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Recently, I suggested people write facebook comments in a separate file, and then post these comments after a bit of review. One advantage of this system is being able to recycle the rejected comments. ~ Maybe it is the activists who are defensive and ignorant. ~ I would want to not hear other people’s ideas about religion. ~ Some kid just tried to crank call me, “Hello, you seemed to have left your bra a Victoria’s Secret.” I said, “I got a secret for you.. you’re going nowhere fast so how bout you stop playing on the damn phone and read a damn book!” I mean really, is my generation going to have to take credit for doing EVERYTHING better??? Apparently yes we are, these children. SMDH! … is prince albert still in the can? (fb) ~ I am with the government, and I am here to help. ~ My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin (fb) ~ ‏@Pinoy_Humor I wasn’t that drunk Dude, you were in my closet yelling “where the heck is narnia?” #SignsYouWereDrunk (tw) ~ @FillWerrelFan #SignsYouWereDrunk You look at Snooki & think “Yeah I’d hit that” (tw) ~ ‏@FillWerrelFan Dude I wasn’t that drunk… Dude you grabbed a broomstick & jumped off the roof thinking you were playing Quidditch. #SignsYouWereDrunk (tw) ~ @SoVeryAwkward That awkward moment when you start cutting into pineapples, screaming “SPONGEBOB, I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE!” #SignsYouWereDrunk (tw) ~ @awkwardnoodles #SignsYouWereDrunk Holding onto monkey bars and screaming, “JACK, I’LL NEVER LET GO!” (tw) ~ @JustBarz #SignsYouWereDrunk: You kept repeating “I’m not drunk” (tw) ~ I have enjoyed the music. Time is always a valable commodity. I specialize in vintage photographs at chamblee54, and one of my prime sources is going to a new system, which looks to be about ten percent as good as the old one. Nothing lasts forever, except a tweet trashing a sensitive person. Also, if you can get away from blogspot/google, you might be able to do better. I started out with blogspot, and got a mysterious file that kept me from using google. I moved my blog to WordPress, and am very happy there… so far. ~ On Jul 11, 2012, at 8:17 PM, LXXXXX XXXXXXXXX wrote: my name is LXXXX from linked in love to swap pics maybe cam skype sometime if interested my e-mail is lXXXXXXXXXXXX.com my IM is XXXXXXXX and my skype ID is XXXXXXXXXXXX i have to tell you up front that i am gay and a nudist and usually when on cam i am naked but if nudity bothers you i can put on clothes up to you to tell me which clothed or nude it is your decision i will comply here are a few G rated pics so know what i look like love to see a few pics of you nudes will not offend me if have any that is should i get one from you that will tell me that it is ok for me to send you my nudes alright take care later LXXXX ~ ~ ~ Hello LXXXX, I hope you will not be offended by this, but I am declining your offer because I am not physically attracted to you. Thank you for the invitation! ZZZZZ (fb) ~ “I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you’ve not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve to death before I’d sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.” – Woody Guthrie (fb) ~ Guy, looking at menu, then to girl with him: Philly tubesteak? You’re having one of those tonight anyway. (pause) Cause I’m from Philly! (ony) ~ Sobbing seven-year-old: I just want… a nap… and a pepperoni pizzaaaa! (ony) ~ Five-year-old on very crowded subway car: Ewww mommy, it stinks! Mom: I know, honey, it’s New York. That’s why we’re moving. (ony) ~ Exasperated girl on cell to boyfriend sitting next to her: I’m trying to tell him we’ll get there early but he’s not listening, he just keeps making those frenchy sounds at me. (ony) ~ Hobo, pulling hot dog out of a bin, taking a bite, and throwing it straight on the footpath: This is a fucking vegetarian dog! (ony) ~ Older woman getting out of the subway with a bike, singing: Vegan is the way, vegans are the best, vegans have better health, vegans have better sex. (ony) ~ Man to friend on bike: You’re not a vegetarian anymore! Now you’re a cannibal. (ony) ~ Vegetarian: I’m vegetarian, but I still eat sugar. (ony) ~ Securities and Insurance Products and Services: Are not FDIC or any other Government Agency Insured Are not Bank Guaranteed May Lose Value ~ @historyweird @elliotclowes The usual. I’ve disgusted them; I’ve offended God; I’m embarrassing my mother. “Mission accomplished” on all 3 counts, I say. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1431: Parisian councilors order that fresh meat can only be sold in daylight, partly to stop skinned cats being sold as rabbits and hares. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1776: Catherine the Great writes to her inexperienced lover Zavadovsky, calling him “Vesuvius” because of his “fast & unexpected eruptions”. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1941: At a wartime summit, Franklin Roosevelt enters Winston Churchill’s room – and finds Winny “stark naked & gleaming pink” after his bath (tw) ~ @historyweird 1947: American underwear mogul JG Hanes starts the Human Betterment League – which lobbies to sterilise children below a certain IQ. (tw) ~ ‏@historyweird 1438: Hordes of hungry wolves enter Paris and roam the streets, eating cats, attacking children and digging up the city’s graveyards. (tw) ~ ‏@historyweird c.1480: In the popular ‘Talk of Ten Wives’, the wives discuss their husbands’ genital endowment, comparing them to slugs, beans & maggots. