Tuesday, July 29, 2003
More Quotes
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”—Plato
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H. L. Mencken
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear… kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor… with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...”—General Douglas MacArthur (1957)
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Not just "Anybody But Bush"
Yeah, it’s true I’d support just about anyone else other than the current resident of the White House (and his cronies) for President in 2004. But I’m hoping that Dennis Kucinich’s campaign catches on and he becomes the Democratic candidate. Almost any other of the Democratic hopefuls are OK with me too, but Kucinich seems to have “walked his talk” the best of all of them.
"Congressman Dennis Kucinich supports legalizing gay marriage, repealing the death penalty and the Patriot Act, withdrawing from the World Trade Organization and scrapping the North American Free Trade Agreement, implementing national ranked choice voting and publicly financed political campaigns, ending the occupation of Iraq, creating universal single-payer health care, forming a Department of Peace, cutting the Pentagon budget by 15 percent, legalizing medical marijuana and upholding legalized abortion.”
Every one of the above positions I can endorse whole-heartedly. It’s time to dump the of the Bush regime in the street, or the prison cells that they so richly deserve…
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Quotes
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”—Dwight D. Eisenhower
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”—Malcolm X
“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents… There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.”—Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813
“Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.”—William Greider
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.”—The Duke of Wellington, surveying the battlefield carnage after Waterloo
Thursday, July 17, 2003
Some Quotes
"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought”—Emma Goldman
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing.”—Edmund Burke
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”—Barbara Ehrenreich
“Patriot: he who hollers the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”—Mark Twain
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”—H. L. Mencken
“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”—Henry Steele Commager
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Things are finally happening again!
My weblog is finally reappearing! After a month or more of evaluating different weblog software, I finally settled on pMachine, a very flexible program that will allow me and the other users of this server to to not only do individual weblogs, but to have calendars, forums, etc. These features will be available from any page on the site.
Anyway, over the next several days, I’ll be uploading all the content that I had on my earlier blog and some new stuff that didn’t see the light of day…
