From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #133 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, April 7 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 133 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' (njc) [frednow@aol.com] Re: fictional characters njc ["Lori Fye" ] Re: daily briefing NJC ["Lori Fye" ] Re: fictional characters njc ["Lori Fye" ] ITMFA! (njc) [frednow@aol.com] and you can quote me on that (njc) [frednow@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:17:13 -0400 From: frednow@aol.com Subject: time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' (njc) At 01:33 PM 4/4/2006, mike pritchard wrote: > >>On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in >the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. >That won't ever happen again. << > >Not even in a thousand years, when it will (also) be 01:02:03 04/05/06? Sooner than a thousand years ... a hundred years from then it will also be 01:02:03 04/05/06. - Fred ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:29:48 -0700 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: fictional characters njc > I don't know why the academy voters chose not to award the > best picture oscar to Brokeback. Because ... They heard that the actors liked coming in number two. !!! JOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKEJOKE C'mon, at least smile. : ) Lori ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:46:21 -0700 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: daily briefing NJC > The white house daily briefing tomorrow should be an > interesting one.... > > sure enough. > > > checking to see if I have popcorn..... Checking to see if I have barf bags ... Lori ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:37:36 -0700 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: fictional characters njc > I started a new job 3 months ago and last week I walked > into the Xerox room at work to hear a co-worker say 'I don't > pay attention to fairies'. I walked in just as he was saying > this and my eyebrows went up. Mark, I've met you and there's nothing "fairy-like" about you. Not that there's anything wrong with a man who exhibits fairy-like qualities, but YOU don't fit that, imo. "Beary-like," perhaps, but "fairy-like," no. : ) Lori ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:53:31 -0400 From: frednow@aol.com Subject: ITMFA! (njc) Apologies if everyone already knows about this, but advice columnist Dan Savage has put up a web site: http://www.itmfa.com/ Regular readers of Dan's column, Savage Love, know that when someone writes in complaining of being in an abusive relationship, Dan's advice is invariably expressed in the acronym DTMFA!, or Dump The Motherfucker Already! Now he has coined a new acronym, one whose time has surely come: ITMFA! Yes, it stands for Impeach The Motherfucker Already! Not that I (or Dan, for that matter) suffer delusions that impeachment will actually happen (I mean, let's face it ... it's not like Bush got caught lying about a blowjob), but it does allow for succinct and powerful expression of how angry I feel. And what better way to express that anger than to wear it on one's clothing? You can order them online: $1.75 for a black button with white ITMFA letters, $5.00 for a tasteful lapel pin depicting the American flag with the letters ITMFA underneath it. I've ordered the tasteful lapel pin because it feels more subversive, and because, dammit, I'm a patriot, too! Dan suggests that in addition to getting some for yourself and your loved ones, get a few extra to send to your senators and congress-persons; his goal is to see one of them wearing one on TV. All proceeds after expenses go to the ACLU ... get yours today! - Fred Simon (not affiliated with Dan Savage or ITMFA.com) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:54:27 -0400 From: frednow@aol.com Subject: and you can quote me on that (njc) Watching in horror as my country becomes a fascist theocracy, these very apt quotes come to mind: -------------------------- As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. - William O. Douglas, Supreme Court justice (1898-1980) If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison, 4th US president (1751-1836) Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine 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. 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 in every country. - Hermann Goering at Nuremberg A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. - Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) You did what you had to do. Carried out on a national scale, it might have worked beautifully. But our way is simpler and, we think, better. All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need intact and safe. We're not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good. We are model citizens, in our own special way; we walk the old tracks, we lie in the hills at night, and the city people let us be. We're stopped and searched occasionally, but there's nothing on our persons to incriminate us. The organization is flexible, very loose, and fragmentary. Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job: we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end. It's not pleasant, but then we're not in control, we're the odd minority crying in the wilderness. When the war's over, perhaps we can be of some use in the world. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826) If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. - Woody Allen, in his film Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986 -------------------------- ITMFA! - Fred Simon ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #133 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------