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1936: The Nazis force Heinrich Ratjen to tape down his genitals & compete in the Berlin Olympics as a woman. He came 4th in the high jump. (tw) ~ Woman outside a Subway restaurant on cell: Hi, this is Erica*. I met you on the plane to rehab. (ony) ~ Teenager to friends: When he was a teenager, he got all this money from the government because his mother was this amazing drug addict. (ony) ~ Loud guy, comfortingly: Listen, you shouldn’t be embarrassed that you’re Polish. (ony) ~ Woman on the train: And then he said, “ciao bella” and I was like, “I don’t speak French, you idiot.” (ony) ~ ‏@historyweird c.79AD: Graffiti on a Pompeii wall: “Harpocras hic cum Drauca bene futuit denario” (Harpocras had good sex here with Drauca for a denarius). (tw) ~ @historyweird 1520: Thomas More shows his naked daughters to Roper. Having “seen both sides” he selects one by “patting her Buttock”. (tw) ~ ‏@historyweird 1744: Dr Hamilton is appalled when his French host uses the same bowl for shaving, cleaning his hands, washing a cabbage and serving punch. (tw) ~ ‏@historyweird 1939: Wimbledon refuses an entry from Gottfried von Cramm, runner-up to Fred Perry in 1936 – because he was jailed by the Nazis for sodomy. (tw) ~ @historyweird c.70AD: Sotira suggests treating advanced malaria by coating the patient’s feet with menstrual blood, ideally without his or her knowledge. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1740: Matthew Buchinger, a limbless sex-mad performing dwarf, dies in Cork. He married 4 times, had countless lovers & fathered 23 children. (tw) ~ “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” -William Blake “So misunderstood, but what’s the world without enigma?” -Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (fb) ~ We destroyed the community to save it. ~ What you post here says more about you than it does about racism and privilege. ~ Rap stands for racism and privilege. ~ Be careful. It is easy to hurt yourself, in spite of, or because of, your good intentions. The spine is very easy to screw up. ~ 30 pictures, 7 videos, 1106 words. outstanding value. ~ One of the sites I enjoy is Pure Film Creative. There is a story there now, http://purefilmcreative.com/baker-street/the-tosh-pit.html, about the Daniel Tosh controversy. For those who have been on vacation, Mr. Tosh made a tasteless comment about rape at a recent comedy show, and has been roundly criticized. There has been a reaction, to the reaction, with some people screaming *free speech*. The author of the article writes a paragraph where he says that *free speech* includes the *right* to make noise about someone who tells rape jokes. The first sentence of the next paragraph was verrry interesting. “The only crime committed by Tosh is lameness.” ~ I am writing stuff for my blog. I was listening to a podcast, which I just turned off because one of the speakers thinks an invasion of Iran is a good idea. ~ Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. ~ Here is more information about this execution. The State of Georgia is going to a one drug method of poisoning the condemned. They are using an intentional overdose of pentobarbital. When SCOTUS approved this method of execution, it was for a procedure using three drugs. I don’t know why more people are not outraged about this. ~ “The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity.” Abraham Lincoln ~ “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy” Tom Waits ~ back in the sixties, a hippie was hitchhiking. He got picked up by a farmer. The hippie said, aren’t you going to make a joke about my hair, how you can’t tell if I am a boy or a girl? The farmer said, it doesn’t matter if you are a boy or a girl, I am going to fuck you anyway. ~ dear applicants for the cooking job, I am SO SORRY that I accidentally REPLIED to you — instead of FORWARDing as I intended to do. Please disregard my bitchy comments. I’m sure I barely skimmed your resume when I called it “meh” or “spotty” or “weird”. (fb) ~ Thank you for this link. I have listened to the two podcasts on the front page, about “religion” and “sexist language”. The *person* in the language episode praised “y’all” as an acceptable, non sexist, second person plural, with a pleasing sound. Irritating yankees is an added bonus. ~ ‏@Remroum #SignsYouWereDrunk: You said the US went into Iraq to provide democracy (tw) ~ @Remroum #SignsYouWereDrunk: You referred to Israel as a democracy. (tw) ~ ‏@Pinoy_Humor “Dude, you threw a squirrel in my pool and yelled ‘Sandy, Bikini Bottom needs you!'”. #SignsYouWereDrunk (tw) ~ ‏@Freddy_E Reading texts you don’t remember sending #SignsYouWereDrunk. (tw) ~ @Freddy_E Waking up hungover not sure where you are with a full voicemail box #SignsYouWereDrunk. (tw) ~ ‏@FillWerrelFan #SignsYouWereDrunk When you have to hold on to the grass to keep from falling off the earth. (tw) ~ Information presented is for general information only and does not specifically address individual investment objectives, financial situations or the particular needs of any specific person who may receive this material. 