October 2008
22 posts
“We’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
—Sarah Palin
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“It is about time you become informed of what is going on here and where I am coming from and where you should be. I was placed in this position not for your benefit, but for the benefit of others, and I have been instructed not to tolerate any nonsense from you, nor do I have to listen to what you say, because you are not my boss.
When I say you don’t have a choice, I am just not talking of an administrative basis, but I am talking about one involving health. If you interfere with any of the casino operations or try to undermine anything I want to do here, I represent to you that you will never leave this corporation alive.” —reputed words of Lefty Rosenthal, Las Vegas mafia kingpin, to the owner of one of the casinos he ran. Rosenthal, the basis for Robert De Niro’s Ace Rothstein in Martin Scorcese’s Casino, died Monday at the age of 79. Times obit.
When I say you don’t have a choice, I am just not talking of an administrative basis, but I am talking about one involving health. If you interfere with any of the casino operations or try to undermine anything I want to do here, I represent to you that you will never leave this corporation alive.” —reputed words of Lefty Rosenthal, Las Vegas mafia kingpin, to the owner of one of the casinos he ran. Rosenthal, the basis for Robert De Niro’s Ace Rothstein in Martin Scorcese’s Casino, died Monday at the age of 79. Times obit.
“Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.”
—Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, died 1978 at the age of 73, while attempting a trapeze act.
“We could forget the 70 percent of American eighth graders who do not now and never will read at eighth-grade levels, meaning they will never qualify to hold one of those jobs we no longer have. We could forget that we ourselves induced the coma, by indulging the government in its fantasy of absolute power, wielded absolutely. So general is this fantasy by now that we approach this election with no clear idea where bottom is: what damage has been done, what alliances have been formed and broken, what concealed reefs lie ahead. Whoever we elect president is about to find some of that out.”
—Joan Didion in the NYRB Election Symposium. (via mmryan)
“Some of the rumors out there are getting a bit crazy. I mean, Rupert the other day, Fox News actually accused me of fathering two African-American children in wedlock.”
—- Barack Obama, 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
McCoy Tyner piano, Sonny Fortune sax, Calvin Hill bass, Alphonse Mouzon drums; from “Soul,” PBS, USA 1972
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Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn, also published as A Description of the Beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead, is a short book by the Scotsman Angus McDiarmid (1770?–1820?) that led the local-history populariser Archie McKerracher to call him “the world’s worst author”.
