quotes of note
"“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
— Jon Stewart..
"God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh."
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
— Voltaire..
"What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions will be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus."
— John Ryman, "When Galaxies Collide"..
“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
—Rumi.under the hood
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RSVP to Fifi Knott? The Fifi Knott???
desperation abounds. I think i’ll just stick to animal and wildlife charities, and community food banks, thanks.
http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2012-06-22/romney-struggling-to-attract-small-donors/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/obama-bundlers-2012-campaign-fundraising_n_1607614.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77744.html
“get within a thousand yards and you’ll be arrested – guaranteed.”
Speaking of, i would have added the ACLU to my shortlist of charities, but the have pissed me off lately. They are pulling a stunt where they have vans parked in front of all of Romney’s homes and posted pictures of them. Now are they supposed to be the party that protects all citizens’ privacy and freedom from harassment or are they not. Is what they’re doing legal, i’m sure it is. It is in the spirit of the ACLU as i understand it, no it’s not. One rare instance where i would rather have my donations go to lawyers.
I hope Olivier Chang will be the caterer; I’d love to hear an up close and personal account of that affair. At $50,000 a plate they can certainly afford to use the most expensive caterer in New York.
*no, Amy, the ACLU is not a party, they’re an organization.
Amy, in legal terms they would be a “party.” Anyone or anything can be a party. As long as there’s beer.
I only hope that Trump shows up in a gold helicopter with his name on it.
Okay, if I ever have a child (god forbid):
“Fifi Knott Ballace.”
This isn’t a fake?
Williams was wrong, though. Mitt is just like Bushbaby: he isn’t uncomfortable around black people at all, he’s uncomfortable around poor people. And the source of his discomfort is that in fact he can’t even really and truly believe that poor people are people. At least not fully fledged human beings. That is why he doesn’t know how to talk to them. I mean, give the guy a break, what on earth would he have to talk about with them?
Bluthner:
Somehow I think the aristocracy of the rich is worse than a real one. At least ours doesn’t impinge on the rest of us. And the more snobby they are the less we’re ever likely to bump into any anyway.
(Actually — think I mentioned this — I once had an Earl working for me. He shared a flat with his sister that was smaller than mine, and he actually had less money! [And believe me, with the kind of pay I was getting then, I was running a small charity, that was pretty hard to achieve . . .] As socialist as Squirrel too: I tried to persuade him to sign on at the House of Lords and collect the attendance money — they could then, and just then he was terribly broke — but he refused point blank. Said he hadn’t been elected by anybody and it was just wrong.)
Squirrel,
Good for your earl! I’ve only lived here 25 years or so and met an astonishing number of impoverished nobs. We even have one on my street. He’s a got a genuine hereditary honorific (I looked him up) but lives in a council bedsit with his (definitely not purebred) old mutt.
But it’s not true, alas, that the U.K. does not also have a parallel aristocracy of money and nothing but. I just this hour met a couple of them. Because I was wearing my French tractor driver overalls, because I was helping a friend with the wiring in her shop, they looked right through me, simply could not meet my eye. But if I’d met them at a drinks party it would have been a very different story.