STRONG
MEDICINE
FOR THE
NUN
Pat is
not
feeling
very
well and
he
decides
to go to
a
doctor. While
he is
waiting
in the
doctor's
reception
room, a
nun
comes
out of
the
doctor's
office. She
looks
very
ashen,
drawn
and
haggard. Pat
goes
into the
doctor's
office
and says
to the
doctor:
"I
just saw
a nun
leaving
who
looked
absolutely
terrible.
I have
never
seen a
woman
look
worse." The
doctor
says:
"I
just
told her
that she
is
pregnant." Pat
exclaims:
"Oh
my, is
she?" The
doctor
responds:
"No,
but it
sure
cured
her
hiccups."
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WORDS OF
WISDOM /
QUEST FOR
QUOTES
-
"War is a
racket."
Marine
Corp General
Smedley Butler
(See
"Attachment")
-
"...there
was a time
when the US
Congress was
an estimable
branch of the
American
government.
It was a
place where
people took
lawmaking
almost as
seriously as
winning
elections,
where strong
views were
tempered in
the interest
of solving
problems.
There was a
prevailing
aura of good
will that
reflected the
well-meaning
hominess of
America.
Sometimes
memorable and
illuminating
debates took
place, really.
Now -- to put
it in the
slam-dance
vernacular of
politics today
-- it is a
collection of
the spineless
led by the
cynical,
constantly
lap-dancing
for special
interest cash
to finance the
permanent
campaign,
deadlocked not
over high
principles but
over partisan
advantage and,
as C-Span
devotees know,
incapable of a
debate worthy
of a junior
high school.
It makes
you heart-sore
for the state
of democracy.
. . .
Lawmakers
don't know
each other
since they're
always home
campaigning so
they feel
freer to
demonize one
another."
Bill Keller,
New York Times
(11-03-02) via
Nan Howell
-
"The
Constitution
was written
with the
absolute
monarchical
powers of a
king in mind,
and the people
who wrote the
Constitution
said, 'We're
not going to
have that kind
of a
system'."
Peter
Weiss,
attorney suing
Geo.W.Bush
along with 31
other
congressmen
about the
alleged
illegality of
his unilateral
abrogation of
the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missle
Treaty in
violation of
the
Constitution,
via Nan Howell
-
"In times
of difficulty,
take refuge in
compassion and
truth."
Jack
Kornfield,
courtesy of
Liz Randol via
Larry
Morningstar
-
"If you
do not live
the life you
believe, you
will believe
the life you
live."
Zig
Ziglar via
Larry
Morningstar
- "To
be truly
radical is to
make hope
possible
rather than
despair
inevitable."
via
L.Morningstar
- "You
become writer
by writing. It
is a
yoga." R.K.
Narayan,
novelist via
"A Word A
Day"
-
"There is
no pillow so
soft as a
clear
conscience."
French
proverb via
Beliefnet
- The
greatest
conflicts are
not between
two people but
between one
person and
himself.
Garth
Brooks in
"Country
Music."
-
"It has
become about
as hard to get
a decent
healthy meal
of reasonable
proportions in
this country
as it is to
locate a
thriving five
and dime.
Worst of all,
few people
seem to have
noticed."
Kelly
Brownell,
Director of
the Yale
Center for
Eating &
Weight
Disorders in a
Nov.12 WHT
article titled
Anti-obesity
crusader
appeals for
restraint in
land of
plenty."
-
"Humans
are
biologically
designed to
hoard
calories.
This gift
protected
the species
from
extinction
during
prehistory
when long
periods of
starvation
were the
rule. But
now that we
have lives
of relative
ease in a
land of
abundance,
the gift has
become a
curse."
Matt
Crenson, AP
writer in
above
mentioned
article on
obesity
-
"Soda
and snack
companies
pay for the
right to put
soda and
snack
machines in
schools. In
an era of
shrinking
budgets, schools
use the
money for
band
uniforms,
sports
equipment,
sometimes
even
textbooks."
-
"Fatty
food would
be judged on
the
nutritive
value per
calorie or
gram of
fat.; the
least
healthy
would be
given the
highest tax
rate.
Consumption
of high fat
foods would
drop and the
revenue
could be
used for
public
exercise
facilities
like bike
paths and
running
tracks or
nutrition
education in
schools...The
government
taxes
tobacco and
alcohol two
notorious
scourges of
public
health.
Obesity is
beginning to
rival
smoking as a
public
health
hazard. Why
not slap a
tax on the
foods that
cause
it?"
Kelly
Brownell in
a 1994
NYTime op ed
column
-
"The
average
child sees
10,000 food
commercials
a year on
television,
many of them
charismatic
celebrities
such as
Michael
Jackson,
Britany
Spears and
Shaquille
O'Neal. How
can a parent
compete with
that?"
Matt Crenson,
AP writer
-
"The
high fat
Gestapo is
trying to
follow the
footsteps of
the smoking
Gestapo to
force the
American
people to
act in the
'proper
way."
Rush
Limbaugh, "conservative"
radio talk
show host
-
"Praise,
like gold and
diamonds, owes
its value to
its
scarcity."
Samuel Butler,
poet
(1612-1680)
-
"Let me
tell you
something we
Israelis
have against
Moses. He
took us 40
years
through the
desert in
order to
bring us to
the one spot
in the
Middle East
that has no
oil."
Golda
Meir,
ex-Israel
Prime
Minister-
"The
more you
read the
more you
know. The
more you
know the
smarter you
grow. The
smarter you
grow the
stronger
your voice
when
speaking
your mind or
making your
choice. From
a Kealakekua
library
bookmark
-
"Beware
the fury of
the patient
man."
John
Dryden, poet
and
dramatist
(1631-1700)
via AWAD
-
"True
individual
freedom
cannot exist
without
economic
security and
independence.
People who
are hungry
and out of a
job are the
stuff of
which
dictatorships
are
made." Franklin
D. Roosevelt
via Larry
Morningstar
-
"The
National
Government
will regard
it as its
first and
foremost
duty to
revive in
the nation
the spirit
of unity and
cooperation.
It will
preserve and
defend those
basic
principles
on which our
nation has
been built.
It regards
Christianity
as the
foundation
of our
national
morality,
and the
family as
the basis of
national
life."
Adolph
Hitler, My
New World
Order,
Proclamation
to the
German
Nation at
Berlin,
February 1,
1933 via
Esta Feedora
-
"An
evil
exists
that
threatens
every man,
woman and
child of
this great
nation. We
must take
steps to
ensure our
domestic
security
and
protect
our
homeland."
Adoph
Hitler,
writing
about
creation
of the
Gestapo in
Nazi
Germany.
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