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03-30-2012, 08:29 PM
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"While the court is as divided as the demonstrators outside waiting for the decision to come, both sides are agreed on one thing:
when the decision finally arrives, it will have huge implications regarding the ability of the federal government in controlling the
lives of Americans from issues concerning environment, education, workplace and almost every walk of life."
-wendy zachary
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04-05-2012, 07:36 PM
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“One of most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an
automobile company called American Motors … They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” said Romney. “And as the president of the company he decided to close the
factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so
you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him,
for his campaign.”
Romney said he recalled a parade in which the school band marching with his father’s campaign only knew the
Wisconsin fight song, not the Michigan song.
“So every time they would start playing ‘On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin,’ my dad’s political people would jump up
and down and try to get them to stop, because they didn’t want people in Michigan to be reminded that my dad
had moved production to Wisconsin."
- Mitt Romney
( 50 years ago, Mitt's father, George, an American Motors executive, shut down a factory in Michigan and moved the work to Wisconsin. )
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04-05-2012, 07:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ishmael
I'm of not of your church, and I'm on the verge of being ready to defend my belief to the death if comes to that fact
Ishmael
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Quoted for hilarity...
Is there a single person on this board that believes this drunken nonsense?
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04-06-2012, 01:42 AM
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#1- I don't like fish brushing up against me when I'm swimming. They are slimey.
#2- You don't like something slimey rubbing up against your leg. What about the fish?
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04-11-2012, 05:50 PM
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"After grandiose claims about promoting human rights in Libya, David Cameron should not wimp out of supporting human rights
in Russia, especially when it concerns a British citizen, a London-based firm and his murdered lawyer. It would be deplorable
if the US and other EU states took the lead while Cameron refused to take similar action."
-Denis MacShane MP
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04-13-2012, 01:59 AM
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"I ain't gonna sue you. I'm gonna hit you back."
- Ginger Baker
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04-15-2012, 08:22 PM
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"The reality is that the government has implemented a wide range of policies that have led to a massive upward redistribution
of before tax income over the last three decades. These policies have affected every corner of the market economy."
- Dean Baker
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04-17-2012, 12:21 AM
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"The dominant elements in the wealth inequality, it's been more bankers than anything else because you have the financialization of the
monopoly capitalist system, so that 30 years ago banks had 9 percent profits, and today they got 42 percent. That's a major shift in
terms of the money at the top. So still the fact of the corporate elites, and all corporate elites are not bankers, there are still some
in Silicon Valley at the very top and so forth, but the dominant element's been the big banks, not the small banks, the big banks."
- Dr. Cornel West
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04-17-2012, 12:49 AM
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"There are nearly 150 million poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the Great Recession.
Yet they pay the price. The poor did not create the deindustrialization of America, unmatched corporate profiteering and greed, more than
a decade of foreign wars, and unregulated tax benefits for the wealthy. When the largest economic institutions in the world were brought
to their collective knees, they went crawling to the government’s doorstep in search of salvation. The government obliged, allowing
Wall Street to socialize its failure on the backs of Main Street Americans. The housing and jobs crisis they created fostered a poverty
unseen in generations—not just in inner-city ghettos and barrios, but also in suburbs and rural areas crossing racial, age, and gender lines.
Nearly one-third of the American middle class—mostly families with children—have fallen into poverty.”
—Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
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04-20-2012, 03:39 AM
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"The other thing that the document does is, it criticizes the Women Religious for the things that they seem to be thinking or discussing
or exploring. It criticizes their theological investigations within their own private conference, within their discussions among themselves."
"And I think that, that's a real -- one of the real problems for me as a scholar of women and religion is the document seems to be trying
to tell Women Religious to stop exploring the dynamics of the faith and simply take the tradition as it's been handed to them."
- JEANNINE HILL FLETCHER
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04-20-2012, 04:48 PM
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"Among William James’s many eccentricities was an unflagging opposition to the first global thrust of US imperialism in the Spanish-
American War and a demand of a full accounting of the mass carnage and torture that followed in its wake."
