"Surprising as it may be, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, New York's' own presidential contenders, have something in common: Both support policies on Cuba that have failed for 46 years." Hillary and Rudy share tired view on Cuba policy by Albor Ruiz
Though they shared the same last name, Catherine TheGreat & Peter TheGreat were not close relatives. The rumors about Catherine & the horse, unlike the rumors about McGregor & the goat, are not true. She simply paid the price that powerful, competent women paid back then. My how times have changed. Haven't they?
"Virtually hairless, venerably wrinkled and very nearly blind, naked mole-rats . . . remind some zoo-goers of little old men. The resemblance is more than coincidence." CU biologist: Mole-rat Methuselahs bolster evolutionary theory of aging By Roger Segelken
Jesus, Mary, Buddha, & Kwan Yin deserve the utmost respect and are worthy of emulation. Still, the lady of the day is Mother Theresa. She faced the world and its horrors without believing that a spook was taking care of and guiding her. She did her best to alleviate the suffering of others in spite of her own pain and without expecting a reward or fearing punishment. “. . . for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever . . .That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and - except for a five-week break in 1959 - never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the ‘dryness,’ ‘darkness,’ ‘loneliness’ and ‘torture’ she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. ‘The smile,’ she writes, is ‘a mask’ or ‘a cloak that covers everything.’ Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. ‘I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love,’ she remarks to an adviser. ‘If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'’” Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith By DAVID VAN BIEMA in Time.
That people like Mark Foley & Larry Craig choose not only to deny who they are, but also to condemn others like them may be funny on some level. See, Rep. Barney Frank on Sen. Larry Craig & Other GOP Hypocrites. Right now, to Virgil, the situation brings nothing but sadness for them, our nation, and the world we live in. Stan the Man sent me these quotes this morning that seem appropriate.
“I stopped behind a soccer mom type vehicle. On the left side of the rear window there was some kind of sticker about gymnastics with ‘Courtney’ under it and on the opposite corner was a cheerleader megaphone with ‘Jennifer’ under it. When we are growing up, Mom, especially, is there to make sure that the whole world seems to have been made for us. Dad and the school and whom ever else gets paid for doing so, all pitch in support. Then one day you can buy liquor and everything changes. At that point, Mom and Dad will want little Jennifer and Courtney off the tit and married. A passel (if they are lucky) of young men will want on the tit without getting married. Mother nature (on the guys side as usual) will want them pregnant, married or not, and the free market economy will want them on an endless economic treadmill that leads to dropping dead, where they will make their final contribution as consumers at the funeral home. Some things would like to kill and eat them, other things would like to infect them, while most things, including the universe at large, could not care less whether they exist or not. I suppose that is the reason that they set the drinking age where they do.” By James, The Bruce.
These guys are good. Cousin Jim plays first base. Not the defensive position-he's actually first base.
“The brain, which abhors ambiguity, . . .forces a decision that can . . . involve the sense of being in a different body.
"Alcohol consumed at bedtime, after an initial stimulating effect, may decrease the time required to fall asleep. Because of alcohol's sedating effect, many people with insomnia consume alcohol to promote sleep. However, alcohol consumed within an hour of bedtime appears to disrupt the second half of the sleep period (7). The subject may sleep fitfully during the second half of sleep, awakening from dreams and returning to sleep with difficulty. With continued consumption just before bedtime, alcohol's sleep-inducing effect may decrease, while its disruptive effects continue or increase (8). This sleep disruption may lead to daytime fatigue and sleepiness. The elderly are at particular risk, because they achieve higher levels of alcohol in the blood and brain than do younger persons after consuming an equivalent dose. Bedtime alcohol consumption among older persons may lead to unsteadiness if walking is attempted during the night, with increased risk of falls and injuries (3).The adverse effects of sleep deprivation are increased following alcohol consumption. Subjects administered low doses of alcohol following a night of reduced sleep perform poorly in a driving simulator, even with no alcohol left in the body (9,10). Reduced alertness may potentially increase alcohol's sedating effect in situations such as rotating sleep-wake schedules (e.g., shift work) and rapid travel across multiple time zones (i.e., jet lag) (9). A person may not recognize the extent of sleep disturbance that occurs under these circumstances, increasing the danger that sleepiness and alcohol consumption will co-occur." See, http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa41.htm
"Alcohol, after causing a short period of stimulation, does have a sedative effect. It will put you to sleep. But first consider the drawbacks. Your peaceful sleep may last only three or four hours. Then that "relaxing drink" begins to disrupt your sleep patterns. Alcohol makes occasional or chronic insomnia worse in the long run. And, if you have not been getting adequate sleep, alcohol increases the symptoms of sleep deprivation."
