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A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose. -Henry Kissinger
All wars are popular for the first 30 days. -Arthur Schlesinger
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. -Winston Churchill
Good things, when short, are twice as good. -Baltasar Gracian
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. -Alan Bennett
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. – Bible
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. – German proverb
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. – Karl von Clausewitz
Let us not be deceived – we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch
Morality is contraband in war. – Mahatma Gandhi
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell
There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
They will conquer, but they will not convince. – Miguel de Unamuno
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me;
Shall be my brother. – William Shakespeare
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. – Lewis Carroll
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre
We only win at war because we fight another government.
If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime. – R. I. Fitzhenry
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals. – Georges Clemenceau
War is mainly a catalog of blunders. – Winston Churchill
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Georges Clemenceau
Either war is obsolete, or men are. – Buckminster Fuller
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. – Northrop Frye
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. – Anais Nin
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.- Barbara Tuchman
Know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu
What the hell difference does it make, left or right?
There were good men lost on both sides. – Brendan Behan
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. – Sun Tzu
Frankly I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether
and leave the whole field to private industry. – Joseph Heller
War is the national industry of Prussia. – Mirabeau
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it. – Latin proverb
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion
to the effectiveness of the instruments of war. – Norman Cousins
I don’t know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. –
Duke of Wellington
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we’re not free spenders- doesn’t know our like. – John Ciardi
In time of war the first casualty is truth. – Boake Carter
World War II was the last government program that really worked. – George Will
It’s one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle –
to get one’s head cut off. – Lewis Carroll
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. –
John Foster Dulles
War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. – Nels F. S. Ferre
The object of war is to survive it. – John Irving
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. – William James

Men love war because it allows them to look serious;
because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. – John Fowles
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. – E. C. Montague
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. – Duke of Wellington
Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions. – Robert Ardrey
War is the trade of kings. – John Dryden
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. – Duke of Wellington
It is well that war is so terrible – we would grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer
Vice stirs up war; virtue fights. – Vauvenargues
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. – Herodotus
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong. – Ivan Krylov
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. – Horatio Nelson
War is like love, it always finds a way. – Bertolt Brecht
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water. – Mao Tse-Tung
It simply is not true that war never settles anything. – Felix Frankfurter
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Anonymous
There are no atheists in the foxholes. – William Thomas Cummings
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. –
William T. Sherman
There will be no veterans of World War III. – Walter Mondale
War is the science of destruction. – John S. C. Abbott
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. – Anonymous
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her. – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. – Otto von Bismarck
War never leaves, where it found a nation. – Edmund Burke
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) – Julius Caesar
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes,
but by blood and iron. – Otto von Bismarck
What millions died – that Caesar might be great! – Thomas Campbell
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. – John Dryden
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurl’d; Here once the embattl’d farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at Arques, and you were not there. – Henry IV
It is not right to exult over slain men. – Homer
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. -Thomas Jefferson
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything
and few know very much. – Frank Knox
0 G-d assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me. – Prince Leopold
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. – Abraham Lincoln
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. – Martin Luther
When after many battles past, Both tir’d with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. – Francis Moore
G-d how the dead men Grin by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball. – Alfred Noyes
O war! thou son of Hell! – William Shakespeare
A bad peace is even worse than war. – Tacitus
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde
Pictures are from The Library of Congress . These images are from the Crimean War. This was the first war to be photographed. It was also a useless endeavor, the cause of which was forgotten before the dead were buried. It is the war that gave us the Charge of the Light Brigade, with it’s maxim, Ours is not to wonder why , ours is but to do or die.
Quotes were compiled by Famous Quotes and Authors. War is courtesy of crooked politicians.

