In the Steal of the Night

By now, you would have heard of the phrase "Go Tell It to the Marines" when you don't believe the story-teller and you tellhim off politely.

But in my vocab, there are two mariners whose tales are sometimes tall -- one Ancient and his mate Mindful -- they have a whiff of the saltiness of a Pu-erh quality around the tail, so I'm happily a list'ner when the boat is not listing. And the kambing at Lingam's tastes just right and not too salty. And tehtarik flows like sailor's boy's blue/brew if you don'tget entangled in the sails and ropes and whiskers of long-john Silver or Gold. Johny Depp can be a killer, on the HI seas or at the Barber Shoppe at Flee' Street. If you don'tfollow what Desi's telling so far,it doesn't matter because the teller is steal at the bank and I'm on CNY eve, a li'l drunk on Pu-erh, eh!:)

So here's that STEAL of the night I told the hoRst at promptus.blogspot.com I would commit, as any mousey writHer worth his 3sen's salt:

Politicians

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~ Plato


During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.


Some Political Quotes:

One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~~ George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950


An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~~ T.S. Eliot

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become Prime Minister; I'm beginning to believe it. ~~ after Clarence Darrow

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~~ Ronald Reagan

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~~ George Jean Nathan

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~~ Larry Hardiman

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~~ Maureen Murphy

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~~ Aesop

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~~ Albert Einstein

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~~ Richard Armour

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~~ Doug Larson

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~~ Henry Cate, VII

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~~ Winston Churchill

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~~ Thomas Jefferson

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~~ James Freeman Clarke

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~~ Stewart Udall


Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~~ Doug Gwyn

"Pura Vida"



Posted by mindful mariner at 10:32 PM

DESIDERATA:

Putting on now the best traditonal behaviur,
YL Chong and family VVishes Awe Malayasians, especially
My EsteemedReaders and families,
wit' the slighest whiff of Chinoserie blood in 'em, Ahem,
an A*ce (when you play de Card game, remember!)

"ap ap ap AP ap ap ap

Chinese New Year."

Don't be ratty!
A li'l mousey like this blardy writHer okay-lah.-- Desi