Quote for the Day!

“Adjacent Territory.

"To all lovers of the beauties of nature and God's great, health-giving out-of-doors, this little volume is dedicated with the hope that thru it many may find a path leading up to a fuller life with the corresponging satisfaction and growth of an optimistic spirit, which comes with the scientific knowledge of things which are both supremely beautiful and useful."

John H. Schaffner,January 1, 1928
Ohio State University

(my Great Grandfather's Brother)”

“"The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once," by X.J. Kennedy, from The Lords of Misrule.

" Time takes its time unraveling. But, still,
You'll wonder when your life ends: Huh? What happened?"”

“I've heard that line about Time from many people over the years (the first was a wino in Underground Atlanta in 1967).

I wonder who originated it?”

“"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

-Buddha”

““When I was a boy I was interested in music. So my dad went and bought me a blunt instrument and said, “Here, knock yourself out.’.”

-Jay London”

“"When you are alone in the woods it is impossible
to hide behind a tree. No matter where you stand,
you are always in front of it."

Hoyt Axton”

“Tilt - I picked it up from "Todays Almanac" with Garrison Keillor.

The author: X.J. Kennedy”

“That's a great program. Unfortunately, I catch it only rarely.



oh Here's a timely quote --


"Many good people have gone to prison. Look at Mandela."

Martha Stewart
Future ex-con”

“The flag has become a muzzle, a piece of cloth stuffed into the mouths of those who dare to ask questions.

Michael Moore”

“The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Isak Dinesen”

“"my burden is light"

christ the yogi and king of ultralite travelers.”

“"In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies"
Friedrich Nietzsche”

“"If brevity is the soul of wit, your p-enis must be a riot"
Donna Gephart”

“And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

--John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961”

“"I will fight a more effective war on terror because I would never have thrown out of the door or window the obligations of the Geneva Conventions,"

--John Kerry


"I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others in that I shot in free fire zones, used harassment and interdiction fire, joined in search and destroy missions, and burned villages. All of these acts were established policies from the top down, and the men who ordered this are war criminals."

--John Kerry”

“Sound to me like a man who knows how to follow orders, but would be tempered in his judgment in giving the same.

--chili36, 2004”

“"Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind."

- Margaret Cousins, novelist”

“Kerry's honesty is impressive. Thanks for the quote Nigal.”

“"Aggression only breeds aggression."

-Morticia Addams”

“"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."

--John sKerry”

“"Bush: fake pilot, fake president, fake war."

- Me”

“''The computer can't tell you the emotional story.
It can give you the exact mathematical design,
but what's missing is the eyebrows.''

-- Frank Zappa”

“"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."

-- Justice Joseph Story
(1779-1845) US Supreme Court Justice
1833”

“I like that one, tilt!”

“YAz... It's kinda like what George Carlin said about dogs and cats. He said it's easier to relate to dogs because they have eyebrows, while cats 'just have this stuff sticking out of their heads', LOL

(whiskers, donchaknow)”

““Canada is a lot like your attic. You don’t even think about it being up there but every time you go up there you say, ‘Wow, look at all this great stuff!’”.

--Some Comic”

“We got a Cannuck at work who has on his cube wall a picture of North America. THe caption says something like:

We're bigger, and we're on top. If this were prison, you'd be our b!tch.”

“Now THAT'S a quote! LOL!”

“LMAO, Smiley!!!!”

“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury”

“"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury"

This only happens when you watch the scrambled pay-for-porn channles hoping to catch an unscrambled moment of some butt or boobs. Bitpusher told me so.”

“"I am the slime from your video."

- FZ”

“Uh-huh. Right, Nigal!!! LOL”

“Damn! Bitpusher has you doing that too, Nigal? He promised that he was gonna send my cable company the money for that channel.”

“I think it's funny how the cable companies sell three hour blocks of porn. They should just sell it in six minute blocks cause that's all guys watch is the first six minutes.”

“"The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is hard business.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-- Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)”

“-Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.-”

“"Dear Lord: The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done."

- Homer Simpson”

“To find the easiest way down the mountain, follow the oldest mountaineer down.”

“Follow the game trails for the easiest way thru. When it peters out, go for the next one.”

“Many are cold, but few are frozen.”

“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President, Democrat”

“I hope [all will see and] promote... the advantages of a cordial fraternization among all the American nations, and the advantage of their coalescing in an American system of policy, totally independent of and unconnected with that of Europe. The day is not distant when we may formally require a meridian of partition through the ocean which separates the two hemispheres, on the hither side of which no European gun shall ever be heard, nor an American on the other; and when, during the rage of the eternal wars of Europe, the lion and the lamb within our regions shall lie down together in peace... The principles of society there and here... are radically different, and I hope no American patriot will ever lose sight of the essential policy of interdicting in the seas and territories of both Americas the ferocious and sanguinary contests of Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1820. ME 15:262”

“"Sky as black as ink.... sailor take a drink!"

"Sky as blue as ink.... sailor take a drink!"

"Sky as grey as ink.... sailor take a drink!"



(you get the idea.)”

“it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President, Democrat”

“"Dick's dark side was done with extreme discretion,"


KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.

He had won the "Great Chief" award, the highest honor a local business leader can receive from the Chamber of Commerce. A nominating letter for the award described him as "the epitome of the reason we all want to live in the Kalispell area."