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“Elephants make me feel like I’m the right size,” – Newt Gingrich ~ Matt is too loud, and a bit distorted. Bill is not loud enough. This can be worked out. ~ five syllables here seven more syllables there are you happy now? ~ re: strippers, they are displaying their body parts in front of liquored up horndogs. The judgment challenged audience gives them money. I would say the objectification is mutual, with consent on both sides. (fb) ~ This helped me focus better during my meditation today. “Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be. It’s a way of shifting from doing to being so that we take in all the information that an experience offers us before we act.”-The Mindful Way Through Depression (and also impatience and restlessness) (fb) ~ AstroNuttCaseSpace:I love being kicked in the balls! I love having my penis burned with cigarettes! I love drinking piss! I live in NY and can travel or pay for your travel plus PAY you! If interested send an IM and be sure to ask about my really twisted fantasy! PICS IN PROFILE! ~ All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. ― Siddhārtha Gautama (fb) ~ ‏@tejucole In San Jose, Orr and Baker, and in Cleveland, Hunter, respectively, racing motorcyles, entered the everlasting brightness. (tw) ~ @tejucole Someone tossed an empty bottle from the Ulster & Delaware train. Clement, walking by the tracks, caught it with his skull. (tw) ~ @tejucole Perhaps Joseph “English Joe” Middleton, of West 20th Street, wasn’t a thief as Mrs Roe insisted. But he’s certainly a murderer now. (tw) ~ @tejucole Mary Hall died at Croton Hall. Zanza, Guista, Cona, Cali, Di Marro, and Di Marro, did it, and will take turns sitting in the electric chair. (tw) ~ ‏@tejucole Last Thursday, $800 went missing in Harlem, as did William Murphy, in whose pocket the money was. (tw) ~ Yeah I fingered her in the crowd and the dj saw it and gave me props over the speakers. I got so many high fives. (tln) ~She face-timed me on the toilet. My dick is never going to recover from that. (tln) ~I feel as though sleeping all day due to the effects of prescription painkillers paid for by union insurance made this the most American day ever for me (tln) ~Remember camping when you drank 36 beers to yourself in one day and puked in your tent? Ready for round 2? (tln) ~Boobs are also good for catching the vodka gummy bears that miss my mouth (tln) ~I will take a blow job from a dude that kinda looks like a girl at this point (tln) ~The night went downhill when he lit her purse on fire and tried putting it out with vodka (tln) ~ “Perhaps then in the final analysis, faith, dogmatically understood, must be traded for love. Doubts are the burden that believers must carry to keep their eyes opened to the suffering of others.” ~Richard Beck, from The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience (fb) ~ I used to tell a lot of religious jokes. Not any more…. I’m a registered sects offender. (fb) ~ Patty Liverance, Grand Rapids, MI Betsy Replogle, Nichols Hills, OK Lisa Kluber, San Francisco, CA Andrew Allingham, Fairfax, VA Marvin Veto, Greensboro, NC Donna P. Titus, Freeland, PA D. Drake Daggett, Omro, WI ~ Happy times. It is good to see people still fighting the good fight. It is odd to think of you as a Christian, since I found this through the comments at Renegade Evolution. ~ 1- As long as racism as seen as being a white people’s problem, it is going to get worse. 2- To have a conversation, you need to have listening. 3-The expression “People of color” needs to be abandoned. If you have to have a label for African Americans, you can do better than that. When an Indian claims the privilege to speak “as a POC”, something is very wrong. Your typical Georgia redneck has more in common with black people than an Indian. Using correct gender pronoun does not help. ~ If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. -Emma Goldman (fb) ~ “As we open and empty ourselves, we come to experience an interconnectedness, the realization that all things are joined and conditioned in an interdependent arising. Each experience and event contains all others.” ~ Jack Kornfield, “A Path With Heart” (fb) ~ Happy False Sense of Freedom While Pretending to be Patriotic as You Burn Shyt on a Grill Before You or Your Idiot Neighbors Shoot The Tools of So-Called Freedom Up in the Air Where They Fall Back To Earth and Ends Someone Elses Freedom Day. (fb) ~ Yeah… I still gave her a hug because I felt really bad though. I mentioned that my boyfriends grandma just died too, just to reinforce that I’m straight afterwards. (tln) ~I beat my mom’s friend’s boyfriend in a vodka chugging competition. Our generation FTW. (tln) ~ Taking shots of gin by myself out of TMNT glasses and chasing with bites of chocolate cake. AMERICA. (tln) ~@tejucole Every life is precious. Nevertheless, a body, unidentified, was placed, by persons unknown, on the elevated track at 123rd Street. (tw) ~ @tejucole At a mill in Waterbury, a splinter from the