Question

2012-01-20T09:24:00.000-08:00

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of good will to come together with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain't goin' study war no more." This is the challenge facing modern man.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" March 31, 1968

Inconsistent

2012-01-19T09:19:00.000-08:00

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children." There is something wrong with that press.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967

Descending

2012-01-18T09:16:00.000-08:00

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62.

Maladjusted

2012-01-17T09:24:00.001-08:00

"There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize -- I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to -- segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence. But in a day when sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence...
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University, December 18, 1963

Tired

2012-01-16T09:07:00.001-08:00

"You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting, at Holt Street Baptist Church, December 5, 1955

Right II

2012-01-15T04:53:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
--Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

Nothing VI

2012-01-14T10:19:00.001-08:00

"Nothing ever goes away."
--Barry Commoner
(Environmentalist, 1980 Presidential Candidate)

Culture

2012-01-13T09:02:00.000-08:00

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."

"Here's what I mean by building your own subculture...I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things--how we think, what we value--those you must choose for yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you."

--Mitch Albomfrom "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson"

One

2012-01-12T09:06:00.001-08:00

"One man with courage makes a majority."
--Andrew Jackson

Ballots

2012-01-11T09:22:00.001-08:00

"The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former."

--Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: No Treason. No. II The Constitution, (Boston: Published by the Author, 1867)

Soccer

2012-01-10T09:08:00.001-08:00

"I think soccer would be more fun if every 500th kick, the ball exploded."
--Jill Gallagher

Bureaucrats

2012-01-09T08:36:00.001-08:00

"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights."
-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
--Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

Supporting

2012-01-08T05:09:00.001-08:00

Supporting Obama because he used to teach Constitutional Law is like supporting an arsonist because she used to teach architecture.
--TLC

Trust

2012-01-07T04:53:00.001-08:00

"Of course you can trust the United States government. Just ask any Indian."
--Anon

Wear

2012-01-06T09:24:00.001-08:00

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
--Bishop Richard Cumberland (1632-1718)
English Clergyman

Moneychangers

2012-01-05T09:21:00.000-08:00

"And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived."
--Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist Source: The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870); available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org

Dare II

2012-01-04T09:02:00.000-08:00

"If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."
--Nadine Stair

Follow

2012-01-03T05:06:00.001-08:00

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
--Thomas J. Watson

Behooves

2012-01-02T05:26:00.001-08:00

"It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."
--Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1775

Boring

2012-01-01T05:13:00.001-08:00

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

--Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

Literal

2011-12-31T09:44:00.001-08:00

"...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances."

--Harry Browne (1933-2006)
American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst.
Libertarian candidate for US President 1996 & 2000
1966

Serve

2011-12-30T09:29:00.001-08:00

"He who endeavours to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
--Albert Pike (1809-1891)
American Freemason

Least

2011-12-29T09:16:00.001-08:00

"Falling hurts least those who fly low."
--Chinese Proverb

Consent

2011-12-28T08:38:00.001-08:00

"No attempt or pretence, that was ever carried into practical operation amongst civilized men -- unless possibly the pretence of a “Divine Right,” on the part of some, to govern and enslave others -- embodied so much of shameless absurdity, falsehood, impudence, robbery, usurpation, tyranny, and villany of every kind, as the attempt or pretence of establishing a government by consent, and getting the actual consent of only so many as may be necessary to keep the rest in subjection by force. Such a government is a mere conspiracy of the strong against the weak. It no more rests on consent than does the worst government on earth."
--Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: No Treason. No. II The Constitution, (Boston: Published by the Author, 1867)

Ruling

2011-12-27T05:07:00.001-08:00

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
--Noah Webster,
An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787

2nd

2011-12-26T05:25:00.000-08:00

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
--Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1778

If

2011-12-25T04:49:00.001-08:00

"I may speak in tongues of men or of angels, but if I am without love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gift of prophecy, and know every hidden truth; I may have faith strong enough to move mountains; but if I have no love, I am nothing."
--Jesus

History II

2011-12-24T05:05:00.000-08:00

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach."
--Aldous Huxley

Four

2011-12-23T08:15:00.000-08:00

"Why do you think it only took four soldiers to lead a thousand people to the gas chambers? Because not one out of thousands had the courage to resist. Not one would sacrifice himself! Not even when we took they're children away!"
--"The Debt", movie, 2011

