[Backpacker Joe]

"African American Elon Musk buys Twitter!" Radio talk show host. LOL

[Chief Joseph]

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Einstein

[Chief Joseph]

"My minimalist approach is this: Don’t go into bear country without a deterrent and commit to making noise. You can’t outrun them, you can’t outwit them, you can’t out-anything them. You need a way to say to the bear: 'this far; no farther.'" - Tom Smith, Bear Biologist - Survival Mag

[Sculpin]

[neek]

"Far too many good brains have been afflicted by the pointless enthusiasm for useless knowledge.” -Seneca

[Anne Elk]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." Carl Sagan, 1995

[Chief Joseph]

Quoting a friend while at the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert at T-mobile park a couple of nights ago...."I have T-mobile cell service and I can't get a signal here". Ironic. I have Consumer Cellular and it worked fine for me. The RHCP concert was awesome though!

[cdestroyer]

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." the notebooks of lazarus long

[CS]

[Backpacker Joe]

You'll never have enough money, if all you have is money! Sometimes you have to risk it to get the biscuit!

[Navy salad]

[Chief Joseph]

"I have a kind feeling in my heart for all of you". "I am getting old and have for some years past have made several efforts to be returned to my old home in Wallowa Valley, but without success". "The government at Washington has always given me many flattering promises, but up to the present time has utterly failed to fulfill any of it's promises" He told of how he was not surprised because his life had been filled with broken promises, and of his dream to be buried by the side of his father and children. Chief Joseph, speaking to an audience at the Seattle Theater in 1903, he passed away less than a year later at age 64 on the Colville Reservation, where he is buried in the Nez Perce Cemetery in Nespelem, Wa.

[Sculpin]

[Anne Elk]

“For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.” - Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It

[Chief Joseph]

“I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating with me, at the same time”. *Edward Abbey*