plank Frank sawed flew into his thigh. Slowly, sadly, his story ends. (tw) ~ This six seconds just made my day. If you are not totally burned out about racial discussions, the entire discussion is of value. The sound is horrible. ~ I’m rotating out of the chairmanship at the end of the summer. It can’t be soon enough for me. Dealing with the couple of wacko colleagues in our department has been unadulterated misery. Everything lands on my desk and although I’ve read numerous books on conflict resolution, there’s just no fixing what ails these folks. ~ Were you better at spelling, I might take your arguments more seriously. ~ I have mixed feelings. When I see you, it is usually in group settings, and there is not much of a chance for one on one communication. I sometimes enjoy your commentary online, and sometimes I am annoyed by it. In any event, it is easy to ignore when I don’t like it. As for the flame wars, the truth is that a lot of these people are wounded, and are acting accordingly. Maybe they really are that mean. Just because others have hurt you, or your people, that does not give you the right to hurt others. ~ 1-I started to write about this, and quickly ran out of steam. Maybe a running list will do. Taking your own advice is dangerous. 2-If something is not fun, you should not do it, unless you have to. 3- The racism jihad has created collateral damage. 4- When I see you, it is usually in group settings, and there is not much of a chance for one on one communication. 5- I enjoy having my own corner of the innertube when the urge to share is overwhelming. 6- Andrew Sullivan, bless his heart, says the worst thing you can do to a blogger is ignore her. 7- The facebook fad is fading. 8- You might qualify as a “POC”. 9- Most top ten lists should stop at nine. ~Greetings From Mr Joe Bob. I work in bank In West Africa,Burkina faso .I have a business transaction for you. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5 Million US Dollars .In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in car bomb in Iraq. Since his supposed next of kin died along side with him at the Bomb blast,there is nobody to claim the left over balance in the account.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department decided to seek your assistance and present you to the bank as his Next of kin.If you accept i would give you the guide lines of how we can achieve this transfer of the balance (10.5Million Dollars) to your account.and we will shear the money 50-50%. I expect that you will give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication with you and for more details. ~ I don’t have just a bad case of ennui; I have a rancid truckload. No food seems good, no book seems good, no movie, no art idea. I dressed for running this morning, got to the door, and couldn’t think of any route that seemed attractive, so I changed out of my running stuff and got back in bed and read the 1927 Sears catalog. I am listless and enervated and possibly neurasthenic and lord knows what else. (fb) ~ @historyweird c.1070: To cure impotence, Constantine suggests making pills from the brains of 30 male sparrows, fried in the kidney fat of a billy goat. (tw) ~ ‏@historyweird 1555: Della Casa condemns those who blow their nose & look inside the handkerchief – “as if pearls or rubies have descended from the brain”. (tw) ~ @historyweird 1602: Dutch explorer Pieter de Marees notes the men of Guinea all have “a great privy member” but are afflicted with worms “in their cods”. (tw) ~@NPRdeabs: “You’re only as needy as your unmet needs”-Amir Levine #AspenIdeas So true… (tw) ~ @darrwest Seems wrong that I luxuriate at #aifestival while 800,000 in @DC have no power or AC. As sign of solidarity, I will turn off my AC. (tw) ~ @KBAndersen One reason to come to the Aspen Ideas Festival: you’re @AnneKreamer, you wear your Tory Burch dress, & @toryburch says you look great in it. (tw) ~ But I think it’s more specific attitudes that people disrespect, not the body that attitude’s coming out of. A man being inappropriately assertive may give the “bossed up” impression to some, but probably elicits a similar “what a bitch” impression as well. Similarly, an assertive woman might get the “what a bitch” response from something she says or does, but there are going to be just as many people who are sympathetic to her POV and will give her the “you go girl” encouragement we so often see. Yes, there’s sexism and racism in our society, but we’re an incredibly diverse society – so much so that neither prejudice nor support really overwhelm one another. If you go looking for support, you’ll find it. Go looking for criticism, you’ll certainly find it. Her “you have to be…everything” schpiel isn’t so much an indication of sexism as it is an indication of unrealistic expectations – which men are subjected to just as much as women. (fb) ~ These visits to alternative reality are from a variety of sources. Included are Facebook (fb), twitter (tw), Futility Closet (fc), All Aphorisms, All The Time (Aph), Texts From Last Night (tln) , and Overheard in New York (ony). Attempts to maintain a no profanity blog were  suspended for this post. ~ Selah

What did one flag say to the other flag? Nothing. It just waved!
