"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
George Eliot
“This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
George W. Bush
P.S. YOU TRICKLE-DOWN LUNATIC-FRINGE STONE-AGE RIGHT-WINGERS:
THIS is from today's New York Post, hardly a liberal rag:
"Just weeks after Citigroup averted total collapse with a $45 billion shot in the arm of taxpayer cash, the bank jetted its former CEO and his family on one of its corporate jets to a posh Mexican resort for New Year's, The Post has learned. Sandy Weill, 75, hopped aboard the tanking bank's Bombardier BD 700 Global Express on Dec. 26 with his wife, Joan, daughter Jessica, her husband and their children. They flew from Westchester County Airport to the Los Cabos shore region in sunny Baja, according to aviation records and sources familiar with the trip. The family stayed through Jan. 3 at the ultra-expensive One & Only Palmilla in San José del Cabo - where a four-bedroom suite costs $12,000 A NIGHT!!
"The holiday jaunt came the same week that Citigroup - which lost $28.2 billion over the last five quarters and cut 75,000 jobs globally in 2008 - agreed to curtail runaway corporate expenses as part of a deal to get the massive influx of federal money."
Yeah, baby, now that's conservative fiscal responsibility at its best, eh?!
"Just weeks after Citigroup averted total collapse with a $45 billion shot in the arm of taxpayer cash, the bank jetted its former CEO and his family on one of its corporate jets to a posh Mexican resort for New Year's, The Post has learned. Sandy Weill, 75, hopped aboard the tanking bank's Bombardier BD 700 Global Express on Dec. 26 with his wife, Joan, daughter Jessica, her husband and their children. They flew from Westchester County Airport to the Los Cabos shore region in sunny Baja, according to aviation records and sources familiar with the trip. The family stayed through Jan. 3 at the ultra-expensive One & Only Palmilla in San José del Cabo - where a four-bedroom suite costs $12,000 A NIGHT!!
"The holiday jaunt came the same week that Citigroup - which lost $28.2 billion over the last five quarters and cut 75,000 jobs globally in 2008 - agreed to curtail runaway corporate expenses as part of a deal to get the massive influx of federal money."
Yeah, baby, now that's conservative fiscal responsibility at its best, eh?!
THINK ABOUT THIS!!
Exxon Mobil Reports Record $45.2 Billion Profit For 2008
WHILE... The economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the last quarter of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses to throttle back spending.
WHILE... The economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the last quarter of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses to throttle back spending.
Today's Abundance Quote
“Abundance doesn't follow giving until giving becomes its own reward.”
Jan Denise
Jan Denise
I LIKE IKE!
BUT WHO ARE THESE OTHER GUYS?!
CLICK ON THE PICTURE and consider that in Ike's last address to America, he sternly warned us about the "military-industrial complex" taking hold of our government. Then, think about the history of the U.S. for the last forty years.
CLICK ON THE PICTURE and consider that in Ike's last address to America, he sternly warned us about the "military-industrial complex" taking hold of our government. Then, think about the history of the U.S. for the last forty years.
LOFF56 on the Recession-Proof Billionaires!
Here's L56:
"Or... $18.4 Billion is roughly 61 dollars for EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES!!! But more importantly, I wonder how much that would be divided amongst the employees of all those companies? Again, what is it exactly that makes one of these corporations different from a kingdom in the Middle Ages?"
"Or... $18.4 Billion is roughly 61 dollars for EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES!!! But more importantly, I wonder how much that would be divided amongst the employees of all those companies? Again, what is it exactly that makes one of these corporations different from a kingdom in the Middle Ages?"
THINK ABOUT THIS!!
Here's an article from yesterday's news, called "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses."
"By almost any measure, 2008 was a complete disaster for Wall Street — except, that is, when the bonuses arrived.
Despite crippling losses, multibillion-dollar bailouts and the passing of some of the most prominent names in the business, employees at financial companies in New York, the now-diminished world capital of capital, collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year.
That was the sixth-largest haul on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the New York State comptroller.
While the payouts paled next to the riches of recent years, Wall Street workers still took home about as much as they did in 2004, when the Dow Jones industrial average was flying above 10,000, on its way to a record high.
Some bankers took home millions last year even as their employers lost billions."
Just to put it in perspective: if you had just one billion dollars, and you lived another fifty years, you would have about $385,000 a week to live on. Not bad, huh?!
"By almost any measure, 2008 was a complete disaster for Wall Street — except, that is, when the bonuses arrived.
Despite crippling losses, multibillion-dollar bailouts and the passing of some of the most prominent names in the business, employees at financial companies in New York, the now-diminished world capital of capital, collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year.
That was the sixth-largest haul on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the New York State comptroller.
While the payouts paled next to the riches of recent years, Wall Street workers still took home about as much as they did in 2004, when the Dow Jones industrial average was flying above 10,000, on its way to a record high.
