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Cap'n Jack Simpson

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About Me

I'm a tutor, a Unitarian Universalist, a Libertarian, a small business owner, reader, writer, actor, musician, stagehand, and serial philanthropist.........

My Interests

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Oh billions of dollars...is there no dispute you can't settle?"
~Jon Stewart

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
~Herman Goering

"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others. We are burial places!"
~Leonardo da Vinci

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

"A long war almost always reduces nations to the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat, or to despotism by success...All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it."
~Alexis de Tocqueville

"You can't have in a democracy various groups that have arms. You have to have the state with a monopoly on power."
~Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
~Albert Einstein

"Shut up!"
~Bill O'Reilly

"I'm a big woman and I have the ability to injure people."
~Catazon

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
~Mohandas K. Ghandi

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
~El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

"Today is tomorrow yesterday."
~WreckHELL Welch

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
~Pres. George W. Bush

"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
~Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life is the great primary and most precious and comprehensive of all human rights...whether it be coupled with virtue, honor, and happiness, or with sin, disgrace and misery, the continued possession of it is rightfully not a matter of volition; it is not to be deliberately or voluntarily destroyed, either by individuals separately, or combined in what is called Government."
~Frederick Douglass

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
~Noam Chomsky

"If you can make people laugh in church, you can make them laugh anywhere."

~Sam Kinison

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

~Henry David Thoreau

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
~Abraham Lincoln

Music:

Beatles (after they got into drugs but before Yoko), Jimi, Doors, Eagles, Floyd, Boston, Led Zep, WHO?, The Band, John Denver, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Steve Miller, CCR, Lynyrd and so on...i'm a big metal fanatic too, System of a Down, Alice in Chains (RIP Layne Staley), White Zombie, Metallica, TOOL, Marilyn Manson, G n' R, Ozzy...various other favorites are Coldplay, Moby, other trance shit, RHCP, Radiohead, Lost at Last, Linkin Park, NIN, Cake, Bob Marley, Blue October, DMB, Billy Joel, the Toadies and At the Drive-in

FAVORITE WEBSITES:

Ego Death

The Bullshit Filter
Voice of the People
The Best TV Station
The Time Waster
The Info Source
VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS!
HOUSTON ROLLER DERBY!!!!

Movies:

Top movies of all time????? Definitely included would be Godfather 1 and 2, NOT 3, Traffic, Heavy Metal, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Usual Suspects, Fight Club, The Matrix (just the original), American History X, Million Dollar Baby, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Great Dictator, Blade Runner, The Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, The Deer Hunter, and anything by Monty Python or Mel Brooks.

Television:

PBS PBS PBS PBS Public television ROCKS and NO COMMERCIALS. Sure there's the occasional fund drive. DONATE! It's worth more than all the cable crap combined. Although I do enjoy some of the cable crap i.e. Real Time with Bill Maher, Six Feet Under, Keith Olbermann, South Park, Daily Show, Chapelle's Show, History Channel, National Geographic, 24 hour news channels, and ADULT SWIM!

Books:

Deep breath...The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Animal Farm, Walden, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ghandi and Malcolm X, The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy, The Bible, The Koran, Tom Clancy novels, The Grapes of Wrath, The Age of Reason, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Brief History of Time, Catcher in the Rye, Tao te Ching, to be continued...

Heroes:

Parents at the top. Others include Richard Lane, Ghandi, Malcolm X, Leo Tolstoy, Gautama, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and my homeboy, Jesus.I just realized there's no famous women on my Heroes list. Here's some luv to the ladies.Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marie Curie, Mary Magdalene, Queen Elizabeth, Rosa Parks, Jane Austen, Mother Theresa, and all the chicks from the Houston Roller Derby!

My Blog

Evangelism speech coming up soon

So I’m gonna be giving a speech to my church fellowship next Sunday about the importance of Unitarian Universalist evangelism.  It’s so important for a brighter future to spread a mor...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:46:00 PST

IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT EXECUTIONS

IMAGINE     Imagine the benefits that would flow to Texas if it stopped executing its citizens.   Imagine how human life would be honored in this state.       ...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:06:00 PST

Biggest beef recall in U.S. history

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5548714.html Reason for recall - abuse of the animals going to slaughter, especially the injured. These disassembly lines need to be stopped...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues

"TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation." "SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation." "ORDER. Let all your things have their places; ...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:26:00 PST

ObamaNation

There is a revolutionary phenomenon happening in this election and his name is Obama.  He was raised in Indonesia and his campaign has become like the devastating tsunami that hit that area a few...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:58:00 PST

I saw something flying over Texas too

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5469841.html   I need to contact MUFON about a similar experience in 2000.  ...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:04:00 PST

12 Rules for raising a delinquent child

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/12rules.asp As created by the City of Houston
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:26:00 PST

I’m in the Huntsville Item today

http://www.itemonline.com/local/local_story_353225324.html   I was not expecting this to be front page news but I guess it was a slow news day in Huntsville.  The library literacy program is...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:31:00 PST

I love Ron Paul

I find myself agreeing with every word that comes out of Dr. Paul's mouth. Personal liberties, strict Constitutionalism, return to state's rights, respect for life, non-interventionist foregin policy,...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:27:00 PST

Ron Paul for President

Even if Ron Paul is not one of the major candidates, I'll write him in for president in 2008 as long as his heart's still ticking.  I agree with everything that man says.  He is the bravest,...
Posted by Cap'n Jack Simpson on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST