What we knew in 1956

[LukkyKnight]

The urge to save humanity is almost always
only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

BINGO!

 

[Harbinger]

I fear nothing as much as a man driven by good intentions.

 

[Monazwx]

What we knew in 1956 . . .

My mom was a toddler.

Anyway, to the point of the thread, greed fills the need.

 

[eagleyez]

i was hatched into this deliciously mad world....

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Yeah, but that doesn't apply to Iraq, the War on Terrorism or McDonald's franchises, so so? Snappy quotes aren't postulates. They're snappy quotes.

 

[sweet soft kiss]

Thats why we were so religiously drilled in Duck and Cover...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

During bomb drills my NYC kindergarten class (circa 1965) would go out into the hallway and sit along the wall with our hands over our heads, and the last person leaving the classroom would have to lower the blinds, you know, to protect us from all the nuclear bombs that would be dropping. I guess the shades were made out Kryptonite or something.

 

[sweet soft kiss]

I don't think we ever bothered with blinds... but then we had LA smog to protect us against radiation.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I don't think we ever bothered with blinds... but then we had LA smog to protect us against radiation.

You seem to have an affinity for them now.

 

[Starblayde]

I also want to save humanity, by taking over the world with a rag-tag band of well PR'd commandos.

 

[sweet soft kiss]

You seem to have an affinity for them now.

Thats because in reality the smog situation in LA is actually not nearly so dire as it was... we now have patches of blue in the brown... and we all know that clear blue offer so much less protection...

 

[eagleyez]

I also want to save humanity, by taking over the world with a rag-tag band of well PR'd commandos.

how bout a rag tag band of poets painters carpenters and busboys...

my moneys on them...no offense to the military types

seems the violence thing aint workin...

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Originally said by John F. Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

 

[sterlingclay]

Reminds me of a quote I heard at the movies (can't remember which one).

"The worst imaginable things have started with the best intentions"

 

[sterlingclay]

how bout a rag tag band of poets painters carpenters and busboys...

my moneys on them...no offense to the military types

seems the violence thing aint workin...

"Violence solves everything" - Michael Ironside, Starship Troopers

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Reminds me of a quote I heard at the movies (can't remember which one).

"The worst imaginable things have started with the best intentions"

I like this one:

"The ground of liberty must be gained by inches." -- Thomas Jefferson

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

"Violence solves everything" - Michael Ironside, Starship Troopers

 

[Cheyenne]

During bomb drills my NYC kindergarten class (circa 1965) would go out into the hallway and sit along the wall with our hands over our heads, and the last person leaving the classroom would have to lower the blinds, you know, to protect us from all the nuclear bombs that would be dropping. I guess the shades were made out Kryptonite or something.

Same here, except kindergarten was 1963 for me.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Same here, except kindergarten was 1963 for me.

He's young, that why he was righteous enough to label the opening post a snappy quote.

 

[eagleyez]

"Violence solves everything" - Michael Ironside, Starship Troopers

population control perhaps

im hangin with the peace tribe-

more interesting

less one dimensional...IMHO

 

[Ishmael]

Kershner’s First Law: "When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare."

One snappy quote deserves another.

Ishmael

 

[sterlingclay]

population control perhaps

im hangin with the peace tribe-

more interesting

less one dimensional...IMHO

Peace is good. But Ironside's character raised some good points in his ensuing argument. Did you see that flick? I say it's brilliant in its simplicity, just take note it was based on a book written in the 40's.

 

[Cheyenne]

He's young, that why he was righteous enough to label the opening post a snappy quote.

Well, it WAS a snappy quote.

 

[LukkyKnight]

That's H.L. Mencken for ya, quotably snappy.