Quote for the Day!

“"Forget George Bush! You might as well get mad at a hot fudge sundae!"

- Kurt Vonnegut
(vonnegut.com)



(thank-you, C-SPAN)”

“Mo Rocca: I was busy waiting all night for the Columbus Day Bunny to come down my chimney and light fireworks in my pumpkin.
Jon Stewart: ...There's so much wrong with that.
Mo Rocca: Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you were Jewish.”

“"The first hunt or two they'll think it's more tourists taking their picture."

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, on how bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park will respond to being hunted for the first time in 15 years.
- New York Times”

“You libbies sure do love to stereotype.
10/20/05 11:14:24 AM”
GreasyGrimyGopherGutsStomper”

“Thats funny!”

“Thank You
Thank you
I'm here on Thursdays...”

“"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

- Groucho Marx”

“Bush motorcade leaves other folks fuming
By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer

One hundred Brentwood kindergartners, many dressed in costumes, were all set to go see "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday when their first-ever field trip was blocked by the nation's 43rd president.

They never got to see the wizard.

President George W. Bush, his Marine One helicopter grounded by fog, brought morning rush hour to a standstill while his motorcade proceeded from West Los Angeles through the San Fernando Valley to Simi Valley for the dedication of the Air Force One Pavilion.

"We had buses all loaded up - but by the time they got to school it was too late," said Julie Fahn, a volunteer mom at Kenter Canyon Elementary in Brentwood, where girls had dressed as Dorothy to see the play performed in Malibu.

"My poor children - they were so disappointed. They're all so sad. They were inconvenienced by a silly motorcade down Sunset (Boulevard)."

Bush's traffic jams - Westside to San Fernando Valley commutes Thursday night took up to three hours when traffic was rerouted because of a presidential fundraiser - added to the lore of a city notorious for its gridlock.

On Friday, police were alerted just before Bush began his commute. With only a few minutes' notice from the U.S. Secret Service, LAPD and city Department of Transportation cops shut down Sunset Boulevard west of the San Diego Freeway from 8:15 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Thousands of commuters, unable to cross the legendary L.A. strip except for intermittent breaks in traffic, were trapped with engines idling in miles-long jams.

John Brooks, a news reporter for radio station KFWB-AM (980), was unable to move for more than an hour as gridlocked motorists as far south as Wilshire Boulevard screamed at traffic cops barring their commutes.

"They were saying, 'I gotta take my kid to school - what's going on here?"' he recalled, adding that some had also grumbled, "Presidents always come to this side of town because there's big money here."

One glamorous Westsider suggested an alternate route for the president. Another wielded a sign that said simply, "Impeach Bush."

At a Starbucks on San Vicente Boulevard, motorists drank lattes in resignation. "A lot of people were stuck," barista Denise Johnson said. "Traffic wasn't moving. It literally wasn't moving. I heard a few horns honking."

As the presidential motorcade turned from Sunset onto the northbound 405 for a dignified crawl on a freeway cleared

of other cars, the CHP closed freeway entrances and exits along the entire motorcade route.

Opposing traffic, unable to ignore the president, braked to a crawl.

"Southbound was wall-to-wall, creeping, except for the car-pool lane," said Dan Page of Simi Valley, who saw the deadlock from his Toyota Prius as he threaded the jam in the HOV lane heading for his job at the UCLA Health Center.

Like many from a region that overwhelmingly cast votes against Bush in 2004, Page was critical of the president's decision to disrupt the nation's busiest freeway commute.

"If he can sneak in and out of Baghdad without anybody knowing it, it seems like he could slip in and out of L.A. without disrupting rush hour - twice."

Lt. Joseph Peyton of West Traffic Division, who led the Sunset closure from the San Diego Freeway to Rockingham Drive, was proud to have protected the president, but was sorry for the logjam.

"We did the best we could ... it went without a hitch. Our command staff, with short notice, swung into action. It's the most outstanding moment I had anything to do with," he said.

"Unfortunately, there were inconveniences and we apologize for that."

In Simi Valley, police reported no traffic slowdowns.

