Some facebook stats

Some numbers to close out the year... I have 120 "friends" over on Facebook. Of these, 45 are women while 75 are men (assuming they all are who they say they are). I have personally met 115 of them, while 5 are accepted more or less on faith. They could be aliens or figments of my imagination for all I know.

There is a surprisingly high number of Lutefisk eaters among them; 93. There are 27 unwashed, garlicky foreigners out to get Norwegian jobs & women; 15 from the USA, 2 from England, 2 from Ukraina and 2 from Sweden. Canada, Israel, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and Thailand have 1 each.

I wonder how much will have changed a year from now.

Quote of the Day

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that WE are the ones that need help?
- Dan Barker

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Don't eat yellow snow.
- Frank Zappa

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith

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It is the individual’s task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible.
- Carl Jung

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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we can not entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
- Edward Abbey

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A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah!' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'
- Charles Dickens (from "A Christmas Carol")

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What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'
- Charles Dickens (from "A Christmas Carol")

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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
- Hubert Humphrey

Happy Festivus!

A happy Festivus is heartily wished to all readers (both of you)!

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No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Thomas Jefferson

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I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead for twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
- Ronald Reagan

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"I know what you’re thinking... Did I fire six shots or only five? To tell you the truth, I forgot it myself in all this excitement. This here’s a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it can blow your head clean off. Now, you must ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?"
- Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry"

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You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone

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It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law.
- Malcolm X

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
- William S. Burroughs

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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
- Christopher Marlowe (from "The Jew of Malta")

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What do I care what impression I make on people? It's because we waste our lives caring about what others think that most of us remain morons.
- Colin Wilson

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If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
- Jay Leno

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I never work out. If God had meant us to do, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
- Joan Rivers

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?" Then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
- Charles Schulz

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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
- Tom Robbins

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The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- Don Marquis

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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
- John Simon

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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg

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"Charles, get the rifle out. We’re being fucked."
- Steve MacKintosh in "Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels"

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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson

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I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Beware of programmers who carry screw drivers.
- Leonard Brandwein