Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Mme Scherzo

Mme Scherzo:

" Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf,

Monday, February 20, 2012

Sore-Throated Sonnets of Regurgitated Reasoning | Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on...

Sore-Throated Sonnets of Regurgitated Reasoning | Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on...:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king –
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

-by Edwin Arlington Robinson

A Bunch of Tutorials - Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted

A Bunch of Tutorials - Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted

drawing

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Inspirational Adversity Quotes, Sayings about Problems and Hardship

Inspirational Adversity Quotes, Sayings about Problems and Hardship:

My strength is made perfect in weakness. ~II Corinthians

Strength quotes

Strength quotes:

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Strength quotes

Strength quotes:

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

William Black on Financial Fraud | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

William Black on Financial Fraud | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

Really important report on banking fraud

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern - Poem by Nizar Qabbani

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern - Poem by Nizar Qabbani:

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern by Nizar Qabbani

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,
And the kiss more important than the lips.
My letters to you
Are greater and more important than both of us.
The are the only documents
Where people will discover
Your beauty
And my madness.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Reflejos

Reflejos: Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours:

Waltz Across Texas, 1965


http://myjambox.tumblr.com/post/12803478447/ernest-tubb-waltz-across-texas

Reflejos

Reflejos: "Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health."

— Julia Child

Thursday, February 09, 2012

On Healing Wings

On Healing Wings: "For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard."

—Psalm 22:24

On Healing Wings

On Healing Wings:


" Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity, for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success."

—John Calvin

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Mme Scherzo - The phrase, “Defining deviancy downward, ” has...

Mme Scherzo - The phrase, “Defining deviancy downward, ” has...

The phrase, “Defining deviancy downward, ” has always left me unsettled.

Isn’t deviancy a downward spiral from proper behavior, anyway?

More correctly, deviancy has been redefined upward, and with Sisyphean effort on the part of intellectuals, the press, and entertainment culture of the west, deviancy has not only been pushed up the hill against howling protest, but has been exalted to the highest pinnacle and placed upon an altar to be worshiped.

It is the new secular religion, which is actually the oldest religion of humanity. - the religion of Satan, of Cain, of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Baal and Beelzebub, of Molech and Mohammed.

It is the opiate of the mass media.

The First Person in the unholy trinity of Me, Myself and I.

It is the Religion of Tolerance.

Mme Scherzo

Saturday, February 04, 2012

Mme Scherzo - Conf�teor Deo omnipot�nti et vobis, fratres, quia...

Mme Scherzo - Conf�teor Deo omnipot�nti et vobis, fratres, quia...
Confíteor Deo omnipoténti et vobis, fratres,
quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo, ópere et omissióne:
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa.
Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem,
omnes Angelos et Sanctos, et vos, fratres,
oráre pro me ad Dóminum Deum nostrum.

English translation:

I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my own fault,
through my own most grievous fault;
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.

For you who believe that there is a reality called White Privilege, and that only whites can be racists, I urge you to think through to the ends of such beliefs, and see how people, perpetually infantilized as victims of racism, never able to achieve their full status as grown men and women, never able to fulfill their life’s goals are actually robbed of their humanity by this belief, because they aren’t held to the same standards of behavior.

If only one group of people is responsible for the misery of everyone else, then those people are never responsible for their own actions, for their own failures, and will handily find anyone whiter, richer, more educated than themselves to blame.

If you must learn one thing about this doctrine it is this. It is completely at odds with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish teaching.

Group identification robs a man of his identity, of who he is as a creation of God, unique from others, while still being like them, under God.

When you say, in the comfort of your universities, where reality has only theories, that only white people can be racists, that only whites are privileged, you are stoking the fires of Hell against yourselves, and everyone else.

Do we need another holocaust to remind us that Jew-hatred was based upon this same satanic teaching? 6 million Jews died in the quest for a Jew-free world, and yet, all that Jew-hatred ended up costing the Germans and the rest of the world far more lives than the Jews they wished to eliminate.

Racism, as it has been redefined, is a meaningless term used to invoke rage and anger, and to shut down any form of debate and analysis of social policies.

Hatred, on the other hand, is as old as time. And that is something that divides us all, down to a brother, a sister, a mother and father. It is color blind.

The teaching of Christ is this: All those who are in Him, are neither male, nor female, nor slave nor free, nor Jew nor Gentile, but equals.

And that is what I believe.

there's no "i" in pirate.., note to self

there's no "i" in pirate.., note to self

How Memory Works - Online Colleges

How Memory Works - Online Colleges