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HUMOR
COMMING SOON
MISCELLANIOUS GEMS
"Never trust a man who doesn't think a fart is funny"
David Barry
"What, me worry?"
Alfred E. Newman
"There's something skwuey going on around here."
Elmer J. Fudd
POLITICS
Shakespeare on government and war
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry
into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It
both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...
"And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils
with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing
the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and
blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader,
and gladly so.
"How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." William Shakespeare From an interview of George W. Bush by Bob Woodward for The Washington Post, as quoted in The Independent:
"I'm the commander, I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation...."
George Bush Jr. President Lincoln's fear of corporate government
"[The Civil War] has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-From Lincoln's letter to a friend (1864)/font> Kurt Vonnegut on the 2nd amendment
" 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state', sayeth the Article ll of the Bill of Rights, 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed'. Perfect! I wouldn't change a word of it. I only wish the NRA and it's jelly-fishy, well-paid supporters in legislatures both state and federal would be careful to recite the whole of it, and then tell us how a heavily armed man, woman or child, recruited by no official, led by no official, given no goals by any official, motivated or restrained only by his or her personality or percpeptions of what is going on, can be considered a member of a well regulated militia,"
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington "The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Abraham Lincoln "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." Thomas Jefferson HOW TO RECOGNIZE DRUG ABUSE
RELIGION
"Excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc."
- From the pamphlet "How Parents Can Help Children Live Marijuana Free," by criminology professor Gerald Smith (with a preface by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch), on warning signs that children are using marijuana or other drugs.
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