"If I could put my mind to it, I could do anything. I just don't feel like putting my mind to something. So there." -- Ellen DeGeneres

"Once you begin the journey toward a life of purpose, you enter the realm of real magic" -- Wayne Dyer

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us." -- Marianne Williamson

1290whio.com: Comments during the debate and after the decision to expel Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio



"My people elected me and I don't think you should take their representative away. ... Vote your conscience. Nothing personal." -- Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio

"I'm prepared to lose everything. I'm prepared to go to jail. You go ahead and expel me." -- Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio

"None of us ever wants to sit in judgment of our peer. There are some unique occasions, however, when the behavior of an elected official violates the public trust to such an extent that we are called upon to uphold this provision of the Constitution that we swore to support and defend." -- Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo., chairman of the House ethics committee that recommended Traficant's expulsion

"This is a day that each of us hoped would never come and we pray that it will not come again. Simply put, there is absolutely no satisfaction in judging one of our own. But the Constitution makes clear that we are the only ones that can judge a fellow member of Congress in cases such as Mr. Traficant's." -- Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash

"[The ethics committee,] involving an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, covering an incredible range of philosophies and ideologies ... have applied our rules to the facts as we see them and unanimously recommended expulsion. No one did it easily, for some it was an incredibly difficult conclusion to reach." -- Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif.

"When you destroy that fragile bond of trust between the elected and the electorate expulsion is the only appropriate remedy, regrettably." -- Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Mo.

Get That Job! - An Announcement

I have announced the launch of a new, collaborative weblog entitled Get That Job!. Let me know if you're interested in contributing, or if you know anyone else who would be interested. I am looking for people interested in both regularly contributing and occasionally contributing.

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (found on Jen's blog, Quote of the Day section.)

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it's managed, nothing else can be managed." -- Peter F. Drucker

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got." -- Lee Iacocca

"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time-conscious." -- A.B. Zu Tavern

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anans Nin