What’s red, white, black and blue? Uncle Sam falling down the steps!
What would you get if you crossed Washington’s home with nasty insects? Mt. Vermin!
What did a patriot put on his dry skin? Revo-lotion!
Which colonists told the most jokes? Punsylvanians!
What was General Washington’s favourite tree? The infantry!
Where did George Washington buy his hatchet? At the chopping mall!
What quacks, has webbed feet, and betrays his country? Beneduck Arnold!
Did you hear the one about the Liberty Bell? Yeah, it cracked me up!
What would you get if you crossed a patriot with a small curly-haired dog? Yankee Poodle!
Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington? The horse was too heavy to carry!
What happened as a result of the Stamp Act? The Americans licked the British!
This waste of bandwidth is a repost.
The credit, or blame, for the jokes goes to JokesFunny.com.
Pictures are from the “The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.

By the time this is posted, it will be July 2. In non leap years, July 2 is the middle of the year, with 182 days before and after. In Leap years, it is day 184, which is the second day of the second half.Many things have happened on this day.
In 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare Independence from Great Britain. Many feel that this is the true birthday of the United States. Of course, the tradition is to celebrate on the fourth, and tradition usually wins out over facts. In a reversal from the Independence theme, in 1962, the first Wal Mart opened in Rogers, Arkansas. An actor bought a sweater.
Taking the freedom theme a step further, in 1839, fifty three rebelling African slaves, led by Joseph Cinque, took over the slave ship Amistad. In 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Actinto law.
Most days have famous people born on them. In 18th century Germany, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714) and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724) caught a ride with the stork. On July 2, 1877, Hermann Hesse entered the earth. 1929 saw a barefoot Imelda Marcos. In 1932, Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas was born. Richard Petty followed in 1937, Jose Canseco in 1964, and Lindsay Lohan in 1986.
How many dates feature the death of an actor who played a Funeral home employee? Fred Gwynne , who played Herman Munster, left the planet on July 2, 1993. Other performers to exit stage right include Betty Grable (1973), Lee Remick (1991), Jimmy Stewart(1997), and Beverly Sills (2007). Other famous people who didn’t see July third include Nostradamus (1566), Ernest Hemingway (1961) and Vladimir Nabokov (1977).
Death was involved in some historic events on July 2. In 1863, this was the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. This battle is considered the turning point of the War Between the States. In 1881, President James Garfield was fatally wounded by Charles Guiteau. The cartoon cat did not have a comment. 1934 saw the Night of the Long Knives. Ernst Rohm met his maker.
Many thanks to Wikipedia for the information in this repost.

I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president, and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still see that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air conditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown, always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief, and never caught. This monolog was borrowed from facebook.

This is a repost double feature. It is on the general subject of motivation, inspiration, and manipulation. Such things are like perfume…nice to sniff at, but dangerous to swallow. Pictures are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”
Back when I was at redo blue, we traded some printing for a motivational speech. The speaker was D. J. Harrington. He came on stage with a telephone handset, demonstrating how to answer the telephone. There were a lot of statistics, like you get 50 percent more information when you use your left ear. ( This is a made up example, not a quote. I don’t remember any of his examples) It reminded me of something a teacher said once…: ” The best way to win an argument is to use statistics. The best way to get statistics is to make them up”
On the all important issue of what to say when you answer the squawk box, he suggested “How may I direct your call?” Now, I like to identify the company and myself as briefly as possible, and quit wasting the customer’s time. Mister customer knows why he called. HMIDYC is seven unnecessary syllables that do your customer no good.
As some of you know, I have a sensitive BS detector. This gets in the way of being “motivated”. When confronted with a entertainer motivational speaker, I try to glean one or two worthwhile tidbits. I give D.J.H. credit, he did make one good comment. “You must sell yourself first, your company second, and your product third” There are some idea mongers who feel I owe them my trust. I beg to differ.
Mr. Harrington used to call his dog and pony show “C*** U* F*** T** N*** U*.That phrase is currently a registered trademark of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and may be used with permission only.
Redo Blue was a diverse company. I suspect D.J.H. toned down some of the good ole boy touches from his presentation. Towards the end, he described a speech he gave in Oklahoma. “The only Catholics they have ever seen are Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne” He proceeded to tell a tasteless story about the Catholic Church. I was almost motivated to walk out.

