This one is to laugh about - the 25 most influential journalists in history

http://journalismdegree.org/2009/25-most-influential-journalists-in-history/

When Seymour Hersh and Maureen Dowd make the list you know it is to
laugh about.

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Need a good painter?  This guy should qualify.     Many Before & After Photos....      ***********************************************************************************************************************************************      Before photo:         A typical concrete and stucco     facade     Then the wall starts to take on a three dimensional appearance         This is Eric, in his element, 30'     off the ground.  He does most of the artwork     by himself and researches, paints and designs     each project from scratch.     His wife Kathy, also an artist, serves as project manager.                 After photo:     Finished product     MORE BELOW      Before photo:         Great American Crossroad -     Bucyrus , Ohio     After photo:                     Before photos:         After photo         Liberty Remembers     Hard to believe you're looking  at a flat 2-dimensional wall.     How to dress up a drab Shopping mall in Niagra, NY state.           Before photo               After photo           Also, look at the close-up of the left side                     And the middle     (I wonder how many birds fly into this wall on a daily basis?)     Indoor Murals at the Hallway of     Miller Brewery.  Before               Miller Fermenting Rooms           Past meets Present in the     Miller Brewery Fermenting Rooms.  Hooks, clipboards and aprons were added to the surface of the murals to     enhance the illusion.     After photos                           You're looking at flat walls     Detail view looking down the     illusional hallway in the     previous mural:         SIMPLY AMAZING, ISN'T IT?           I wonder how many people walk     into the walls, while trying to go     down a hallway that does not exist!                                                                ***********************************************************************************************************       .

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[[  Sicko de Mayo.  Sicko de Spico.  ]] 

