If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist, sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist, phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you to get the @%$# over it. --madcratebuilder
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jimbolaya Member
Posts: 10652 From: Virginia Beach, Virginia Registered: Feb 2007
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it." - Leo Tolstoy
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. " Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every law abiding resident with legal guns that do not meet their standards should move out leaving all the illegal guns and criminals to run the city." - pokeyfiero
"It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And YOU WILL ATONE!. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America, and democracy. There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars." - Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in 'Network' (1976)
"We need change in the worst kind of way, but we need more than the rhetoric of change. We need real, meaningful, substantive change. We need bold change and big ideas.’’ - Sen. John Edwards
"As I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart ... many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"All it takes is 3% of the people to change the world. The rest have no taste for deep conviction or extended conflict and will always follow the trend." - G. Edward Griffin
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Firefighter Member
Posts: 1407 From: Southold, New York, USA Registered: Nov 2004
From a Medical Journal last year - "It has been clinically proven and field proven that humans and animals can not live without a brain. But since Congress has been doing it nicely for decades, more research is required".
Actions are a more accurate representation of not only a candidates political "compass" but are also a measure of how well calibrated their compass is at LEADING the country in the right direction.
"I believe that now, more than ever, we need a leader who wakes up every morning with the knowledge of that injustice in the forefront of their minds, and who knows that when we commit ourselves to a cause as a nation, we can make major strides in our own lifetimes. My father was not driven by an illusory vision of a perfect society. He was driven by the certain knowledge that when people of good faith and strong principles commit to making things better, we can change hearts, we can change minds, and we can change lives." - Martin Luther King III, in letter to John Edwards
“The choice in this election is not between religions or genders. It’s not about rich versus poor; young versus old, and it is not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.” - Sen. Barack Obama
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webbee Member
Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern...This is the first and cardinal rule of combat...Suppress all human emotion and compassion...Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself...This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat. Once it is mastered... Thou shall fear no one... Though the devil himself may bar thy way... --Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba) in Kill Bill Vol 1, written by Uma Therman & Quentin Tarentino
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Formula88 Member
Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
"I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me. " -Ted Stevens
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
-Ted Stevens
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Formula88 Member
Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
"We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren." -Former President Bill Clinton 1-30-08 Denver, CO
'Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, ' Holy sh!t... What a Ride!! ' '
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webbee Member
Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
I don't know if these had been posted before but here goes. "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." - Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress." - Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." -Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan
"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it" - Ronald Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