For the children of Kenter Canyon Elementary who had planned to see "The Wizard of Oz" at Pepperdine University, their buses were 90 minutes late. They missed the last performance and will not be given a rain check on $6 tickets.

"All the Kenter Canyon parents, they are not happy with (Bush) right now," said Fahn, 33, whose 5-year-old twin girls had prepared for their field trip for months. "He's not at the top of any list.

"The kids did not see the wizard."”

“Another anti Bush fool that can not understand thread subjects.

This is the Quote for the Day! thread, dumbass.”

“Martin Luther King, Jr.:

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

“D. H. Lawrence:

This is what I believe:

That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.
That I must have the courage to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.
There is my creed.”

“Interesting quote.”

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain”

“hmmmm... "my soul is a dark forest..."

Do you think Lawrence would mind if I "borrowed" that one? *G*



Just In Case You Missed It ---

From the press conference yesterday... Patrick Fitzgerald was asked if Scooter's alleged crimes were simply technicalities, and he replied:

"That talking point won't fly."”

“LOL! That mixed metaphor must have cut the heart out of the Bush team's trial balloon.”

“I believe the Southern Variant would be: "That talking point won't hunt!" LOL”

“Im trying to imagine Nigal in silk panties right now and it has me in hysterics! LMAO!”
BlackWidow
7:54:08 PM

there ya go!”

“There is yet to be made a silk (Oriental or otherwise) that can contain that monster. I make no apologies.”

“one eyed one balled purple people eater?”

“Close. Only he's more of an angry red than actual; purple. Takes a whole week of inaction to make him that angry to be purple.”

“UNIVERSALIST, n.
One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.”

“Linda Hogan:

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

“The Atlantic Monthly is not, as a woman from Fox Television asked (breathlessly), a magazine about the ocean."

William Langewiesche”

“Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change.”

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

--Albert Schweitzer”

“Here's a man clearly talking outa his arsse

"If [Owens] is thinking that people think he's selfish he's listening to 5 percent of the people out there."
—Hall of Famer Steve Young”

“I am gonna put some stank on my dangle...

one of my coworkers.”

“LOL”

“I was corrupt before I had power, and rich is better.

-- Random of Amber (Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom)”

“"Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it."

Whitney Griswold”

“An attention to the judgment of other nations is important to every government for two reasons: the one is, that, independently of the merits of any particular plan or measure, it is desirable, on various accounts, that it should appear to other nations as the offspring of a wise and honorable policy; the second is, that in doubtful cases, particularly where the national councils may be warped by some strong passion or momentary interest, the presumed or known opinion of the impartial world may be the best guide that can be followed.”

“Rest of the paragraph:

"What has not America lost by her want of character with foreign nations; and how many errors and follies would she not have avoided, if the justice and propriety of her measures had, in every instance, been previously tried by the light in which they would probably appear to the unbiased part of mankind?"

(Note Federalist Paper #63 is sometimes attributed to Alexaner hamilton. I prefer Madison on the basis of the opinion of someone I respect - I have done no research on the matter.)”

“"No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains."

– Louis Brandeis”

“I thought this was an apt analogy...

Bob Costas was heard insulting the sport of racewalking on the September 24 Olympics broadcast, saying ""What's up with the racewalkers? I mean I respect them as athletes but come on......a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest."”

“Buddha:

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

“I'll post this quote in honor of my Step-Father who passed away Monday night:

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain”

“Funny, my kids are at the age they think I am bordering genius by the week.”

“"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"

– Maya Angelou”

“Bioniceaer - sorry to hear about your Dad.

My dad loved that Twain quote, too. I think during my teen years when we were at logger heads, it helped him look forward to times we'd understand each other better.”

“Ralph Waldo Emerson:

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“Quote of the day:

,,

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“Helen Keller:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

~Benjamin Franklin”

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce”

“thanks, chili.
sweet thoughts for the new year.”

“"Social Security is Grenada; Medicare is Vietnam."

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
(outgoing director of the Congressional Budget Office)”

“"Get outside, the graphics are amazing."”

“and let each new year find you a better man.

~Benjamin Franklin”
chili

I'd be happy with one good man for many years. :o)”

“After a three hour session, you would want him to go home.”