Entries by Bruno

Oettinger Talking English

Oops…sometimes I complain about my maccaronian accent when I speak english, but it seems that others have more serious problems… :-))))

Slaves that love their servitude

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper […]

Lost Gospel wisdom

Lost Gospel wisdom: “…let the women keep silence in the assemblies: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the Law. And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in […]

Un nouvel abandon de la souveraineté européenne

Goodbye, Europe, and sorry for Europeans… I’ve other plans…:-) “..les États-Unis auront légalement accès aux informations bancaires des Européens, dès que le Traité de Lisbonne sera entré en vigueur et que le Parlement européen aura avalisé le nouvel accord. Au demeurant, avant même le vote parlementaire, ces dispositions sont déjà appliquées.” http://www.voltairenet.org/article163287.html

What is that shit on the wall?

“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively– because, without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a ‘box’ around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?” Frank Zappa

Unuseful wisdom

“How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise”…. (oh, by the way…this line is from Sophocles, Oedipus Rex) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563

You Can’t Handle the Truth!

“I want the truth!” “You can’t handle the truth!…” Col. Jessep: *You want answers?* Kaffee: *I want the truth!* Col. Jessep: *You can’t handle the truth!* [pauses] Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, […]