progressive involvement

Quote of the Day

"But do you want to be non-partisan and get nothing? Or do you want to be partisan and end up with a good health- care plan? That is the choice."

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

Quote of the Day

"(D)uring my time in Iraq there was not one instance of actionable intelligence that came out of these interrogation techniques."  General Petraeus

Random factoid

There are 775,933 people in the United States named Nicholas.

Quote of the Day

Those whose hope is weak settle for comfort or for violence.

Erich Fromm

Quote of the Day

Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

Robin Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church, p. 14 

Quote of the Day

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

Groucho Marx

Quote of the Day

“Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”

“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

President Barack Obama to the bankers

Quote of the Day

Helene Cooper at the New York Times:  "Is President Obama trying to muzzle his press corps?"

Quote of the Day

"If it's left-wing to believe that nobody should go without health care, shelter and confidence that they will have food — as much as they need — in the weeks to come, then so be it. I am a left-winger," (Daniel) Kagan said in today's Denver Post.  Kagan is the new State Representative from House District 3 in Colorado. 

Quote of the Day

Says one quilter to another:  "You're trying so hard to be perfect, you're not even good."

Pastor Sally Ponfick, ret.