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Post by Aravis on Dec 26, 2004 16:00:24 GMT -5
"I certainly understand the need to balance the federal budget, but people need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy." - GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE, of Arkansas, on a bipartisan lobbying effort by governors to stave off federal cuts in Medicaid allotments. from the New York Times article, Governnors Unite in Fight Against Medicaid Cuts.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 2, 2005 19:07:18 GMT -5
'When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.'
from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 6, 2005 17:24:29 GMT -5
Wisdom from...um...Elvis?
“Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.”
— Elvis Presley
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 7, 2005 16:39:45 GMT -5
I don't think that anyone can hope fopr an improved situuation in Iraq for quite a while. Perhaps Albert Einstein said best:
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 9, 2005 18:52:45 GMT -5
'The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. '
Mahatma Gandhi
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 10, 2005 15:21:21 GMT -5
"We are looking for highly motivated individuals. Priests need the tools to fight against disinformation and ignorance surrounding Satanism."
Vatican University Spokesman
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 10, 2005 15:45:27 GMT -5
It sounds as though Rome were catching up intellectually with Alabama.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 10, 2005 16:04:42 GMT -5
*Boom Boom* ;D
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 24, 2005 16:10:41 GMT -5
"It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."
Bush
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 25, 2005 15:45:03 GMT -5
A good letter to the editor today:
During the US presidential election in 1956, after the Democratic candidate, the brilliant Adlai Stevenson, had made a witty speech, an admirer approached him and said, "Mr Stevenson, every intelligent American will vote for you". To which Stevenson, with a rueful smile, said: "Nowhere near enough".
I hope this anecdote will provide some small consolation to the brilliant Kevin Rudd.
John Morris, Tweed Heads, January 25.
PS Rudd is an aspiring politician in Australia.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 26, 2005 3:43:43 GMT -5
Was Janis Joplin a Texan?
'freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.'
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Post by Aravis on Jan 26, 2005 15:26:49 GMT -5
Yes she was. And they were about as nice to her as they were to me. Do you suppose I am Janice reincarnated? ;D
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 26, 2005 16:13:06 GMT -5
Sing and I'll tell you...better drink a quart (is that the word?) of bourbon and smoke a doobie first.  |
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Post by Wyndham on Jan 26, 2005 16:54:08 GMT -5
Sceptical Aravis. Joplin died in 1970. Things only possible if you're born after that . . . unless, of course, she walked the earth as a souless ghoul for some time (would explain the last years of her life, however).  |
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Post by Aravis on Jan 27, 2005 1:26:31 GMT -5
Robert, been there, done that, don't want anymore. But I can sing.
Wyn, as it happens I was born in 1971. ;D
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