Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling

"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman


"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Gipper versus Nipper

Dick Cheney was in town to attend the Young America Foundations tribute to Ronald Reagan. In Craig Smith's incomparable words, "For the first time in my life I kind of feel sorry for the former Vice President. He came here to pay tribute to the Gipper and had to put up with the Nipper.".  He is, of course referring to Arthur von Wiesenberger, who was bending his ear all night long across his live-in lover's (Wendy McCaw) lap.   Boy the GOP has some really strange bedfellows!

I saw a list of the GOP hopefuls for 2012, Huckabee, Palin, Gingrich and Romney.  A bible-thumper, an airhead, a crook, and a Mormon.  Is this that best that the GOP could drag up out of the political sludge?  Does any one of them REALLY have a chance?  What they REALLY need is someone with charisma that has managed to keep his/her mouth closed for the last few years and is squeaky clean.  Oh, that person ALSO needs to want to jump into the frying-pan and believes that he/she will emerge unburned.  All I can say is GOOD LUCK!




Democrats versus Republicans
You who worry about Democrats versus Republicans--relax, here is our real problem:
 

In a University classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States.
It was pretty simple; the candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age. However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
 

The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor until she wrapped up her argument by stating, “What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?" 

Yep, these are the same kind of 18-year-olds that just voted in our last election! They breed; and they walk among us! And, unfortunately, they vote.