Some bankers took home millions last year even as their employers lost billions."
Just to put it in perspective: if you had just one billion dollars, and you lived another fifty years, you would have about $385,000 a week to live on. Not bad, huh?!
TODAY'S INSANE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT FACT!
75% of oncologists said that if they had cancer, they would not use chemotherapy treatment due to its ineffectiveness and its unacceptable toxicity.
75% of Americans diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy treatment suggested by their oncologists!
Source: McGill Cancer Center survey cited in the book, "Reclaiming Our Health," by John Robbins.
75% of Americans diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy treatment suggested by their oncologists!
Source: McGill Cancer Center survey cited in the book, "Reclaiming Our Health," by John Robbins.
NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER NEW TOY!!
A firm parent talking to a greedy, acting out child? No, President Obama talking to Citibank!
That's right. According to a report from ABC News, President Obama is not taking kindly to corporate greed, especially when it's funded by taxpayer money. The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France. ABC News has learned that Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."
On Monday, the news broke that bailed out bank was going through with its $50 million private jet purchase even though it had received $45 billion in government funds.
Now, clean up your room, do your homework and take a bath. You're filthy!
That's right. According to a report from ABC News, President Obama is not taking kindly to corporate greed, especially when it's funded by taxpayer money. The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France. ABC News has learned that Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."
On Monday, the news broke that bailed out bank was going through with its $50 million private jet purchase even though it had received $45 billion in government funds.
Now, clean up your room, do your homework and take a bath. You're filthy!
MORE EVIDENCE ON SEXUAL HEALING! CUMMING AFTER FIFTY PREVENTS CANCER!!
It's no joke, folks. I have been saying for years to anyone who will listen that a good sex life is not a luxury, but an essential ingredient to physical, emotional and mental health and well-being. I have talked often about how children suffer at the hands of parents who don't have a fulfilling sex-life, how success in other areas of one's life directly relates to one's gratification in the Love-Eros-sex department, how the social conservatives and religious right actually do want to make war because they don't want to make love.
Well, yesterday more news confirming an earlier bulletin that I published last April: regular ejaculation by men over fifty prevents prostate cancer!
Einstein once said that "God doesn't play dice with the Universe." And I have frequently said that nature doesn't fuck up, people's egos do. Human beings don't have powerfully compelling sex-drives in order to overcome them. HELLO?! The pleasure of sex is nature's way of saying: "Hey! This is good! Do it!!"
Please!
Well, yesterday more news confirming an earlier bulletin that I published last April: regular ejaculation by men over fifty prevents prostate cancer!
Einstein once said that "God doesn't play dice with the Universe." And I have frequently said that nature doesn't fuck up, people's egos do. Human beings don't have powerfully compelling sex-drives in order to overcome them. HELLO?! The pleasure of sex is nature's way of saying: "Hey! This is good! Do it!!"
Please!
Today's Truth Quote
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
Spencer Johnson
Spencer Johnson
RUSH ON RUSH
Let the man speak for himself:
I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Rush Limbaugh
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Rush Limbaugh
Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
Rush Limbaugh
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
Rush Limbaugh
They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
Rush Limbaugh
I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he [Barack Obama] succeeds." Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: "I hope he fails.”
RUSH LIMBAUGH!!
RICK ON RUSH
Here is a thoughtful and genuinely patriotic comment from Rick, who unlike the likes of Rush Limbaugh and others, actually cares about his country more than his own ego:
"When Obama won the election, I read and heard the same kind of nonsense I heard when Bush was elected. Having a desire to see the President of the United States fail just because he wasn't your choice seems unjustifiable to say the least, particularly with the lack of a track record. We all knew he can win an election and move the spirit of a nation. We need to give him time to prove he can govern it. With his momentum, he has what Clinton pissed away, an opportunity to become one of the great presidents.
I lost respect for some "journalists" and commentators who have tried to take Obama down before he's even started. However, I do understand the self-serving need to make such statements. For better or worse, the man who wins is our President and it is incumbent upon us all to see that person succeed.
Given the impact Obama's candidacy had on you, I was pleasantly surprised to read your election eve post, 'Whoever is elected, it is merely a reflection of our current state of consciousness and therefore only another measure of where we are and where we need to go.'
Obama is in and this is where we need to go. I didn't vote for him nor McCain although I like and dislike certain things about each.
I can and will support Obama during this unique and special time in history."
"When Obama won the election, I read and heard the same kind of nonsense I heard when Bush was elected. Having a desire to see the President of the United States fail just because he wasn't your choice seems unjustifiable to say the least, particularly with the lack of a track record. We all knew he can win an election and move the spirit of a nation. We need to give him time to prove he can govern it. With his momentum, he has what Clinton pissed away, an opportunity to become one of the great presidents.
