Quote of the day--on imaginantion

"Evil is not imaginative. It seeks to destroy, and destruction takes no imagination. 

Creation takes true imagination, the making of something new and wondrous, whether it's a song or an iPad, a novel or a new cooking surface more durable than Teflon, a new flavor of ice cream or spacecraft that can travel to the moon. The vibrant imagination of a fry cook with free will should easily trump the weak imagination of a demon, anytime."

--Dean Koontz, from his book "Deeply Odd"

Links:  Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz - Wikipedia

Dean Koontz bibliography - Wikipedia

Quote of the day (of a lifetime?)

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." --John Wesley, Christian evangelist, Anglican priest and founder of the Methodist Church. (With thanks to the South Kansas City Observer for the reminder).

Quote of the day: on real "monsters"

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. 


And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.  --Friederich Nietzche, "Beyond Good and Evil", Aphorism 146 (1886)


Link:  http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Quote of the day--on good and evil

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction."  --Pascal


Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

Quote of the day

"The heart is what matters most of all."  --Kris Kristofferson  (Yeah, tough guy Kris Kristofferson.  Go figure.)


Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

Quote of the day

"Believe in yourself and believe in love.  Love something.  We've got to learn to love something deeply."  --Andrew Wyeth, quoted in the book "Wisdom" by Andrew Zuckerman.

(Go, get this book.  It's inexpensive but good.)

Have a great weekend, y'all.

Finally, proof positive

Okay, sure the world is going to hell in a handbasket monetarily and in all ways financial but, as a side note, I have to point out that, right now, there's a CNN report showing the White House has totally lost its collective mind.

The Patriot Act?

You patriots thought that was just to keep watch on the terrorists and possible terrorists out there, right?

Well, buckos, every left-wing liberal who said we were selling the Constitution down the river is now officially correct.

Check this out:

"Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad."

Ain't that sweet?

"A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone calls between the United States and overseas without a court order -- as long as one party to the call is a terror suspect."

"'Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist, told ABC News the NSA was listening to the phone calls of U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who were talking about "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."

You owe it to yourself and, really, no exaggeration, to your country, to read the full article. (See link below). It will make you nauseous but it's very important to know.

Right in the middle of our world falling apart, we find that our own government doesn't even trust the American Soldiers who've volunteered to fight and possibly die for our country in a wrong war--one we we were all lied into.

Could there possibly be more insanity in the world?

Don't answer that.

I know the answer is yes.

Good God. Proof positive this White House, this President, this Vice President and this entire administration has no regard for right, wrong, good, evil, loyal and faithful American Soldiers, anyone or anything.

They can't distinguish between good or evil so everyone is suspect--even the people fighting and dying for us.

I say again, I don't even recognize my own country.



The full article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/spying.on.americans/index.html?eref=rss_topstories