Pollywogs!

You know what I’ve noticed?

There are a lot of Democrat email mass-mailings in the Spamcop blacklist system.

Me thinks that Republicans are signing up for Democrat mailings, and then reporting them as spam. They are then flagged in the future as spam and end up getting filtered out by the hundreds of thousands of systems (millions? hundreds of millions?) that end up getting filtered through a Spamcop blacklist.

And LIEberman was accusing Lamont of evil web tactics…looks like the pot is calling the kettle black (and we all know that LIEberman is actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a Darth Sidious in Chancellor Palpatine clothing…).

http://blog.wired.com/cars/#1540289

Summary? Fuel efficiency WON’T kill you, as the article is titled.

Smaller, lighter cars are not necessarily more dangerous to operate. Of course, if there weren’t so many SUV’s and oversized trucks, they’d be that much safer. The most interesting part of the article?

“Although rollover accidents made up just 3 percent of all accidents in 2002, they accounted for 33 percent of all road fatalities, according to NHTSA.”

I love my Corolla…

I was reading this over at snopes.com :
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/fortunate.asp

A compliation of other comments by Fogerty on “Fortunate Son” is included in Craig Werner’s oral history of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Up Around the Bend:
When I wrote “Fortunate Son,” Julie Nixon was hanging around with David Eisenhower. And you just had the feeling that none of those people were going to be involved with the war. In 1969, the majority of the country thought morale was great among the troops, and like eighty percent of them were in favor of the war. But to some of us who were watching closely, we just knew we were headed for trouble … It was written, of course, during the Nixon era, and, well, let’s say I was very nonsupportive of Mr. Nixon There just seemed to be this trickle down to the offspring of people like him. You got the impression that these people got preferential treatment, and the whole idea of being born wealthy or being born powerful seemed to really be coming to the fore in the late-sixties’ confrontation of cultures. I was twenty-three years old, I think. I was mad at the specter of the ordinary kid who had to serve in an army in a war that he was very much against. Yet the sons of the well-to-do and powerful didn’t have to worry about those things. They were fortunate. I thought, all these guys were running around saying, “It’s good for America” — Nixon or whoever was saying this. Yet their kids ain’t going.

We are safer than before the war. The country is strong and stands united. We are winning the war against terrorism. It’s good for America. Blah blah blah…

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

However many holy words you read,However many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Also translated as : All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

I’ll see if I can’t dredge up more. I find oftentimes the quotation lists are rife with crap that has been obviously attributed posthumously.

My will is broken…

…at least, according to Vice President Dick Cheney.

I don’t really have any problem with Lieberman losing the primary. Therefore, according to Mr. Cheney, al Qaeda has ‘won’. I guess they did “break the will of the American people”. Congratulations, al Qaeda! You don’t have to bet on that proposition, “Mission Accomplished”!

Apparently, if your opinion is different from that of the Bush Administration, you are either are a terrorist or are aiding and abetting terrorists.

I just can’t win…of course, you can’t teach tolerance at the end of a gun-barrel either, so I guess the Bush Administration can’t win either…