Referendum…
November 4, 2009
“Kaine said that ‘in each state, the president’s approval ratings are better today than the share of the vote he received in each state in 2008.’“
That is not reflected in the most recent Richmond Times-Dispatch poll, conducted Oct. 28-29, in which Obama’s 43 percent favorability rating matched his 43 percent unfavorability rating. In 2008, Obama received 52.6 percent of the nearly 3.7 million votes in Virginia’s presidential contest.”
This is what is known among some people familiar with a dictionary as a “lie.” Nice try, Mr, Eyebrows.
Asshole Of The Week…
October 30, 2009
Alan Grayson, Capitol Hill Whore, again. He may become a regular here(http://layinablog.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/asshole-of-the-week/).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/grayson-calls-linda-rober_n_335447.html
Yes, I evoked the Huffington Post; go figure.
Fire And Wind Come From The Sky…
October 7, 2009
…from the gods of the sky.
In The Immortal Words Of Andrew Dice Clay…
September 23, 2009
…”This case is closed!” (“The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane”)
My Main Man Epictetus…
September 17, 2009
”In the first place, do not allow yourself to be carried away by [the] intensity [of your impression]: but say, ‘Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are, and what you represent. Let me test you.’ Then, afterwards, do not allow it to draw you on by picturing what may come next, for if you do, it will lead you wherever it pleases. But rather, you should introduce some fair and noble impression to replace it, and banish this base and sordid one.”
“Of the three areas of study (desire, action, and assent), the principle, and most urgent, is that which has to do with the passions; for these are produced in no other way than by the disappointment of our desires, and the incurring of our aversions. It is this that introduces disturbances, tumults, misfortunes, and calamities; and causes sorrow, lamentation and envy; and renders us envious and jealous, and thus incapable of listening to reason.”
“To ye prisoners on the earth and in an earthly body and among earthly companions, what says Zeus? Zeus says ‘If it were possible I would have made your body and your possessions (those trifles that you prize) free and untrammelled. But as things are—never forget this—this body is not yours, it is but a clever mixture of clay. I gave you a portion of our divinity, a spark from our own fire, the power to act and not to act, the will to get and the will to avoid. If you pay heed to this, you will not groan, you will blame no man, you will flatter none.’”
“We must die. But must we die groaning? We must be imprisoned, but must we whine as well? What say you, fellow? Chain me? My leg you will chain—yes, but my will—no, not even Zeus can conquer that. You say ‘I will imprison you.’ I say, ‘When did I ever tell you I was the only man in the world that could not be beheaded?’ It is circumstances which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that Zeus, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. ‘For what purpose?’ you may say. ‘Why, that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist. ‘”
I Wanna Be This Dad Someday…
September 7, 2009
…without the kid at home.
http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
“There’s no such thing as a dumb, old person.”—Richard Pryor
The Thorn Birds…
August 12, 2008
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain…. Or so says the legend.
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.”
—The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
“You in the press need to go easy on Senator Clinton on the whole business about running and ducking from gunfire in Bosnia. She made an honest mistake. She confused the Bosnia trip with the time I took her hunting.”—Dick Cheney Just kidding.
“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.”
~ Stephen Wright
“If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens here, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.” —My oldest son’s 1st grade teacher
Evolutionists have proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. —Unattributed
“On behalf of the United Nations, a 192-member organization representing nearly all of the human inhabitants of planet Earth, I send greetings.” —Kurt Waldheim
“The acceleration of Earth’s gravity is 9.81 m/s/s, while escape velocity is 11,200 m/s. I consider this grossly unfair.” —Me
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” —George Bernard Shaw
”I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho Marx
Lee Trevino, when some of his buddies were ooo-ing and ahhhing some beautiful woman walking into the club: “Remember, guys, some man, somewhere, is sick of her sh*t.”
Bobby Layne: “The key to a happy life is to run out of cash and oxygen at the same time.”
Dennis Miller: “It took man 40 million years to evolve a thumb; how long will it take to pull yours out of your ass?”
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”-–Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher, 1623 – 1662.
