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Monday, August 06, 2007
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Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. [Image courtesy Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors via Dependable Renegade]
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes
There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. -- Molly Ivins
[War] is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. ... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives ... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. -- Major General Smedley Butler
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein
"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." -- James Thurber
One of the fun aspects of Empire is how many ironies it creates. -- Glenn Greenwald
I had a slightly insane discussion the other day with a winger who wanted urgently for me to understand that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. Whereas I was trying to point out to him that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. -- Molly Ivins
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. –- Howard Zinn
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair
If we're the greatest country in the world, then maybe we could have the greatest government. -- Lewis Black
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -- Aristotle
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -- H.L. Mencken
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison, 4th President of the United States
No nation builds a wall out of strength. They build it out of fear. -- Michael Flynn
They call it The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin
Texas justice is Texas justice. -- Victoria Nuland, US State Department spokeswomanSometimes I go about with pity for myself, and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes
There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. -- Molly Ivins
[War] is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. ... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives ... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. -- Major General Smedley Butler
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein
"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." -- James Thurber
One of the fun aspects of Empire is how many ironies it creates. -- Glenn Greenwald
I had a slightly insane discussion the other day with a winger who wanted urgently for me to understand that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. Whereas I was trying to point out to him that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. -- Molly Ivins
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. –- Howard Zinn
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair
If we're the greatest country in the world, then maybe we could have the greatest government. -- Lewis Black
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -- Aristotle
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -- H.L. Mencken
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison, 4th President of the United States
No nation builds a wall out of strength. They build it out of fear. -- Michael Flynn
They call it The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin
Texas justice is Texas justice. -- Victoria Nuland, US State Department spokeswoman
When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern
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- Oh, and Iowa...
- Continuing Haditha Whitewash
- Same-Sex Marriage Okay in....
- Leaked Report to "Lock In" the Bad News
- Bush in New Orleans
- Rove's Jaguar Awaits His Return to DC
- Political Scandals, Republican Style
- Applying the Brakes
- The Surge Must Be Working
- A Different Kind of Politics
- City Room
- And Speaking of Education
- Larry Craig Resigns
- Requiem for a Bottom Feeder
- I Haven't Got a Title for This One
- Unfortunate Analogy
- New Weapons, New Ways to Torture
- Still Another One!
- Pace Denies Suggesting a Troop Withdrawal
- Gone Fishin'
- STOP THE PRESSES!
- Iraq Benchmark
- Al-Maliki Responds
- Who Is John Galt?
- Slightly Suspicious
- Soldier Props
- General Peter "Cut and Run" Pace
- Making Space for the Political Process to Work
- "Friendly Fire" Takes Down Three More
- Waste of Breath
- What a Difference a State Makes
- Cut and Run Warner
- Another One Bites the Dust
- All Right, Who Leaked This One?
- Daily Show Correspondent in Iraq
- Minnesota Bridge Collapse
- About Those Subpoenas
- Court Orders Bush Administration to Publish Climat...
- Couldn't Stand the Heat
- Iraq Report
- Okay, Just One More
- Incredible
- George "Macaca" Allen
- American Psych Association Says No to Torture
- Who Said This?
- Outmatched
- Today's Treat - On Me (and Link12227 at YouTube)
- Ron Paul
- He Does Read, After All
- Baaaaaaaaa
- Cough 'Em Up
- Bill Moyers on Karl Rove
- A History of Abuse
- Oh, Rudy
- 2008
- Ooops
- The Padilla Verdict
- Rats from a Sinking Ship
- I Love Galveston
- Just the Wo/Man for the Job
- Things Change
- Bush and the Economy
- Heckuva Job, Brownie
- Diplomacy
- Do the Words "Heat Stroke" Mean Anything To You?
- Mueller's Notes
- What's a Christian to Do?
- Pentagon-approved News Analysis
- Police State
- Padilla Verdict Is In
- ANSWER Update
- It's Never Too Late to Say You're Sorry
- The "Petraeus" Report
- Amazing
- So Very Put Upon
- Code Talkers
- And Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
- Why Didn't I Think of That?
- Fueling Armageddon
- Response to ANSWER
- Expanded AG Powers
- In a Nutshell
- ANSWER Fined $10,000
- Padilla Trial Coming to a Close
- On to Iran
- Tortured
- Statue Toppling
- Too Hot in the Kitchen
- Bad Taste, Bad Timing Award
- Send the Word! Over There!
- Party Dues
- Et Tu Italia?
- Your Sunday Sermon
- The Bermuda Triangle Ain't Got Nothin' on Iraq
- The Race for the First Primary Is On
- Meanwhile in Afghanistan
- Is the Post Playing Judy Miller?
- Another Dow Dive
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- Why Do They Hate America?
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