"Sundry intellectual enablers and executors of Nazi aggression such as Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt were vaulted to rock-star
status after World War II, so there is nothing surprising about the ability of Kissinger to outlive his infamy sequestered within the
right circles of power. The shame lies with another blinkered generation of Harvard strivers who, save for the one undisciplinable
Jamesian, lacked the intellect or gumption to speak up for the 3 million Vietnamese, the countless victims of the 1973 Chilean coup,
and the 100,000 East Timorese whom Havard’s honored guest helped usher to forgotten early graves."
- Patrick Flaherty
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05-01-2012, 12:26 AM
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"One can certainly raise questions about how stimulus funding was used and whether it was effective.
But there is no excuse for these kinds of ads, which take facts out of context or simply invent them.
These groups should be especially ashamed, given that these claims have been previously debunked,
or, in the case of the erroneous ABC report, withdrawn."
- Glenn Kessler
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05-01-2012, 12:34 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ishmael
Don't enact laws that would make me behave according to your religious belief.
I'm of not of your church, and I'm on the verge of being ready to defend my belief to the death if comes to that fact
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Not over a carbon-emissions regulation, you're not.
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"Indeed, the only people who seem to think Obama displays even the slightest social democratic tendency are those who imagine that the very mention of the word 'socialism' should inspire a reaction like that of a vampire confronted with the Host."
-- John Nichols
IX. The Courtyard
It was the city I had known before;
The ancient, leprous town where mongrel throngs
Chant to strange gods, and beat unhallowed gongs
In crypts beneath foul alleys near the shore.
The rotting, fish-eyed houses leered at me
From where they leaned, drunk and half-animate,
As edging through the filth I passed the gate
To the black courtyard where the man would be.
The dark walls closed me in, and loud I cursed
That ever I had come to such a den,
When suddenly a score of windows burst
Into wild light, and swarmed with dancing men:
Mad, soundless revels of the dragging dead—
And not a corpse had either hands or head!
-- Fungi from Yuggoth, by H.P. Lovecraft
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05-02-2012, 07:24 AM
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"There was so much money to be made bilking these dizzy Southerners that banks like JP Morgan spent millions paying
middlemen who bribed — yes, that’s right, bribed, criminally bribed — the county commissioners and their buddies just
to keep their business. Hell, the money was so good, JP Morgan at one point even paid Goldman Sachs $3 million just
to back the fuck off, so they could have the rubes of Jefferson County to fleece all for themselves."
-Matt Taibbi
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05-04-2012, 01:23 PM
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"If this is going to be a Christian Nation that does not help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we
are or we have got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love and serve the needy without conditions, and then admit that we
just do not want to do that."
- Stephen Colbert
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05-07-2012, 01:06 PM
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"We all use Facebook. We all have a lot of things there. But if its.... suddenly our newsfeed is showing up with all kinds of advertising,
we're gonna bail. You're just not gonna come back. And, so, he needs to tread really carefully- not to anger users.
- Paul Sloan CNET Executive editor
May 07, 2012
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05-07-2012, 02:09 PM
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Remember the village idiot?
"I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
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05-21-2012, 07:43 PM
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“It is sedition. I mean, they did it underground. If they are honest brokers and they believe in what they’re saying and where they want
this country to go, like Obama, then you’re right. He should have said it before he was elected, and said 'I’m a socialist, I believe in
socialism, in communism, Nazism,' whatever, and say 'this is where I want to lead the country' -- not do it underhandedly.”
- woman discussing Obama with U.S. Rep Joe Walsh (R-McHenry)
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05-21-2012, 08:48 PM
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"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."
-- George Orwell
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"Indeed, the only people who seem to think Obama displays even the slightest social democratic tendency are those who imagine that the very mention of the word 'socialism' should inspire a reaction like that of a vampire confronted with the Host."