I lost respect for some "journalists" and commentators who have tried to take Obama down before he's even started. However, I do understand the self-serving need to make such statements. For better or worse, the man who wins is our President and it is incumbent upon us all to see that person succeed.
Given the impact Obama's candidacy had on you, I was pleasantly surprised to read your election eve post, 'Whoever is elected, it is merely a reflection of our current state of consciousness and therefore only another measure of where we are and where we need to go.'
Obama is in and this is where we need to go. I didn't vote for him nor McCain although I like and dislike certain things about each.
I can and will support Obama during this unique and special time in history."
BONNI ON RUSH & PL' RESPONSE - IT'S A FREAK SHOW!
Here's Bonni:
"Some people just cannot tolerate the idea that they might not have been 100% "right" (whatever 'right' is supposed to mean). Rush Limbaugh is a man who bases his entire identity on being "right". If he ever had to admit that he was wrong about something, he might vanish in a puff of foul-smelling smoke."
PL:
I only wish it were so, Bonni, that the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck were simply pundits with a different opinion to be shared, but they are not. They are psychologically disturbed people being put on display in the media circus in the same way that people with physical deformities used to be put on display in "freak shows" at old time traveling circuses.
David Brooks, George Will, William F. Buckley, William Safire - these are serious conservative pundits with a particular point of view.
Don't mistake the bearded lady for a serious opinionator.
Thanks.
"Some people just cannot tolerate the idea that they might not have been 100% "right" (whatever 'right' is supposed to mean). Rush Limbaugh is a man who bases his entire identity on being "right". If he ever had to admit that he was wrong about something, he might vanish in a puff of foul-smelling smoke."
PL:
I only wish it were so, Bonni, that the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck were simply pundits with a different opinion to be shared, but they are not. They are psychologically disturbed people being put on display in the media circus in the same way that people with physical deformities used to be put on display in "freak shows" at old time traveling circuses.
David Brooks, George Will, William F. Buckley, William Safire - these are serious conservative pundits with a particular point of view.
Don't mistake the bearded lady for a serious opinionator.
Thanks.
Today's Quote
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity." Viktor Frankl
STILL DOING IT FOR LOVE!
Here's a perfect follow-up to my recent post: "GIVING TO GET OR DOING IT FOR LOVE." It's by Jason Mannino and it's entitled: "HOW DOING WHAT YOU LOVE SERVES HUMANITY."
I've been on this subject a lot lately, and over the years, the subject of giving, and how it's not about "doing good deeds" or "self-sacrifice," but about genuinely doing what you love to do, what your particular gifts are about. So, come on folks, no more excuses. If you've got a talent, or a passion, give it up. The world could use you!
Here's a delicious taste from the piece by Mannino:
"When you are living in your center in connection with your true self, you are also directly connected to the part of you that knows the gifts and talents you were born to share in this lifetime. This is your life's calling. More often than not it is also your dream, the thing that you love to do, and the thing that makes you feel alive, inspired, and jump out of bed in the morning. The great news is that what you are born to do in this life is how you serve humanity."
I've been on this subject a lot lately, and over the years, the subject of giving, and how it's not about "doing good deeds" or "self-sacrifice," but about genuinely doing what you love to do, what your particular gifts are about. So, come on folks, no more excuses. If you've got a talent, or a passion, give it up. The world could use you!
Here's a delicious taste from the piece by Mannino:
"When you are living in your center in connection with your true self, you are also directly connected to the part of you that knows the gifts and talents you were born to share in this lifetime. This is your life's calling. More often than not it is also your dream, the thing that you love to do, and the thing that makes you feel alive, inspired, and jump out of bed in the morning. The great news is that what you are born to do in this life is how you serve humanity."
Tonight's "HELLO?!" Quote
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Today's Quote
"The time has come to set aside childish things.”
Barack Obama (First Inaugural Address)
Barack Obama (First Inaugural Address)
SOMETHING DEEPER!
Bob Herbert nails it in his op-ed piece this morning: " More Than Charisma."
Here he is in his own words:
"I’ve seen charismatic politicians and pretty families come and go like sunrises and sunsets over the years. There was something more that was making people go ga-ga over Obama. Something deeper.
We’ve been watching that something this week, and it’s called leadership. Mr. Obama has been feeding the almost desperate hunger in this country for mature leadership, for someone who is not reckless and clownish, shortsighted and self-absorbed."
I couldn't agree more.
This is a must read.
Thanks, Bob!
Here he is in his own words:
"I’ve seen charismatic politicians and pretty families come and go like sunrises and sunsets over the years. There was something more that was making people go ga-ga over Obama. Something deeper.
We’ve been watching that something this week, and it’s called leadership. Mr. Obama has been feeding the almost desperate hunger in this country for mature leadership, for someone who is not reckless and clownish, shortsighted and self-absorbed."
I couldn't agree more.
This is a must read.
Thanks, Bob!
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