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."     Abraham Lincoln CINCO DE MAYO: Another Phony Festivity Propped Up by the Left By Rene Guerra   May 3, 2011    INTRODUCTION   With Cinco de Mayo just two days away--May 5th, that is-- this is an opportune time to make a few comments on some inaccuracies about the ethnic and historic values attributed to that festivity.   And such comments are also warranted particularly in view of the ulterior purposes some pursue out of Cinco de Mayo.   Chicano and Mexican irredentists use Cinco de Mayo to foment the zany idea of the creation of what they call Aztlán* and then return the Aztlán territory to Mexico; and the hardcore Left uses the resulting agitation to balkanize America even further, this time along ethnic fissures the hardcore Left deepens on purpose.   ---*  Aztlán is accurately explained by Wikipedia as: "From Nahuatl: Aztlán, pronounced [ˈastɬaːn]) is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica [From central Mexico down-south to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua]. Aztec is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan". Aztlanistas are Chicano and Mexican irredentists who seek to re-populate with Chicanos and Mexicans, legal or illegal, a vast region of the United States, secede it --some think through ballots, others, through bullets-- under the name of Aztlán, and then annex it to Mexico. This new Aztlán would encompass California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. Prominent Chicano California Democrat politicians, such as former California State Assembly Speaker and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, militated in MEChA, which stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano deAztlán (Chicano = American citizens of Mexican descend), the epitome of all Aztlanista organizations. The two Democrats have never repudiated it. They support illegal immigration.     It is opportune as well to comment on the interpretation that some groups in the United States give to Cinco de Mayo for the benefit of their own demagogic interests the ones, and for their traitorous interests the others.   Anyone who has lived in Mexico and learned about Mexican civic festivities of significance gets really mystified by the convoluted meaning that those groups have given to Cinco de Mayo here in the U.S.A. The inordinate hoopla surrounding the celebration on this side of the border perplexes Mexican nationals visiting the U.S., and non-Mexican Hispanics newly arriving in the U.S.A. don't connect with the celebration at all.   Of course, Aztlán will never materialize, unless one of the several internal or external forces attempting to undo America succeeds...and America is then regressed back to the agricultural age, such as it would happen, for example, if nuked (e.g., either Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan or Iran facilitating --either by volition or dereliction-- portable nuclear-bombs to Islamist mass-murderous terrorists, particularly now that Obama bin-Laden was killed). In such circumstances, America depending so much on electronic-wizardry would be rendered so helpless, just from the resulting EMP, that all hyenas and buzzards now circling around her would jump on the carrion that America would have then become; Mexico, of course, would then "reclaim" Aztlán.   The gist about Aztlán is, however, that --aside either its absurdity or its feasibility-- the Aztlán theme is being used by the hardcore Left either directly or through its main front, the DemocRat Party (along with its proxies deeply embedded in the media, academia, entertainment, the intelligentsia, organized labor and "liberation theology" religion, plus hundreds of ancillary fronts), to balkanize America even further, to then use such balkanization as fuel to exacerbate their preferred way of politicking: ethnic and class warfare. That's why the hardcore Left --including the entire high hierarchy and a huge sector of what is the ideological marrow of the DemocRat Party-- support balkanizing-themes such as Aztlán. It is withing this context that all what follows must be understood.    ETHNICITY OF CINCO DE MAYO   Cinco de Mayo does not appeal to all Hispanics; it appeals only to those of Mexican ancestry, which includes Mexican nationals and Americans of Mexican ethnicity or Chicanos.   The term Hispanic is much broader in meaning; it encompasses peoples that speak Spanish (Castilian and derivatives) as their native language. This includes countries such as Spain, and all Spanish speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, in addition to people from Mexico, the term Hispanic encompasses people from, for instance, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Honduras, Chile and more than fifteen other Hispanic countries that have nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo is as alien to the majority of Hispanic ethnicities in the U.S.A. as Saint Patrick's day is to almost all those of European ethnicity.   Put it plainly, to the majority of Hispanic ethnicities in the U.S.A., Cinco de Mayo is just a cheerful springtime occasion to party on Mexico's delicious cuisine and beautiful customs: burritos, tacos, quesadillas, chalupas, enchiladas, cochinita pibil, etc. with a background of picturesque charro parades, colorful folkloric dances and mariachi band (from the French "bande de marriage") music. And nothing more, at all!   Peoples in the U.S.A. of South American or Caribbean origin do not celebrate it at all.   As for those of Central American origin, only the ones with ties to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador join the party, but mostly because of culinary affinity, for, historically, there has been bad blood between Mexico and Central America. Thus, there is a wide and deep gap between enjoying the enchanting frolics of Cinco de Mayo and the overall-Hispanic ethnicity that some here in the U.S.A. want to deceptively attribute to the festivity.   It fits however to affirm that the 5th of May should mean a lot to all freedom and democracy loving ethnicities that constitute the United States.   On April 10, 1942, a day after General Edward P. King surrendered the American and Filipino troops in Bataan to the Japanese during World War II, the barbaric Japanese forced about 55,000 Filipino and 8,000 American captives to march toward Camp O'Donnell. That was the start of the horridly infamous Death of March of Bataan.   Although the Japanese kept marching, and murdering them along the march, American and Filipino prisoners to Camp O'Donnell from April through mid June, the core of the March survivors completed the torturous trek on April 24.  