Quote Of The Day

If you die when there's no one watching
and your ratings drop and you're forgotten
if they kill you on their TV
you're a martyr and a lamb of god
nothing's going to change
nothing's going to change the world - Marilyn Manson 'Lamb Of God'

 

" Nuffink Sarge"- WPC Polly Page on The Bill TV show.

 

Man has then created Jesus Christ, man has also created Charles Manson. Therefore, Charles Manson IS Jesus Christ!
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(the proceding is not endorsed by the poster, and shown only for your information)

 

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

Peace cannot be built on a foundation of fear. (David Baird)

Mitao

 

"Meat is for men, bones are for dogs"
Some guy on the internet

 

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

 

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

~~richard bach

 

"It has been said not entirely in jest that Sydney is the most corrupt place in all the world apart from Newark, New Jersey and Brisbane, Queensland"
- the opening sentance from Can Of Worms by Even Whitton.

 

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn ( thought that was a good one for us "Old Hippies")

 

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) ​

 

Life can only be understood looking back, but can only be lived looking forward.

Can't remember who said it.
Read this in a lawyers office waiting for divorce papers. thought it fit quite well in the situation.

 

"Life is not a rehearsal,"
Charels Bell past chariman of McDonald's
(died monday age 44)

 

Unknown:
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

George Bernard Shaw:
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Henry David Thoreau:
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Bernard M. Baruch:
To me old age is 15 years older than I am.

George Bernard Shaw:
We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing!

John W. Turk:
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

William Dean Howells:
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

 

'I have a dream'
Martin Luther King Jr.'s ''I Have a Dream'' address, delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C.

''I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

''Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

''But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

''In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

''It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

''But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

''We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

''It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

''But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

''As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?'

''We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

''I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

''I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

''I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'

''I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

''I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

''I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

''I have a dream today.

''I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

''I have a dream today.

''I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

''This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning:

'My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.'

''And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

''And so 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 molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

''And when this happens, when we allow freedom to 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!' ''

 

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Why climb Everest?
Because it's there..

-George Mallory

 

Renewed in our strength - tested, but not weary - we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.

George W Bush
( 1/20/05)

 

"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - R. Kennedy


I like this quote. Always forgive because it is good for you and good for me. It is good for me and good for you. No matter what, deep bow. The deep bow fills the heart.

Never forget the names is about knowing that those who may be less evolved are around and may even appear in abundance. Recognize that they are there. Detach from their place of energy, deep bow, file it away, breathe, deep bow, and show kindness, truly felt from the heart. It will protect you, and protect them from themselves. I have even seen them smile and bow, in their own way, and deep breathe in kind.

peace and love,
Savannah

 

"In a world of almost endless media noise and political spin, you wonder where you can find real truth. Well, now there's a source that's accurate, clear and reliable. It's the TNIV - Today's New International Version of the Bible. It's written in today's language, for today's times - and it makes more sense than ever."

Rejected add for the Bible by the Rolling Stone Mag

(YOU CAN READ IT HEAR, BUT CANNOT READ IT IN THE ROLLING STONE, not sure why though)