So "Willie want(ed) your wallet?"
Heck, that's nothing! "Dubya' wants:
-your social security, your family's medical care, your job and civil rights.

Humanity is doomed where there is always enough money for war, but never enough for education.

A God small enough to be understood would not be big enough to be worshiped.

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace.

What Would Jesus Bomb?
 

It is in the nature of an empire to disintegrate soon, for the energy that created it soon disappears from those who inherit it.    -Will Durant

When did Jesus become pro-American, pro-war, pro-rich, anti- health-care, and anti- creation?

Annoy the conservative media:
Rush-Liddy-O'Reilly-FOX-Coulter
         Vote Democrat!

I was not made in your image of God.

TERRORISTS DON'T SCARE ME...
NOW...  FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH, ASHCROFT, RUMSFELD, AND CHENEY--  THAT SCARES ME!

God bless the world-- no exceptions.

One day while I was on a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.  The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a so-called insurgent.  The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen of Vietnam who did not want me in his country.
   This truth escapes millions.  Mike Hastie, Tues. Dec. 21,04 Oregonian

Pathetic, isn't it:  OPEC lowers production, while soldiers fight without armored Humveees, to continue oil flow to the US, to power civilian Humvees.  Kathy Ludlow, Dec. 19, 04 Oregonian

It would appear that, while our troops have Third World armor in Iraq, the only impermeable shield around is the bubble surrounding this president. -Randy Webster, Dec. 19, 04 Oregonian

The president's new budget reduces funding for science education.  That's understandable.  An administration that doesn't believe in gobal warming, stem cell research, or evolution doesn't want a new generation of scientifically trained critics.  -George W. Earley Dec. 19, 04 Oregonian

President Bush's domestic vision:
An America where 45 to 50 million Americans are uninsured forever. A nation where the most disadvantaged children are systematically assigned the nation's least-qualified teachers in perpetuity. Where tens of millions of working families live in poverty as far as the eye can see.     -Matthew Miller
 

"Saying our economy is good because Bush cut taxes and increased the national debt is like saying those who max out their credit cards are prosperous."  -John Kovash

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
                 President Dwight D. Eisenhower
                                April 16, 1953.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that
we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public."
              -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

 The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand." This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.                    -Bill Moyers

Hilarious quotes:
from a relative:
"I try to get my news favoring neither the left nor the right.  I watch FOX."  (Ummm, yeah, from the organization that called the '00 vote before the precincts were closed, and who has John Ellis, first cousin of Jeb & GW working Fox's election's division).

"Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education? Free medical care? Free whatever? It comes from Moscow. From Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell." Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Houston, 5-20-03 or so).  Actually, it comes from Europe in the 1300s when the plague hit.  The idea was to keep the poor healthy, so the rich wouldn't get sick.  Also the book of Matthew in the Bible, and the part about free education comes from this Thomas Jefferson guy.  BTW, isn't Russia capitalist now?

"If you took all the fools out of the Legislature, it would not be a representative body anymore."  Carl Parker of Port Arthur

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon, or reward that quality in its chosen leaders today-- and in fact, we have forgotten.  -John F. Kennedy, "Profiles in Courage"
 
 

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"
-- Margaret Meade
Chance favors the prepared mind.
        --Louis Pasteur
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness-- and fewer those who have taken that chance.   --Andre Maurois
Character is a victory, not a gift.                --Try Square
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
   --Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you treat people right they will treat you right--90 percent of the time.  --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it.
    --Gen. Features Corp.
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as occasionally receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
     --Katherine F. Gerould
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a  parade in which youíre not really interested, in order to get where youíre going.
   --Christopher Morley
One of the most important trips a man can make is that involved in meeting the other fellow halfway.                  -Brice Van Horn
Life is simply a matter of concentration: you are what you set out to be. Youíre a composite of the things you say, the books you read, the thoughts you think, the company you keep, and the things you desire to become.     --B.C. Forbes
A man must consider the rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conformity is one of the most fundamental dishonesties of all. When we reject our specialness, water down our individuality and uniqueness, we begin to lose our freedom. The conformist is in no way a free man.  He has to follow the herd.      --Norman Vincent Peale

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
    --Robert Louis Stevenson
True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue-- not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.              --G. K. Chesterton
There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different from the things we do.   --Freyo Stark
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.           --Winston Churchill
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
      --George Bernard Shaw
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.  Silently and imperceptibly we grow strong or weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
      --Connon Westcott
If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
       --Arab proverb
Make one person happy each day-- even it itís yourself!                --Unknown
Democrocy is a  small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
    --Dr. James B. Conant
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.  --Michelangelo The greatest happiness of 1ife is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.  --Victor Hugo
Not in doing whot you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness      --James M. Barrie
Remember that ìHelp us grow this grassî is a far more effective sign than ìKeep off the grass.î
  --Norman Vincent Peale
This minute, too, is part of eternity.
       -- Duncan Stuart
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. --Oscar Wilde
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.  --Aldous Huxley

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
         --Confucius
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
   --Robert Louis Stevenson
In free countries every man is entitled to express his opinions-- and every other man is entitled not to listen.      --G. Norman Collie
Any man can stand up to his opponents:  Give me the man who can stand up to his friends.                         --William Gladstone
The measure of a manís real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
  --Thomas Babington Macaulay