In an early morning discourse, I said that Martin Niemöller was rolling in his grave looking for the royalties from his poem, “First they came…“. A little research later, I don’t think he ever wrote it down. For those of you with very short memories, here is the work…

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller

Martin Niemöller was the son of a Lutheran minister. In World War 1, he served on a U boat crew. Harold Marcuse tells this story: “Niemöller was a commander of a German U-boat in World War I. A seminal incident in his moral outlook, as he related in many public speeches later in his life, occurred when he commanded his submarine crew not to rescue the sailors of a boat he torpedoed, but let them drown instead. “
After the war Mr. Niemöller became a Lutheran Minister. He was originally a supporter of Mr. Hitler, but became an opponent. He was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1937 to 1945.
After the war, he began to speak out. The famous poem was derived from these speeches. It was never written down in typical poet fashion. There are several versions of it from him, and many more as the years rolled by. It has been quoted, updated, and quoted again.
In addition to the four groups mentioned above, the Nazis also came for mentally ill, incurably ill, or people in occupied countries. The legend is that when asked if he included Catholics, Mr. Niemöller said “I never said it. They can take care of themselves.” (If you have a few minutes to spare, the page that quote came from is worth looking at.) When the McCarthy fever hit America, he declined to mention Communists.
With regard to the royalties, I could not see that it was ever copyrighted. I do not know who “owns the rights”. Some have even speculated that the poem was not composed by Mr. Niemöller.
Recently, there was a blog post that quoted “First they came…” The post was about gay marriage. With all due respect to the people affected by this, the ability to marry someone of the same gender does not come close to a government killing six million Jews. .
There is the Rebel looking for a cause syndrome. Many people just want to fight about something, and the cause is secondary to the lust for battle. When a poem like this is used to fire up people for a shaky cause, it brings discredit to the poem..
There is the matter of the “Next Hitler” argument. During the run up to the first war against Iraq, Saddam Hussein was routinely called the next Hitler. While this may be a valid argument at times, it is like the boy who cried wolf if used too much. (This is also known as Godwin’s Law ).
Maybe a general moratorium is needed on the use of “First they Came…”

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There is a twitter fight going on. On one side is #LiberalismIn4Words, with the predictable alternative #ConservatismIn4Words. Momma’s basement  is buzzing with activity.
PG has always maintained that Liberal and Conservative are meaningless words, designed to start pointless arguments. @MacGhil The Ruling Class’ divide & conquer strategy: We attack each other, & they amass power & wealth. #ConservatismIn4words #LiberalismIn4Words.
There seem to be a lot of notions about the “other side”, which may or may not be true. The possibility exists that the tweets say more about the sender than they do their opponent. ‏@loghaD #LiberalismIn4Words Yet another meaningless label. #ConservatismIn4Words Yeah, that one too.
‏@SooperMexican ***Analytical Evidence Conservatives won hashtag battles #Liberalismin4words and #conservatismin4words: Stupid Liberals Call For Political Hashtag War, Conservatives Destroy Them. Mr. Mexican throws a bunch of statistics out, and makes the claim that conservatives won this battle. There is a difference between prove and indicate.
In preparing this report, PG copied lists of “top tweets” for both hashtags. He sorted the tweets into four groups. This is just one person’s view. The only thing that it proves is that PG has too much free time. We already knew that.
The first category is abortion. Evidently, conservatives think liberals get off on murdering babies. Liberals are snickering about how politicians are taking advantage of well meaning conservatives. The truth is that abortion is a free lunch issue. You denounce it to your hearts content, and no one pays atttention to your ethical shortcomings.
@SueLantto: every person has value #truth #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@JackTomczak Except a baby girl @kentkaiser Or a Down’s baby.
‏@ballergirl34 #LiberalismIn4Words We care about children.
#ConservatismIn4Words Only before they’re born.
@CnservativePunk Kill babies. Free criminals. #Liberalismin4words
‏@Paul_Conrad Pro-life until it’s born #conservatismin4words
‏@RaisingOneBrow #ConservatismIn4Words Your body, our business.
The second category is things that make you say huh. A.K.A. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Some arguments bend logic into funny shapes. Both sides play this game.
‏@L_Wheels #ConservatismIn4Words Attack America? You die.
#LiberalismIn4Words Attack America? My apologies.
@keder Conservative women: way hotter. #ConservatismIn4Words
‏@MrKips #ConservatismIn4Words Let’s Twitterflog The Liberals
‏@keilemon Please vote “caste system.” #ConservatismIn4Words
‏@TechBrigade #ConservatismIn4Words – Man walked with dinosaurs
‏@JustenCharters Taxes Mean Free Stuff. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@theGrudgeRetort Greece got it right. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@theGrudgeRetort Math is hard, ya’ll. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@LittleSlav #LiberalismIn4Words I don’t need 4. One word is sufficient: unamerican
‏@VAKruta Tolerance, except for Christians. #LiberalismIn4Words
@ExJon #LiberalismIn4Words Racisty, Racist Racist! RAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
‏@jorticulture #LiberalismIn4Words concede positions then bargain, ahahaha yep america
The third category is things that apply to both liberals and conservatives. In these tweets, replace the hastag with a blank space. It is tough to tell who is talking about who. This considers the actions of these partisans, and not just the rheroric.
