“I think this is absolutely crazy. Why would you want to
increase the cost of energy and kill more American jobs at a time when
the American people are still asking where are the jobs? Clear enough?”
If you guessed John Boehner, 61st and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, member of the Republican Party, U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, government crybaby and leader of all job makers, who by the way, don't really make many jobs, you are correct.
That what OHO is doing. . . (give a listen to the latest take of 'Blood Brother')
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My hands hands
Bar rooms sure have a funny way
Of bringing loyalty out in a man
Buy a drink and tell a joke
And buddy you've got you a friend
But keep a good eye upon that friend
Because he really doesn't give two hoots
And don't say anything about his Mom
His girlfriend or his army boots
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
Walked into an auto-mo-showroom
I need some wheels but got no money to spend
When a guy with an ugly tie
Walks out and acts like he's my long-lost friend
I said hey Buddy I've a purpose here
And if you please I will accomplish my goal
So don't you slap me on the back again
Cause if you do I might just lose my control
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
So please be careful when you meet someone
Who'll make a promise at the drop of a hat
And don't provide them with encouragement
You will regret the day you offered him that
Cause everybody needs some empathy
But just how willing
And how far will they go
To really help you when the chips are down
Can they be trusted half as far as you throw them
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
(from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mistakes)
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dalí
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon
“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
Gadolfini! Dead. At 51. Only fifty ONE!! (Yesterday's news- maybe. But the loss of a human life that will require some time and some grieving for many family members.)
Is this part of a plan by some almighty Santa on a golden throne in the sky? I think NOT! Any supreme being that would plan such a thing would be an arbitrary, hateful being.
Does such tragedy make us stronger? Maybe. That is up to us. But a PLAN!!?? C'MON!!!!
Every time I learn of such a tragedy, it becomes even clearer to me that every waking moment must be savored and every opportunity for joy, good, beauty and humanity must be taken. Our time here is short and no one knows what follows.
. . . no, I am not criticizing the Miss America beauty contestant Marissa Powell, who fumbled her answer to a question about equal pay for women. I mean THE PRESS.
The media quickly called Miss Utah for her comically rambling response to the question, which by the way she has handled superbly to her own benefit. But on a daily basis, we are bombarded by the confounding eloquence of Boehners, Mitchells, Reids, Pauls, Dingells, Rangels, Waxmans, Grahams, Ryans and others, which the press dutifully reports to us verbatum and without question.
Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens, under his new contract, will get over $20 million per year for the next six years. Does that evoke any kind of reaction from you?
First, we surely can't blame Joe Flacco for this state of affairs nor probably even the Baltimore Ravens, although the latter is in a better position to initiate any semblance of a change to the system than the former.
A professor at one of Maryland's top public research universities recently wrote to the Baltimore Sun broaching the subject from the perspective of one who could utilize such sums in some very productive ways for the ultimate betterment of society but has no way of obtaining such.
He goes on to say that, with that kind of money, his institution could hire about 200 new assistant professors, start up 20 new science and engineering labs, offer full scholarships to large numbers of students, build new academic buildings for classrooms and labs every few years, support the education of students that would further ensure the best learning possible and that they are as well equipped to succeed as possible.
The blame, he goes on, belongs to folks who send their kids to the public schools but rather than adequately funding education, buy expensive tickets to professional sporting events, equip their homes with the best audio and video hardware available and buy all the goods and services offered by the advertisers and sponsors of those events whenever possible.
I think the gentleman makes a very valid point. But alas, he admits, he doesn't quite know how to change it.