See, http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/alcohol/a/nightcap.htm
"Not only does too much alcohol put the brakes on fat loss, it's also one of the most effective ways to slash your testosterone levels. Just a single bout of heavy drinking raises levels of the muscle-wasting hormone cortisol and increases the breakdown of testosterone for up to 24 hours [6]. The damaging effects of alcohol on testosterone are made even worse when you exercise before drinking [1]." See,
http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm
"Watch Bill Moyers comments on Rove: Rove leaving the U.S. 'paralyzed, polarized, and mired in war, death, and corruption': Rove, professing his own agnosticism: Rove betting on 'fear and loathing' and using the Christian Right to turn
an 'intellectually incurious, draft – adverse, naughty playboy' into the Governor of Texas, and finally, into the President of the United States."
Though Angus & I have had our differences, he's considered family by some of my family & we all love Nanny. Angus gave Cousin Jim this fine flask for his birthday. Angus made & engraved it with his own hands, but do they call him McGregor the flask maker? Nooo laddie, they do not. Do they call him McGregor the engraver? Nooo laddie, they do not.
"WE have been through it all before against Kilkenny, Clare and Cork but we will never again experience dismay, anguish and disappointment to the extent that was palpable at the end of this absorbing and breathtaking hurling contest at Croke Park on Sunday last. One could almost touch the disbelief of the silent Waterford supporters filing out of the ground as behind them Limerick supporters celebrated with their players as Waterford had a week earlier with theirs after the Cork game." GAA: More semi-final heartbreak for Waterford as Limerick shock Déise
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat
Seen on a church sign in
"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that."
Bobby Bowden /
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz /
"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath /
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz /
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password,
"Roll, tide, roll!"
Bear Bryant /
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
Woody Hayes /
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."
Bob Devaney /
"In
Wally Butts / Georgia
"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."
Paul Dietzel / LSU
"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."
Bear Bryant /
When asked if
"No, but you can see it from here."
Lou Holtz /
"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."
Bear Bryant /
"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line."
Matty
"Lads,you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"I never graduated from
Truman's and Eisenhower's."
Alex Karras /
"My advice to defensive players:Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."
Bowden Wyatt /
"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades."
Duffy Daugherty /
"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."
Shug
"They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces."
Darrell Royal /
"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.”
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"They whipped us like a tied up goat."
Spike Dykes /
"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me
and he said: "Well,Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good."
Walt Garrison /
"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team:
"All those who need showers, take them."
John McKay / USC
"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."
Murray Warmath / Minnesota
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.
To be a back, you only have to be dumb."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"Oh,we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."
Darrell Royal / Texas
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
John McKay / USC
"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad."
Darrell Royal / University of Texas
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football”
John Heisman
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
A 3-year-old boy examined his testicles while taking a bath.
These fighters refuse go give Michael Vick the presumption of innocense. Others have had varied reactions. “PETA thinks he's a villain. The NAACP thinks he's a victim. The NFL and his corporate endorsers think he's poison. Most of us, though, just think he's a damned fool. . . . . There will be idiots out there who will attempt to diminish the severity of the crime, as if despicable acts of cruelty against dogs are merely some cultural and class-based misunderstanding. . . If a man chooses to engage in a no-holds-barred caged brawl, that's his business. . . .But animals have no such options in the fight business. . . .The presumption of innocence does not extend to the world of print ads and TV spots. It stops at the courtroom steps, and if he didn’t know it before, Vick surely knows that now.” 'Keepin' it real' has helped damage Vick Like Pacman and A.I., QB unable to shed bad influences he grew up with. By Bryan Burwell
"McKee Foods Corporation received a $422,783 check from Arkansas taxpayers on July 24. The corporate welfare check . . . is said to represent a payroll rebate . . . It is the way state economic developers take your tax dollars to reward private corporations who hire more workers at relatively low wages. They call it "incentives," and it increases corporate profits at your expense.. . . How long and for how much we will keep subsidizing the corporation is unclear. You can count on more of your tax dollars going into the pocket of stockholders, so dig deep to reward the welfare state of mind for corporations. It's good for business.