However, the most monstrous passages of that horrid torment did not end until the 5th of May of 1942, a day before the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese. That's the real Cinco de Mayo to America!  That's the 5th of May we all should reflectively and temperately commemorate in somber memory of those defenseless victims of Japanese bestial barbarity.  May 5th should be a day for all of us to take a glance at the future of America with deep circumspection and heed.   HISTOY OF CINCO DE MAYO     The meaning that some people in the U.S.A. deceptively and demagogically give to Cinco de Mayo as a great Mexican historic event is based mostly on a fabrication.They claim that the date commemorates a great war victory in Puebla by Mexican ragged peasants over the modern French armies occupying Mexico in support of Emperor Maximilian, an archduke of the Habsburg-Lorraine Austrian house of nobility, and an importation by traitorous monarchist Mexicans facilitated by Napoleon III, Emperor of France. Maximilian was the youngest brother of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.       The real truth is that there was no such thing as a great defeat of the French at Puebla by anybody, as Mexicans in Mexico very well know, but which most Chicanos here in America and Americans in general have been duped into believing it happened. It was not even a defeat, for the French simply lifted the siege to Puebla and left to conquer other cities.   That's why in Mexico May 5th is only a day of subdued joy memorializing what in reality was just a Pyrrhic achievement of the Mexican army at resisting the siege that a mere minor fraction of the invading French forces had laid to Puebla.   It has to be stressed that the defenders of Puebla were regulars of the well disciplined, trained and armed Mexican army under General Ignacio Saragoza, and not the ragged peasants as widely contended by Cinco de Mayo deceiving promoters here in the U.S.A.  It was the same kind of well disciplined Mexican army that, less than 22 years before, had overrun The Alamo under the command of Generalísimo Antonio López de Santana.   What in reality happened at Puebla on May 5, 1862 was just that the French troops lifted the siege to join the rest of the invading army in the pursuit of more valuable targets. After winning decisive real battles nearby, the French came back in full force a year later to seize Puebla on May 17, 1863.    They then took the capital, Mexico City itself, on June 7, 1863, just less than a month after sweeping Puebla's defenders.   Thereafter, almost everything went downhill for the Mexican patriots...until April 10, 1865, the very day after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his defeated, badly beaten army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. It was then when, just four days before being murdered, none else than Abraham Lincoln --victorious over the South, with a well seasoned and powerful 900,000 strong Union army, irked at France's support for Dixie and outrageous attempts to pool several European countries to intervene militarily in the Civil War, and invoking the Monroe Doctrine-- sent Napoleon III a stern ultimatum to pull his troops out of Mexico.   In a message that Secretary of State William Henry Seward conveyed to Napoleon through the American Consul in Paris, Abe threatened Napoleon with sending, firstly, an expeditionary force to flush out the French troops from Mexico, and, secondly, sending the U.S. Navy, to sink France's Navy ships anchored on the Mexican Atlantic port of Veracruz.   Along with, and to give weight to his warning, Abe also ordered the march of 50,000 troops under the command of the bellicose General Philip H. Sheridan to the banks of the River Grande near Laredo, Texas, and issued orders preparing the Navy to sail south to Veracruz.   Napoleon correctly understood that Lincoln meant business; as a token of his compliance with Abe's ultimatum, Napoleon readily heeded by immediately pulling some small forces throughout the end of 1865. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, kept the pressure on Napoleon.   Goaded even more convincingly by President Johnson and Secretary Seward in a new stern written message issued on February 12 of 1866 demanding the complete withdrawal of all French forces, Napoleon evacuated the bulk of his troops out of Mexico between June 15 and December 18, 1866. He left behind just a rogue force of about 300 French soldiers and foreign mercenaries as palace guards of phony emperor Maximilian.   It must be credited however that before the end of the evacuation, the Mexican republican patriots --armed with guns and ammunition sent by Abe and later by Johnson-- hit very badly the French forces marching to the ports of embarkation.  Those were battles of real significance in the sense that the French were punished hard.  However, at that stage the French troops were more interested in going back home than in holding ground in Mexican territory.   Among others, there were the great republican battles against and victories over the French at Santa Isabel, Matamoros and Santa Gertrudis.  The May 5, 1862 event of Puebla pales in all and every sense to these three great battles.  Cinco de Mayo is less than a little blip in the real story of the French occupation of Mexico.   HOW IT ALL STARTED...AND ENDED   The whole mess started after Napoleon III failed in his attempts to enroll England and Russia to intervene along with France in assisting the South in the Civil War. Taking advantage of the fact that the Civil War impeded the United States to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico or anywhere else in the Americas, he schemed along with Great Britain and Spain --the three, angry unpaid creditors of Mexico's-- the landing of troops on Mexican territory purportedly in retaliation for uncollectable loans Mexico owed them.   Forces of the three countries landed in Mexico in December, 1861. Mexico's constitutional president at that time was Benito Juárez, one of the greatest statesmen that the Western Hemisphere has so far produced, on a par with Washington and Lincoln, a great patriot by heart, a Zapotec Amerindian by blood and --as his pen friend, Abraham Lincoln-- lawyer by training and great statesman by the Providence.       The Juárez's administration had been left penniless after the War of the Reform, a civil war that ran from 1858 through late 1860, aimed at eliminating outrageous abuses of the Mexican oligarchy and the Catholic Church on the majority of pauper Mexicans.   The Mexican Congress suspended payments of the foreign debt on July 17, 1861.   On October 31 of the same year, France, Great Britain and Spain signed the Treaty of London, uniting their efforts to obtain payments from Mexico, by force if necessary, thus mounting the framework behind the military intervention.   