Quote of the Day -- Truthful Edition

"More cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths."

— Bertrand Russell, "Principles of Social Reconstruction." Mind you, too, he said this in 1916, amazingly enough. True then. Still, sadly, tragically so very true today. So explains Fox.

Is Eric Greitens Just the 51st Shade of Gray?

Okay, back on the Eric Greitens allegations---if not scandal. This, from the New York Times:

Mr. Greitens, a married father of two, acknowledged last month that he had an extramarital affair with a woman in 2015, before he was elected governor. The woman’s husband, who eventually divorced her, made secret recordings that were published last month by local news outlets.

In those recordings, the woman said she had gone to Mr. Greitens’s house and engaged in a consensual sexual encounter. But while she was blindfolded and bound with tape to an exercise machine, she said, Mr. Greitens took a nude photograph of her without permission and threatened to publicize the image if she spoke about their affair.

There's more but let's leave it there.

I haven't seen "50 Shades of Gray" or read the book but...

Doesn't this read like that plotline? Isn't that so?

Did Mr. Greitens, the Guv, just not have enough money to get away with it?

Also reads like a daytime soap opera, gone wildly out of hand. These are "The Days of Our Lives..."

Link:

A Governor Is Charged With ‘Invasion of Privacy’

So You Want To Run For Governor of Missouri...

Think about this.

It's 2016.

You're young. 

You were a Navy Seal.

You're done some fundraising for the Seals---you say--and it was supposed to be successful.

You're a reasonably well-spoken guy. Not bad looking (sadly, that matters in America).

You're Right Wing and a gun lover and the nation is awash in all that at present so you figure "What the heck. I'm going to run for governor in my state of Missouri."

But...

In 2015, just one year earlier, you had a sexual affair outside your marriage.

You're married and the father of two children.

The woman with whom you had the affair is married. Her husband--later ex-husband--is aware of the affair.

That's all.

That's it.

That's enough.

Tell us. Please.

Tell us how you didn't think this would get out.

Please.

We're waiting.

Really, Think About Those Ten Commandments

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

Quote of the day -- on American institutions

Quote of the day

True then.

Still sadly, tragically true today.

Statistics you won't believe about our American health care system

It's worth your time:



God, we're stupid.

We're stupid to have let this develop.

We're stupid to let this continue to take place.

We're stupid to let this go on.

Is this that complicated?

Whatever happened to being moral in business?

Quote of the day--on religion and morality

Quote of the day

"To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms."

 -John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)

Quote of the day

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." ~Dwight D Eisenhower, Remarks at the forth annual Republican Women's National Conference (6 March 1956)

Agreed. Lets go get 'em

There was a pretty fascinating one-half page advertisement in The New York Times today, in the very important first section by the Catholic group, the Knights of Columbus.

Now, normally, the last thing I'm going to do is even mention any Catholic group, let alone agree with them but I think they got it right this time.

Under the title "Now is the Time for Change", in big, bold letters, they write that "The United States is suffering an economic crisis, a leadership crisis and a moral crisis."

They go on:

We must do something...Now."

Most Americans would have long ago agreed with this.

They write that their "polling shows more than three-quarters of our country believes the corporate world's moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction. Moreover, a majority of Americans, and two-thirds of executives, gave a grade of D or F in ethical matters to the financial and investment industry."

They say that "We have lived with this lack of business values too long. It is a problem that cannot be legislated or regulated away."

Okay.

Agreed.

And way overdue.

But the thing is, what they're saying needs to be taken to its logical, harsh, complete truth and that is that CAPITALISM HAD FAILED US.

Captialism has failed us and the corporations of America are eating us alive.

Corporations are chewing up their employees and workers, using them and spitting them out, at the end of their work-cycles as desperate, poor, unsupported people who have no resources--because it all went to the CEOs and the corporation itself--and no health care coverage.

All this in the name of "unfettered Capitalism" and progress.

We need to stand up and force our government to stand up for us.

We need to take power back from corporate America.

So the Knights of the Columbus is on the right track on these issues but at the end of the advertisement, they merely ask for us to "join us in creating a Culture of Volunteerism..."

Volunteering to help one another is not enough. Volunteering won't get this done.

Getting lobbying, lobbyists and corporate lobby money out of our election system--now, that will start to get something done.

Then we'll start to get our corporations to stop completely exploiting all of us.

Link to ad here: