Still Waiting Mr. Roosevelt

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

--President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941


Friend and Brother Whipple pointed me to this article about Norman Rockwell's paintings of the Four Freedoms.

Addendum.  See Comment below.  Here is the picture he sent.

Quote for today

Albert Camus:

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Found For Friday

 An Amish farmer is walking through his field when he sees a guy drinking from his pond, scooping it up with his hand. The farmer says, "Trinken sie nicht das Wasser, die Kuhe und die Schweine haben in ihm geschissen," which means, 'Don't drink the water, the cows and the pigs shit in it.'
The guy shouts back, "I'm a Teabagger, and this is America. I don't understand your gibberish. Speak English, you moron." The farmer says, "Use two hands, you'll get more." ~Dave Birkey

 Happy Gardening!
A teenage granddaughter comes downstairs for her date
with this see-through blouse on and no bra.Her grandmother just pitched a fit, telling her not to dare go out like that! The teenager tells her
'Loosen up Grams. These are modern times. You gotta let your rose buds show!' And out she goes.

The next day the teenager comes down stairs,
And the grandmother is sitting there with no top on.
The teenager wants to die.
She explains to her grandmother That she has friends coming over And that it is just not appropriate...

The grandmother says, 'Loosen up, Sweetie.If you can show off your rose buds,
Then I can display my hanging baskets.

 'I had  to look  up "paraprosdokian". Here is the  definition:"Figure of speech in  which  the latter part of a sentence or phrase is  surprising or  unexpected; frequently used  in a humorous situation." "Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a  type of  paraprosdokian. Ok,  so now enjoy!    


 1.   Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat  you with experience.   


 2.  The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But  it's still on my list.  
  3.  Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.    


4.  If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.   


 5.  We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.  


 6.  War does not determine who is right - only who is left.    


7.  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.    

 8.  Evening news is where they  begin with  'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.   


 9.  To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is   research.    


10.  A bus station is where a  bus stops. A  train station is where a train stops.  On my  desk, I have a  work station.    


11.  I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.   


12.  Whenever I fill out an application, in the part  that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'    


13.  I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming  you.    


14.  Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.  
15.   Behind every successful man is his woman.  Behind the fall of a  successful man is usually another woman.
    16.  A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.   


 17.  I asked God for a bike, but  I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.   

 18.  You do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to skydive twice.    


19.  Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live  with.    


20.  There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.    


21.  I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
    22.  You're never too old to learn something stupid.   


23.  To be sure of hitting the  target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.   


24.  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.   


25.  Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.   


26.  Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a  car.   


 27. A  diplomat is someone who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.    


28.  Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were. 

29.  I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.    


30.  When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.Words of Wisdom"The early bird may get the  worm, but the second mouse gets the  cheese." 

Happy Friday Everyone.  Have a great week-end.

The New Facebook/Netflix

Big Changes Coming to Facebook.

Clicking on the link above will take you to an article about the changes proposed for Facebook.  You know Facebook has made many changes and I know it is a free service and they can do what they want.  I have enjoyed being on it. It was easy to use and it kept me in touch with some friends and also I was able to keep up with news from various sites.  I could remain somewhat private about things (choosing not to advertise my birthday for example) and let my opinions hang out when I wanted them to.

Well I have scanned the above article and I am not to sure I am going to stay there.  The look of the proposed Facebook looks to me like "My Space"  - somewhere I have a My Space account but I can't access it because I left there months and months ago and have forgotten the password.  It is not worth it to me to go back because I don't like it.  It is too clunky and it is not easy to communicate with my friends or to keep up with what is happening in their lives.  

Netflix changed my set up and started charging me more.  I do not use their streaming service and when I went to check on it and discovered that perhaps I should have been paying more attention. To make a long story short.  They raised my rates by almost twice and when I went to change to the service I wanted and which I was using all the time I found out that I was stuck with it for a month,  So I will watch as many movies as I can this month and I have it on my calendar to cancel it next month. 

In the case of Facebook,  I may just stop posting and reading. If it becomes like My Space I am gone.  I can keep up with things on Reader and my blog is still here.  Sometime this week I will hit 200,000 hits and that is impressive to me.  It requires a lot of time and I really don't need to be on either of the other places.

Oh and don't invite me to google + - I won't be joining it or Twitter.  I already waste too much time on this.

Every Once in Awhile

The only cartoon I read regularly is Non-Sequitur.  Every once in awhile one of them has me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.  As a retired teacher I somehow related to today's Cartoon.  Thanks NS for brightening my day.

From the Wiki

We are entering my second favorite season of the year.. So I looked it up in Wikipedia to learn about the word.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automnein modern French), and was later normalised to the original Latin wordautumnus. There are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but it became common by the 16th century.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day (cf. Dutch herfst and German Herbst). However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns (especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, the Old English fiæll orfeallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".

It is determined by the Fall Equinox which is on Friday this year.  To read about it Click here.