Spanish troops stationed in Cuba landed in Veracruz on the 8th of December of 1861. On January 1, 1862, Lincoln advised Juárez that the U.S.A. could not help Mexico because of the Civil War. The British fleet arrived in Veracruz on January 6, and the French, on January 8, 1862. The French fleet took the port of Campeche on the 27th of February.   Although originally Great Britain and Spain  went along with Napoleon on the occupation of Veracruz, both the British and the Spanish decided on April 9, 1862, to back off when realizing that Napoleon had duped them into a territorial expansionist adventure of his own.   Taking advantage of the Civil War in the U.S., that is, knowing that Lincoln wouldn't be able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, what Napoleon actually wanted was to make of Mexico a French colony. Furthermore, if the South showed solid signs of winning the Civil War, Napoleon had planned that the French troops stationed in Mexico would come in assistance of the Confederates to consolidate their victory.   The ultimate goal of European monarchists --supported by the Vatican and spearheaded by Napoleon III, the Emperor of France-- was to break down the great menace that the United States of America, as a democratic republic, posed to them. Constitutional republicanism and effective democracy were so contagious that by osmosis, capillarity and emulation could infect their monarchic autocracies.                         Spain and England pulled their troops from Veracruz on April 24, 1862.   With no more support from Britain and Spain for his adventure in Mexico, Napoleon counted however with the support of collaborationists in the Mexican aristocracy and the Catholic Church.  With Veracruz and Campeche in French hands, he went along with his plans to conquer Mexico. A force marched on Puebla submitting it to a siege, while the rest of the French forces marched deep inland.   Puebla --defended by the Mexican army led by General Zaragoza-- proved to be a place hard to take for the limited French forces under General Lorencez. On the 5th of May the French lifted the siege. The French then went on taking Orizaba on June 14, Tampico, on October 23, and Jalapa, on December 23. A French armada bombarded Acapulco to ruins on January 15, 1863. The French then returned and again laid siege on Puebla on March 16 to take it on May 17, and then took Mexico City on June 7.   On June 10, the French appointed a "Superior Junta" composed of Mexican monarchists and Catholic hierarchs. On June 16, the Superior Junta appointed Mexican monarchist General Antonio Almonte provisional President of Mexico.   Maximilan arrived in Mexico City on June 12, 1862.   Since April 10, 1864 France's Napoleon III, with the complicity of Mexican monarchist collaborationists and the Catholic Church hierarchy, had chosen Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico.   On the 10th of July of 1863, the Superior Junta officially proclaimed the Mexican Catholic Empire and offered the crown and title of Emperor to Maximilian, who gingerly accepted, duped by the Mexican collaborationists and Napoleon III.   Republican nationalists supporting Juárez waged a heroic but no more than nagging guerrilla war against the French occupiers and their collaborators.  However, during most of this time of struggle, Juárez kept in close touch with Abraham Lincoln who couldn't help until he was freed of the burdens of the Civil War.   By the end of 1866, following the firm ultimatum by Abe to Napoleon, the tens of thousands of French troops occupying Mexico had been already called back to France except for the 300 who stayed behind as Maximilian's palace guard. Abe, followed by his successor Andrew Johnson had, at gun point but without firing a shot, successfully expelled the French from Mexico.   So, once the French troops left Mexico hurriedly --with the tail tucked between their legs, attentively listening to Abe's soft talk, and out of fear of his big stick-- what continued in Mexico was actually a civil war in which Mexican republican patriots kept fighting Mexican monarchist traitorous collaborators.  Yes, with the French gone, later battles, larger for that matter, were exclusively between Mexican republican patriots and Mexican collaborationist traitors; that is, between good Mexicans and bad Mexicans.   ONCE LINCOLN AND JOHNSON SPOOKED THE FRENCH OUT OF MEXICO...     The two Mexican bands kept fighting fiercely through the end of 1866 and early 1867.   Finally, on May 15, 1867, in the great Battle of Querétaro, an army of patriots led by Mexican Generals Mariano Escobedo and Ramón Corona took the city of Querétaro --and captured Maximilian himself-- thus defeating an army of collaborationists led by Mexican generals Miguel Miramón, Tomás Mejía and Ramón Méndez.  These three generals, like Juárez, were Zapotec Amerindians also, and had advanced through the ranks from mere privates to brigadiers. They, together with Maximilian, were executed on June 19, 1867 at the Cerro de Las Campanas (the Hill of the Bells).   So, being the story of a fictitious great defeat of French troops that, here in the U.S.A., demagogues have concocted and that the Left has embellished to the tilt, Cinco de Mayo really means not too much in Mexican history.  Such is indeed the insignificant level of importance that regular Mexicans in Mexico give to the event. Cinco de Mayo pales down to sheer insignificance compared to any other event in the Mexican civic calendar.   The Left, particularly the Democrats, alongside Chicano and Mexican irredentists, lie through their teeth about Cinco de Mayo, portraying it for what it is not. And, capitalizing on the festivity, the Obama regime and the Democrats will agitate around it to the brim to ram us with blanket amnesty for illegals, for the vast majority of them are Mexicans. By the way, 215ners --and, in increasing numbers, regular Americans-- refer to Obama as "The Undocumented Worker in Chief". (215ners = those who demand from Obama unequivocal and unambiguous proof of full compliance with "Constitution 215", i.e., Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States of America.)   Mexicans in Mexico give a very much greater importance to June 19, 1867, the day Maximilian and his Mexican collaborationist generals were executed; they see it as a day of national vindication and as a vivid warning to budding usurpers and traitors. (Beware, usurpers and traitors!!)   The lesson to be drawn from the events of Cerro de Las Campanas is that the sure fate of both usurpers and collaborators who dare to commit any attempt against Mexican sovereignty is to end up standing in front of a firing-squad.   