Freedom

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787

Survival

"[T]here is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th US President
Source: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961

Security VI

"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime.
All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights
-- which, of course, are our own.

Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel
a sense of security from the new totalitarian state."
-- Gerry Spence, Lawyer and author
Source: Give Me Liberty, 1998

Drones

"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Olmstead v. U.S., 277 US 438, 1928

Learning IV

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
--Author Unknown

Another source says the quote is from Viviane Greene

--TLC, 02-06-19 

Confidence II

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you." 

--Zig Ziglar

Reform

Senate passes financial "reform" bill. Reforms include giving more powers to "The Temple," aka the Federal Reserve. It's like giving an arsonist a gas can and a book of matches.

--Investigative Reporter Wayne Madsen, May 21, 2010

The Fox On Helping Chickens

CSpan is running tonight a segment, "Representative Barney Frank on Financial Regulation Overhaul".

What next? Charles Manson on peace, love, and understanding?

TLC

The Criminal Returns To The Scene Of The Crime

Obama to Inspect Gulf Oil Spill

By HELENE COOPER

President Obama will travel back to the Gulf Coast this week — his second trip in a month — to assess firsthand the growing environmental damage from the spreading oil spill, White House officials said.

Full Story, NY Times, May 25, 2010

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Where are all the "liberals" that were calling for Bu$h's head after Katrina, an intentional disaster that pales in comparison to what Obama has done?

TLC

Pudding

"Even over cold pudding, the coward says: 'It will burn my mouth'".
--Ethiopian Proverb

"Lost"

The last televised season of "Lost" has ended. Now it's back to this thing we call "life"...lots of weird stuff going on...difficult to connect all the proverbial dots and make sense of it all. So "Lost" has not gone away at all. Today begins a new season, with you as an active participant rather than as a passive spectator. Rejoice!
--TLC

Unquestioning

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it absolutely vile!"
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- 2007) Author

Travel

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many, people need it sorely on these accounts."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist

Silent

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee."
--H.E. Janson

Is

"As the doctor removed the fourth peanut butter cup from my rectum, I came to a very, very important realization: There *is* a wrong way to eat a Reese's."
--The Word Nerd

Absence

"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it."
--Peter Drucker

Rights

"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
--F. Lee Bailey famous trial attorney
Source: Newsweek, April 17, 1967

Servants

"Make phones and computers be your servants, lest they become your masters".
--TLC

Suppose

"Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?"
--George Bernard Shaw

Embrace

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
--Kenji Miyazawa

Whom

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
--Clarence Darrow

Made

None

" Not one-not a single, solitary person-would believe that 'killing is kindness' if they were facing the needle "
--Nathan Winograd

Great

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."
--William Shakespeare

Reasons

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
--James Thurber

All VI

"In America, people of all faiths are welcome to worship Jesus Christ in their own way."
--Stephen Colbert

Understand

"Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech... If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again."
--Dr. Jim Boren Humorist and Author
Source: Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1998

Nice II

Press

"As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic’s role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered."
--William J. Small Source: Political Power and The Press, 1972

Criticism III

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th US President

Say

"Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'" --Lenny Bruce

Numbers

"One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic."
--Josef Stalin (1879-1953) Communist leader of the USSR

Drill

"Barack O'Palin: 'drill, baby, drill!'"
--Wayne Madsen, March 31, 2010

Superior

"Man IS superior to every other being...in his ability to excuse away those parts of himself too vile for self-examination".
--Brennan Browne