BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 28 February, 2007

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Air Blue Away

Thousands of holiday travelers found themselves inadvertently grounded today when Air Blue Away lost complete control of reality for an entire morning, bringing business to a standstill across the Midwest.

Disgruntled customer Ali Tabug complained that "I only get one week's vacation a year. I planned to spend it blown away, not totally grounded in reality. What a major bummer."

Air Blue Away President Art C. Fartsy admitted today that "like all our satisfied customers over the years, these people were expecting to get blown away but found themselves inadvertently grounded in reality. I know what that's like and I apologize. Nobody is going to be fired over the incident. I take full responsibility."

Mike Easerindecar, chairman and CEO of Bummers 'r' Us, said "We resent this blatant case of copyright infringement. We've been marketing bummers for years, in direct competition with Air Blue Away, and they have no right to associate themselves with bummers in any way, shape, or form."

"That just blows me away," declared Fartsy, "but I can dig where he's coming from. I'd like to assure Mr. Easerindecar that we are not trying to attract customers interested in bummers, and I actually find it surprising that such a market exists. The whole idea bums me out royal."

"There he goes again," replied Fartsy. "I'm blown away by Easerindecar's capacity to bum me out."

In fact, the blown away and bummer marketplaces have been running neck and neck for years. Customers seem to be equally attracted to both concepts.

"I bought into bummers in '93," says bummer billionaire Anita Smack, "and my worth kept doubling and tripling."

"I was blown away in '71," says crypto-neurosurgeon Harmony Slapper from his new home in Guantanamo, "and look where it got me."

"My first major bummer was so intense I've subconsciously been repeating it over and over for years," explained neo-bum Wilma Fingerdo, who lost a fortune this year in real bummers.

"Every time I'm blown away, it reminds me of the first time I was blown away, and it just blows me away that happens," said nobody in particular.

"That just bums me out. I'm always grounded in reality. I don't know what all those crybabies are complaining about," said Xavier Self from Drowning, PA., who's been a bummer for 47 years and counting.

"I don't buy into any of this," Buddha butted in. "One must be blown away AND grounded in reality to find nirvana."

Nirvana had no comment.

"I just blows me away that anyone could say such a thing."

- Nirvana, who had a comment after all -

"Concentrate your phaser power on what appears to be its head."

- Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise -

"I'm so bummed away by all this."

- Margaret Thatcher -

"Me too."

- Moses -

"Won't it ever end?"

- Nope -

Tomb of Fictional Character Found

"We're as stunned as everyone is," said film director Ivan T'bycha. "The last thing we expected to find in this archeological dig was the remains of a fictional character, his wife, and two kids."

"It simply strains disbelief," said Dondy Lifejackets, chairman of the archdiocese of Reactionary Intellectuals. "Other than this so-called 'tomb' in this so called 'dig,' there's no direct evidence whatsoever that fictional characters die natural deaths."

The History Channel promises to get to the bottom of this implausible controversy in a new one-hour special called "Watch This Or We'll Kill You Then Do A Special About You."

How to Change Things

The Hegelian Dialectic is a process formulated by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) and used by Karl Marx in codifying revolutionary Communism as dialectical materialism. This process can be illustrated as:

The Thesis represents either an established practice or point of view which is pitted against...
The Antithesis - usually a crisis of opposition fabricated or created by change agents, causing the Thesis to compromise itself, incorporating some part of the Antithesis to produce...
The Synthesis - sometimes called consensus.

This is the primary tool in the bag of tricks used by change agents who are trained to direct this process all over the country... A good example of this concept was voiced by T.H. Bell when he was U.S. Secretary of Education: "[We] need to create a crisis to get consensus in order to bring about change."

From The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.

Quiz of the Week

Which of the following countries are joining Bush's "surge" and sending more troops to Iraq?