-- John Nichols
IX. The Courtyard
It was the city I had known before;
The ancient, leprous town where mongrel throngs
Chant to strange gods, and beat unhallowed gongs
In crypts beneath foul alleys near the shore.
The rotting, fish-eyed houses leered at me
From where they leaned, drunk and half-animate,
As edging through the filth I passed the gate
To the black courtyard where the man would be.
The dark walls closed me in, and loud I cursed
That ever I had come to such a den,
When suddenly a score of windows burst
Into wild light, and swarmed with dancing men:
Mad, soundless revels of the dragging dead—
And not a corpse had either hands or head!
-- Fungi from Yuggoth, by H.P. Lovecraft
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05-21-2012, 08:51 PM
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"He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat."
-- Nietzsche
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"Indeed, the only people who seem to think Obama displays even the slightest social democratic tendency are those who imagine that the very mention of the word 'socialism' should inspire a reaction like that of a vampire confronted with the Host."
-- John Nichols
IX. The Courtyard
It was the city I had known before;
The ancient, leprous town where mongrel throngs
Chant to strange gods, and beat unhallowed gongs
In crypts beneath foul alleys near the shore.
The rotting, fish-eyed houses leered at me
From where they leaned, drunk and half-animate,
As edging through the filth I passed the gate
To the black courtyard where the man would be.
The dark walls closed me in, and loud I cursed
That ever I had come to such a den,
When suddenly a score of windows burst
Into wild light, and swarmed with dancing men:
Mad, soundless revels of the dragging dead—
And not a corpse had either hands or head!
-- Fungi from Yuggoth, by H.P. Lovecraft
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05-21-2012, 08:52 PM
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H.L. Mencken
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"Indeed, the only people who seem to think Obama displays even the slightest social democratic tendency are those who imagine that the very mention of the word 'socialism' should inspire a reaction like that of a vampire confronted with the Host."
-- John Nichols
IX. The Courtyard
It was the city I had known before;
The ancient, leprous town where mongrel throngs
Chant to strange gods, and beat unhallowed gongs
In crypts beneath foul alleys near the shore.
The rotting, fish-eyed houses leered at me
From where they leaned, drunk and half-animate,
As edging through the filth I passed the gate
To the black courtyard where the man would be.
The dark walls closed me in, and loud I cursed
That ever I had come to such a den,
When suddenly a score of windows burst
Into wild light, and swarmed with dancing men:
Mad, soundless revels of the dragging dead—
And not a corpse had either hands or head!
-- Fungi from Yuggoth, by H.P. Lovecraft
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05-21-2012, 09:46 PM
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We get it. Death is inevitable. Let's all just start fucking now!
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Said she wanted my body, not my mind; so I showed her my dictionary and showed her the words that I know, and, though not quite desiring to, how "loquacious" I could be when you set me right down to it. But she wasn't impressed. Oh no no no no no no no no... she wasn't impressed at all. She whispered in my ear, she said:
"Do you wanna get lucky, little boy?"
And I smiled. I smiled and I said, "Is it luck?"
In case you are truly curious about who you are talking to
This one's hanging around here too
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05-22-2012, 07:18 PM
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"It is pernicious because when a narrow interest gives money, legislation will be in that narrow interest rather than the broad public interest,""
"It is no surprise financial reform was watered down. Health care did not have a public option: A majority of Americans wanted it."
"We did not get around to energy reform legislation, though we are exporting billions to foreign autocrats to pay for oil."
- Bill Bradley
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05-23-2012, 08:59 AM
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"The very picture of what’s wrong with D.C. is exquisitely captured by daily demonstration that one of our leading political parties
is dedicated to the proposition that the less we know about what is going on in our economy or on our planet, the better. If science
tells us that one of the consequences of human activity is an overheated planet, then the answer is to defund climate research.
If data gathered by the ACS gives us a better understanding of where poverty may be growing as a result of economic policies
put into place over the past few decades, best to just to close our eyes and ignore it."
- Andrew Leonard
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05-23-2012, 09:31 AM
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war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
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