Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have.

Jim Rohn

'I'm not concerned about the very poor..." Mitt Romney - yesterday. That's some religion our politicians have - beautiful baby, beautiful!

Social Security today has a $2.5 trillion surplus, can pay out all benefits owed to every eligible American for the next 25 years and, because it is funded independently by the payroll tax, has not added one penny to our national deficit or debt.

What I have to say about this book can be found inside the book.

~ Albert Einstein

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

~ Confucius

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

~ Charles Baudelaire

A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers

I am always more interested in what I am about to do, than in what I have already done.

Rachel Carson

VERIZON: Total profits (2008-10): $32.5 billion
Total Lobbying Expenses (2008-10): $52.3 billion
Despite soaring profits, refuse to negotiate a fair contract for 50,000 Verizon workers

Those are your Bank of America Stats of the Week - enjoy!

Offshore subsidiaries in tax havens: 143
Lobbying since bailout (2009-2010): $8.5 million
Political contributions in 2008 & 2010 federal elections: $9.5 million

2010 CEO Brian Moynihan pay: $10 million
2010 bonuses and compensation: $35.1 billion
Income taxes owed in 2009: $0

Federal taxpayer bailout funds received: $199 billion
Bank teller wage: $11.11/hour ($23,108/year)

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

~ Herodotus

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Seneca

My goal in life is to be a person as good as my dog already thinks I am.

~ Unknown

Think on This...
Perfection is not possible in a material body until you have at least entered some thirty times . . .

Edgar Cayce Reading 2982-2

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

~ Isadora Duncan

• Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs.

• The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976.

• Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight years Bush was president.

Of 172 recognized democracies, the US is ranked 139th in voter participation. Hello McFly!

$27.5 million: The amount that Super PACs have spent to influence the 2012 presidential election
$8.1 million: The amount Restore Our Future, the Super PAC backing GOP contender Mitt Romney, has spent
$5.4 million: The amount candidates have spent on TV ads for the South Carolina primary to date
$6.9 million: The amount Super PACs have spent on TV ads in South Carolina

This primary day, demand to know how much election coverage you’re really getting from your local news station: http://bit.ly/zwKOYPx

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » PBS, NPR Try to Defend Iran Distortions http://ping.fm/hMPiG

When you pass along messages you find important via Facebook, Twitter and other social media, you're helping to build a more democratic media--where human choice rather than profit determines the information people see.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

May we speak in all human councils on behalf of the animals, plants, and landscapes of the earth.

John Seed

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

¯H. Jackson Browne