PG was minding his own business, when he saw that it was time for Chris Wallace on the Mike Gallagher show. Every friday morning, Mr. Wallace is on Mr. Gallagher’s show to promote Fox News Sunday. The two are like fifth graders trading insults on the playground. It is great radio.
While waiting for the entertainment to begin, Mr. Gallagher was mouthing off about Tim Tebow.(Spell check suggestion:elbow) The former Gator is coming under fire for making a spectacle of praying, after he makes a touchdown. Mr. Gallagher said that if Mr. Tebow was a muslim, and bowed to Mecca after a touchdown, then all hell would break loose.
It was mentioned that there was an open line for comments. PG wrote the number down, and on his second try got through. For talk radio, to get through on the second try is rare. (Blogging is talk radio without the busy signal.)
There is a quote from Jesus about not making a spectacle of prayer. Jesus worshipers are well known for selective practice … the parts of the Bible they like are the inerrant word of G-d, the parts they don’t like they ignore. Apparently, for Jesus to say “Pray in private” does not apply to a man who throws footballs.
After the segment with Mr. Wallace, a screener came on the phone. He asked what you were going to be saying. Keep the radio down, and don’t say good morning.
What follows is the exchange. PG is not a fast enough typist to catch everything said, so some of this is going to be paraphrased. The last three lines are close to verbatim.
Many people have had a bad experience with Jesus. to see a quarterback exhibition praying is obnoxious. it does not speak well for Jesus.
how is it? how is it bad to see a man praying to Jesus?
I have had a bad experience with Jesus. I see Jesus in the words and deeds of his believers.
how you would describe your beliefs? are you an atheist?
as they say on facebook, it’s complicated.
I’ll pray for you Luther.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress

PG came in, turned on the computer, and saw that the internet was down. This was not unusual, because the router liked attention, and every few days needed to be booted. The problem came when the modem refused to turn on. New cables, reset, turn off for ten minutes, reset, pull a few hairs out, reset… nothing seemed to work. After four years, and one year in tandem with a cranky router, maybe it was time for a change.
The computer store does not sell modems. Considering that they were the ones who sold the router, this was not the tragedy it might seem. The man who answered the phone said he got a good modem at walmart.(spell check suggestion:wallchart)
The first store PG went to is a garish facility by the old GM plant. It has the same initials as a bovine product that is synonymous with lies. PG found a display of routers, and a router-modem combination with the Cisco name. The sales man took PG over to the comcast display, and talked to the man there. Yes, comcast can sell you a modem, but you will have to switch over to comcast service. “It’s faster” the man said. PG tried to remember the last nice thing he had heard about comcast, as he walked out.
The second store was in a strip mall, and had the same initials as basketball. A tall man with dreadlocks showed PG a modem. It looked good, until PG looked closer, and saw that it said cable modem. PG has a phone line dsl.
On the way, there was a retail store maintained by the ISP that is used by PG. The company has the same name as a character on the Addams Family. You go in, and talk to a lady at a desk, You give her a name, and wait for a salesman to come out and help you. As it turned out, this man had a little box that would provide both modem and router functions. Better yet, he had one is stock. PG was one step closer to solving the problem.
No computer issue is complete without talking to an english challenged tech rep on the phone. He said m as in mother, and about the twelth time PG understood him. It was something about a security question, and the answer was a total mystery. The good news, after a few minutes of plugging passwords into perfect ports, the new box was working. It even helped get this post up. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.

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This greeting is borrowed from joemyg-d , who received it from “Scott”. This is a repost .

PG received this story as an email today. He does not believe the story, nor does he agree with the message illustrated by this story. Hopefully, this post will reach the ten people requested by the sender. If the reader enjoys the story, and feels better after reading it, then PG is glad. If you don’t agree with this story, and feel worse after reading it, then PG offers his apology. This is a story with a message about Jesus at the end, so you probably know already how this story will resonate with you. It is all right to skip over the story, and enjoy the pictures.
The pictures are from The Library of Congress . These are Union soldiers, from the War Between The States. These pictures meant as much to families, as the picture in this story. They even mean as much as the picture of a Vietnamese soldier, who was killed by the son.
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.
About a month later, just before Christmas,There was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands. He said, ‘Sir, you don’t know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly… He often talked about you, and your love for art.’ The young man held out this package. ‘I know this isn’t much. I’m not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.’
The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture.. ‘Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It’s a gift.’
The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.
The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection. On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. ‘We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?’There was silence…
Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, ‘We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.’ But the auctioneer persisted. ‘Will somebody bid for this painting? Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?’ Another voice angrily. ‘We didn’t come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh’s, the Rembrandts. Get on with the Real bids!’ But still the auctioneer continued. ‘The son! The son! Who’ll take the son?’
Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. ‘I’ll give $10 for the painting…’ Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.’We have $10, who will bid $20?’ ‘Give it to him for $10. Let’s see the masters.’The crowd was becoming angry. They didn’t want the picture of the son. They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections. The auctioneer pounded the gavel.. ‘Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!’ A man sitting on the second row shouted, ‘Now let’s get on with the collection!’
The auctioneer laid down his gavel. ‘I’m sorry, the auction is over.’ ‘What about the paintings?’ ‘I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will… I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings. The man who took the son gets everything!
God gave His son over 2,000 years ago to die on the Cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: ‘The Son, the Son, who’ll take the Son?’ Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything! FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE…THAT’S LOVE
Please send this to ten people and back to the one who sent it to you. God Bless. If I don’t get this back, I will know you really didn’t read it. I got this from someone and thought the last part was really a good thought.. Too bad that the person who sent it to me did not know 10 people who would admit to knowing the Lord.

