A Simple Question

To the folks - including top Democratic senators - who oppose the use of the 14th Amendment and keep mindlessly repeating ‘let the voters decide’…. they did! In 2020. And Trump didn’t accept their decision & incited an insurrection. Why do you think it’ll be different in 2024??

TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL AND PROUD OF IT

 

WORDS OF WISDOM - O

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Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

 

Obstacles are those frightful little things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

 

Occam’s Razor:  The simplest explanation for any phenomenon is likely to be the best one.

 

Oddly twee and brittle.

 

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. 

 

Of course, they all were right:  Dreck was the future and the future was Dreck.

 

Of fairy tales and failed attempts at quietude, of a child’s memory soup of imagination

 

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

 

“Of the two hearts, one is always warm and one is always cold:  the cold heart is more precious than diamonds; the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”

 

Off by an inch (at launch), miss by a mile (at market).

 

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.

 

Often the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

 

Often those things that are in arms' reach are harder to see than those that cast the brightest light

 

Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling, and I would still be on my feet.

 

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us. (Robert Burns)

 

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

 

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

 

Old age comes at a bad time.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.

 

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

Old age isn’t a battle; it’s a massacre.

 

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

 

Old bartenders tend to bring their bad habits with them.

 

Old friends — even thoughts of them — are my ballast; all that love and loyalty, those delicious memories, the gossip.

 

Old friends make the best friends.

 

Old habits die hard.

 

Old is workable. Depravity is a dead end.

 

Old people are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

 

Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. – R.Orben 

Old people weren’t always old.

 

On a blank sheet of paper, free from any mark, the most precious and beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

 

On her worst day, she’s a smile waiting to happen.

 

On lies is tyranny built.

 

On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (Mencken)

 

On some level we think having money and power is an indication that we deserve them.

 

On the way to wonderful, you’re gonna have to pass through all right. When you get to all right,
take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

 

On the web, information is plentiful, wisdom is scarce.

 

On the web, it's hard to distinguish what is popular from what is true.

 

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator.

 

Once bitten, twice shy. Many times bitten, always on high alert.

 

Once is never and twice is always.

Once my eyes wandered to my opponent across the net, they knew I would lose.

 

Once we were standing still in time / Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds.

 

Once you accept his assumptions, even a madman seems reasonable.

 

Once you buy the ticket, you’ve got to take the ride.

 

Once you got it up, keep it up.

 

Once you start caring about people’s opinions of you, you give up control.

 

Once you stop growing, you start dying.

 

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

 

100% certain is almost always 100% late.

 

100% of nothing is worth less than 1% of something.

 

One brick short of a load.

 

One bus comes, one bus goes, try to get on the next one.

 

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

 

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

 

One cannot put something behind one until one has beheld it directly.

 

One constant rule of innovation: The young devour the old.

 

One could never win love so surely that one could stop imagining the pain of its loss.

 

One day it’s hot; then it’s not.

 

One day my father took me aside and left me there.

 

One day the people who didn’t believe in you will tell others how they met you.

 

One does not love a place less for having suffered in it.

 

One does not plan and then try to make the circumstances fit those plans.  One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

 

One does what one can.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

 

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.

 

One doesn’t learn from experience because the substance of things is always changing.

 

One eye on the clock-always!

 

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.  Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

 

One good example is worth a thousand theories.

 

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.

 

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

 

One hand washes the other.

 

One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face.

 

One is poisoned forever by the bad things that happen in the beginning.

 

One is sadder and the other wiser.

 

One learns from defeat, not from victory.

 

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

 

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touch our human feelings.

 

One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

 

One man with courage makes a majority.

 

One man's loss is another man's gain.

 

One may be anonymous in a crowd, but at least you’re part of something.

 

One minute you’re here, next minute you’re gone.

 

One misstep away from misery.

One must, above all, endure.  (Il faut [d'agord] durer.)

 

One must care about a world one will not see.

 

One must have chaos in one's soul to give birth to a dancing star.

 

One must learn to be bored.

