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[annie aronburg]

"The rules are here to guide us, we are not here to be ruled by them" -my Pop

[Jeff]

"We're living in a butcher shop. The fact that we die is the only comfort in the whole thing. The anxiety comes from some kind of acute illusion of busyness. There are so many things to do that you're not doing, so many thoughts to think that you're not thinking, so many women to make love with that you're not loving." Leonard Cohen

[jam.fuse]

"Get a job working for the man,
blow your brains out fast as you can,
tell the cop you don't like his face,
no more garbage like the human race"

(paraphrased) Quincy (american tv show)

[chiggerbit]

Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich klein
Ob aus Langmut er sich säumet, bringt mit Schärf' er alles ein.

--Friedrich von Logau

[Gouda]

"I love ..." he says sadly, his voice trailing off. "Snakes?" I ask. "Yes," he replies matter-of-factly. "I like to hold them and look at them."

-- Hank Paulson, 2003, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Paulson's particular favorites are birds and animals of prey: "I'm fascinated because they're at the top of the food chain." If they're healthy, he adds, the ecosystem is healthy.

-- Hank Paulson, 2003, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE @ PBS, 2003 Link

[MacCruiskeen]

Not far from Chez Moineau, there was a famous government information poster which warned that 'L'alcool tue lentement' (Alcohol kills slowly). The poster had not been up for twenty-four hours when, on Debord's instructions, a raiding party from Chez Moineau had scrawled over it, 'On s'en fout. On a le temps' ('We don't give a fuck. We've got the time').

Hussey on Debord

[brekin]

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
— Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
— Marilyn Monroe

"We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I'm alone."
--Marilyn Monroe

[mentalgongfu2]

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

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Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're dead serious its usually pretty funny. So actually I think that anything that you say means exactly what you say and its opposite.

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

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Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

-Jim Morrison

[monster]

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

[source disputed]

[Alfred Joe's Boy]

"This country could use a damn good depression." -- Alfred Joe, 1954

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country."
- George Washington, in his charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, (Sept. 14, 1775)

[chiggerbit]

"Swine flu the fault of Democratic Presidents since last outbreak happened when Ford was in office."

-Michele Bachmann

(For international viewers, Ford was a Republican president, and Backmann is a wannabe Palin)

[jam.fuse]

Revolution is in the air.

...

You have to wonder why there hasn't been a louder outcry sooner...

...people... are paralyzed, rubbing their eyes as if they've just stirred from a dream. They are dazed, and see the drama unfolding inexorably and inevitably before them. They are looking around for someone to blame, so watch now and see how the pot starts boiling... in mid-April around tax time.

But this is only the beginning.

People are funny. Just before the catastrophic explosion, they get lethargic, apathetic and goofy, almost catatonic, crippled by shock into denial. They look to a higher authority (government) to intervene. They look to their champion. They welcome stricter controls against the greedy individuals (corporations and banks) they feel have violated them. They seek protection from all the forces they pretend they were unaware of. Eventually, they are disillusioned with their champion. Their protector becomes their oppressor. They revolt.

There is going to be a big battle in this country. But not quite yet. It's as if the people have been stung by a tropical insect or a snake whose venom leaves the victim powerless to observe itself being devoured.

The story will change dramatically... during the second half of 2010 and 2011. Some people will get violent for sure. Some will jump out of windows believing the end is near and all is lost. Others will get drunk and stay drunk. Some will close their eyes and hope it isn't happening. Many, however, will have faith in the future, move ahead with wisdom and compassion and decide to take the high road and meet the challenge.

If you've ever gone white-water rafting, that's how it is right now. You drift lazily down a river in the sunlight, watching the trees and the wildlife, and then, suddenly, you're confronted with wild rapids. It's nothing to be scared of, but you have to stay frosty, keep your head and be ready to act spontaneously and adapt to enormous, unexpected change. It can actually be an invigorating, refreshing, enlivening and liberating experience to be alive and participate actively in the rebirth and reconstruction that follows.

So don't pretend we're not headed toward those rapids. We're not there yet, though. We're still on the raft, enjoying the scenery. But it's coming. Be sure of that.

- Michael Lutin, March 20, 2009

They got small minds but they carry big guns...

- Steve Psycho

[Cosmic Cowbell]

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.” ~ Eric Hoffer

[MacCruiskeen]

"Nonconformists"? Shurely shome mishtake? Clearly, you are referring to that majestic herd of pluckily individualistic "contrarians" otherwise known as "Joe Sixpack":

Among his greatest hits are his observation that women aren't funny, his pooh-poohing of the Haditha massacre, and his defense of the jailed Holocaust denier David Irving, who he hailed as a "great historian." More recently, Hitchens has volunteered himself as the licker of Wolfowitz's comb, claiming that the corrupt World Bank president "did nothing wrong."

Hitchens has cast these seemingly untenable positions as "contrarian," lending himself not only an air of intellectual bravado, but a veneer of integrity as well. ... He poses as a maverick, an intellectually macho literary gun-slinger who loves nothing more than provoking the indignant howls of the madding crowd.

Max Blumenthal

[myriadsmallcreature]

Four down and two to go.


Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.