This is a double repost of internet entertainment from two years ago . This year’s gabfest on climate change is in Durban, South Africa. ( Democracy Now is broadcasting there all week.)
The progress in addressing the issue of carbon pollution is slight. Approval of the oil sands pipeline has been delayed. Some people are aware of the issue. The bad news is that the deniers have a wide audience. Some say the tipping points are already falling over, and it may be too late to make the changes, even if there were the political will to do so.
PG sat in on a discussion last night. Someone asked, “who doesn’t want to make the world a better place?” PG sensed that people were tired of his cynicism, and held his tongue. The answer he would have given is, the people who make money off the world becoming a worse place.
Representatives from nations around the world are meeting this week in Copenhagen to discuss global warming. There is reason to believe that whatever comes out of this meeting will be a compromise, and will not have any effect on the problem.
Some do not think there is a problem. The science ( which PG does not claim to understand) involves millions of factors. One of the indications of the “climategate” controversy is the vast amount of data involved, and the difficulties of processing this information.
When you believe that there is no problem, and that global warming is a scam designed to weaken capitalist countries, you believe what you want to believe.
TomDispatch posted a feature today from the pessimist side. A money quote “The best human analog to the role physics is playing here may be fascism in the middle of the last century. There was no appeasing it, no making a normal political issue out of it. You had to decide to go all in, to transform the industrial base of the country to fight it, to put other things on hold, to demand sacrifice.”
Seventy years ago, Japan attacked the United States. It was a before and after moment, and America was committed, overnight, to the struggle against Japan and Germany. We did win, at an appalling cost. ( Included in this cost were hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, and Communist domination of East Europe.)
Even if…a big if…we were to make this sort of commitment to fight global warming, there will be a cost. The energy happy lifestyle so cherished by the west may be a thing of the past. It is easier to make jokes on talk radio.

Dictionary says pro is the opposite of con.
Will Rogers said the opposite of progress is congress.
Is the opposite of a protest, a contest?
Is the opposite of a profession, a confession?
Is it profound that this would confound?
It is a profusion of confusion.

A band, Pearls Before Swine , put out an album called “These things too”. The title track told the story of a Persian king, who wanted a saying for all occasions. His advisers had a conference, invited experts, ate, drank, and thought. The phrase they came up with was “these things too shall pass away”.
Today, Persia is known as Iran. It is rich in oil, but has a troubled recent history. Instead of a king, they have a fashion challenged President, who says things that allegedly threaten Israel. (PG does not speak Farsi, and must depend on translators. There are differing opinions as to what the man said.)
You might ask, what does this have to do with a bunch of dogs, in Piedmont Park, on an overcast December afternoon? Perhaps it relates to the dog who, when asked to pose, thought you wanted to smell his butt. That is how dogs greet each other. Why should that man, pointing that little orange box at me, be any different?
A sunday in December means NFL football to millions of people. The Falcons were in Houston this day, and lost. This is another thing that is always true… somebody has to lose. The football angle could be what the wisemen meant. They just didn’t say what would happen to that pass. There are three things that can happen when you pass, and only one of them is good, at least for the offense.

This is a repost. The comments in the first paragraph are still true. These things too shall pass away.
PG was looking for something to write about, and saw lots of options. The Georgia Republican party is in moral free fall. The debate on climate change was resisting easy answers. PG decided to edit some pictures, when he saw a bumper sticker…”Those who forget Vietnam are condemned to repeat it”.
PG was in grammar school during the escalation of that undeclared war. As the mood of the nation turned against the war, PG moved on to high school. The “Peace with Honor” agreement was signed before he got a draft lottery number.
There was a lot of bitter debate about Vietnam. As the light at the end of the tunnel got dimmer and dimmer, it became obvious that there were no good choices. It is a lot easier to start a war than it is to end one.
Listening to the talk today, and comparing it to what he heard forty years ago, PG wonders if it was the same war. “The only reason we lost in Vietnam is because they wouldn’t let our troops win”. How many more of our men would have died, and how many more Vietnamese would have died, if “they” would have “let our troops win”? And what would victory have looked like? As it stands now, 58,000 American soldiers ( a substantial percentage of whom were drafted) died, as well as untold millions of Vietnamese men, women, and children.
The reason many today do not remember Vietnam was because they never knew it to begin with. Much of what was told in the press was lies. Much of what has been repeated is filtered through layers of rhetoric. And now, we find ourselves in two wars.
BHO was born in 1961. From 1967 to 1971, he lived in Indonesia. ( Which is closer to Vietnam than Hawaii). What he heard about the war is probably in one of his books. The point is, BHO has not forgotten Vietnam, because he probably did not know much. BHO is now sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
George W. Bush made the initial commitments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He was in the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam. In that war, men were drafted into service. You were told that either you went onto the service, or you went to jail. One alternative to active duty was the National Guard.
George W. Bush did not go to Vietnam, unlike Al Gore and John Kerry. Did he knew enough, about Vietnam to forget ?

