Rainbow and Unicorn Hippie Dippie Thought of the Day Part 2

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:37 pm

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
--John Lubbock

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:52 pm

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin

Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:44 pm

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Benjamin Franklin

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:40 pm

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:21 pm

Nice One Rick. Sweet!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:01 pm

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

sooooooooo very true!!!!!!!! 401

Everyone better get out there and VOTE in November so we can change the way things are going in this country!!

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:02 pm

Nice One Rick. Sweet!!!

Vixen Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 1813 Location: Bridgeport

This is really a great one today, so true!!!! 402

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:32 pm

Note To Congress, Fux "news", Pres. DickHead, Talking rectums on am radio, etc.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:33 pm

This is really a great one today, so true!!!! 402

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:57 pm

Ive seen this one worded as;

"Those who would give up their liberty for security would eventually loose both their liberty and security."

One of my favorites!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:10 am

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin

So many Americans have been brainwashed by the Bushies and mainstream media that we really DO have to give up personal liberties in the name of "safety"!!!!!!!!! ie HOMELAND SECURITY! ughhhh I could go on and on.

Brick wall

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:32 am

Dorothy Thompson:

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:21 pm

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. "

~Louis D. Brandeis ,Supreme Court Justice 1916-1938

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:16 pm

"Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression." ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:06 pm

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:49 pm

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”

Walter H. Judd

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:21 pm

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Thomas Paine

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:23 pm

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:48 pm

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:14 pm

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

Groucho Marx

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:48 pm

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."

Thomas Paine

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:46 am

Thomas Paine for President!!!!

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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:43 am

If it weren't for Thomas Paine's pamphlets, Washington's sword would have been sheathed.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:46 pm

"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

Thomas Paine

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:50 pm

Those quotes by Thomas Paine are amazing!!! Even more pertinent for today than when they were written centuries ago!! History sure does have a funny/terrible way of repeating itself. 17091

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:04 pm

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/thomas+paine

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:39 pm

Thanks for the info! Makes me feel better that i'm really NOT alone in my thoughts on liberty and freedom and what that really means...and not what current politics or mainstream media SAYS it should mean.
5397

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:44 pm

I'm right there with you sister. FIGHT THE POWER!!!! soap

Stay tuned for more wisdom from our country's founders as the election draws near. Maybe we should start a political thread?

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:17 pm

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."

Samuel Adams

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:47 am

The history of Liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power not the increase of it. -- Woodrow Wilson

superwoot

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:30 pm

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government."

Franklin D. Roosevelt 401

LOJ Band Member Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2540

Really appreciate you guys keeping these quotes coming.

I just saw a former congress person on tv holding up what used to be the Bill of Rights. He then held up a copy with all the rights we have given up blacked out. Looked like almost the whole thing. Very disturbing.

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:55 pm

You have no idea. Read the patriot act and you'll be shocked!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:09 am

Big Brother from George Orwell's 1984.
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."

182zz

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:55 pm

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Harry S. Truman

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:56 pm

“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we’d be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.”
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), “Breathing Space”, The Baltimore Evening Sun, 08-04-1924. Reprinted in A Carnival of Buncombe.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:07 pm

" Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
C. Wright Mills

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:18 am

Herman Goering - Nazi War Criminal

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:33 am

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 Liar

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:42 pm

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”

Adolf Hitler 1377

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:46 pm

Kind of like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Riley, Mike Savage and the rest of the fascist talking rectums on the radio.

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:22 pm

Ain't that the truth. I decided to tell people that my work hours were 9-5 until eventually it became true. I just hated coming in at 8 like I was supposed to.....

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:24 pm

Did you guys hear about that wax Hitler recently?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:32 pm

Did you guys hear about that wax Hitler recently?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:59 pm

Did you guys hear about that wax Hitler recently?

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:23 pm

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?"

Mother Teresa

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:24 pm

Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

– Martin Luther King Jr., excerpt from his "I Have A Dream" speech

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:51 pm

"I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come."

