STEEPED IN A MISTY MORN OF MUSINGS...

Thursday, June 23, 2016

HAIL ! HAIL !

HAIL TO "OUR" VICTOR!

What is Success?

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people

and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived…

This is to have succeeded.

Written by Bessie Stanley 1905 (though erroneously attributed to R.W. Emerson at times)

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell

me what is 'HAPPINESS'…

And I went to famous executives who boss the work of

thousands of men.

They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though

I was trying to fool with them.

And then one Sunday afternoon, I wandered out along

the Des Plaines river,

and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with

their women and children…

and a keg of beer… and an
accordion.

A Creed to Live By

By Anonymous

Don't undermine your worth by comparing
yourself with others,
It is because we are different that each
of us is special.

Don't set your goals by what other people
deem important,
Only you know what is best for you.
Don't take for granted the things closest
to your heart

Cling to that as you would your life, for without
them life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living
in the past or the future.
By living your life one day at a time, you live all the
days of your life.

Don't give up when you still have something to give
Nothing is really over … until the moment
you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to admit that you are less
than perfect,
It is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don't be afraid to encounter risks,
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's
impossible to find.

Don't dismiss your Dreams. To be without
dreams is to be without hope.
To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don't run through life so fast that you forget
where you've been,
But also know where you're going.
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored
every step of the way.

So it's 'goodbye' to Michigan [for now] and

a warm 'hello' to WSU Medical School [very soon].

Nonetheless, Hail to our Victor!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgw3gtzWfaA

THERE ARE SUCH STUPID CLOWNS AMONG US!

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Benazir Bhutto

Remember… Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Ayn Rand

Blood Brothers

Yet, true and noble power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, or has the best mind, not the biggest gun cabinet or thickest wallet.

Friday, June 10, 2016

ACTUALLY, THE RIGHT HAND OF GREED [NOT GOD]

“Unlike a lot of our friends on the 'other side', we’re not looking for a political messiah, because we already have a messiah,” Reed said. “We understand that perfection is not the measure that should be applied. … Because in all of recorded history there has only been one perfect person, and he wasn’t a candidate, and he wasn’t a political figure. His name was Jesus Christ.”

Reed went on to rant about trans people in bathrooms, the Declaration of Independence, and learning as a child about the bravery of Cubans who fled Fidel Castro’s tyranny. Finally, he ran out of things to say and ducked offstage, saying, “Let me find out where Mr. Trump is.” A few minutes later, Trump arrived.

"Trump's speech was a series of disconnected talking points; you could have cut up the sentences and rearranged them at random, and it wouldn’t have been any more or less coherent. Much of it was a characteristic appeal to white Christian identity politics. 'We will restore respect for people of faith who dutifully raise their children, follow our laws and rules, and we have to really take care of them', he said. Then, a few minutes later, 'We will respect and defend Christian Americans. Christian Americans'.”

"The spectacle of self-proclaimed Christian conservatives cheering a foul-mouthed ex-casino owner for his pledge to turn away refugees tells you pretty much everything you need to know about what the religious right has become—or maybe what it always was".