Occident

2011-12-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call 'war' and 'commerce.' These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist
(From The Devil's Dictionary]

Facts

2011-12-21T09:00:00.000-08:00

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning." --Marlo Thomas

Obamalution

2011-12-20T09:46:00.000-08:00

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
--William Ralph Inge

Bones

2011-12-19T08:58:00.000-08:00

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
--Clementine Paddleford

Hypnotized

2011-12-18T03:40:00.000-08:00

"Words hypnotize and deceive everyone at one time or another, but these hypnotic words cannot last long in the hearts of true warriors."
--Barney Bush, Shawnee

Culminations

2011-12-17T04:12:00.001-08:00

"A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. The result -- and a natural one -- has been that we have had governments, State and national, devoted to nearly every grade and species of crime that governments have ever practised upon their victims; and these crimes have culminated in a war that has cost a million of lives; a war carried on, upon one side, for chattel slavery, and on the other for political slavery; upon neither for liberty, justice, or truth. And these crimes have been committed, and this war waged, by men, and the descendants of men, who, less than a hundred years ago, said that all men were equal, and could owe neither service to individuals, nor allegiance to governments, except with their own consent."
--Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: No Treason. No. II The Constitution, (Boston: Published by the Author, 1867)

Never III

2011-12-16T09:11:00.000-08:00

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."
--Claud Cockburn

Circus

2011-12-15T08:56:00.000-08:00

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."
--Edward R. Murrow

Clerk

2011-12-14T08:54:00.000-08:00

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." --J.C. Penney

Oops II

2011-12-13T09:15:00.001-08:00

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
--Frank Lloyd Wright

Liberalism

2011-12-12T08:44:00.000-08:00

"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
--Alexander Herzen

Disbelief

2011-12-11T03:47:00.000-08:00

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
--Tom Robbins

Drive

2011-12-10T09:38:00.001-08:00

"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery."
--Doug Horton

Editor

2011-12-09T09:13:00.000-08:00

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
--Elbert Hubbard

First

2011-12-08T09:08:00.001-08:00

"It is the fist responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
US Founding Father

2011-12-07T09:01:00.000-08:00

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
--Mark Twain

Institutions

2011-12-06T08:55:00.001-08:00

"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school."
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Prime Minister of England

Well

2011-12-05T08:24:00.001-08:00

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
--John Andrew Holmes

Determining

2011-12-04T04:40:00.001-08:00

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
--Ben Hecht

Justified

2011-12-03T04:57:00.001-08:00

"Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here."
--Sen. John Glenn (1921- ) First American astronaut to orbit the Earth,
US Senator (D-OH)
07/16/96

Waiting

2011-12-02T09:01:00.000-08:00

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
--Eden Phillpotts

Chances

2011-12-01T08:58:00.000-08:00

"What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?"
--William S. Lind (1947- )
American expert on military affairs, pundit on cultural conservatism

Naked

2011-11-30T08:56:00.000-08:00

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." --Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer

Fear

2011-11-29T09:07:00.000-08:00

"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Whitney v. California, 1927

Educated

2011-11-28T09:11:00.000-08:00

"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude."
--Richard Mitchell (1929-2002)
Professor at Glassboro State College, NJ,
author, founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian
Source: The Underground Grammarian

Banquet

2011-11-26T22:30:00.000-08:00

"There will come a time when we will sit down to the banquet of our consequences."
--Robert Louis Stevenson.

Sleep

2011-11-26T04:51:00.000-08:00

Imagine

2011-11-25T11:56:00.001-08:00

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can."
--Cullen Hightower

Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T05:01:00.001-08:00

"[A]s our power has grown, so has our peril. Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them." --John Fitzgerald Kennedy Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 5, 1963

Records

2011-11-23T08:37:00.001-08:00

"We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games."
--Lou Erickson

Never

2011-11-22T08:18:00.000-08:00

"Never forget that the groups that brought about the coup d'etat of November 22, 1963, have never given up power, and have never been removed from power".
--TLC

Power VI

2011-11-21T08:00:00.000-08:00

"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
--Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), US Senator, Attorney General
Source: 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964