Coalition Forces

ALBANIA: 120 non-combat troops, mainly patrolling airport in Mosul; no plans to withdraw.
ARMENIA: 46 soldiers, serving as medics, engineers and transport drivers, serving under Polish command; mission extended to end of 2007.
AUSTRALIA: 550 troops helping to train security forces in two southern Iraqi provinces.
AZERBAIJAN: 150 troops, mostly serving as sentries, on patrols and protecting dam near city of Hadid; no plans to withdraw.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Bosnia has 36 soldiers - including three teams of 10 officers and a command team of six - in Iraq.
BRITAIN: 7,100 troops in southern Iraq; Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans to reduce force by 1,600 in the coming months.
BULGARIA: 155 in total, including 120 non-combat troops guarding refugee camp north of Baghdad and 35 support personnel.
CZECH REPUBLIC: 99 troops.
DENMARK: 460 troops patrolling Basra; to be withdrawn by August.
EL SALVADOR: 380 soldiers doing peacekeeping and humanitarian work in southern city of Kut; no immediate plans to withdraw.
ESTONIA: 35 troops serving under U.S. command in the Baghdad area.
GEORGIA: About 900 combat forces, medics and support personnel serving under U.S. command in Baqouba; no plans to withdraw or reduce contingent.
KAZAKHSTAN: 27 military engineers; no plans to withdraw.
LATVIA: 125 troops are serving under Polish command in Diwaniyah.
LITHUANIA: 53 troops are part of a Danish battalion near Basra. A government spokeswoman said it is "seriously considering" not replacing the contingent when its mission ends in August.
MACEDONIA: 40 troops in Taji, north of Baghdad.
MOLDOVA: 11 bomb-defusing experts returned home at end of January; parliament has not yet decided on sending a new mission.
MONGOLIA: 160 troops; no plans to withdraw.
NETHERLANDS: 15 soldiers as part of NATO mission training police, army officers; no plans to withdraw.
POLAND: 900 non-combat troops; commands multinational force south of Baghdad; mission extended to end of 2007.
ROMANIA: About 600 troops, most serving in the south under British command, with the rest - a few dozen military intelligence officers - serving north of Baghdad; Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu wants them withdrawn.
SLOVENIA: Four instructors training Iraqi security forces.
SOUTH KOREA: 2,300 troops in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil; plans to bring home 1,100 by April and parliament insists on a plan for a complete withdrawal by end of 2007.
UNITED STATES: Approximately 140,000 troops.

Answer: "-23" All but one are withdrawing troops.

I Feel So Much Safer Now

"Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday. Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases examined by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine were either diminished or inflated."

- MSNBC: Audit finds U.S. anti-terror statistics inflated -

"The United States on Friday rejected an international call to abandon the use of cluster bombs, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

"'We ... take the position that these munitions do have a place and a use in military inventories, given the right technology as well as the proper rules of engagement,' McCormack said.

"Forty-six countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged to seek a treaty banning cluster bombs by next year, with major user and stockpiler Britain and manufacturer France signing on, Norway said...

"A cluster bomb is a container holding hundreds of smaller bomblets. It opens in mid-air and disperses the bomblets over a large area.

"The smaller bombs do not always explode on impact, which means they can continue to kill innocent civilians years later.

"A recent report by Handicap International claimed that 98 percent of casualties from cluster munitions are non-combatants.

- US rejects ban on cluster bombs -

Free Book of the Week, albeit a PDF

Free MP3 of the Week

Bradley Sowash is rapidly becoming one of my favorite living pianists. In his latest release, he imagines a collaboration between Beethoven and Duke Ellington. For a video and free MP3, check out Ellingthoven.

...to everybody who sent me a graphic of my email address to use to fool the spiders, but especially to Joe Showalter who sent the incredibly simple JavaScript used for the above email link, which is totally spiderproof.

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Just slug in your facts and post away. Now can anyone figure out how to use this JavaScript with this graphic?

Hint: Just replacing "Condi Caption" (the showlink) with the name of the graphic doesn't work.

