Quotation of the Day

[Karel]

... and may the lady get on top ...

[riverbabe]

Gee, thanks for posting that link, Louetta. That was really good!

Thank you, Louetta. That was really good.

[riverbabe]

"Let me be clear once again. I had no knowledge prior to or during these lane realignments, and had no role in authorizing them. No believable evidence was presented to contradict that fact."

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE, of New Jersey, in a statement after two of his former aides were convicted on all charges stemming from a scheme to deliver political payback by closing access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.

[Louetta]

"Across a great divide, two views of the unthinkable". The headline of today's Boston Globe newspaper, beneath which are two articles. One fearing what will happen if Trump is elected, the other fearing what will happen if Clinton is elected.

[riverbabe]

"Across a great divide, two views of the unthinkable". The headline of today's Boston Globe newspaper, beneath which are two articles. One fearing what will happen if Trump is elected, the other fearing what will happen if Clinton is elected.

Those articles are really scary. It's like Voldemort v. the Wicked Witch of the West. No, far worse! It's real life!

[riverbabe]

"He had run into some scrap aluminum sheeting from an actual World War II B-24 Liberator, and he wanted to design a guitar with it."

[Matt Artinger to Popular Mechanics / Kendall Hamilton]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a23747/matt-artinger-luthier-build-guitars/

[Louetta]

Guest on CNBC's Squawk Box:

I predict the recent Treasury rates will be the lows of our lifetimes.

Host Joe Kernen:

Haven't you been predicting that for five years?

[Deaddog]

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. -- John Foster Dulles

[Deaddog]

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

[riverbabe]

"There is no future in it any more - you never know when your prison will be closed"

Frans Carbo, Union leader

(Wow, Karel. This is impressive!) The Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners

By Lucy Ash BBC News, Veenhuizen

[riverbabe]

"It happens all the time: Young gay people leave their small towns and head to the big city, where they can find love, acceptance and, in Canada at least, a curling league to call their own."

[NYT / Dan Levin]

[Deaddog]

"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once" — Phyllis Diller

[billyjoe]

"My mother was a teacher who loved space. My father was an engineer. I combined both" Record setting astronaut Peggy Whitson as she is on her way to command the International Space Shuttle. https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy?ref_s...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

---------------billy

[riverbabe]

General Mattis told Mr. Trump what experts have been saying for years: Torture doesn’t work. Mr. Trump said he was “impressed and surprised” by General Mattis’s assurance that, “Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/opinion/questioning-donald-trump.html?_r=0

[mimo_100]

The economist Milton Friedman said that once, while he was taken to see a canal that was being dug, he expressed astonishment that there was no heavy earth-moving machinery, only men with shovels. A government official said that was because the project was a jobs program. Well, then, Friedman replied, shouldn't they use spoons rather than shovels?