In Mexico, Cerro de Las Campanas means a lot, as it should. As a mater of fact, among Mexican civic celebrations, the 19th of June is second only to September 16, Independence Day.   Practically, in Mexico, Cinco de Mayo was no more than a modest tool in the propaganda arsenal that the infamous PRI --the racketeering clique that, in the disguise of a political party, ruled Mexico like the mob for 71 long years, from 1929 until 2000-- employed to keep most of Mexicans in perpetual political and moral torpor...and misery. PRI is the acronym in Spanish for Partido Revolucionario Institutional (Institutional Revolutionary Party) a bombastic name used to co-opt the domestic Left into participating in the system...and to participate in the looting of Mexico's national treasure. The Soviet Bloc nomenklaturas were mere child-play compared to the Mexican PRI. But the Democrat nomenklatura in the U.S.A. is well on its way to dwarfing the PRI's.   Much in the same way, leftists and other demagogues in the United States of America, namely Democrats, have made of Cinco de Mayo one more trick, though a formidable one, to brazenly dupe unsuspecting Chicanos with misguided pride, and to subliminally nurture among them ethnic strife in America, based on Mexican nationalistic feelings.   Since the Left has purposely wrecked the K-12 curricula, where at some point in sixth grade or in high school this episode of the history of the Americas should be studied, Americans don't know about all this. And since the vast majority of those who major in History in college are indoctrinated into Leftism, they keep hush regarding all these Mexican historic events.   So, here we are, with this fabrication of a balkanizing festivity being celebrated by great numbers of regular Americans, without suspecting that they are being duped big time, much the way they are duped every year with Earth Day, which was deceptively created to celebrate Lenin's birthday by leftist Democrat U.S. Senator for Wisconsin Gaylord Nelson in 1970.   And that was the real story of Cinco de Mayo: a great fabrication at the service of those who seek the destruction of America from within; that is, the Left and its main front, the Democrat Party of nowadays, alongside Chicano and Mexican irredentists. It was Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, alongside Benito Juarez, who actually got the French out of Mexico, and not a military victory at Puebla that never happened.   CHICANOS COULD SOW A PROMISING FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES    Chicanos should reject being fooled by Cinco de Mayo kind of demagoguery. They should rather keep and cultivate only positive and constructive Mexican traditions --which are rich and beautiful-- and then embrace whatever positive and constructive can be found in abundance in American traditions and thus become a more active and live part of the great American Melting Pot.   Chicanos should stop also other nonsense such as pushing for bilingual "education" for the children of newcomers; bilingual education is a trap that only makes them second class citizens, and underclass, to be manipulated by the Left, particularly by its main front, the Democrat Party. Total immersion in English will help those children much more in their quest to procure a future in America; Spanish should be learned and practiced as a second language only.   They should also stop rallying unconditionally behind the Democrat Party; their absolute allegiance to the Democrats makes them in America pawns to a type of economic, social and political manipulation equivalent to the one that the demagogic big-brother and arch-corrupt PRI inflicted on their parents in Mexico. Bargaining their support for political power and status with both Democrats and Republicans --or with any other entity in the American political spectrum for that matter-- as most Americans do, will help Chicanos reach the place they should have in American politics and in American life, in general.   The only ones in the U.S.A. to gain from keeping Chicanos so intimately tied to Mexico are those who want to perennially keep under-classes in America, under-classes that they can use in their morbid thirst for class warfare: the Left and its main front, the Democrat Party.   As for Cinco de Mayo itself, Chicanos should rather transfer the fire is their hearts to celebrating the 4th of July with great joy, as do Americans of other ancestries: Honduran, Italian, British, Danish, Argentinean, Dutch, Russian, Irish, Latvian, etc.   Chicanos should realize that the 4th of July is not only Independence Day, but also the day when modern-history effective-democracy** was born in the World.  Chicanos --and Mexicans, for that matter-- should also acknowledge also that if it hadn't been for the 4th of July, Abe Lincoln and Andy Johnson wouldn't have been around to scare away the French out of Mexico.   **-- Effective-democracy = The best of all types of human societal organization so far devised within the republican kind of societies: A human societal system of individual participation and inclusion in the running of all facets of society given that the people are the supreme sovereign and the government their servant. Such individual participation and inclusion being manifested mainly, but not only, by the effective exercise of universal, free, individual, secret, volitive and counted suffrage.   Besides, as hard as life may be in this country for some Chicanos, at least it isn't as miserable as it is in Mexico for the vast majority of Mexicans, now unraveling into the prospect of becoming a narcocracy, much the same as Colombia had become until a few years ago when the drug cartels were smashed. Such fact is very eloquently asserted by the hundreds of thousands of destitute Mexican crossing the border each year bound for the U.S.   America offers hope for substantial advancement if one works hard and intelligently. Attempting to Mexicanize American politics will absolutely take Chicanos nowhere.    Education, even modest, not to mention a high level one, and intelligent, savvy political activism is what will contribute substantially to making a marked difference for Chicanos.   Therefore, instead of lending themselves to being opiated by the Cinco de Mayo demagoguery of the Democrats, who want to keep Chicanos as an underclass to exploit on election day, and instead of lending themselves also to have their hearts poisoned against America by the traitorous calls from despicable irredentists, what Chicanos should do is to wake up to the happy reality that the good ole U.S.A. is their only fatherland.       If you want to help strengthen America, visit and join  www.AnyStreet.org and www.RiseUpAmerica.net and www.CampusLibertyMovement.com