New Word of the Week

- from Harry Shearer

Disturbing Video of the Week

On 9/11, it would seem the BBC was about half an hour too early in reporting the collapse of WTC7. In what is clearly a pre-written cover story, the reporters are explaining the details of the collapse. They explain that the building was damaged due to falling debris and that it collapsed as a result. The problem is that the building is standing RIGHT BEHIND THE REPORTER as she is reading the report! Check out this video (or the enormous MPG here) which seems to indicate there was a press release prepared about the collapse (really a controlled demolition) before it ever happened, and the BBC somehow aired it too early. Unless you have another explanation.

Satan Doesn't Want You to Know

apples	Protects your heart	Prevents constipation	Blocks diarrhea	Improves lung capacity	Cushions joints
apricots	Combats cancer	Controls blood pressure	Saves your eyesight	Shields against Alzheimer's	Slows aging process
artichokes	Improves digestion	Lowers cholesterol	Protects your heart	Stabilizes blood sugar	Guards against liver disease
avocados	Battles diabetes	Lowers cholesterol	Helps stop strokes	Controls blood pressure	Smoothes skin
bananas	Protects your heart	Quiets a cough	Strengthens bones	Controls blood pressure	Blocks diarrhea
beans	Prevents constipation	Helps hemorrhoids	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Stabilizes blood sugar
beets	Controls blood pressure	Combats cancer	Strengthens bones	Protects your heart	Aids weight loss
blueberries	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Stabilizes blood sugar	Boosts memory	Prevents constipation
broccoli	Strengthens bones	Saves eyesight	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Controls blood pressure
cabbage	Combats cancer	Prevents constipation	Promotes weight loss	Protects your heart	Helps hemorrhoids
cantaloupe	Saves eyesight	Controls blood pressure	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Supports immune system
carrots	Saves eyesight	Protects your heart	Prevents constipation	Combats cancer	Promotes weight loss
cauliflower	Protects against prostate cancer	Combats breast cancer	Strengthens bones	Banishes bruises	Guards against heart disease
cherries	Protects your heart	Combats cancer	Ends insomnia	Slows aging process	Shields against Alzheimer's
chestnuts	Promotes weight loss	Protects your heart	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Controls blood pressure
chili peppers	Improves digestion	Soothes sore throat	Clears sinuses	Combats cancer	Boosts immune system
figs	Promotes weight loss	Helps stop strokes	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Controls blood pressure
fish	Protects your heart	Boosts memory	Protects your heart	Combats cancer	Supports immune system
flax	Improves digestion	Battles diabetes	Protects your heart	Improves mental health	Boosts immune system
garlic	Lowers cholesterol	Controls blood pressure	Combats cancer	Kills bacteria	Fights fungus
grapefruit	Protects against heart attacks	Helps stop strokes	Combats prostate cancer	Lowers cholesterol
grapes	Saves eyesight	Conquers kidney stones	Combats cancer	Enhances blood flow	Protects your heart
green tea	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Helps stop strokes	Promotes weight loss	Kills bacteria
honey	Heals wounds	Aids digestion	Guards against ulcers	Increases energy	Fights allergies
lemons	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Controls blood pressure	Smoothes skin	Stops scurvy
limes	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Controls blood pressure	Smoothes skin	Stops scurvy
mangoes	Combats cancer	Boosts memory	Regulates thyroid	Aids digestion	Shields against Alzheimer's
mushrooms	Controls blood pressure	Lowers cholesterol	Kills bacteria	Combats cancer	Strengthens bones
oats	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Battles diabetes	Prevents constipation	Smoothes skin
olive oil	Protects your heart	Promotes weight loss	Combats cancer	Battles diabetes	Smoothes skin
onions	Reduces risk of heart attack	Combats cancer	Kills bacteria	Lowers cholesterol	Fights fungus
oranges	Supports immune systems	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Strengthens respiration	Stops scurvy
peaches	Prevents constipation	Combats cancer	Helps stop strokes	Improves digestion	Helps hemorrhoids
peanuts	Protects against heart disease	Promotes weight loss	Combats Prostate Cancer	Lowers cholesterol	Aggravates diverticulitis
pineapple	Strengthens bones	Relieves colds	Dissolves warts	Blocks diarrhea	Stops scurvy
prunes	Slows aging process	Prevents constipation	Boosts memory	Lowers cholesterol	Protects against heart disease
rice	Protects your heart	Battles diabetes	Conquers kidney stones	Combats cancer	Helps stop strokes
strawberries	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Boosts memory	Calms stress
sweet potatoes	Saves your eyesight	Lifts mood	Combats cancer	Strengthens bones
tomatoes	Protects prostate	Combats cancer	Lowers cholesterol	Protects your heart
walnuts	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Boosts memory	Lifts mood	Protects against heart disease
water	Promotes weight loss	Combats cancer	Conquers kidney stones	Smoothes skin
watermelon	Protects prostate	Promotes weight loss	Lowers cholesterol	Helps stop strokes	Controls blood pressure
wheat germ	Combats colon cancer	Prevents constipation	Lowers cholesterol	Helps stop strokes	Improves digestion
wheat bran	Combats colon cancer	Prevents constipation	Lowers cholesterol	Helps stop strokes	Improves digestion
yogurt	Guards against ulcers	Strengthens bones	Lowers cholesterol	Supports immune systems	Improves digestion

