Today's quotes...

I ran into a few cool quotes I had stored at Windows Live Spaces, and thought I would share a few that I feel apply to life as I know it.

Change
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~Margaret Mead~

Life
"My life consists in my being content to accept many things."
~Ludwig Wittgenstein~

Love & Patience
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
~Daisaku Ideda~

Peace
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land."
~Anwar al-Sadat~

"He who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the entire world."
~The Talmud~

Reality
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
~Phillip K. Dick~

TV station defends plan to show man's suicide

Mr Ewert explains his decision to visit the assisted suicide clinic earlier in the documentary, The Suicide Tourist

LONDON - A British television channel said Wednesday it was planning to broadcast the death of an American man at a Swiss euthanasia clinic.The death of 59-year-old Craig Ewert in 2006 is due to be shown Wednesday during a documentary on the Sky Real Lives channel. Ewert had degenerative motor neuron disease and died at a clinic in Zurich...

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Why I want people to watch my husband's death

The harrowing moment a retired university professor dies in an 'assisted suicide' will be shown on television tonight. Craig Ewert, 59, is filmed turning off his ventilator and taking a lethal dose of drugs washed down with apple juice. Just minutes before his death, Mary, his wife of 37 years asks him: 'Can I give you a big kiss?'

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Obama’s Smoking Sheds Light on Presidential Bad Habits

President Franklin D. Roosevelt smokes
a cigarette at Herring Cove on Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada on July
30, 1936.

Barack Obama says the White House will stay smoke-free, while admitting that he has smoked recently. But several other presidents have smoked or chewed tobacco.

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Woman Finds $97,000 In Restroom But Returns It To Owner

What would you do keep it or return it?

Billie Watts said she was tempted but couldn't bring herself to keep $97,000 she said she found in a Cracker Barrel restroom. The 75-year-old Murfreesboro woman told The Daily News Journal that she discovered the money inside a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on a stall door last Thursday.

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IRONY: Ann Coulter's Mouth Wired Shut

Although we didn't think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reactionary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut

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Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

I'm so glad Michael Lind wrote this. I feel exactly the same way. Everyone was walking around hating on me for being a "bleeding heart liberal". My response to their ignorance and stupidity was typically a shrug of the shoulders, *sigh*, and then I would respond with something like, "I don't understand what is wrong with caring about people!"
Lately (since Nov.4th) several of my middle of the road friends have started proclaiming their new found liberalness. I just sit back and smile. I love it.

"Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word."
By Michael Lind @ Salon.com - Nov. 21, 2008

If the conservative era is over, can liberals come out of their defensive crouch and call themselves liberals again, instead of progressives?
In the last two decades, Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, have abandoned the term "liberal" for "progressive." The theory was that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Pat Buchanan -- had succeeded in equating "liberal" in the public mind with weakness on defense, softness on crime, and "redistribution" of Joe the Plumber's hard-earned money to the collective bogey evoked by a former Texas rock band's clever name: Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Dope.

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15 Beater Cars That Won’t Disappoint

Great list! Extremely helpful! - We have assembled here a list of 15 vehicles which can all be found for under $2500, and will all provide a variety of services.

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Poll: Americans Have High Hopes for the Next Four Years

Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) think the country will be better off four years from now, a significantly higher percentage (46%) than said the same when President George W. Bush was about to take office in January 2001.