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"Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers."

Senate leader Mitch McConnell, 12/2007

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."


~Abraham Lincoln, fourth debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858

WORDS OF THE WISE:

"They told Crazy Horse they would not harm him if he would go to the Soldiers' Town and have a
talk with the wasicu chief, but they lied. They did not take him to the chief for a talk. They took
him to a little prison with iron bars on the windows, for they planned to get rid of him. And when
he saw what they were doing, he turned around and took a knife out of his robe and started out
against all those soldiers. Then [Indian Police]. took hold of Crazy Horse and as they were
struggling, a soldier ran a bayonet into Crazy Horse from one side at the back and he fell down
and began to die.
That night I heard mourning somewhere, and then there was more and more mourning, until it
was all over the camp.
Crazy Horse was dead. He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save
his people, and he fought the wasicus only when they came to kill us in our own country. He was
only thirty years old. They could not kill him in battle. They had to lie to him and kill him that way."
-Black Elk

"Rationality is a curse since it can cause humans to forget the natural order of things. A Wolf never forgets his or her place in the natural order. Europeans do."

"When I use the term European, I'm not referring to a skin colour or a particular genetic structure. What I'm referring to is a mind-set, a world view that is a product of European Culture. People are not genetically encoded to hold this outlook; they are acculturated to hold it. The same is true for American Indians or for any other culture."

- Russell Means

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

~Arlo Guthrie

"You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know about the enemy" -- .Joe Kenehan, Matewan.

"There is no solution because there is no problem." - Marcel Duchamp

"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve." -- Adlai Stevenson

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
George Orwell

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
Orwell

“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
Orwell

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Orwell

"Spook or asshole, what's the difference?"

-John Judge

not too Rigorous when it comes to their pet biases, are they?

-- ray retardsman

It's an interesting board, rigorousintuition. I'll give them credit
for not banning me yet, this is quite a bit longer than I lasted at
the supposedly liberal Straight Dope Message Board. Still, I imagine
I'll be out before too long, as Nemo and Doodad have been banned...

- Stevo

In this short, but very well researched book, Harvey charts the capital flows of the last thiry years. In the 1970's, there was the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, with its fixed exchange rates, tariff barriers, and capital controls. It gave way to floating currencies and high trading volumes. Capital started searching the globe for comparative advantage. Proponents claimed that this routed out corruption and inefficiencies, while opponents saw instability and exploitation. Indeed, Harvey produces ample statistics showing how the rich got richer and the poor stagnated. More surprisingly, he points out that the aggregate economic growth during the years of Keynesian management (the decades between World War II and the 1970's) was greater than during the neoliberal era (the 1970's to the present). The neoliberal era benefitted mainly the wealthy. In the US, the richest 1% now control 15% of the wealth as opposed to 8% at the end of World War II.

From a review of a book on neoliberalism

"Stephen Morgan, you are truly a piece of human shit."

- Philip A. Centaur

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