Don't Take My Word For It

"When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I stole one, and asked him to forgive me."

- Emo Philips -

"Contrary to common perception, Jewish anti-Zionism is not restricted exclusively to the well know Jewish anti-Zionist movements such as Satmar and Neturei Karta.

"There are in fact many Jewish movements, groups and organizations whose ideology regarding Zionism and the so-called 'State of Israel' is that of the unadulterated Torah position that any form of Zionism is heresy and that the existence of the so-called 'State of Israel' is illegitimate.

"No one has had to create any antagonism between our Torah and Zionism because such antagonism exists by virtue of the essence of Judaism itself, which can never tolerate the heresy of Zionism."

- Jews Not Zionists -

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"
- Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor -

"The human brain should be used for processing, not storage."

- Thomas A. Kelly, Ph.D.: The Effective School Report -

"If it takes me 30 hours of preparation to make you a cupcake, is that complex or simple? The process of creation might be complex, but the result can still be simple, and vice-versa."

- Scott Berkun: In defense of simplicity -

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

- Orson Welles -

"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision."

- Penn Jillette -

"They are like Catholics and Protestants who simply worship the same deity, the same 'God', in a slightly different way using slightly different rituals. Just as Catholics and Protestants argue over how to worship the same God, so the 'left' and 'right' argue over how to worship the same system. And here's the key: both jump on anyone who genuinely challenges the system itself like those exposing the truth about 9/11.

"A Catholic and Protestant may be having an argument over Christianity, but as soon as a Jew or Muslim starts challenging Christianity itself the Catholic and Protestant will immediately forget their disagreements and join forces to defend it. That is precisely what happens with 'left,' and 'right,' when an outsider seeks to expose the system on which they both rely for their sense of who they are."

- David Icke -

"Criticism - the most keen, ruthless and uncompromising criticism - should be directed, not against parliamentarianism or parliamentary activities, but against those leaders who are unable - and still more against those who are unwilling - to utilise parliamentary elections and the parliamentary rostrum in a revolutionary and communist manner. Only such criticism - combined, of course, with the dismissal of incapable leaders and their replacement by capable ones - will constitute useful and fruitful revolutionary work that will simultaneously train the 'leaders' to be worthy of the working class and of all working people, and train the masses to be able properly to understand the political situation and the often very complicated and intricate tasks that spring from that situation."

