Monday, November 20, 2006

Purpose, camaraderie, and self-respect

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The American Friends Service Committee is the Quakers. I cringe when I remember that I was married in a Quaker meeting house.

13 comments:

Luke Murphy said...

Absolute creeps.

There is a great episode of South Park with San Francisco in it. Everyone in South Park starts driving hybrid cars and loves the smell of their own farts, forming a huge, grey cloud of "smug." This cloud of smug starts to combine with all the smug from San Francisco, until it reaches a critical mass. Finally, the cloud of smug from Hollywood from George Clooney's academy award acceptance speech starts to move northeast, and when it hits the rest of the smug, it creates "The Perfect Storm of Self-Satisfaction."

Boy I just hope that abolishing JROTC didn't produce anymore smug, otherwise we'd be in real trouble.

Anonymous said...

I love it how some people will fix their gaze on a certain ideology and ignore everything else that goes on around them, including the facts.

Mom said...

Hey, Jason posted a comment! Hi, Jason.

Dad said...

Who's Jason?

And I didn't ignore any facts.

Caleb said...

Hey. I'm a Quaker.

Anonymous said...

Hi!

I meant Sandra and her friends on the west coast. Sorry for any confusion!

"We don't want the military ruining our civilian institutions," said Sandra Schwartz . . . "In a healthy democracy . . . you contain the military."

She has made it very clear of her ignorance to the program and its results. Because of her political blinders, her kids, if she has any, will suffer.

Dad said...

Caleb, I'm a Quiver.

Jason, I was yanking your chain.

Are you the same Jason that hangs around with Laura sometimes?

Anonymous said...

Nope, but from what I hear, you guys sure are lucky to know such an intelligent and charming young man.

Dad said...

Heh... Pretty funny... Don't believe everything you hear.

Caleb said...

What about 10 mm pig embryos, digestive tract development, or PRAA?

I really am a Quaker, though.

Dad said...

NPVs will be along in a few decades, unless you mean Net Present Value, which measures the cash flow of a project at a given time but doesn't account for lost opportunity cost, the MIRR for this farm this year is very very low, and the cost of new common stock is high. 10mm pig embryos are small and need to grow some to make it to the pig fetus stage, Digestive Tract Development would be a lousy name for a new subdivision unless it was located along the Alimentary Canal, and Persistent Right Aortic Arch accounts for about 7% of all congenital CV defects in dogs.

And you really are a Quaker.

Lucy said...

I like quakers. A lot.

Caleb, clearly we should be friends.

Dad said...

I like Quaker Oats.