PG read in the fishwrapper that Herman Cain was having a party. The event was the grand opening of his campaign headquarters. While there, he announced the suspension of his presidential campaign.
The story said that the headquarters was on Dekalb Technology Parkway. This was next to I85, about two miles from PG. He decided to go. You go through a stop sign, and see a dead end sign. Soon, you see cars parked on the road for the next half mile. The HQ was in a old sales building, with a few TV satellite hookup trucks parked in front. PG drove on, past a shuttered business that designed fountains, and parked in front of a building housing a ministry. This was on the other side of I85 from an office park, where PG once worked. ( The replacement in that office space when redo blue moved out was a Ralph Reed consulting firm.) (The fountain builders refused to set up an account with redo blue, and always paid cash for their work.)
As might be imagined, the people at this event were fun to look at. A man was in Revolutionary War costume. Many t shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers were on display, almost all critical of the current POTUS. The crowd was estimated to be 79% white, 19% black, and 2% other. It was not known if anyone in the crowd was an unauthorized foreign national.
When PG arrived, the announcement had been made. The former candidate was working the crowd, with three unsmiling men behind him. He seemed to be in good spirits, and was talking the entire time while shaking hands. He took a phone call …“yes pastor, I know you are praying for me, because you are a praying kind of guy.” The three men standing behind him wore shades, and kept their eyes on the crowd.
PG saw blogger/tv reporter Doug Richards . “It’s my fellow blogger. I write chamblee54, and I have left a couple of comments at your place””It’s good to know that someone has read it” “Why would I regret it?” ( Here is the Doug Richards view of the rally.)
Mr. Cain was once the front runner in the Republican race for POTUS. The dog stories started, and he had problems. A few days before the latest dog story… about a 13 year affair with Gloria White … Mr. Cain made an appearance at Holy Land Experience . He was quoted: “They don’t like the fact that I’m not afraid to say God Almighty Jesus Christ!” … “One of the biggest crises in this country is a moral crisis, We’ve lost our moral compass. We need to get it back. One of the reasons I’m running is because I plan to bring that moral compass back to this country.”

Dangerousminds , which is seldom at a loss for words, posted the video of Bob Dylan seen above. The young Mr. Zimmerman is in angry young man mode, and discusses the concept of an all picture Time magazine. All pictures, no words. This may be where this blog is headed.
Writers block is real. You have all of modern media at your beck and call, and yet you don’t have a message. TwentyTwoWords posts the story of a medical study into writers block. The study wastes no words in it a pithy treatment of this issue. It is an unspoken masterpiece, the treatment that dare not speak it’s name. The research was financed by a block grant.
The findings of this study were replicated in 2007. The report is included here, in it’s entirety. The editor noted ” I did not change one word, and this is a first in my tenure as editor.” There is no word on whether the report was submitted before the deadline.
Ben Hecht tells a story in his autobiography “Child of the Century”. As a young, underpaid newspaper writer in Chicago, Mr. Hecht was hired to participate in literary debates. In the era before movies and radio, these were considered after dinner entertainment. One night, Mr. Hecht got together with his opponent, and hatched a plan. The topic of the debate was ” People who attend literary debates are idiots.” The first speaker did not say a word, but gestured towards the crowd. The second speaker said, you win.
“Child of the Century” is now out of print. In 1994, PG thought he was going to have to move, and the first step was to throw away things. His copy of “Child of the Century” was one thing he pitched.
The idea that less is more has spread. Fun loving Jesus Worshiper Frank Turk had a post titled: “I got nothin” The text elaborated on this theme: “Not even a “best of”. He got 114 comments..
The sound that you hear is one hand clapping. Those reading with one hand can join in with the other one. Appreciation is always welcome. Vintage pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” . This is a repost.