Jerry Garcia

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:47 pm

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

James Madison (4th President )

If anyone has the time , I recommend reading The Federalist Papers written by Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. It states the case as to how The Constitution would work and why it should be ratified.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:29 pm

"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress...than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."

James K. Polk , 11th President ( and my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle)

Things haven' changed much since 1845. Brick wall

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:09 pm

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty.""

Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:48 pm

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:58 pm

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison, 4th President, writer of The Constitution.

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:49 pm

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams 2nd President

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:22 pm

"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."

H. L. Mencken

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:30 pm

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit"

W. C. Fields

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:07 pm

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:39 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion

177 years ago this week

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:31 pm

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

LOJ Band Member Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2540

Amen!

Love reading these quotes every day.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:56 pm

I really dig this one.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:32 pm

And i love posting them! 7557

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:20 pm

Mikey just got some Jerry book with tons of quotes in it. I should get it later and post a few.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:22 pm

DEFINATELY!!!!!!

qq182

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:38 pm

Cool

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:40 pm

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:30 pm

OK. This book is called The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia.

It's kind of weird, nowhere in the book does it actually say that Jerry said these things.

"I think consciousness is really far-out stuff."

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:38 pm

According to amazon.com it is saying collected from interviews of his......

http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Jerry-Garcia-Collected-Interviews/dp/1888149000

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:33 pm

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:03 pm

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:05 pm

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:11 pm

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, 'cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Joe Strummer (The Clash)

Friend/Family Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 48

That sounds like the foundation of Hollywood and the music industry!

It's sad how apathetic we all are here in the US. We've been fat and happy for so long that we are too lazy to even care about one another let alone what the greedy assholes in Washington are doing...... 1317

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:23 pm

That sounds like the foundation of Hollywood and the music industry!

It's sad how apathetic we all are here in the US. We've been fat and happy for so long that we are too lazy to even care about one another let alone what the greedy assholes in Washington are doing...... 1317

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:51 pm

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Harry S. Truman

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:58 pm

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse-Tung

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:10 pm

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:06 pm

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

David Hume

I dedicate this one to the Republican Convention and the propaganda they spewed forth. 7483

Friend/Family Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 48

Kant was a genuis, obviously, but even as a philosopher he was exeptional. I read two of his books, and he is one of the reasons I am not as optimistic about the course of humanity as I used to be when I was a teenager. He proved that evil will always win over kindness in a way that no one was able to definatively disprove. It's where the saying "nice guys finish last" got it's start. (I believe) He also proved that power corrupts the most pure of heart and that mankind can not be more than it is w/o several thousands of years of evolution, much longer than it will take for us to destroy the planet. Pretty smart for several hundreds of years ago, huh?

It was Kant or one of his German predicessors or successors who also proved that we need several hundreds of years of (true) democracy, then several hundred more of a socialist society (and one other in there I don't remember) and then after two thousand years or so we'll be evolved enough for a real communist society.

Here is a good quote from Kant:

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made."

How true, but a huge part of me thinks that we can change.... even if it takes a hundred more generations![/i]

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:29 pm

Bruces' Philosophers Song By Monty Python

also known as
The Philosophers' Drinking Song

7856

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/philosophy/philos_song.au

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:35 pm

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:37 pm

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:20 pm

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:22 pm

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:56 pm

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:07 pm

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:55 pm

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mohandas Gandhi

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:05 pm

E. B. White:

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:54 pm

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:48 pm

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

St. Francis of Assisi hippie

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:35 pm

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:38 pm

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

John Stuart Mill

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:28 pm

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:30 pm

Your lives are in the hands of men no smarter than you or I, many of them incompetent boobs. I know this because I worked alongside them, gone bowling with them, watched them pass me over for promotions time and again. And I say ... This stinks!

Homer Simpson

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:35 pm

“Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies”

Homer (Greek Poet)

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:47 pm

“Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”

Mort Sahl quote

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:17 pm

Nice one!!!!!!! 7557

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:25 pm

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:29 pm

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities”

David Hume

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:30 pm

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

e. e. cummings
182dd

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:21 pm

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:51 pm

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

-- Tuli Kupferberg - Co-founder of The Fugs

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:06 pm

Sweet!!!!! This seems so appropriate to the current day. Excellent choice Rick. I always love your quotes of the day.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:54 pm

“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.”

