Donald Rumsfeld's Letter to the IRS

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Rumsfeld's Known Unknowns

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Rumsfeld's Letter to the IRS

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Rumsfeld's Known Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." - Paulo Coelho

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." - M. Scott Peck

"The only trick was not to be so awed and frightened by the present that you were not able to see the future that lay within it." - Bill Zeckendorf

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you. 

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld

"And the rockets red glare... buncha bombs in the air... came proof to the night that we still had a flag." - Enrico Palazzo

"We all fool ourselves from time to time... to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with that we have already done or decided." - Robert Caldini 

Exhibit A Why I was a Fan of Donald Rumsfeld

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgements." - Naval Ravikant

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." - Donald Rumsfeld

"Everyone seems to think the censorship movement won't come for them. If you think for yourself, it eventually will." - Matt Taibbi

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." - Paulo Coelho

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." - M. Scott Peck

"The things I'm surrounded by are going to change and disappear, so let me enjoy their beauty as they are right now." - Bernie Glassman

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Very cool - BMW's new flying car. Two minutes to convert from car to plane is less than it took to take off the T-tops of an older Corvette. 

- NFL Clarifies the Entire League Isn't Gay, Just the Dallas Cowboys. Doug Stanhope had the best bit on the NFL but don't Google "60 inches of AIDS on Any Given Sunday" if you're easily offended (severely NSFW).

- Another worthy appreciation of Donald Rumsfeld

- The neuroscience of gratitude and how it effects anxiety and grief

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

One complaint I have with Substack is that its easy to subscribe to a particular writer but I see no way to unsubscribe (perhaps I'm just obtuse)... The Donald Rumsfeld the Obituaries Won't Write About. Nice appreciation of a truly unique man... "Ruptcy" is such an underused suffix. Everyone understands "bankruptcy" which is the state of completely lacking in money. I think the words "Whiskeyruptcy" and "brownieruptcy" among others should become more common in everyday vernacular... Has anyone looked into how zombies affect Estate Planning? Would you be able to avoid Death Taxes if you just declared the passed loved one to now be a zombie? Working on my will and looking for loopholes... Biden's Energy Secretary recently suggested the the building collapse in Florida was due in some ways to climate change. This subject has become a joke. Would it be any surprise if the election mismanagement in the New York Mayor's race was similarly blamed on climate change? Bill Cosby getting released from jail was due to the melting polar ice caps. Some people are seriously detached from reality... Looking forward to the new Fletch movie starring Jon Hamm. My understanding is the new movie will be more true to the novels on which the character was based which is good because I enjoyed the books.... 

Donald Rumsfeld

 

Donald Rumsfeld has passed aged 88. I am an unapologetic admirer of this great American who I think is the greatest Secretary of Defense in US history. I think the above video is a prime example of why I remain such an admirer of the man. (Oh and I can highly recommend his book Known and Unknown.) 

Not only was he a Navy fighter pilot and a hero who ran into the flames of the Pentagon on 9/11, I feel people don't understand the extent of the sweeping changes Rumsfeld was able to make on the military which today is a much more nimble and streamlined fighting force than before Rumsfeld took the reins as Secretary of Defense for a second time.

Probably my favorite piece of trivia about Donald Rumsfeld was about how good an athlete he was. He barely missed making the US Olympic team as a wrestler and in Washington DC circles in the 1970's Rumsfeld was viewed as pretty much a ringer when it came to baseball or softball.

Here are a couple of links on Rummy that I enjoyed over the years:

Rumsfeld's Snowflake Poetry.

The Day Rumsfeld Met Elvis Presley

I can also recommend the Rumsfeld documentary The Unknown Known

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the Internet." - Shane Parrish

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" - Charles Bukowski

"Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things." - G.K. Chesterton

"It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." - Donald Rumsfeld

"Everyone seems to think the censorship movement won't come for them. If you think for yourself, it eventually will." - Matt Taibbi

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you. 

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld

"And the rockets red glare... buncha bombs in the air... came proof to the night that we still had a flag." - Enrico Palazzo

"We all fool ourselves from time to time... to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with that we have already done or decided." - Robert Caldini

"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true." - Leigh Bardugo

"I haven't slept for ten days... because that would be too long." - Mitch Hedberg

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." - Donald Rumsfeld. I keep thinking of that quote whenever I see or hear people bemoaning the current choices for President and suggesting other alternatives... Oh the humanity! Covid-19 outbreak at Cruisin' Chubby's strip club in Wisconsin. Of course Covid-19 isn't the only virus these folks should be tested for... Having said the above that the choices in November will be either Donald Trump or Joe Biden there's a significant chance that the choice for Democrats may actually end up as Kamala Harris (or whoever Joe Biden picks as his VP candidate) if Joe Biden has to step aside because of his cognitive decline. But then that opens up a whole other can of worms... Heh Heh... Hiking Mount Wachusett in Central Mass with my daughter for Father's Day. Here's a nice article from Outside Magazine on suggested hikes in the White (New Hampshire) and Green (Vermont) Mountains... Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there... 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The idea that anyone who dies in a hospital who tested positive for COVID-19 has that listed as the cause of death no matter the actual cause made me think of the Aids song from Team America. Now we just have to get someone to sing a Wuhan Flu song... "If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld... It does seem fair... It will be interesting to watch Italy in the months to come. Not just to see how they cope with getting their economy back up and running but also how the people of Italy react internationally. China gave them the Wuhan Virus and the European Union basically gave them no help. Will politicians in Italy start arguing for a decoupling of their own both in trade with China and from continuing to be a member of the European Union which did nothing for them in their hour of need?... Interesting story of how Roger Ebert "discovered" John Prine...