Final Words For The Day

"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.."
-Dying words of General Stonewall Jackson

Howl
".. Death threats, bellowing disruptions, a few brawls here and there, and for all intents and purposes, an important national debate between political leaders and the public was shredded by right-wing activists - many of whom don't have health insurance - who shouted themselves hoarse because they don't like the president. These "protesters" have been filled with a bewildering budget of lies and misinformation by the organizers behind these protests, and by national Republican leaders who seem to think derailing health care reform will win them some elections, and be damned to the people themselves..."
-William Rivers Pitt, truthout

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Krugman's Looking For A Word | How About Sociopath?

Paul Krugman says:
"There has to be some word for the kind of person who considers his mild discomfort the equivalent of torture, crippling injury, or death for other people."

I think Atrios has a better one and it start's with an "M".

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Hola! - Agoraphobia By Carruth

Having a nice weekend? Hope so....I'm logged on, and feeling the throbbing pulse of the Nets...Did that come out right? Here's something while I look around:

Agoraphobia is when a stranger enters the house and you go to the attic and lie down with your face pressed into the darkest corner, under the slanting slats of the roof. It’s the scream lurking in your gorge, so ready to burst that the least noise above a cat’s purr makes you tremble: when the marching band from the high school practices in the street outside you sit in the back of the closet, when the March wind lashes the treetops at night you crawl behind the sofa. Agoraphobia is when every night at 2:00 a.m. for five years—that’s 1,825 nights—you go out loaded with Thorazine to walk in the street beneath the dark, blank windows of the houses on either side, and you never get more than a hundred yards from your door. ... Agoraphobia is when you breathe and eat the dust of oblivion.
-Lives of a Poet - Hayden Carruth

Woods Lot

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A Few Political bits

"The Only Difference Between Sarah Palin And Dick Cheney Is ... Lipstick" --RFK Jr:

John McCain reportedly pays more than $5,500 dollars for "cosmectic services"(make-up).

John McCain tries to flee the debates and take Sarah Palin with him:















BWAHAHAHA!

"It's the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys."
-Rep. Barney Frank
Here's Barack Obama:


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The Banking Crash | More Big Profits For Failure

What he said...

"..I do not ever want to hear another damned word about the free market. I don’t want to hear another thing about letting the market regulate itself. I don’t want to hear about the free flow of capital. I don’t want to hear about government getting out of our lives.

None of it. From superfunds to super-bailouts, I am tired of other people getting rich being irresponsible and then being told I have to pay to clean it up. I didn’t read one punitive aspect of this new plan. Not one punishment for the people who did this.."

-John Cole

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Boring Is As Boring Does

"..Men in general are not inherently boring but perhaps less apt to notice when they are boring others.."

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Quotables

"New Rule: You can't send the National Guard to Iraq and then claim it's still here. The helicopters, the Humvees, the men... Like Dorothy and Toto, they're not in Kansas anymore. Sorry, Mr. president, but the last documented case of a National Guardsman able to be in two places at one time...was you. "
---Bill Maher