 

One must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

 

One must not always think that feeling is everything.  Art is nothing without form.

 

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

 

One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement.

 

One of my strongest and most fully employed emotions: contempt. Contempt for others, contempt for myself.

 

One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability. But it is never too late to change the future.

 

One of the great questions of this time has always been whether Trump changed the country or revealed it more clearly.

 

One of the great things money can buy is time.

 

One of the great truths of history is that the great deceivers also deceive themselves.

 

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.  Write it on your heart that every day of the year is the best day of the year.

 

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

 

One of the most difficult tasks one can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

 

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

 

One of the saddest things in the world is to have enough talent to try and too little to succeed.

 

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

 

One of the things I observed was that the most effective advertising had aspirational content.

 

One of the things I’ve learned is never to discuss process.

 

One of the things you cannot do in this life is impose conditions on love.

 

One of the great tragedies of the internet is that people now see what they believe rather than believe what they see.

 

One of the tragedies of this life is that the men who are most in need of beating up are always enormous.

 

One of these days is none of these days.

 

One of those things that I would call lawful but awful.

 

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

 

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets go, one soon loses control of the head too.

 

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who only have an interest.

 

One person with passion is better than 40 who are merely interested.

One reality has nothing to do with the other.

 

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

 

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. (Hugo)

 

One service more we dare to ask – pray for us, heroes, pray, that when fate lays on us our task, we do not shame the day.  (Kipling)

 

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

 

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

 

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

 

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

 

One should never meet a man whose work one admires. The man is always so much less than the work.

 

One simply survives.  It may be the most imaginative thing we do.

 

One size never fits all.

 

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

 

One step forward, two steps back.

 

One supplies the cash, the other the cachet.

 

One sure sign of maturity is when you realize that it takes less time to do as you’re told than it does to complain about it.

 

One thing acquired through pain is better for a man than one hundred things easily acquired.

 

One thing I know and that is that I know nothing.

 

One thing I learned early about fun is that having it on command is hard. Fun is a child of accident and chaos, resistant to authority’s guiding hand. 

 

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

 

One thing worse than being alone is wishing you were.

 

One thing you learn in racing is that they don't wait for you.

 

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

 

One thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.

 

One way to kill a tiger is to distract it from so many different sides that it tries to run in every direction at once.

 

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. (Machiavelli)

 

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all.  (G. Casanova)

 

One will not go far wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.

One-off events usually don’t amount to much. Organize gatherings that meet once a month or once a year.

One’s “real” life is almost always the life one doesn’t lead.

 

Online: one is enough.

 

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

 

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same thing.

 

Only a mediocre person is always at his or her best.

 

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

 

Only connect (E.M. Forster   Howard’s End)

 

Only fools never change their minds. Fr. Il n’y a que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d’avis.

Only God, my dear /

Could love you for yourself alone /

And not your yellow hair.

 

Only in darkness can we see the stars.

 

Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

 

Only satisfied customers can give people job security.  Not companies.

 

Only so much inspiration is allotted even at the high end of the scale.

 

Only stupid people are breeding.

 

Only the dead have seen their last war….

 

Only the exhaustive is truly interesting.

 

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

 

Only the spirit of attack born in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how advanced it is.  (Adolf Galland)

 

Only the spoon knows the pot’s sorrows.

 

Only the untalented can afford to be humble.

 

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

 

Only the winner goes to dinner.

 

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

 

Only thing in life that provides enduring satisfaction is a shorter commute.

 

Only those items which I notice shaped my mind-without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. (William James).

 

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

 

Only those willing to go too far will know how far they can go.

 

Only three things to do about a mistake.  Admit it, learn from it, don’t repeat it.

 

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent.

 

Only trust someone who can see these three things in you: The sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind your silence.

 

Only truth can set the spirit free.

 

Only two industries call customers “users” – software and illegal drugs.

 

Only two things keep expanding until they die, software and tumors.

 

Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on its snout.

 

OODA Loop – observe, orient, decide, act.

