I heard young tenant shout obscenity..found a spot of blood on the vanity counter..went to his room; the door was open..He was holding his left hand in his right..I announced with pleasure, "You cut your left hand!".."How did you know?" I Smirked!

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - King did NOT say, nor did he mean "EXCEPT FOR BLACK PEOPLE"!

Orson Welles as HARRY LIME: Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. - Film, "The Third Man" - Lime was a compassionate conservative too!

FREDERICK: The worst are fundamentalist preachers, third-rate con men telling poor suckers that they speak for Jesus, & please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Cicero, "It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.".. "If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." - Of course he spoke Latin. Yes, he knew Caesar well.

“Every educated person is future enemy” – Göring. “propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over” – Goebbels

There is a lesson to be learned here. Teach your children to be honest and moral – and they will die poor! Teach them to be like Bill Gates, Rafael Palmeiro, Dick Cheney, Ken Lay & Manuel Noriega, and they will die rich! It’s your call!

Castro "Ideas do not need weapons, if they convince great masses.-This country is heaven spiritually. We prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.-Warfare is a means, not an end; a tool of revolutionaries-important thing is revolution."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - King did NOT say, nor did he mean "EXCEPT FOR BLACK PEOPLE"!

Margaret Atwood: “If your government says, ‘Not only am I your government, but I represent the true religion. If you disagree with it, you’re not just of another faction; you’re evil!’ Humans use God as a weapon.”

Tabacco: One should listen to moral philosophies, then decide whether worthwhile or parroting demagoguery. Christians have it backwards. They decide whom they shall believe in first, then begin absorbing that person(s)’ philosophy and edicts.

The Tabacco Article was inspired by John Shook’s list of “The Fifty Greatest Philosophers”. I took exception to his listing Plato as No. 1. I emailed John Shook, per his request in his original Article. Today, he responded.

George W. Bush would agree with Plato’s theories of government - that is until someone explains to him that “Private property is curtailed severely, and possessing riches is strictly forbidden.”+Profiles Nietzsche Spinoza Buddha Schopenhauer

April made this comment, “Tabacco. You ask what your anger and bitterness has to do with anything. I will tell you. When you are angry and bitter, that is what people see in your writing.” See my reply inside. Thanks, April for this rebuke

Dr. Maslow hypothesized that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. Each individual’s needs must be satisfied at the lower levels before they progress to higher, more complex levels. Some of us never get past level 3. Where are you?

Each morning I check Statistics of this Blog to see how many of you have visited and which Articles you have viewed. I then record those statistics in a Spreadsheet..I know how many Readers & which Articles, but not who those visitors are.

When I was a boy, my aunt refused to let me go out somewhere. I played Elvis Presley?s single, ?Hound Dog? over 20 times in a row. I asked permission again, and it was granted...My aunt never knew she had been ?worked?...