When doing a rainbow post, the word on the right side of the text is important. This is a technical matter, having to do with making rainbow text, that is pretty to look at but tough to read. When reviewing these words on the right edge of the text, poetry often emerges. This text is a prose poem, made up of these right edge words.
It is said that telling what happens in the world, by reading a newspaper, is like telling the time by looking at the second hand. (This is before Fox news.) Today, we summarize a previous post by repeating the words on the right edge of the text. Pictures are from The Library of Congress
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These visits to alternative reality are from a variety of sources. Included are Facebook (fb), twitter (tw), Futility Closet (fucl) , All Aphorisms, All The Time (Aph) , Texts From Last Night (tln) , and Overheard in New York (ony) . Attempts to maintain a no profanity blog will be suspended for this post. // My nephew, the only black kid at his kindergarten, was chosen to wear the monkey costume in the school play, coincidentally” (tw) // To be fair, each organ does have a role to play in the body’s functions. *cough* Appendix *cough*” (tw) // You missed out Lily RT @tejucole: Obese, stained, slobbery, alcoholic. Not insulting you, Liver, just reading your CV. (tw) // Lmao “@tejucole: I hired a 30-year-old man as my driver last week. Today a quick surreptitious peek at his license confirmed that he’s 44.” (tw) // These are supposed to be the last words of certain people … “Peter, take good care of my horse.” — Winfield Scott “Have you brought the checkbook, Alfred?” — Samuel Butler “Take away those pillows — I shall need them no more.” — Lewis Carroll “You heard me, Mike.” — John Barrymore “I haven’t drunk champagne for a long time.” — Chekhov “I can’t sleep.” — James M. Barrie “Moose. Indian.” — Thoreau “I’ve never felt better.” — Douglas Fairbanks “The nourishment is palatable.” — Millard Fillmore (fucl) // Tweeted this morning by Greg Boyd before I had a chance to post it: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘Thank you,” that would suffice.” ~ my favorite quote from Meister Eckhart (fb) // Oh, what he go and do that for? The random dude tries to stare down the CatCoon (tallest cat you’ve ever seen, white body, pointy black ears and a ringed tail..oh yeah cats and raccoons get down or at least they did once). The CatCoon won the stare down then the dude stomped his foot at the animal. It didn’t flinch and looked at the dude like he was checking his credit. The guy smartly walked away and not in the direction he was traveling….. smart move! That abomination is phucking scary!!! (fb) // “Each of us is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) (fb) // He needs to respect me before he can fuck me with cat ears on. (tln) /// The next time you try to involve a tickle me Elmo in my orgasm, I’m leaving you (tln) /// And I’m not sure if that’s how you pluralize penis. Never planned on needing to know that in my life. (tln) /// Good point, clearly my love of penis contributed to my torn knee ligament. (tln) /// Dude. Zebras have bad attitudes. (tln) /// Literally best acid trip ever. Better than sex. At one point she looked over at me, started crying, holds up her hands and said “dinosaur tears of sadness”. Craziest roommate ever. (tln) /// You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish. (fb) // My mother made me a homosexual. If you buy the yarn, she’ll make you one too. (fb) // Take two. One will make you sick. (fb) // You know you had an interesting night when you wake up to five cats staring at you. (fb) // Re-examine all you have geen told. Dismiss what insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman (fb) // Were making Christian mingle accounts. First one to get laid doesn’t pay bar tabs for a month. – Challenge accepted. See you in hell. (tln) /// But seriously he was like a god with his hands. My vagina feels annointed. (tln) /// “You don’t have to chose, the only thing you have to chose is to be a complicated, modern human being” – @tejucole (tw) // How can I be so good at multi-chatting, but so bad at multi-tasking #BBMdiaries (tw) // #confusingthingsgirlsdo get a train ran on them, then months later they say “im not like THAT” anymore. What exactly is ‘THAT’ (tw) // #ConfusingThingsGirlsDo Go outta town wit a nigga… but pretend they aint kno the nigga was gonna want some ass!! (tw) // #ConfusingThingsGirlsDo Go to the STRIP CLUB.. and expect me not to atleast BELIEVE you MAY be Bisexual!! (tw) // My level of criminality has definitely dropped since my music career took off. (tw) // Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. ~ Walt Whitman (fb) // Forgiving people is the way to inner peace. When we forgive people who wrong us or others, it releases the anguish, and the animosity. We have to realise that whatever others do to us is not about us, it’s about them. They are either fearful or unsure of what they want or are seeking attention or love. When