Tidbits

Years ago My Mom started a list of words she detested. Whenever i'd visit i'd ask her to get out the list and share her new ones. She never threw the list out she just kept adding to it. i love the time spent examining her list because it is always filled with lots of laughter while she explains why she just abhorred some word.

Well recently i've been thinking of making my own list and here are two:

Bipartisan
Kool-aid

Moving on.....today is a slow day as i have been working more on another project. i've been writing and tearing up passages, stopping to read when frustrated and thinking about why i really enjoy quotes, poetry and thoughts from other people. i collect them and keep them in a Miscellaneous file. Today i've dredged some up that i hope you enjoy. So to start...I'll go back in time.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives...Euripides

I don't know why I did it,
I don't know why I enjoyed it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again. Socrates

Demonization of anyone destroys the ability to think critically.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

All people, all over the world, be they rich or poor must establish their fundamental right to decent standards of living.

"Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend, and step off before it is discredited." George Soros

Peace does not necessarily have to be something humans might achieve "some day." They contend that peace exists in the present, we can create and expand it in small ways in our everyday lives, and peace changes constantly. This view makes peace permeable and imperfect rather than static and utopian.[5] From a "Call for Many Peaces" by Dietrich/Echavarría/Koppensteiner

Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, "Independent mortgage companies, which are not covered by CRA, made high-priced loans at more than twice the rate of the banks and thrifts."- The real conclusion about the CRA and the mortgage meltdown is that laws and regulations did not make lenders engage in predatory lending, absence of oversight and lender greed did.

These people, the banks, the lenders, and the executives are the ones who are directly responsible for the crisis. Next in line are the politicians who are subsidized by these same big money interests who helped do away with responsible regulations and crippled regulatory agencies. All those who believe that the free market will properly regulate itself are the real culprits.

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All told, according to statistics provided by the National Abortion Federation and not including this last murder, since 1977, there have been seven murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 175 arsons, 96 attempted bombings or arsons, 390 invasions, 1400 cases of vandalism, 1993 cases of trespassing, 100 butyric acid attacks, 659 anthrax threats, 179 cases of assault and battery, 406 death threats, four kidnappings, 151 burglaries, and 525 cases of stalking specifically directed at clinics, their workers, or their volunteers in the US and Canada. That's over 6,100 cases of terrorist activity by the "pro-life" movement. And that's just what was reported -- the actual numbers are probably much higher

And to end the piece i'll let Rahman Baba himself explain here:

Live not with thy head showing in the clouds,
Thou art by birth the offspring of this earth,
The stream that passed the sluice cannot again flow back,
Nor can again return the misspent time that sped,
Consider well the deeds of the good and bad,
Whether in this thy profit lieth or in that.