Quote Of The Day

"How many of us realize we live our lives in a prison? It may be velvet lined with all the amenities, but it's a prison nevertheless. We are the slave labor used to perpetuate this system by enriching those with power (our jail keepers). If you try to escape from this velvet lined jail, they put you in another higher-security jail without all the amenities, and even less freedom. Face it we're all prisoners!
FREE THE PRISONERS! FREE YOUR MIND! "
-Skip Stone

 

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

 

"Earth, Fire, Water, and Air gave voice by asking,
ÒDid you not notice me making love to you when I touched you with the wind. Did you not notice the flames of the heated sun reaching forth following the rain? You were never alone. The Sacredness of the elements are holding you. On mountains, and in valleys deep, In hollows, caves
And on rocky ledges, and city streets They are waiting for you........."
-by Aerial-

Peace
LionHeart

 

" Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, trust God and all good things will be yours." -Swedish proverb.

 

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
- Michael Chrichton

 

The difference between death and taxes is that death does not get worse every time congress meets
America is going to be the only country in history that went to the poorhouse in an automobile
--------------Will Rogers

 

The Way I Should
By Iris Dement

A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night
An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window
like it was trying hard to get inside
and then a ghost that I had met before kept me up 'til dawn
and everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong
He said, "Your score is looking pretty bad"
and then he asked me what it was that I had to show

So I went running down a list of things
some were real, but on some of them I lied
'cause I felt I had to justify each breath that I'd been breathing in
this life
Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules,
trying to keep my score up in a game I did not choose
Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye
and said "You'd better not be coming back by again"

And it's true that I don't work near as hard
as you tell me that I'm supposed to
I don't run as fast as I could
but I live just the way I want to
and that's the way I should

October's leaves were dancing 'round
like angels dressed in robes of Red and Gold
but November's come and gone now
and they're lying in the gutter out along the road
They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea,
they'll get to where they're going without the help of you or me
and if each life is just a grain of sand
I'm telling you man, this grain of sand is mine

And it's true that I don't work near as hard
as you tell me that I'm supposed to
I don't run as fast as I could
but I live just the way I want to
and that's the way I should
but I live just the way I want to
and that's the way I should

Peace
LionHeart

 

Woody Allen:

"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me."

 

EDWIN MEESE III
"You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
 U.S. News and World Report, 10/14/85

 

"Dyslexic If You're Honk!"

imhip

 

I can't think of who said it, but it is a line from a poem on death

"In my beginning is my end"

I try to keep this thought in my mind as my mom has terminal cancer(I pray for her recovery even though the doctors don't give much hope)

 

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that the host of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"I hate the word 'hippie,' I hate a lot of people and hippies don't do that" - Shannon Hoon

 

"Mamma, mamma, many worlds I've come since I first left home.."

Grateful Dead

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE CHAPTERS

Chapter 1.
I am on a road
There is a deep hole
I fall in
I am lost .desperate
It is not my fault
It takes an eternity to find a way out

Chapter 2.
I am on the same road
There is a deep hole
I pretend not to see it
I fall in again
I cannot believe I am in the same situation
But it is not my fault
It takes a long time to find a way out

Chapter 3.
I am on the same road
There is a deep hole
I see that it is there
I fall in again.it is habit
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault
I come out immediately

Chapter 4.
I am on the same road
There is a deep hole
I walk around it

Chapter 5.
I walk on another road
--Rinpoche

 

"-- manifesta phrenesis
Ut locuples moriaris egenti vivrere fato."
A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.

 

"The church-going cultural polulism of Bush has given the US an
Administration that worries about the house of Saud and the welfare of oil
companies, while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and
daughters die on foreign soil".

Howell Raines, former editor of the New York Times

 

Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in Gilbert's book "Nuremberg Diary."
Goering: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Goering: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the 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 danger. It works the same in any country.

 

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do". - Anne Lamott

 

"Military Intelligence"