- Vladimir Lenin: Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder -

"In regards to Iraq being a potential threat to the United States, George W. Bush used 'worst case scenario' logic to convince the world that America had to take the most extreme measures available in order to eliminate this potential threat. This is a threat that showed no signs of existing, had no evidence to support its existence and claimed no lives at all!

"Bush's logic & exact words: 'We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.'

"Contrarily, when it comes to Bush's logic on the potential threat posed by global warming Bush uses the 'best case scenario.'

"Bush's logic (in my words): 'We need many many more smoking guns in the form of funnel clouds and such before we address this potential threat!'

- TVNewsLies: If We're Wrong Then They're Right - If They're Wrong Then We're All Dead! -

"In a flash, the blast incinerates air, sprays metal, burns flesh. Milliseconds after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonates, a blink after a mortar shell blows, an overpressurization wave engulfs the human body, and just as quickly, an underpressure wave follows and vanishes. Eardrums burst, bubbles appear in the bloodstream, the heart slows. A soldier - or a civilian - can survive the blast without a single penetrating wound and still receive the worst diagnosis: traumatic brain injury, or TBI, the signature injury of the Iraq War.

"But in the same instant that the blast unleashes chaos, it also activates the most organized and sophisticated trauma care in history. Within a matter of hours, a soldier can be medevaced to a state-of-the-art field hospital, placed on a flying intensive care unit, and receive continuous critical care a sea away. (During Vietnam, it took an average of 15 days to receive that level of treatment. Today the military can deliver it in 13 hours.) Heroic measures may be yielding unprecedented survival rates, but they also carry a grim consequence: No other war has created so many seriously disabled veterans. Soldiers are surviving some brain injuries with only their brain stems unimpaired."

- Michael Mason: Dead Men Walking - What sort of future do brain-injured Iraq veterans face? -

"We don't recognize our collective madness because not only is it so pervasive, but because it is so overwhelmingly obvious. All we have to do to see the madness of our species is to open our eyes and look at what we are doing to each other, to the environment which we depend on for our survival, and to ourselves. What more evidence of a collective psychosis do we possibly need? We have become habituated to our collective madness, thinking of it as 'normal,' which is in and of itself an expression of our madness."

- Paul Levy -

"When the Founding Fathers crafted the U.S. Constitution, they wanted to be sure that the president, vice president, and other ranking officials could be evicted more easily than the British monarchy. To ensure that the process would be swift and certain, they made it simple: Only two conditions must be met. First, a majority of the House of Representatives must agree on a set of charges; then, two-thirds of the Senate must agree to convict. After that, there is no legal wrangling, no appeal to a higher authority, no reversal on technical grounds. There is not even a limit on what the charges may be. As the Constitution describes it, the cause may be treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors, but even these were left deliberately vague; as Gerald Ford once pointed out while still serving in the House of Representatives, the only real definition of an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

"To the credit of this nation, despite the relative ease of impeachment, only seventeen officials have sunk to such ignominious depths that the process has been invoked. The reasons for impeachment have ranged from the outrageous to the banal: from putting political enemies in jail (Judge James H. Peck, 1830) to cheating on taxes (Judge Harry E. Claiborne, 1986); from being rude to Congress - unmindful of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained between the executive and legislative branches, (President Andrew Johnson, 1868) to being a drunkard -a man of loose morals and intemperate habits, (Judge John Pickering, 1803). One president was even impeached for having the good taste to keep his sex life private - concealing the nature and details of his relationship with a subordinate Government employee, (President William Jefferson Clinton, 1998).

"In the case of George W. Bush, there may be any number of reasons not to add an eighteenth name to the list. These range from the moderate (that two consecutive presidential impeachments would do more harm than good to the nation) to the provocative (that while Bush has been wrong about a staggering number of issues, he is too hapless to be held accountable for it) to the pragmatic (that even if Bush were impeached, we would still be stuck with Vice President Cheney). There is even, for those inclined to such things, an argument by design: that the president is the president, and therefore God designed it that way.

