Philosophy, poetry, and musings from the WTFery Institute. A think tank, working to solve the problem of thoughts trapped in the mind.
“As far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me,” Swinney said. “I’ll go do something else because there’s enough entitlement in this world as it is.”
via Dabo Swinney Mocked … – FITSNews.
Any asshole who makes millions of dollars a year off the back of unpaid athletes and complains that paying them would be an entitlement should probably take some classes at the university that pays him on things like basic english.
Let us put an end to this endentured servitude, it is Un American.
Bush waited until after the event to deliver his most stinging critique of Obama: “Every chance he’s had to validate his mandate, which was not that, ‘I’m going to be the most hard-left president in American history.’ It was was there are no blue states, no red states, only the United States,” Bush said.”He won because of that,” Bush added. “And he has invalidated that every chance he’s had. After every election he’s not tried to develop personal relationships with people that don’t completely agree with him. Our democracy has been hurt by that.”
via In South Carolina, Jeb Bush Says ‘The Center Needs to be Rebuilt’ – Bloomberg Politics.
So when President Obama got elected and day one the republican leadership stated unequivocally they would make him a one term president. When we ended up with Romney care instead of single payer health care because of a desire to lean towards the center and sell republicans on a republican idea. The continued questions about loyalty, patriotism, faith and birth never before leveled against another sitting president and then blame him when your team wont come to the table in good faith.
Glad that he pointed out that the partisan hack tv shows are dividing this country, would have held more sway with me if he had named some names; but speaking against anyone on fox news would have doomed his campaign before it really gets off the ground.
Sometimes it is easy to want to give up and not try. A nice reminder that life is worth living and the desire to accomplish can overcome any odds.
Agnes Scott College – augusta-read-thomas-spr2015.
Proud of Courtney and the Agnes Scott Collegiate Chorale for their performance at the concert.
You are on the interstate. You are not alone. Since you are driving ten miles an hour under the speed limit get out of the left hand lane and turn off your bright lights. On second thought pull off the road and turn on your flashers and when the police stop to help you give them your keys and your drivers license. Also I wouldn’t recommend any sharp objects or life altering decisions!
Why yes this is the United States of America; and yes this means you have the right to free speech. Oh by the way this freedom of speech simply means the government cannot pass laws restricting your speech. This does not mean a university that you attend, an employer or even a business that you patronize loose their rights to punish you, terminate your employment or ask you to leave.
So please exercise your rights, but quit your bitching when it has consequences. And to those complaining that protesting and identifying racial injustice is race baiting, well the real race baiting can be seen on a video out of Oklahoma and as long as there are race baiters advocating lynching then anyone who believes in equality for all should not remain silent.
“We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, ‘Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don’t want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy." If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again. Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don’t ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy the people we are trying to love. True love needs understanding. With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
via Peace Is Every Step Quotes by Thích Nhất Hạnh.
If I could have a fraction of this wisdom.
