Comments on: I could see this becoming a real time-eater http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/ Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:57:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-45024 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:40:13 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-45024 I hate to see de evenin’ sun go down, Hate to see de evenin’ sun go down, ‘Cause ma baby, he done lef’ dis town. - W.C. Handy I hate to see de evenin’ sun go down,
Hate to see de evenin’ sun go down,
‘Cause ma baby, he done lef’ dis town. - W.C. Handy

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44846 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:27:00 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44846 Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. --David Sarnoff Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. –David Sarnoff

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44845 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:24:14 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44845 The letter that launched the arms race. A warning to President Roosevelt of the possibility of constructing "extremely powerful bombs of a new type" with hints that the German government might be doing just that. Addressed and dated Peconic, Long Island, August 2nd 1939, it was most likely written by Leo Szilard, the scientist who invented the chain reaction. Nevertheless, Einstein took full responsibility for its consequences, calling it "the greatest mistake" of his life. http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml#fourth The letter that launched the arms race. A warning to President Roosevelt of the possibility of constructing “extremely powerful bombs of a new type” with hints that the German government might be doing just that. Addressed and dated Peconic, Long Island, August 2nd 1939, it was most likely written by Leo Szilard, the scientist who invented the chain reaction. Nevertheless, Einstein took full responsibility for its consequences, calling it “the greatest mistake” of his life.
http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml#fourth

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44843 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:18:16 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44843 "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." --Thomas Edison “There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.” –Thomas Edison

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44793 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:00:45 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44793 "These Fought in Any Case" by Ezra Pound These fought in any case, and some believing pro domo, in any case ..... Died some, pro patria,* walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving came home, home to a lie, home to many deceits, home to old lies and new infamy; usury age-old and age-thick and liars in public places. Daring as never before, wastage as never before. Young blood and high blood, fair cheeks, and fine bodies; fortitude as never before frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies. *The famous line from one of Horace's "Odes": Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country.") “These Fought in Any Case”
by Ezra Pound

These fought in any case,
and some believing
pro domo, in any case …..

Died some, pro patria,*
walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men’s lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before

frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.

*The famous line from one of Horace’s “Odes”:
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (”Sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country.”)

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44791 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:58:02 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44791 Rodgers “only knew, I think, two chords, on guitar,”--Ralph Peer Rodgers “only knew, I think, two chords, on guitar,”–Ralph Peer

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44790 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:54:45 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44790 I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.--FDR I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.–FDR

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44789 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:53:38 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44789 They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway About the quote: from "Notes on the Next War," published in Esquire Magazine, 1935. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. ~Ernest Hemingway No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ~Ernest Hemingway The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin. ~Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

~Ernest Hemingway

About the quote: from “Notes on the Next War,” published in Esquire Magazine, 1935.
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

~Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

~Ernest Hemingway

The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.

~Ernest Hemingway

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44788 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:51:01 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44788 Why, you ask, these quotations from your choice of great men in American History? Why, because methinks you often wax way to bellicose here: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. --Dwight D. Eisenhower I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. --Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. --Dwight D. Eisenhower Why, you ask, these quotations from your choice of great men in American History? Why, because methinks you often wax way to bellicose here:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44786 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:47:16 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/02/12/737/#comment-44786 My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about. HENRY FORD, My Life and Work My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

HENRY FORD, My Life and Work

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