Affirmations

[DavidS]

Originally posted by Serenity:
"I think I
may need
a bathroom
break?
Is this possible?"
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York on September 14, 2005.

That kind of thing has been reported about meetings with Japanese business execs and Syrian politicians.

[Serenity]

OK, I'll bite....what do Japanese business executives and Syrian politicians have in common?

[DavidS]

Apparently one of their conference tactics (or strategies?) is the use of bladder attrition - i.e. scheduling marathon-length meetings during which they ply the other party with coffee and other beverages, but just do not give them a break to go to the loo. That pressurises the other side into making hasty decisions in favour of the hosts...

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[Serenity]

Then why are not most of these executives and politicians women, since women seem to have greater bladder control?

[DavidS]

[OperaTenor]

"It'll be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." - Bumper sticker

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
~John Stuart Mill

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
~Karl Von Clausewitz

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
~Benito Mussolini
Ed remarks that this last could have been left out, considering how Benny ended up.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.
~Mary Heaton Vorse

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
~Gerry Adams, Irish president, Sinn Fein
Ed: well, he'd know about that.

[OperaTenor]

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. that is understood. but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship."

"But in democracy people choose their leaders and they have a voice. For example in America only the parliament can declare a war."

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. that is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

- Hermann Goering, Nuremburg

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[OperaTenor]

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

- President James Madison

[Serenity]

Bush is Sauron

[Serenity]

"Stay the course"....
.
.
.
boy am I sick of that expression

[OperaTenor]

"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.

The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the houses of its children. "

- President Dwight Eisenhower, 16th April 1953

[analog]

"The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil! ......
One would rather see the world run by men who set their hearts on toys but are accessible to pity, than by men animated by lofty ideals whose dedication makes them ruthless." eric hoffer

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[OperaTenor]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on."

- President George W. Bush, 2001

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by Serenity:
Bush is Sauron

Does that make Cheney a Balrog, and Rove Morgoth?!



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[OperaTenor]

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Serenity]

A positive attitude might not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Anonymous

[BigJon@Work]

Way to revive an old thread, Ms. Serenity!

[Serenity]

Thanks for the positive attitude BJ!