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