Awkward

2011-11-20T06:30:00.001-08:00

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent."
--Claire Wolfe Source: "101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution"

Etiquette

2011-11-19T09:12:00.000-08:00

"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."
--Dorothy Parker

Born

2011-11-18T08:12:00.000-08:00

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
--Boris Pasternak

Savages

2011-11-17T08:03:00.000-08:00

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
--Thomas Edison, American Scientist and Inventor

First-Rate

2011-11-16T08:06:00.001-08:00

"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele."
--Bagdikian's Observation

Freedom II

2011-11-15T08:10:00.001-08:00

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed". --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Epitaphs

2011-11-14T08:13:00.003-08:00

"The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty." --Nicholas Butler

Built

2011-11-13T04:28:00.001-08:00

We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out.

To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level.

This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

--Philip K. Dick

Silent

2011-11-12T03:55:00.000-08:00

"Silent worms dig holes in the walls."
--Japanese Proverb

Safeguard

2011-11-11T08:35:00.001-08:00

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust."
--Demosthenes (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)

Divest

2011-11-10T08:29:00.001-08:00

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
--James Baldwin

Non

2011-11-09T08:27:00.000-08:00

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
--Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Hundred

2011-11-08T08:33:00.001-08:00

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
--Woody Allen

Monday

2011-11-07T07:49:00.001-08:00

Faith

2011-11-06T04:15:00.000-08:00

"I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods."
--Ruth Hurmence Green

Andy Rooney, R.I.P.

2011-11-05T04:30:00.001-07:00

January 14, 1919 - November 5, 2011

Rooney was also mistakenly connected to racism when a politically charged essay highly insensitive to minorities was written in his style and passed off as his on the internet in 2003.

...

Many assumed he wrote the screed because Rooney's longtime habit of writing or speaking plainly on sensitive topics had left him open to attacks in the past by activist groups. The racist essay was one of the many false Rooney quotes and essays bouncing around the Internet. The racism charge angered and hurt Rooney deeply, especially because as a young soldier in the early 1940s, he got himself arrested in Florida for refusing to leave the seat he had chosen among blacks in the back of an Army bus.

Source: CBS

Vivisection

2011-11-04T12:09:00.001-07:00

"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil."
--Dr. Charles Mayo, Founder of the Mayo Clinic

Done

2011-11-03T08:13:00.000-07:00

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." --Albert Pine

Rescue

2011-11-02T10:29:00.000-07:00

Do you remember why you started rescuing? If not, just look into your foster's eye; they'll be your daily reminder!
--Author Unknown

Solely

2011-11-01T09:34:00.001-07:00

"According to a study published in 2008 in the leading journal Archives of General Psychiatry, only 11 percent of psychiatrists in the U.S. currently provide psychotherapy to their patients; the overwhelming majority rely solely on medication".
--Gail Hornstein, "The Sun" Magazine, October 2011, p. 3

Normal III

2011-10-31T11:57:00.000-07:00

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
--Ellen DeGeneres

Knocking

2011-10-30T11:37:00.001-07:00

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
--Horace Mann

Collateral

2011-10-29T11:32:00.000-07:00

"We could not leave them to themselves -- they were unfit for self-government -- and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them."
--William McKinley (1843-1901) 25th US President
Source: 1899, on the Filipinos, following the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in 1898. During the invasion and occupation, U.S. forces killed an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians.
Address to the Methodist Episcopal Church; cited in Olcott, The Life of William McKinley (1916), v. 2, p. 110; estimate of civilian casualties from U.S. Library of Congress, "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War," 1998.

Habit

2011-10-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
--Nathaniel Emmons

Deterioration

2011-10-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."
--Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Source: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748

Lawyer

2011-10-26T10:55:00.001-07:00

"If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging."
--Joe Martin, Mister Boffo

Neurobabble

2011-10-25T09:15:00.000-07:00

"[W]hen psychiatrists start using what I call neurobabble, beware, because we rarely know what we are talking about...We have convinced ourselves that we have developed cures for mental illnesses, when in fact we know so little about the underlying neurobiology of their causes that our treatments are often a series of trials and errors".
--Daniel Carlat, "Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry"

Lawful

2011-10-24T09:12:00.000-07:00

"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are 'just' because the law makes them so."
--Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
French economist, statesman, and author.