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beyond the Pearly Gates

2008-10-07T21:38:09Z

"I recall the experience of Mr Kerry Packer, the Australian media
baron, who was brought back from a clinically dead state after a heart
attack at a polo game in 1990 - 15 years before his eventual demise.
Someone asked him what lay beyond the Pearly Gates. He
famously replied:
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven.

...schmart!

2008-10-07T20:13:49Z

Everything changes but the avant garde.
-- Paul Valery

Dieting

2008-10-07T14:47:58Z

The people in front of us in line today couldn’t stop talking about
their diets. It was like they’d broken up with food but were still
jealously in love with it.
-- James, Grimmelmann, [link]

[us-pol] Pirates and Emperors

2008-10-06T22:18:44Z

In the wake of Sarah Palin’s taking Barack Obama to task for his ties
to 1960s Weather Underground member and unrepentant bomber William
Ayres, our investigators have uncovered evidence linking Palin herself
to controversial political figure John McCain.
McCain is a former member of a shadowy organisation called the “Navy

Quote on Einstein.

2008-10-06T19:43:16Z

O.K. this is the story:
In a spanish speaking (thats why you will find some english deficency
in my redaction) forum I was arguing with a anticatholic atheist about
a quote atributed to Albert Einstein regarding the Church that
apeared in Time Magazine that read as follows:
"............ the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Says

Honestly

2008-10-06T17:50:47Z

There are opportunities for corruption and blackmailing, of which
unscrupulous men are well known to take advantage. Such men are
fortunately few; [...]and the rest of the Senate, however it may blush
for them, is obliged to work with them and to treat them as equals. The
contagion of political vice is nowhere so swiftly potent as in

New Jersey webcam: Landie

2008-10-06T13:03:57Z

Webcam: Landie,19 year.New Jersey. Viens me voir et tu verras!
[link]

The English

2008-10-05T01:58:07Z

Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass
through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the
post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he
liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel
abroad or leave his country for ever without a passport or any sort of

Drink heavily and recycle

2008-10-05T01:56:09Z

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it
would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000
would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now
be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager
one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium

A Hard Act To Follow

2008-10-02T11:00:03Z

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman
can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the
same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of
Gandhi_ [1982], "Preface")

As The World Turns

2008-10-02T11:00:04Z

I have learnt through bitter experience the one
supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat
conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our
anger controlled can be transmuted into a power
which can move the world.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of

Love Child

2008-10-02T11:00:02Z

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if
we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall
have to begin with children; and if they will grow
up in their natural innocence, we won't have to
struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle
resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and
peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the

Picture Perfect

2008-10-02T11:00:01Z

Life is greater than all art. I would go even
further and declare that the man whose life
comes nearest to perfection is the greatest
artist; for what is art without the sure
foundation and framework of a noble life?
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of

Lost In Translation

2008-10-02T11:00:03Z

What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of
Gandhi_ [1982], "Faith")

Unpopular Mechanics

2008-10-02T11:00:00Z

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality
and become a mere cog in the machine.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of
Gandhi_ [1982], "Daily Life")