I met someone whom I did not remember meeting before, but I knew we'd meet again in the future.
Deja Vue.... in a reverse sort of way.
Friday, April 30, 2010
You never lose your past, ...
You never lose your past, because it's always popping up in the things you think and do and how you react to the current situation.
You can never avoid your future, but you can shift it a bit to the right, left, up, down, front, back a bit at a time... and then change it's direction.
Good Luck... and enjoy the adventure.
You can never avoid your future, but you can shift it a bit to the right, left, up, down, front, back a bit at a time... and then change it's direction.
Good Luck... and enjoy the adventure.
For Jack and Maggie on Jack's 20th Birthday
April 2nd, 2047
I just came back today to tell you kids that you should read several of Harlan Ellison's books. Pick a few... then try Isaac Asimov, too.
I just came back today to tell you kids that you should read several of Harlan Ellison's books. Pick a few... then try Isaac Asimov, too.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Mark Twain - 1901 and To the Person Sitting in the Darkness
From a political website called Crooks and Liars.
I turned to this short article by Mark Twain, written in 1901, titled "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." http://www.historywiz.com/primarysources/sittingindarkness.htm
This was written late in his life, and his political views had turned against imperialist exercises such as the American occupation of the Philippines. It's worth a read, but this part at the end jumped out at me, where he satirically takes the position of the American government explaining why it was in the Philippines.
From Mark Twain [ aka Samuel Clemens ]
"Having now laid all the historical facts before the Person Sitting in Darkness, we should bring him to again, and explain them to him. We should say to him:
They look doubtful, but in reality they are not. There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come out of apparent evil. True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best. We know this. The Head of every State and Sovereignty in Christendom and ninety per cent. of every legislative body in Christendom, including our Congress and our fifty State Legislatures, are members not only of the church, but also of the Blessings-of-Civilization Trust. This world-girdling accumulation of trained morals, high principles, and justice, cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an ungenerous thing, an unclean thing. It knows what it is about. Give yourself no uneasiness; it is all right.
Now then, that will convince the Person. You will see. It will restore the Business. Also, it will elect the Master of the Game to the vacant place in the Trinity of our national gods; and there on their high thrones the Three will sit, age after age, in the people's sight, each bearing the Emblem of his service: Washington, the Sword of the Liberator; Lincoln, the Slave's Broken Chains; the Master, the Chains Repaired.
It will give the Business a splendid new start. You will see."
- Mark Twain
1901 ... 2001. What will happen to America by 2101 ?
I turned to this short article by Mark Twain, written in 1901, titled "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." http://www.historywiz.com/primarysources/sittingindarkness.htm
This was written late in his life, and his political views had turned against imperialist exercises such as the American occupation of the Philippines. It's worth a read, but this part at the end jumped out at me, where he satirically takes the position of the American government explaining why it was in the Philippines.
From Mark Twain [ aka Samuel Clemens ]
"Having now laid all the historical facts before the Person Sitting in Darkness, we should bring him to again, and explain them to him. We should say to him:
They look doubtful, but in reality they are not. There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come out of apparent evil. True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best. We know this. The Head of every State and Sovereignty in Christendom and ninety per cent. of every legislative body in Christendom, including our Congress and our fifty State Legislatures, are members not only of the church, but also of the Blessings-of-Civilization Trust. This world-girdling accumulation of trained morals, high principles, and justice, cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an ungenerous thing, an unclean thing. It knows what it is about. Give yourself no uneasiness; it is all right.
Now then, that will convince the Person. You will see. It will restore the Business. Also, it will elect the Master of the Game to the vacant place in the Trinity of our national gods; and there on their high thrones the Three will sit, age after age, in the people's sight, each bearing the Emblem of his service: Washington, the Sword of the Liberator; Lincoln, the Slave's Broken Chains; the Master, the Chains Repaired.
It will give the Business a splendid new start. You will see."
- Mark Twain
1901 ... 2001. What will happen to America by 2101 ?
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Second April 2nd, 2010
One of my favorite quotes in movies is in Hook, where Peter Pan says,
"Gotta Save Maggie! Gotta Save Jack! Hook is back!"
Hi Maggie! I love you, Too !!
"Gotta Save Maggie! Gotta Save Jack! Hook is back!"
Hi Maggie! I love you, Too !!
April 2nd 2010
Happy Third Birthday, Jack !!
Off to your place tomorrow for the party!!
Birthday Advice?
Buy Low, Sell High, and don't be in a hurry to buy !!
Off to your place tomorrow for the party!!
Birthday Advice?
Buy Low, Sell High, and don't be in a hurry to buy !!
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Kurt Russell as Jack Burton
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues,
You just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that:
"Have ya paid your dues, Jack?"
"Yes sir! The check is in the mail."