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[Ben D]

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Buddha ...

[mentalgongfu2]

"Alex Jones? He's just pandering to his base. Alex Jones is Rush Limbaugh for militia-supporting libertarians in southwestern states and disaffected conservatives who are too aware of their own poverty and social station to be Dittoheads. Limbaugh and Jones do the same thing. They pick hot button issues that appeal to the base, and push that button until the fingertip bleeds. They rile up the crowd. They are deliberately self-centered. They have adopted a persona. They act; they perform; perhaps they watch themselves from afar; and all that they say in character passes through the lens of that persona, who seems always to feel on edge and overwhelmed by immeasurable forces working against him on all sides."

[chiggerbit]

You Know It's Bad When ...
Insurance companies say they have no choice but to honor contracts, and banks are pleading that their assets will be worth more if you just give them a little time.

For anyone, especially in business, who has tried to make those same arguments to insurers and bankers, to no avail, it's painfully rich.

--David Kurtz, TalkingPointsMeme, 03.18.09

[anothershamus]

[Code Unknown]

"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened."—On what he hopes to accomplish with his memoir, as reported by the Associated Press, Calgary, Canada, March 17, 2009

[chiggerbit]

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

- Mussolini

[chiggerbit]

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

~A Lincoln

[chiggerbit]

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

- Frederick Douglas

[Jeff]

"The collapse of the atom model was equivalent, in my soul, to the collapse of the whole world. Suddenly the thickest walls fell. I would not have been amazed if a stone appeared before my eye in the air, melted, and became invisible." - Kandinsky

[American Dream]

"War was God's way of teaching Americans geography"

-Ambrose Bierce

[jam.fuse]

'Don't eat pigs - eat the cops'

- Jugger-Nut

[Jeff]

"You just got to believe me. Go to the woods if you don't. Go to the hill. The hill where they had the sacrifice. Maybe the stains are gone and the rain washed the footprints away. Maybe they got rid of the traces of the fire. But the altar stones must be there." - Robert Bloch, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House"

[jam.fuse]

"I beat the devil with a shovel
so he dropped me another level..."

- Redman

[Jeff]

"Are you ready for a world of challenge ... a world of ambiguity and adventure?"

CIA recruitment ad

[lightningBugout]

We can't afford the luxury of an unconscious - Terence McKenna