Dasen was an energetic force in the construction of a hospital, a ski resort and a large hotel that established this northwest Montana town of 15,000 as a player in the convention business of the Rocky Mountain West. He was impressively energetic, too, in charitable and social causes, serving as a church elder, helping teenagers finish high school and volunteering his time to Christian Financial Counseling, which helped people manage debts.

Since his arrest in February in a sting operation at a cut-rate local motel, police have unearthed a side of Dasen's life that, while impressively energetic, is decidedly less civic-minded.

Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women, many of whom were in legal trouble, addicted to drugs and in debt to him, according to court documents.

When police asked Dasen how many of these women there had been, he said there had been too many to count.

Dasen apparently lost count, too, police say, of how much money he paid all these women.

Investigators counting his checks -- he paid by check, in amounts of $1,000 to $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month -- now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney.

"He pretty much single-handedly funded the methamphetamine trade here in Kalispell for a number of years," Harball said, as women used the money Dasen paid them to pay for their habits.

Since Dasen's arrest the flow of money to local methamphetamine users seems to have dried up, Harball said, adding that there has been a "flood of petty crime from addicts seeking cash for their habit."

Police continue to investigate where Dasen's money came from.

"He had access to a lot of funds from a lot of different sources, and there is really no accounting for any of it," Harball said.

The state Department of Public Health and Human Services is also trying to find out what Dasen, as a court-appointed conservator, did with $500,000 awarded in a product-liability settlement for the long-term care of a severely brain-damaged child.

In an affidavit filed last month in the county court overseeing the conservatorship, a state social worker said the money under Dasen's control disappeared with "no formal accounting" between 1995 and 2000. Since then, the child, having turned up in the local hospital with severe malnutrition and infected ulcers on his backside, has become a ward of the state.

So far, Dasen has been charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year-old girl for sex. The age of consent in Montana is 16. He has also been charged with two felony counts of promoting prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, and his attorney, George Best, declined to comment on any aspect of the case.

A trial on the rape and prostitution charges is scheduled for early next year, and law enforcement officials say that they are continuing an investigation into any accounting and tax irregularities concerning Dasen.

Then there is the matter of Dasen's DNA, which the state crime lab says was detected on a semen-stained bedspread in Room 233 of the Kalispell Motel 6 -- the room in which Darlene Wilcock, 26, was found strangled in April of last year. No one has been arrested in her death.

A law enforcement official familiar with the woman's autopsy report said that semen from two men was found on her body, neither of them Dasen.

The discovery of Dasen's semen at the crime scene, this official said, may simply be a coincidence, the kind of thing that can happen to a man who often has sex in motel rooms where bedspreads are rarely washed. A number of women have told police that they had sex with Dasen in the Motel 6.

Many of the women Dasen allegedly paid for sex met him when they came to Christian Financial Counseling for help in consolidating and managing their debts. Dasen ran the nonprofit organization and also owns a private finance firm, Budget Finance.

Detectives have interviewed about 40 of these women, and many of them have said that Dasen "used their indebtedness to him to coerce them to have sex," Kalispell Police Chief Frank Garner said.

If Dasen was "not satisfied with the sexual services that he was receiving, it was common for [him] to arrange for repossession of vehicles that he has purchased or funded for those females, through his finance company," according to a confidential informant's statement to police that is quoted in court documents.

Back in February, news of Dasen's arrest astonished many of his longtime business associates, political acquaintances and fellow church members. Several called the police chief to complain of overzealous law enforcement. The calls stopped, the chief said, as more details emerged about the scale of Dasen's sexual appetites.

"Dick's dark side was done with extreme discretion," said Dean Jellison, a retired lawyer and GOP activist who has known Dasen for nearly 35 years. "The news was a complete and utter shock to the community."

Part of the shock derived from the respect that Dasen had earned for his volunteer work as a financial counselor. Many judges, law enforcement officials and ministers in town had referred troubled young couples with debt problems to Dasen -- and they credit him with having saved many marriages.

"He was incredibly benevolent," said Denise Cofer, a local activist in the Christian Coalition and a Republican candidate in the fall election for county commissioner. She said that Dasen was a reliable supporter of conservative Christian causes, such as opposition to abortion.

"If there was a need in the community, he was there," she said.

While rumors about Dasen's sexual appetites may not have bubbled up to the level of judges, politicians and preachers before his arrest, they apparently had percolated down to many working-class people, especially those with debt problems.

"When my wife and I were having some problems with money five years ago, a friend recommended that we go see Dasen," said Steve Southland, who manages a warehouse in town. "But my friend knew enough to warn me not to send my wife alone."

When Dasen talked to police shortly after his arrest, he characterized his for-pay sexual activities with young women as "helping" them, according to a detective's affidavit that summarizes Dasen's conversation with police.

When a detective asked him to explain how he was helping the women, the affidavit said that Dasen replied that when he thought about it, he realized he was not helping them after all.

Dasen said, too, that he believes he has a problem, perhaps an addiction. But he added, according to the affidavit, that he believes he is more addicted to "helping" than to sex.

Awaiting trial, Dasen is free on $50,000 bail and staying with his wife at their vacation home in Arizona.”

“"addicted to helping" ???

ok. that makes it all ok.

Where's the quote in this?”

“that last sentence just kinda takes the cake.”

“LOL! How about "addicted to rationalizing"?

Quote is in the middle:

"Dick's dark side was done with extreme discretion," said Dean Jellison, a retired lawyer and GOP activist who has known Dasen for nearly 35 years. "The news was a complete and utter shock to the community."”

“"He who has a 'why' can endure any 'how'"
Friedrich Nietzsche”