Mel Brooks

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:03 pm

“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we’d be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.”
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) 7557

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:29 pm

I love mah jong.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:16 pm

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

John Muir

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:29 pm

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire
reading

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:34 pm

Im really liking this voltaire guy. I checked him out on Wikipeida. Quite the evolutionist.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:26 pm

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Thomas Carlyle

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:22 pm

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington 7856

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:50 pm

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Gertrude Stein

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:52 pm

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Alice B. Toklas

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:32 am

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Today, 10/27/08 is T.R.'s 150th birthday

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:34 am

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:36 am

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Theodore Roosevelt

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:31 am

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:14 am

"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption."

James Garfield, "A Century of Congress" published in Atlantic, July 1877. (20th President, 2nd assassinated)

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:27 am

"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."

-George Carlin

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:13 pm

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
- - - H. P. Lovecraft 182kk

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:52 am

"If you always look for the bad, the good will pass you by."

Mrs. Kilgore- Mobile Alabama.

I heard this on NPR this a.m. in a report about Story Corps.

http://www.storycorps.net/

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:38 pm

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:42 pm

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.'"
-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:29 pm

"If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose."
-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:19 pm

"In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukkah!" or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'"
~ Dave Barry

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:10 am

"'And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.' That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

Linus Van Pelt (Luke 2:8-14)
Merry Christmas to all.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:12 am

"Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?" —Virginia O'Hanlon

"Dear Virginia:
" Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.
"They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little.
"In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.
"The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in this world.
"You tear apart the baby's rattle to see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
"Only faith, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
"No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

—Francis P. Church (1897)
Editor NY Sun

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:14 am

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:18 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTTR4LbyLeU

Santa Claus and His Old Lady (as done by 2 Douglas Fir Trees)

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:42 pm

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:09 pm

Patriotism is not supporting the government. It's supporting the ideals upon which that government is based.

Noam Chomsky

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:06 pm

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:46 pm

“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.”

I. F. Stone

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:47 am

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

First Lady Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1139

Turn off t.v. week...April 20-26, 2009.

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:58 pm

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:37 pm

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:28 pm

"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual
crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be
remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift
from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their
environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an
all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality
in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of
creation."

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Dr. Albert Hoffman
(1906-2008 ) Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:37 am

Best Bumper Sticker Of The Year....
I saw this one this morning

Bipartisanship....I'll hug your elephant if you kiss my ass

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LOJ Band Member Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2540

Good one!

Hi Rick! hippie

Miss you, bro. Hope to see you soon.

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 4:45 am

Hi Hon! I've been so damn busy. Work work work. I guess I should count my blessings...I still have a job. I hope to make a festival or 2 this summer. I'm almost definitely going to The Vibes. See ya soon!! xxoo 7856

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:12 am

“I definitely have a component in my personality which is not exactly self destructive, but it’s certainly ornery…It’s like…’Try to get healthy’- ‘Fuck you, man’…I don’t know what it comes from. I’ve always clung to it, see, because I felt it’s part of what makes me me. Being anarchic, having that anarchist streak, serves me on other levels-artistically, certainly. So I don’t want to eliminate that aspect of my personality, But I see that on some levels it’s working against me.”

Jerry Garcia

Happy Birthday Old Friend!!

LOJ Band Member Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2540

Awww...

Hi Rick, and yes happy birthday Jerry. 5397

First Lady Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1139

Happy Birthday, Jerry...how sweet it was to be loved by you! 7554

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:09 pm

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder 5397

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:10 pm

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.
- Doug Larson

LOJ Band Member Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2540

So true!

Hey Rick! Miss you. Been too long.

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:11 pm

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

Hi Kat!

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:21 pm

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler soap

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:32 pm

“Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.”

Oren Arnold

18l2

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:31 pm

“Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”

William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:33 pm

"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money and more power.

They claim to be superpatriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjugation."

Vice President Henry Wallace April,1944

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