@joachim #LiberalismIn4Words Your Reckless Spending Addiction
@NonLiberalVTer I deserve your money. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@brendlewhat #LiberalismIn4Words meanwhile, your skeleton waits
‏@spaceship_earth #LiberalismIn4Words important to win argument
‏@RepubGirlProbz #LiberalismIn4Words They don’t use logic
‏@EricBandazewski #LiberalismIn4Words It Works In Theory
#ConservatismIn4Words It Works In Reality
@RepubGirlProbz #LiberalismIn4Words Biggest idiots in America
‏@DLoesch You all are racists. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@SenMikeLee Constitutional? Are you serious? #liberalismin4words
‏@IMAO_ Make every city Detroit. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@derekahunter Facts do not matter #LiberalismIn4Words
@Tomm_Dogg #LiberalismIn4Words Tweet whatever you want.
‏@KristinaRibali The world owes me #Liberalismin4Words
‏@KristinaRibali I am a victim #liberalismin4words
‏@bob_owens Die once. Vote forever. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@SooperMexican Let’s Outlaw All Consequences! #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@lheal Tax, Borrow, Print, Spend. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@JustenCharters Life Is Not Fair. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@JustenCharters Lacks perspective. Shuns reality. #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@thatalexyarde Crappy days here again #ConservatismIn4Words
‏@patticar #ConservatismIn4Words Harvest Everything Forget Tomorrow
‏@word_34 #ConservatismIn4Words Never Actually Read Constitution
‏@ballergirl34 #LiberalismIn4Words Where in the Constitution?
#ConservatismIn4Words I’m sorry, the what?
‏@JenGranholm #ConservatismIn4Words: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
#ConservatismIn4Words Americans have short memories
‏@La_Shawn It’s not my fault! #LiberalismIn4Words
‏@Im_bonafide #LiberalismIn4Words .. Let Me Be Clear…
‏@Ennui_Raver #liberalismin4words Yard work oh boy
@ThatGuySpike #LiberalismIn4Words: Full understanding of issues.
#ConservatismIn4Words: Off on a tangent.
@KRBCanada1 #conservatismin4words Demonize Instead Of Analyze
@malclave Living in THIS reality. #ConservatismIn4Words
Last are the winners in this contest. All of these tweeters get a free subscription to chamblee54.
‏@DavidAllenGreen Libertarianism for grown ups. #LiberalismIn4Words
@MlTTR0MNEY #LiberalismIn4Words Romney Ten Years Ago
‏@pari_passu RT @DrMaldoror: #ConservatismIn4Words Riding God’s Short Bus
@StevenDumas #ConservatismIn4Words No more Barack Kardashian.
‏@MlTTR0MNEY Help a Millionaire Out #ConservatismIn4Words
‏@ColdCauphee #ConservatismIn4Words Falsify War Get Rich
@Fireflysghost Organize Hegemony for Jesus #ConservatismIn4Words
@elbrigaciagar #Conservatismin4words Jesus loves Ayn Rand.
@word_34 #ConservatismIn4Words Never Actually Read Constitution
@elbrigaciagar Never read Bible either.
@purplehullpea #ConservatismIn4Words Wishes Mitt was likable
Pictures are from The Library of Congress.

You have probably heard about “The speech Bill Gates gave at a High School”. PG saw an image on facebook, and the BS detector went off. When did he make the speech? What high school, in what location? Was this the same speech we heard about a few years ago, when Microsoft was being sued for antitrust violations? Are these questions fair? Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
These days, the answer is easy to find. Snopes is a friend of Mr. Google. The authoritative word is “misappropriated”. Bill Gates did not make a speech to a high school. Nor did Kurt Vonnegut. The eleven rules came from a newspaper column written by Charles J. Sykes. The column was published in the San Diego Union Tribune on September 19, 1996. The fourteen rules in that column were taken from a book Mr, Sykes wrote, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.
“Charles J. Sykes is senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and a talk show host at WTMJ radio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.” “The Institute is guided by a belief that competitive free markets, limited government, private initiative, and personal responsibility are essential to our democratic way of life.” Mr. Sykes is probably not a liberal.