 

Oozing slime from every pore he slips his way across the floor.

 

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

 

Opening weekend:  it’s the first public referendum on a film’s prospects that carries the weight of empirical truth.

 

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge.

 

Opinions are like assholes, everyone’s got one.

 

Opinions differ significantly from assholes. Your opinions should be constantly and thoroughly examined.  (Old version: opinions like assholes – everyone has one)

 

Opinions but no convictions.

 

Opportunity Costs are Everything – “Fucked or Famous”.

 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

 

Opportunities are rarely offered; they are usually seized.

 

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

 

Opprobrium resonates in a way that praise seldom does.

 

Optimism -- girded by arrogance rather than preparation -- can only get us so far.

 

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. (Chomsky)

 

Optimism is a vital and necessary element of everyday life. It is the spirit that propels us to go on living in the face of unavoidable suffering, that compels us to fall in love when our hearts have been broken and gives us the courage to bring children into the world, believing that even in times such as these we are surrounded by enough beauty to fill lifetime after lifetime.

 

Optimism is the belief that things are going to get better. Hope is the belief that we can make things better. Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one. It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it does need courage to hope. (Rabbi Sacks)

 

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

 

Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

 

Optimists and pessimists die exactly the same death, but they live very different lives! (Peres)

 

Optimists see problems as conduits, not obstacles, for progress.

 

Oration is to filibuster as essay writing is to texting.

 

Order must underlie everything, however disorderly it may appear.

 

Ordinary people only believe in the possible.  Extraordinary people visualize what is not possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.  And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

 

Organizations are incredibly good at not valuing youth.

 

Organized abandonment (Drucker)

 

Original minds have but one good idea in a lifetime.

Originality is overrated, except by people who have it. It’s like an untamed, ungrateful beast you’re trapped with.

 

Originality is nothing more than judicious imitation. (Voltaire)

 

Othello:  one that loved not wisely, but too well.

 

O.T.T. = Over the Top (broadcast)

 

Our average employees now work someplace else.

 

Our biggest blind spots often come from our own behaviors.

 

Our body fluids, the lubricant of intimacy and the nectar of life, have become death potions.

 

Our commitments to each other are what we’re here for and that is life.

 

Our decision did not come easily, but it did come clearly.

 

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. (Marianne Williamson)

 

Our desires always increase with our possessions.  The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

 

Our devotion to each other was a consolation beyond the ravages of time.

 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.  (Shakespeare)

 

Our emphasis on dismantling problems into their components and our obsessive emphasis on quantifying detail without context leaves us knowing more and more about less and less.

 

Our enemy is the concept of “impossible” – we just don’t buy it.

 

Our fears must never hold us back from pursuing our hopes. (JFK)

 

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don’t use it.

Our goal is not a great school system, it’s a system of great schools.

 

Our greatest foes, whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

 

Our ignorance of history makes us vilify our own age.

 

Our grandkids will live in a country unrecognizable to us.

 

Our greatest leverage is in the future.  We can't change the past.  We can only react to the present.

 

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

 

Our knowledge (science) is growing faster than our wisdom (society).

 

Our last two presenters were one hour too long.

 

Our memories are independent of our wills, it is not easy to forget.

 

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

 

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

 

Our old friend Hugh Bris is back in town.

 

Our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people’s needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

 

Our passions may be our guides in life.

 

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

 

Our philosophy is:  a little number times a big number is a big number.

 

Our possessions owned us.

 

Our selves are our only guarantee.

 

Our style betrays us.  (Stylus virum arguit.)

 

Our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face the future.

 

Our theories determine what we measure.

Our view of the future is limited to our existing vocabulary.

 

Our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made such flawed husbands.

 

Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord make harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

 

Outside of a person’s love, the most sacred thing they can give is their labor.

 

Outsourcing is a way station on the path to automation.

 

Over managed and under led.

 

Overfunding a start-up numbs the pain and slows the progress. (McKeown)

 

Overnight successes sure take a helluva long time.

