A Gift For The 'Tankers: Something to Cheer EVERYONE Up
A Gift For The 'Tankers: Something to Cheer EVERYONE Up
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
That was great!!I know how much time putting something like this together takes... this was a hobby for whoever did it.
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
- John Stuart Mill, English philosopher
- John Stuart Mill, English philosopher
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[Syl]
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I have a strong feeling the picture's not genuine... but reading some articles about the two meeting and sharing certain views, it looks like it probably is.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
I didn't actually read this article (Bush and Bono speakinga at a National prayer breakfast) but I couldn't resist the photo.Syl wrote:I have a strong feeling the picture's not genuine... but reading some articles about the two meeting and sharing certain views, it looks like it probably is.
Yeah, I don't know how sincere either one of them are, but I assume Bono's African aids work--as well as Bush's--is probably behind this.
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/0 ... -515h.html
Proverbs for Paranoids #3.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Maybe it has something to do with those rosey colored glasses he wearsbossk wrote:Wow - there's something I never thought I'd see. How can Bono look himself in the mirror every morning?
Proverbs for Paranoids #3.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
I actually got to ask Bono about that awhile back (no, I'm not lieing - there was a Q&A period after a speech I saw him give) and he said, basically, "My goal was to get Third World Debt forgiven, not to engage him a political debate. If the man keeps his promises, I'll be happy."bossk wrote:Wow - there's something I never thought I'd see. How can Bono look himself in the mirror every morning?
(Or something like that - it was freakin' Bono, fer Chrissakes!)
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
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