The eleven rules have been floating from one email address to another since the Clinton administration. Ann Landers has printed them several times. They have been the rest of the story for Paul Harvey. “The prize for misattribution, however, has to go to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, which published the list twice in the space of three weeks in mid-2000, the first time crediting it to “Duluth state Rep. Brooks Coleman of Duluth,” and the second time to Bill Gates.” The footnotes say “Brack, Elliott. “Legislator Offers Teens No-Nonsense Advice.” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. 14 June 2000 (p. J3).” and ” “Advice from the Experts.” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. 2 July 2000 (p. R1).”
The book has fifty rules. The column has fourteen. These are the three rules left out of the emails.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You’re welcome.
Maybe someone should take a critical look at these rules. If you get tired, and think this is negative, then you are free to skip ahead and look at the pictures, from The Library of Congress. The LOC is part of the big government in Washington. It is an very valuable resource.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
No argument here. This is a catch 22 whenever you find a contradiction in the rest of the rules.
Rule No. 2: The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
If you start to feel good about yourself, don’t worry. Between the church, radio talk shows, and back stabbing co workers, someone is sure to bring you down.
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a Gap label.
Conservative rules for living do not age well. Today, everybody eating solid food has a cell phone.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you feel about it.
This is the rule that set off the BS detector. In the “real world”, it is not what you produce that counts. It is how well you kiss ass. If the boss is impressed by you, you can screw up from now until bankruptcy. Ditto if you are a minority, and the company is recovering from a  lawsuit. LINF
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren’t embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Your grandparents had a different word for your dark skinned co worker. Not all political correctness is bad.
Rule No. 6: It’s not your parents’ fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of “It’s my life,” and “You’re not the boss of me,” and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it’s on your dime. Don’t whine about it, or you’ll sound like a baby boomer.
Fifty years ago, the parents of baby boomers said things like this. The younger generation is always going to hell, and somehow they manage to get it together. The baby boomers are the generation who was ordered to go to Vietnam and kill Asians. They said “hell no we won’t go”.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Your parents got to be boring by listening to motivational speeches.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)
Teachers have a tough job. They are an easy target for criticism. Some of this whining is fair, even if life isn’t. Mr. Sykes has written several books lambasting the education system. There is a saying, those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Maybe this could be amended to say: those who can’t teach, whine about education.
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we’re at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
If you are the buddy of management, you sometimes take the afternoon off to play golf with a client. You go to conventions, while someone else works to produce. LINF
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Life is not a motivational speech. Those after dinner platitudes are entertaining, and make you feel good about yourself. They have little to do with real life.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
One more time, LINF. Regarding Rule No. 14:, this sounds like privilege speaking. If  parents are human, they are possibly doing some very dirty things to their kids. This includes abusive religion, alcoholism, drug abuse, and conservative politics. The other kids can be pretty rough. Your preacher says you are going to hell. Since the real world does not care about your self esteem, you may be tempted to end your life. A smarmy list of rules is probably not going to help.
When writing a blog post, go ahead and publish before you read the one star reviews. There is a reply, from a teacher, about the list of eleven. The title is A teacher’s response to a mean man. This post is more thoughtful than the collection of one liners above. The post you are reading is already too long. Follow the link to read something better.
There is one review that needs to be shared. (This is from the amazon page for the book, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.)
And I thought liberals were condescending?!, Watujel (San Antonio, Texas) October 12, 2007
The reason you don’t get this stuff in school is because any savvy teacher knows that trying to motivate 30 restless kids with Sykes’ hoary platitudes and nagging tone will inevitably have the opposite effect. Everything’s here in  cliched condescension except for maybe “back in MY DAY”
Rule number one of imparting advice to anyone of any age – gain their trust first. If you blunder in, wagging your finger as Sykes does, you’ll just get a backlash. It’s actually worse than keeping your trap shut.
Sykes should try his material on a classroom of average eighth-graders and see if he can get them to do anything close to what he intends.
Sykes expresses resentment toward teachers for getting tenure and suggests that this is not part of the “real world.” I envy teachers’ schedules (but not their jobs) as well, but just because you resent these perks doesn’t mean you can simply write them out of the “real world” unless you’re in serious denial. Without tenure, how many people would choose to become teachers what with so many other options available? That’s the real world.
It’s ironic that he claims to want to instill respect for authority but encourages his young readers to devalue what they’re learning from those who are acting in loco parentis. Teachers don’t create the curriculum. Changes in curricula are driven by administrators and education colleges. Blaming teachers for teaching too much self-esteem doesn’t make any more sense than blaming cops for giving illegal immigrants a pass. In both cases, the priorities are set elsewhere.
In one rule, he complains that kids are too materialistic. Then in another one, he complains about their idealism. Frankly, the Millennial Generation works hard, serves its country, and in general is the most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed I’ve seen in quite a while. They’ve really done their best to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a generation of broken homes left by Sykes’ fellow Baby Boomers. But not many of them are going to respond to something this unfocused and mediocre.