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[Ziggin' and a Zaggin']

“You may never get the truth in your lifetime, and I mean that seriously.”

Chief Justice Earl Warren

[Byrne]

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius

[tKl]

"The drugs that alter consciousness also affect the heart,
and hearts are not always all they should be."

Dion Fortune, Psychic Self Defense

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

"To the CIA, propaganda through book publishing has long been a successful technique.

...Financing books is a standard technique used by all intelligence services. Many writers are glad to write on subjects which will further their own careers, and with a slant that will contribute to the propaganda objectives of a friendly agency."

-(1974) Victor Marchetti, former CIA official

[chiggerbit]

''When I was a kid, I inhaled. That was the point.''

Barack Obama, Oct. 22, 2006, in reference to Bill Clinton's claim that he didn't inhale.

[tKl]

"The question aint who killed JFK, but where are they now?"

Jello Biafra, War Pimp Renaissance

[tKl]

"Damn right it's thee end times when Christians win."

-JB, Live Free or Die

[§ê¢rꆧ]

"I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes."

-- Walt Whitman

[justdrew]

But by this logic, our current "reality" could be nothing more than a simulation produced by information entities.

"Of course." Moravec shrugs and waves his hand as if the idea is too obvious. "In fact, the robots will re-create us any number of times, whereas the original version of our world exists, at most, only once. Therefore, statistically speaking, it's much more likely we're living in a vast simulation than in the original version. To me, the whole concept of reality is rather absurd. But while you're inside the scenario, you can't help but play by the rules. So we might as well pretend this is real - even though the chance things are as they seem is essentially negligible."

[Ziggin' and a Zaggin']

"If Ernst Zundel is a refugee, Daffy Duck is Albert Einstein... Some propositions are so ludicrous that they are a betrayal of common sense and human dignity if allowed a moment's oxygen."

Rex Murphy - Globe & Mail (link)

(thanks, orz, for the nizcor.org link)

(on edit= orz, not Jeff, had submitted the nizcor.org link)

[chiggerbit]

"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

~Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, explaining why she continues to hang in the race in the face of an obvious loss to Obama

[chiggerbit]

"...In my early life I spent many happy days on this island.
A good spirit had charge of it, which lived in a cave in the rocks
immediately under the place where the fort now stands. This guardian
spirit has often been seen by our people. It was white, with large
wings like a swan's, but ten times larger. We were particular not to
make much noise in that part of the island which it inhabited, for
fear of disturbing it. But the noise at the fort has since driven it
away, and no doubt a bad spirit has taken its place..."

~Black Hawk, speaking of the fort built on Rock Island, which would years later earn a reputation for poor treatment of POW's during the Civil War

[stefano]

"You know," he went on, "when men who understand what is happening--the motion, that is, of history, not the reports of single events or developments--when such men do not object or protest, men who do not understand cannot be expected to. How many men would you say understand--in this sense--in America? And when, as the motion of history accelerates and those who don't understand are crazed by fear, as our people were, and made into a great 'patriotic' mob, will they understand then, when they did not before?

"We learned here--I say this freely--to give up trying to make them understand after, oh, the end of 1938, after the night of the synagogue burning and the things that followed it. Even before the war began, men who were teachers, men whose faith in teaching was their whole faith, gave up, seeing that there was no comprehension, no capacity left for comprehension, and the thing must go its course, taking first its victims, then its architects, and then the rest of us to destruction. ..."

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This is a German speaking, after the war, about the thirties in Germany. It's in a book by Martin Mayer called They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, that Arthur Silber quotes on his outstanding blog.

[Stephen Morgan]

If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.
-- Ambrose Bierce

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
-- David Beckham

CONSERVATISM is our opposition, But I am in considerable sympathy with conservatives. I am often lazy, myself.
-- Charles Fort

"A working knowledge of occult science...is indispensable to UFO investigation."
-- Trevor James, FSR Vol. 8, No. 1

So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o’er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
-- Johnathon Swift, "Poetry, a Rhapsody."

Feminists do not care about women. The only reason why they came after women is because it is easier to make women hate men than it is to make men hate women.
-- Amber Pawlik, "Gender Healing: Seeing Bees, Not the Swarm" m

She who bites the hand that feeds her will lick the boot that kicks her.
(paraphrase of a remark by Eric Hoffer, author of _The True Believer_)
-- "Society", soc.men

What bothers me is the contempt with which feminists treat men and boys. "What woman in her right mind would want to take one of these yobs into her home?" asked Sue Slipman when she was director of the (UK) National Council for One Parent Families. Typical.
-- Rosalind Coward, "The Feminist Who Fights for the Boys" published in _The Times_

"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers...
-- JRR Tolkien

[Stephen Morgan]

'I gradually became aware that the conventional narrative structure which is used to give sense and meaning to British politics was extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but that is not the case. It has come to seem to me that their strongest loyalties are to each other.'

-- Peter Oborne, "Triumph of the Political Class"