One more thing



And one more thing:

Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum

You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.

(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).




Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Quotes (and comment) for the day




[From the 2012 AIPAC convention underway in Washington]

“If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. It’s a nuclear duck. It’s time to start calling the duck a duck.”
    --- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the only country in the Middle East that possesses fully developed nuclear warheads and punishes any of its citizens who speak of it.
Everybody: Duck! 
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“There’s only one race that’s better than the Jews, and that’s the Kentucky Derby.”
     -- Sen. Mitch McConnell, R. KY, Senate minority leader.
Oh, Mitch. What a horse’s arse. His attempts at humor are invariably feeble. Jews might even consider this comparison offensive.


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  1. raymonda tawilMarch 6, 2012 at 12:59 PM

    oh my God , what a courage , how one cannot be afraid to put such a comment ,and not to be called antisemite ,we had been under the sword,directed on our necks , and the threat on our lives , of fear of accusations, and descriminations of beeing accused .of beeing called anti semite, yes
    anti semites

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