"But none of these apply to Vice President Cheney, and not only because it was Cheney (and not God, or George W. Bush, or anybody else) who selected himself as vice president back in 2000. With Cheney, there are also no lingering questions about capacity, motive, or malice. Over the past six years, as the country has spiraled into military misadventure, fiscal madness, and environmental meltdown, the vice president has not merely been wrong about the issues; he has been duplicitous, deceitful, and deliberately destructive to the American democracy. These things can no longer be denied by rational minds."

- Wil S. Hylton: The People V. Richard Cheney - including articles of impeachment, from GQ! -

"Delusional is far too mild a word to describe Cheney. Delusional doesn't begin to capture the profound, transcendental one-flew-over daftness of the man. Has anyone in the history of the United States ever been so singularly wrong and misguided about such phenomenally important events and continued to insist he's right in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?"
- Maureen Dowd: Daffy Does Doom -

"The call for Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five has not received one word of big-business media coverage--print or electronic.

"The call first went out in January, from a multi-national and multi-lingual group of U.S.-based lesbian, gay, bi and trans activists, to build solidarity with these five political prisoners - Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labaino, Fernando Gonzalez, and Ren Gonzalez. They are serving long sentences in U.S. penitentiaries for the crime of infiltrating CIA-backed fascist commando groups in order to halt terror attacks against Cuba from U.S. soil.

"The Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five call demands a new trial and freedom for these political prisoners, defense of Cuban sovereignty and self-determination and a halt to the illegal U.S. acts of war against Cuba - including the economic blockade and CIA-trained, funded and armed attacks by mercenary contra armies operating from this country."

- Leslie Feinberg: Free the Five -

"[T]he Plasma Converter stands in the center of the room. The entire thing takes up about as much space as a two-car garage, surprisingly compact for a machine that can consume nearly any type of waste - from dirty diapers to chemical weapons - by annihilating toxic materials in a process as old as the universe itself. Called plasma gasification, it works a little like the big bang, only backward (you get nothing from something). Inside a sealed vessel made of stainless steel and filled with a stable gas - either pure nitrogen or, as in this case, ordinary air - a 650-volt current passing between two electrodes rips electrons from the air, converting the gas into plasma. Current flows continuously through this newly formed plasma, creating a field of extremely intense energy very much like lightning. The radiant energy of the plasma arc is so powerful, it disintegrates trash into its constituent elements by tearing apart molecular bonds. The system is capable of breaking down pretty much anything except nuclear waste, the isotopes of which are indestructible. The only by-products are an obsidian-like glass used as a raw material for numerous applications, including bathroom tiles and high-strength asphalt, and a synthesis gas, or syngas - a mixture of primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be converted into a variety of marketable fuels, including ethanol, natural gas and hydrogen.

"Perhaps the most amazing part of the process is that its self-sustaining. Just like your toaster, Startechs Plasma Converter draws its power from the electrical grid to get started. The initial voltage is about equal to the zap from a police stun gun. But once the cycle is under way, the 2,200F syngas is fed into a cooling system, generating steam that drives turbines to produce electricity. About two thirds of the power is siphoned off to run the converter; the rest can be used on-site for heating or electricity, or sold back to the utility grid...

"Someday very soon, cities might actually make money from garbage."

- Michael Behar: The Prophet of Garbage - Joseph Longo's Plasma Converter turns our most vile and toxic trash into clean energy - and promises to make a relic of the landfill -

"Well-trained citizens scoff at the idea that anyone ever conspires to do anything, even though the US government charges people with 'conspiracy' all the time."

- Maureen Farrell: Top 10 "Conspiracy Theories" about George W. Bush -

"Iraq is clearly hubris carried to the point of insanity - it's damn hard to convince people you're killing them for their own good."

- Molly Ivins -

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

- Anne Lamott -

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde -

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."

- Arnold H. Glasgow -

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