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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Even People Who Worked With His Father Think Dubya Is A F**k-Up

"Iraq in foreign policy and Katrina in domestic policy are the poster children of an administration that too often fails when it comes to planning and follow-through." -- Dennis Ross, Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World, chief peace negotiator for presidents George H. W.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Are Big Brother And The Beast One And The Same?

"The widespread use of RFID [Radio Frequency Identification] tags on merchandise such as clothing would make it possible for the locations of people, animals, and objects to be tracked on a global scale -- a privacy invasion of Orwellian proportions." -- IBM U.S. patent application 20020116274,... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Maybe It Is Time For The Religious Right To Reflect

"When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take to support it, so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." -- Benjamin Franklin Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Justifying The Indiscriminate War On Terror As A Glorious Call To Duty

"The real human response to the horrors of life is to put them out of the mind -- by focusing on the glories or the duties of life. For this reason terror campaigns provide their own antidote. They provide the people who are supposed to be terrorized with a powerful new duty -- to save themselves,... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

And If A Nation Led By Religious Extremists Became A Nuclear State?

"Those who have governed America throughout the nuclear age and we who govern it today have had to recognize that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." -- President Ronald Reagan, 1982 Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Bet He Never Loses An Argument With Jeb...

"There's a reason why they're called al Qaeda in Iraq... They're al Qaeda... in... Iraq." -- President George Bush, speech at The Citadel, July 24, 2007 Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Let's Talk Of Cycles And Circles

"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning The end is where we start from. -- T. S. Eliot, Four Quarters Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

And It Is Opinions And Their Varied Differences That Keeps Everyone Talking

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." -- Democritus Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Ask Over 3600 Families What The President And Patience Have Gained...

"I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding the troops." -- president George W. Bush, speaking on House legislation to withdraw troops from Iraq, July 2007 "Certainly the young soldiers and Marines risking their lives today on the streets of Baghdad and... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Lies, Wiretaps, Pardons, Executive Privilege -- Rights Of King George

"Then it's easy to believe Somebody's been lying to me But when the wrong word goes in the right ear I know you've been lying to me It's getting rough, off the cuff I've got to say enough's enough Bigger the harder he falls But when the wrong antidote is like a bulge in the throat You run for cover... Sign in to see full entry.

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