 

Overton window is a model that identifies the range of policies acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.  Politicians can only act within the acceptable range. Proponents of policies outside the window can persuade the public to expand the window.

 

Own Up, Step Up  (Ross Manire)

 

Oysters don’t choose to make pearls.

 

Oz didn’t give anything to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.

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The Cloud Won't Save You - Loop North News

 

The cloud won’t save you. Back up everything on a hard drive. Before you close the books on 2023, make sure you’ve taken these simple steps to secure the digital pictures, emails, and files that matter to you. Because sooner or later you’re going to get hacked. By Howard Tullman 27-Dec-23 – Now’s the time of year when we typically look back and try to remember all that transpired – for better and worse – so that we can take the lessons we’ve hopefully learned from those experiences into the coming year. That covers adventures and experiences we’d do again in a flash and those we hope to never repeat. Reviewing pictures, notes, and memories from family and friends we had hoped to spend more time with and pawing through piles of papers we’d planned to store and secure but never got around to are all important parts of the process. When we once again drop the ball and do nothing, we add them to next year’s New Year’s resolutions and get back on the couch. But these days it’s not just our cupboards and closets that are cluttered and crammed. There’s the modest matter of the huge portion of our lives now contained in our home and office computers and, of course, increasingly in the cloud. And if you think for a moment that you have a good idea and a solid handle on all the stuff that’s been stored and stuck there over the last 12 months, you’re one in a zillion and probably kidding yourself. We all think we’re safe and sound and well-protected belt-and-suspenders folks; but saying it doesn’t make it so. So, before we start reminiscing, I want to suggest that you give a few moments of thought to protection rather than reflection. All those digital assets you hold so near and dear on your desktop or in the cloud aren’t going to protect themselves. Just ask yourself how much you’d miss and how you’d go about trying to recover or replace all those things if they disappeared tomorrow or you lost the ability to access them. You’re hit by a virus that locks your computer, your blog blows up and disappears, your latest draft of that great novel can’t be found, or someone’s swiped and changed your critical passwords. It’s a nightmare that happens every day to millions of people. If you haven’t been hit yet, it’s not because you’re smart; it’s just because you’ve been lucky. You may think you can live without your 2023 emails but most of us use them as a quick and dirty filing system for open items, things to get done, and people we need to get back in touch with for a variety of reasons. I’ve covered the risks of misplaced or stolen passwords and we all read every day about new hacks, ransomware attacks, and other phishing and fraudulent offers. None of these problems are going away, the work-from-home revolution has made things even worse, and the older schemes and scams will simply be replaced by newer, smarter, and more convincing versions. But there’s at least one simple step that you can take to give yourself a fighting chance. My guess is that it will take less than two hours – mostly unattended – to get the whole job done for all your digital assets. I’d suggest a fireproof bag for your passports and other most important physical documents. My basic suggestion is a lot easier and simpler than you’d imagine and it’s something you can probably do in the next 24 hours if you just take the time. 1 Get yourself a stand-alone, solid state portable hard drive with some serious capacity. I’d suggest something like two terabytes, which will cost you $150 to $200. You can pay a lot more for higher transfer speeds but there’s no reason to do it. Samsung has at least a dozen varieties. 2 If you have antivirus software on your computer, run a preventative scan of the whole thing before you start the transfer. 3 Transfer everything on your desktop to the new portable drive and do the same with any web/cloud assets that you want to protect and preserve as well. You’ll be surprised at how much duplication there is in the cloud since Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all constantly trying to push your stuff to the cloud so they can sell you monthly storage. Don’t forget to archive and transfer your various email files. 4 Disconnect the portable drive and put it someplace safe and out of sight. 5 Sleep tonight like a baby, except skip the waking up and crying every two hours part. Sometime next June decide whether it’s worth repeating the process to add any incremental material to the offline and air-gapped files now safely stored on your drive. Most people will invest more in the chance to get something good than they will to prevent something bad from happening. Prevention is a lot cheaper and less painful than cure.