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[Sweejak]

Our press corps is proof of the existence of Satan.
-- Glenn Greenwald, via Twitter

[Sweejak]

"Obama's logo is highly hypnotic, because unlike any other logo in presidential history, you do not look at it, but through it."
-- Author unknown, An Examination of Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches.

[barracuda]

There's no such thing as innocence. Innocence touched with guilt is as good a deal as you can get. - Mike Hammer

Ex Ovo Omnia. - Ovid

[chiggerbit]

Translation: Now Tua dead, God takes Tua,--we are left behind--No one can die but once.

-Shuma, (falling water), Amistad captive, speaking over the corpse of Tua.

[lightningBugout]

I have known people whose only aerobic regimen was jumping to conclusions.

-- Nick Bryant

[dada]

Never whistle while you're pissing.

-Ol' Hagbard Celine

[MacCruiskeen]

It seems to me that we are already pushing other people ahead of us down The Road. As the biosphere shrinks, McCarthy describes the collapse of the protagonist's core beliefs. I sense that this might be happening already: that a hardening of interests, a shutting down of concern, is taking place among the people of the rich world. If this is true, we do not need to wait for the forests to burn or food supplies to shrivel before we decide that civilisation is in trouble.

- George Monbiot

[barracuda]

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

- Hannah Arendt

[Gouda]

"Millionaires don't have astrologers, but billionaires do."

--Quote attributed to JP Morgan by Arch Crawford, here.

By the way, Arch Crawford -- a market forecaster who uses a planetary-movement-based analysis called The Bradley Model --
was assigned to the CIA's Phoenix Program during his tour in the Vietnam war.

[Gouda]

"It shows the lengths that al Qaeda will go to and the indifference that they have to these pure [sic?] kids."

-- Lt. Col. Benjamin Kam, orthopedic surgeon at a US military hospital in Afghanistan.

Creepy quote from a CBS story on children being used as bombers by al Qaeda and the taliban -
not the story on children being bombed by the CIA and CENTCOM.

[barracuda]

There are three rules. Law number one is The Innocent Must Suffer. Law number two is The Guilty Must Be Punished. And the third law is You Must Taste Blood To Be A Man. We’re working now on a fourth law, The Dead Shall Walk; but we’re not sure whether or not it’s universal.

-Sam Raimi

[monster]

You have a cycle that feeds on itself: the more you hear these extremists expressing their opinions, the more you are going to believe that those extreme beliefs are normal for your community.

-Stanford Study Explains Internet Trolls

[stefano]

And all of this raises the question of how many times Joe Biden can eat his own foot, pass it through his GI track, shit it out, and eat it again, before the tightening knot of his extraordinary feat of Ouroboran malapropism actually cuts him in half and spills his steaming guts all over the dais.
- Who is IOZ?

[barracuda]

"’There are no atheists in foxholes’ isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.”

– James Morrow

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

– Blaise Pascal

“We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.”

– Jello Biafra

[Jeff]

"The laws do not govern the highest caste of elite libertines; laws only reinforce their superiority."

Roger Shattuck, on Sade's philosophy, in Forbidden Knowledge