Happy Christmas

Merry Christmas from Bob.

Terrorizing Terror...

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

-Bernard Bailey

Unrefined!

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

-Philip K. Dick

Happy Good Pie Day!

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

- Dr. Carl Sagan

Vice Gripe...

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

-François de la Rochefoucauld

Unstable Matter...

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.

-Spiro T. Agnew

Voter’s regret...

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

-Father James Keller

Post Election 2008 Quote of the Day...

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

-Imelda Marcos

ELECTION QUOTE 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Remember to vote early -- and often.

- Al Capone

ELCTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

-Alexander Woollcott

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

-Gore Vidal

ELCTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

-Elmer Davis

Happy Halloween!

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

-Jean Baudrillard

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

-Charles Krauthammer

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

-Carl Sandburg

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

-Henry Cate, VII

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

-Robert Orben

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

-Lindsey Nelson

A Very Special Bob's World

When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain.

- early voter Virginia Matheney (Friday, Oct. 17, 2008)

I hit Obama and it switched to McCain. I am really concerned about that. If McCain wins, there was something wrong with the machines.
I asked them for a printout of my votes, but they said it was in the machine and I could not get it. I did not feel right when I left the courthouse.

-early voter Shelba Ketchum (Oct. 18, 2008)


"I touched the one I wanted...and the machine put a checkmark on the Republican instead.

- early voter Bobbi Oates (Oct 18, 2008)

Listen to me....Listen to me...

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

-Edward R. Murrow

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

-Henry Fountain Ashurst

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Voting is a civic sacrament.

-Theodore Hesburgh

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

-Robert Frost

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

-Hillary Clinton

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

There was a time when the mere invitation of an African-American citizen to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage and an insult in many quarters. Today, it's a world away from the crude and prideful bigotry of that time, and good riddance. I can't wish my opponent luck -- but I do wish him well.

-John McCain

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is that Barack is actually Swahili for 'that one.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.

Barack Obama

Untitled #1

It's high time you were shown

That you really don't know

All there is to be known.

-Dr. Seuss

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

-Gore Vidal

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

-Henry David Thoreau

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

-William Feather

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

-Will Rogers

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

-Dan Quayle

Educated Guess...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

-Karl Rove

Zero tolerance

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

-Yogi Berra

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

When I was brought on board to save John McCain's campaign I didn't blink for a second.

-Sarah Palin

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.

-Sarah Palin

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?

-Sarah Palin

I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president also if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president's policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are.

-Sarah Palin

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

-Gus Hall

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration. Our goal today…[is] to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters…. The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right.

-Florida Supreme Court

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

-Barack Obama

Ho un foruncolo sulla schiena...

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

-Bill Bryson

ELECTIION 2008 QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

-Dan Quayle

My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

-John Adams

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

-Hubert Humphrey

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

-Barack Obama

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

-Alan Corenk

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

-Barack Obama

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.

-Abraham Lincoln

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

- Joseph Joubert

Oh, filddle-dee-dee!

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
-G. K. Chesterton

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.

- Barry Goldwater

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.

- Thomas Jefferson

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

-Benjamin Franklin

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

- Edmund Burke

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

-Woody Allen

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

- Orson Scott Card

Deadbeat Dud...

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

-Bertrand Russell

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY

The U.S. economy is healthy, it's fundamentally very strong.

-George Bush (Sept. 16, 2008)

Our economy I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

- John McCain (Sept. 15, 2008)

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

-Herbert Hoover (Oct. 30, 1929)

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

-John Quincy Adams

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

- Clarence S. Darrow

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

- Mark B. Cohen

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

-Winston Churchill

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

-Edmund Burke

Running on Fumes...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

-Emma Lazarus

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

- H. L. Mencken

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

-Emma Goldman

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

- Will Rogers

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

I would rather have a clean government than one where the, quote, First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

- John McCain

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

- John McCain

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?

- John McCain

Existential Bop...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

-Lin Yutang

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.

-Walter H. Judd

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

-H. L. Mencken

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

-Tom Stoppard

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

-E. B. White

Election 2008 Quote of the Day...

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

-Franklin P. Adams

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.

-Bernard Baruch

This is a Man’s World…

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

-Elie Wiesel

ELECTION 2008 DAILY QUOTE...

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

-Adlai Stevenson

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

-T. S. Eliot

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.

-Thomas Jefferson

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

-W. C. Fields

Feat of Clay...

Four legs good, two legs bad.

-George Orwell

Happy Birthday, Frenchie!

Dance like you just don't care...

-Bob

Happy Birthday, Peaches!

May you never need more cowbell...

He's a bit of a loner

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy

-Joseph Campbell

Lost in thought…

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

- Revelations 6:8

Only the Lonely...

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

- G. B. Burgin

To the disillusioned...

In response to all the negative responses (one) that I recieved regarding the last post....






I hope this makes you happy, Missie!

He's Coming...He's Coming...

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

-Brad Bird

Genie-ology

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

-Pubillius Syrus

Is dat bloed?

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Collective Panic…

In the end, everything is a gag.





- Charlie Chaplin

I feel your pain...

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

-Adlai Stevenson

I'm Older Than I've Ever Been...

...Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

-Pink Floyd

Ate to the Bar..

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

- Henny Youngman

Newspeak!

Don't Taze Me, Bro!

-Andrew Meyer

Ik ben bang van geesten!

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

- Oscar Wilde

Tenho medo de fantasmas!

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.

-Groucho Marx

A Special Post for a Special Day...

Happy Birthday, Elgy!






You're not forty; you're eighteen with twenty two years of experience.



- Erma Bombeck

Ich habe Angst vor Geistern!

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

Plait envy...

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

- Cato the Elder

Le seul mot juste

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

- Plato

Bugaboo...

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.

-Lauren Upton

Rooty-Tooty!

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

- Mark Twain

You will be assimilated!

Most people are paid just enough to keep them from quitting, for working just hard enough to keep from getting fired.

-George Carlin

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This brings me so much joy.

And so does this.

-Bob

Funny Money

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

- W. C. Fields

Chew on this for a couple of weeks....

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

-Bob Dylan

Unprotected Sects

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- Joseph Campbell

Vestal Virgins

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

Sister...You Said a Mouthful!

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

-Mother Teresa

Playbill

Give a man a fish, feed him for day. Teach him how to fish and pretty soon every lake and river near his home will be empty unless you also teach him about the environment and his relationship to it.

-Eric Edmeades

Go west young man

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved.

-William Jennings Bryant

Let Them Eat Cake…

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Mayor McCheesey…

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

- Carl Jung

White House Blues…

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

-Richard M. Nixon