March 31, 2012

John Lennon quotes: Do they still hold water in 2012?

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

"The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin."

"The youth have hope because it's their future they're hopeful about and if they're depressed about their own future, well, then we are in a bad state. And we keep hope alive by keeping it alive amongst ourselves."

"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?"

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."

"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

"It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man."

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."

"When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun."

There's nothing you can know that isn't known."

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."

"The more I see the less I know for sure."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"A working-class hero is something to be."

"You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one.I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one."

March 25, 2012

Brazil has demanded that 17 Chevron and Transocean executives surrender their passports

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15692

Brazil has demanded that 17 Chevron and Transocean executives surrender their passports while they await the outcome of criminal charges brought against them for a spill that took place off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last November. The company has also been sued for $11 billion in damages by a Brazilian federal prosecutor.

Chevron has issued a statement claiming the charges are "outrageous and without merit.” “We have sought to perform our operations in full compliance with Brazilian laws and industry practices and to comply with all applicable licenses and authorizations,” says a company press release issued Wednesday.

The jury is still out on the facts of the case. But it is hard to sympathize with a company that has played fast and loose with national justice systems in order to avoid paying compensation for toxic spills of immense proportions in the Ecuador by Texaco, a company that Chevron merged with in 2001.

Between 1964 to 1992 Texaco admitted to dumping more than 16 billion gallons of toxic “water of formation” into the streams and rivers used by local inhabitants for their drinking water, decimating indigenous groups and causing dramatically increased rates of cancer, according to a summary from Rainforest Action Network.

March 20, 2012

Canceling my summer vacation to Disney World.

Will never, ever spend a dime in Florida.

Calling for the same consumer activists that went after Limbaugh to do the same.

Big money needs to take a long hard look at the terrible social costs from their hate inspired party of choice. The wealthy have crawled into a political bed with the Limbaugh inspired ilk for the sole purpose of getting a tax break.

I'm white, old, and sick to my stomach. My heartfelt condolences to the Southern black community and the family of the murdered child.

March 15, 2012

Carl Sagan explains the GOP downfall

Alienating groups such as women or Latinos is another successive slice of the pie.

It takes roughly 90 successive divisions of slicing a pie in half to reach the atomic level.

Republicans have reached the critical limit for slicing the American pie.

A philosopy of division is ultimately a phliosophy of political weakness.

March 3, 2012

If Gingrich can be propped up by a billionaire

So can Rush Limbaugh.

How can one boycott a guy like Adelson?

Find out what enterprise he owns and boycott it?

Perhaps Rush ends up being supported by an anonymous billionaire?

Will chasing away his advertisers become a hollow victory?

March 1, 2012

Bill O' Reilly

Uses a segment to let his "Fox n Friends" bimbo rant about the thin arms of Angelina Jolie. Feels compelled to show photos of Karen Carpenter for comparison. They whine in unison about the example being set for young women.

Next segment?

Brings on Ann Coulter.

I dunno. The man presents his hypocrisy in large doses, medium doses, and small doses.

Just as long as you get a daily dose.