Form the habit of reacting ìyesî to a new idea. First think of all the reasons why itís good; there will be plenty of people around to tell you why it wonít work.                           --Chauncey Guy Suits
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
      --Arnold H. Glasow
Imagination is more important than knowledge.    --Albert Einstein
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
         --Jules Verne
A manís life is dyed the color of his imagination.  --Marcus Aurelius
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
      --Eleanor Roosevelt
It is necesary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.  Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it is in professing to believe what he does not believe.   --Thomas Paine
Part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.     --Franklin P. Adams
If there is no wind, row.
        --Polish proverb
There are no interesting things; there are only uninterested people.
       --G. K. Chesterton
Often itís easier to do a good job, than to explain why you didnít.             --Unknown

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
     --Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.      --Voltaire
Donít be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You canít cross a chasm in small steps.
     --Daid Lloyd George
If one were to give you ten cents for every kind word that you have said to people, and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?       --Word and Way
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
     --David Starr Jordan

It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month, there is nothing that seems worth telling.          --O. Douglas
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. --Alfred Korzybski
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.       --John Christian
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them.       --Dean Rusk
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
      --Channing Pollack
Things are never quite the same somehow after you have to lie to a person.
        --Christopher Morley
Manís mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.--OliverWendell Holmes
If all of our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone
must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.        --Socrates
What would you not pay to see the moon rise, if Nature had not improvidently made it a free entertainment?
     --Richard Le Gallienne

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."  You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
      --Winston Churchill
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.  --Henry Van Dyke
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.   --Walter Lippmann
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
       --Aurthur Brisbane
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing all the thinking.
      --Lyndon B. Johnson
You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.   --Bob Hope
The truth doesnít hurt unless it ought to.       --B. C. Forbes
Everybody is ignorant; only on different subjects.   --Will Rogers
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in
it-- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on the hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.   --Mark Twain
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.                  --Anon.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.  --Andre Gide
 

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.   --Pearl Buck
Work is the easiest way man has ever invented to escape boredom.
         --Le Recueil
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.       --Will Rogers
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship.     --Anon.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
       --Calvin Coolidge
What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?     --H.G. Wells
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.  They are right.  It is.  It is the American Dream.
     --Archibald Mac Leish
As a general rule, a man is about as big as the things which make him mad.    -- An old Marylander
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.  It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out-- it's the grain of sand in your shoe.          --Service
By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.--Voltaire
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
      --Theodore Roosevelt
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
       --John Stuart Mill
Save a child.  Shoot a TV.
      --El Toro HS student
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
      --The Buffalo News
It is not miserable to be blind;  it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.  --John Milton
 

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em "Certainly, I can!"  then get busy and find out how to do it.     --Theodore Roosevelt
To a brave man, both good luck and bad luck are like his right and left hand.  He uses them both.--Unknown
Prevent gangs.  Spend time with your family.      -- Mr. Bath
Bees are not as busy as we think they are.  They just canít buzz any slower.
        -- Kin Hubbard
If thereís  a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on, and it gets done.
     --Henry Ward Beecher
Civilization exists by geological consent.  Subject to change without notice.       --Will Durant
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
   --Admiral William F. Halsey
If you think learning is boring, try standing in an unemployment line...         -- Unknown
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance...    --Unknown
Donít quarrel with anyone.  Be at peace with everyone just as much as possible.  If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.  --Proverbs
The person who knows how will always have a job.  The person who knows why will always be his boss.         --Unknown

Mothers all want their children to grow up and be president, but they donít want them to become politicians in the process.
      --John F. Kennedy
Let no one seek their own good, but the good of their neighbor.
        --Corinthians
Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat nor about your body, what you shall put on.  For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.      --Bible
A cynic is one who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.     --Oscar Wilde
The person who works hard sleeps well!        --Proverbs

Instead of accepting responsibility for our choices, we simply dump huge mountains of debt and pollution on future generations.  The future whispers while the present shouts.          --Albert Gore
Lazy people want much but get nothing, while the diligent prosper.          --Proverbs
It is not so much the easy lies we tell each other as the hard truths that are never told at all.  It has become all too easy for those of us in public office to evade responsibility for the tough decisions that ought to be made, but are instead ignored.
         --Albert Gore
 

Don't use bad language.  Say only what is good and helpful to those you are talking to and what will give them a blessing.      --Bible
"High school is the best year of your life."
--Adam Jenkins, a 14 year old from Liberty, MO, with an IQ of 166, who will graduate this month having completed all requirements with straight Aís.
"The road to Success is always under construction"
"Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when theyíre open."
"We make a LIVING by what we GET... but we make a LIFE by what we GIVE."   --John Wesley

Genius is the wisdom to follow nature, the courage to follow nature,
And the eyes to see nature.î
"Imagine the outrage that would ensue if budget constraints forced curtailment of television to the level of our library hours"
    --Dorothy H. Dhillonn
"Plan for tomorrow while you live for today."
"Instead of pointing fingers, lend a hand."
"Preach the gospel at all times.  If necessary, use words."
      --St. Francis of Assisi
"The best things in life are not things."
"Nobodyís born a bigot."
"Talk your baby out of having one."
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."
        --John Wesley

Be who you are, and say how you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind.     -Dr. Seuss

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own; to be what no other can be, and do what no other can do.   --William Ellen Channing

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.  H. Feinstein
Take pride in far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.

Failure is an event, not a person.
        --William Brown

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.  One of these is roots, the other wings.  --Hodding Carter

They are not gone who live in the hearts of those they leave behind.  --Native American saying

The happiest days of my life have been the few which I have passed at home on the bosom of my family.
--Thomas Jefferson

My father never talked to me about how to treat people.  Every act of kindness I have ever shown another person was because I was trying to imitate him.    --Pamela McGrew.