Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys

Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/Just quotes without my two cents worth thrown in. (If you want that, you'll have to comment on the quote.)hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00What Compells The Writer's Hand?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/580860"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?" -- Vita Sackville-West, Twelve DaysCurrent Worldview Of America Expecting Change With Obamahttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/580302"The idea of exceptionalism is viewed as a smoke screen for American imperialism." -- Dominique Moisi, French writerApplying A Little Churchillian Logic To The War In Iraqhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/580207"European War [read: Bush's War] can only end in the ruin of the vanquished and the scarcely less fatal commercial dislocation and exhaustion of the conquerors. Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets. The wars of peoples are more terrible than those of kings." -- Winston Churchill, Spech to...How To Define The Bush Administrationhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/577419"Modern political ideology that seeks to regenerate the social, economic, and cultural life of a country by basing it on a heightened sense of national belonging or ethnic identity. Fascism rejects liberal ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of...On Why The Democrats Keep Losing Elections -- An Electoral Perspectivehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/575921"Democrats keep losing because they can't f**king count." -- Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, Democratic political strategistBush Administration Artifices Rekindled Constitutional Interesthttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/574066“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of...On Earmarks, Special Interests, Demographics, And Targeted Audienceshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/572499"This is the great danger America faces -- that we shall cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups; city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual... If that happens, who then will speak for America? Who then will speak for the common...If You're Lucky, You Can Play Her One Last Time -- Concedinghttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/570584"I want to be done playing this lady November 5th. So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady November 5th, that would be good for me." -- Tina Fey, Emmy acceptance speech at the 2008 Prime Time Emmy AwardsAre The Republicans Just Blathering Idiots Or Did They Miss The Fox Update?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/563497"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it." -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, press conference, August 13, 2008 "...in the 21st century nations don't invade other nations." --...You Knew There Had To Be A Sensible Explanation For It...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/560058"This week, NBC News defended their coverage of Barack Obama. They’ve been accused of giving him more favorable treatment than John McCain. And today NBC News denied it. They said, "'That’s ridiculous. We’ve never even heard of John McCain.'” -- Jay Leno