we can learn to forgive, we can truly free ourselves and not hold resentment. When we hold resentment for someone, we are connected to them in thought and mind. ~ Annette Katona (fb) // If you want to be forgiven, forgive others. // MT @tejucole: Twitter is unbeatable for aphorism, great for anecdote, decent for poetry, useless for analysis & eye of a newt for surrealism (tw) // @tejucole: A man in traffic selling a single wristwatch. I can’t decide if he’s a thief or simply a committed minimalist.” (tw) // A bunch of people just started following me on twitter. No need to buckle up newbies – it’s a smooth ride. (tw) // Why not just give the people on your list pepper spray so they can shop for their own Christmas gifts. (tw) // Well, that lasted for all of two minutes. Thanks for just about nothing (tw) // I’m okay with corrupting his young mind. Ew! He’s just a child! AND I’M GONNA SHOW HIM HOW TO MAKE ONE. (tln) /// I’m really hoping to find some quality strange ass tonight while at my court appearance. (tln) /// I got my project done and a booty call in all before 1am. I’m a professional college kid. (tln) /// Remind me to switch to jello when you decide to do shots off my ass. It’s so much easier to clean than this pudding. (tln) /// The most beautiful gift that you can ever give to life is your heart; your heart is your truth, your strength and your love. There is only one you and you must make the very best out of life for yourself always. You are strong never weak, you do not need crutches to help you walk the paths of life, you have your own two feet and you can stand tall and proud and walk on them moving forward in life. There is no such action as failure; it is nonsense to think negative and do not ever feel sorry for you. You have many gifts to give to life and you can find your gifts when you open up your eyes and see the beauty of life with your heart. ~ Lee Held (fb) // IF YOU HAVE A FUCKING PROBLEM FACE IT, DON’T FACEBOOK IT !!!! (fb) // I wouldn’t say I’m attached to my vibrator, but I’m gonna buy it 12 dozen roses for Christmas :-) (fb) // Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. (fb) // A guy asks “Why do wear a bra, you don’t have anything to put in it?” Girl answers “You wear pants don’t you?” (fb) // The myth of individuality keeps the herd together. (Aph) // Poverty is not a sin. It cannot be forgiven. (Aph) // An army’s best friend is its enemy. (Aph) // They pat you on the back, preferably with a knife. (Aph) // Why do women write so few aphorisms? he asked me. Why do men write so many? (Aph) // I tend to choose narcissists as my friends; that way I don’t worry that they’re talking about me behind my back. (Aph) // I am trying to think of a way to tell him about thanksgiving and the following weekend in a way that makes me sound funny and exciting and not like an alcoholic (tln) /// Announcement: Given the sad circumstances regarding the death of my dearest friend Chong the Bong, there will be a brief memorial service for him tomorrow evening at 10:30 at my place. After sharing some memories and sending his spirit off to the great bowl in the sky, we will all take place in the commemoration and maiden voyage of his son, Chong Squared, who eagerly waits to meet all of you. High blessings to you all, piece be with you. (tln) /// He left his shoes, boxers and socks at my house & managed to walk home to his dorm without realizing anything was missing until 3 days after. That’s the last time i’ll ever hook up with a freshman. (tln) /// I won’t be able to make it. Too hung over. Can’t hold down fluids. I’m in the bathtub trying to hydrate my body through osmosis. And yes, Tequila Tuesday is totally still on for tonight. (tln) /// He told her hed rather go bobbing for apples in puke than have sex with her. (tln) /// Ah, reminds me of the famous saying “Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” – Winston Churchill // Now remember: Life is like a roll of toilet paper… the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes…so have fun, think good thoughts only, learn to laugh at yourself, and count your blessings!!! (fb) // “You must first be broken before you can become whole” ~ Lao Tzu (fb) // Hurt me with the truth but, never comfort with a lie … the comma is in the wrong place (fb) // Worrying is praying for that which you do not want. (fb) // Lexington Ave woman on cell: “And not ONCE did she say ‘Oh, I’m so sorry for fucking HURLING into your brand new Marc Jacobs.’ Not! Fucking! Once!” (fb) // If the lion can lay down with the lamb surely love can gently overcome even the fiercest of opponents. Look around as the tyrants fall while the greedy are running scared. But we must remember that the spirit of the lion and the lamb must become one at last, integrating the energies of each other into our collective spiritual consciousness so that we may be both fearless and humble in nature. (fb) // It’s a beautiful cosmic and spiritual symmetry when two people can see the beauty and the truth of a thing with the same eyes. (fb) // Selah