Monday, July 29, 2013

Richmond/Berkeley

 "Don't do anything that someone else can do." - Edwin H. Land
 Signs placed along the 80 and 580 in Berkeley and Richmond.
 "While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil." - Thomas Jefferson
 "Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else." - Banksy

 "If you tell the truth, you'll eventually be found out." - Mark Twain

 "I have a large seashell collection: I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world." - Steven Wright
 "Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within." - Eckhart Tolle
 "Stop being who you were and become who you are." - Paulo Coelho
YTD - 473

Friday, July 26, 2013

San Francisco


 "This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something."
 - Will Rogers
 Signs placed over and alongside freeways in San Francisco.
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steve Biko
 "He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." - Aristotle
 "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - Ezra Solomon
 "The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment" - John N. Gray
 "Paradise on Earth is where I am..." - Voltaire
YTD - 462

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Los Angeles/Best Picture

 "The time is out of jointO cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right." - Hamlet (1948)
Signs placed over and along the 5, 10, 101 and 110 Freeways in Los Angeles.
Quotes from Academy Award winners for Best Picture. 
"Everybody has a heart... except some people." - All About Eve (1950)
 "I didn't say I didn't love you. I said, 'Stay away from me.'" - On the Waterfront (1954)
 "No sense being a grifter if its the same as bein' a citizen." - The Sting (1973)

"I tried goddammit. At least I did that." - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

 "Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always." - Gandhi (1982)


"Free your mind and the ass will follow." - Platoon (1986)

YTD - 454

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Around California

 Los Angeles
 San Francisco
 Encino
 San Jose
 Berkeley
 Sacramento
 San Francisco
 Buttonwillow
 San Rafael
Santa Nella
Oakland
YTD - 442

Friday, July 12, 2013

Wit and Wisdom of the GOP

 "Fuck the Jews. They didn't vote for us anyway." - James Baker
 Relatively dull pictures of signs placed around California.
Quotes by Republicans.
 "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." - George W. Bush
 "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians! It's no different! It is the same thing! It is happening all over again! " - Pat Robertson
 "Corporations are people, my friend..." - Mitt Romney
"More than half of all babies born to Hispanic women today are illegitimate." - Ann Coulter
"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff." - Lee Atwater
“I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.” - George W. Bush
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." - John McCain (to his wife)
"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape." -Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist." - Pat Robertson
"If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do -- let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work." - Rush Limbaugh
"White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals." - David Duke
"There's no difference between the KKK and the Nazis, who have websites, than the Daily Kos." - Bill O'Reilly
"Go fuck yourself." - Dick Cheney
YTD - 431