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Re: Famous Liberal Quotes

Libturd's quotes are always good.  You can never tell which end of the tube they came out of.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

40) Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national
security. — Obama foreign policy adviser Richard Danzig

39) I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet
paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-
abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an
industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one
square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions
where 2 to 3 could be required. — Sheryl Crow

38) In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone
who's suffering. [But we must also think about] the terrorists who are
creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the
negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as
expansive as possible. If you can see [the terrorists] as a relative
who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the
medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better. — Richard
Gere

37) George Bush doesn't care about black people…They're giving the
Army permission to go down and shoot us. — Kayne West on the rescue
efforts in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina

36) "Rove's re-election strategy was elegantly simple: Scare the
bejesus out of Jesusland. F@ggots are headed your way! Satanic Muslims
are hiding everywhere! That's all it took to get Jesusland to do the
job. Intellectual conservatives like the National Review staff are
flattering themselves if they honestly believe Jesusland cares about
conservative thought. The "reality-based" folks are learning that
Jesusland doesn't even care about jobs or the economy. In Jesusland,
it's all the will of Jesus. No job? No money? Daughter got her clit
pierced? Jesus is just f*cking with you again, testing your faith. Got
the cancer? Oh well. Soon you'll be with Jesus. Reality is no match
for a mystical world in which an all-powerful god is constantly toying
with every detail of your mundane life, just to see what you'll do
about it. Keep praying and always keep your eye out for homosexuals
and terrorists, and you will eventually be rewarded … all you have to
do is die, and then it's SuperJesusLand, where you will be a ghost
floating in a magic cloud with all the other ghosts from Jesusland,
with Jesus Himself presiding over an Eternal Church Service." — Ken
Layne

35) Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is
it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before. — Rahm
Emanuel

34) I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case,
this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack
Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. — "Journalist"
Chris Matthews

33) Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the
government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews
with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by
what I saw and heard, awful things that could not be reported because
doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly
those on our Baghdad staff…I felt awful having these stories bottled
up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we
will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the
decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely. — CNN
chief news executive Eason Jordan in a New York Times column,
admitting that CNN often didn't report newsworthy events in Iraq out
of fear of what the regime might do

32) We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the
word terrorist….To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the
World Trade Center a terrorist attack. -– Steven Jukes, global head of
news for Reuters News Service, in an internal memo

31) The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an
opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I
sit here in my capacity right now. — David Westin, ABC News President

30) You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of
small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years
and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton
Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive
administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get
bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who
aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment
as a way to explain their frustrations. — Barack Obama

29) It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd
spit on her if I saw her. — Geraldo Rivera

28) Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has
hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than
Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux
Klan ever was. — MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

27) …I would further strongly urge Democrats who don't believe
marriage is between a man and a woman but who feel they ought to
pretend to believe this in order to win elections (a plausible
position) need to do a better job of pretending. I've heard a
shockingly large number of politicians say things, in rooms where
journalists are present, that make it perfectly clear that they think
gay marriage is just fine but that the voters aren't ready for it.
That's a sensible thing to believe, but you can't go around saying it
if you're trying to win votes. If you're going to lie, then lie — and
lie convincingly! — Matthew Yglesias

26) "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on
Election Day. It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost
that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes. You target
(Bush's) natural constituencies. For example, you can go on all the
pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and
that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion
clinic and paid for her to get an abortion." — Kerry supporter Moby
explains his unique political strategy that has since been much more
widely adopted by the Left

25) I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't
understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my
mental health — New York city councilman Charles Barron

24) While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we
understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything –
America owes us. — Al Sharpton

23) The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand
the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About
what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like
your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people
care about patriotism. — Natalie Maines

22) America has been killing people on this continent since it was
started. This country is not worth dying for… — Cindy Sheehan

21) And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for
the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major
tragedy for the world. — Jimmy Carter castigates the British for
cooperating with his own country

20) Check out this startling excerpt from George Monbiot's new book
Heat. It's about the climate-change "denial industry," which most of
you are probably familiar with. What you may not know about is the
peculiar role of the tobacco industry in the whole mess. I've read
about this stuff for years and even I was surprised by some of the
details. When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when
the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide
scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for
these b*stards — some sort of climate Nuremberg. — David Roberts,
Grist Magazine

19) Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your
doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing
defenseless animals that they could be next! — From a PETA booklet
called "Your Daddy Kills Animals," which was designed to be handed out
to children

18) I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has
ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World
Trade Center tower 7 — building 7, which collapsed in on itself — it
is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without
explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center]
1 and 2 got hit by planes — 7, miraculously, the first time in
history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible. —
Rosie O'Donnell talks Trutherism

17) Is there such a thing as a man made stroke? In other words, did
someone do this to him? — Joy Behar, on The View, wonders if
Republicans gave Senator Tim Johnson a stroke.

16) Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan,
how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done
by the previous administration because they knew very well that if
they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an
invasion in Iraq. There's no question that the leader of the military
operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from
going after the head of al Qaeda. — Congressman Maurice Hinchey

15) Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary
of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the
president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not
accomplishing anything. — Democratic Senator Majority Leader, Harry
Reid

14) Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi
Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the
Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. They
released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against
America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which
to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against
America. — Bill Clinton explains to a Long Island, N.Y., business
group why he turned down Sudan's offer to extradite Osama Bin Laden to
America in 1996

13) If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and
looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we
have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to
prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon
capture and sequestration. — Al Gore

12) (Rush Limbaugh) just wants the country to fail. To me that's
treason. He's not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden
is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush
Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on
Oxycontin he missed his flight. … Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country
fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? — Wanda Sykes

11) I have a good news to report; Glen Beck appears closer to suicide
– I'm hoping that he does it on camera; suicide is rampant in his
family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-
destruction, I am only hoping that when Glen Beck does put a gun to
his head and pulls the trigger, that it will be on television, because
somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular
video for months. — Mike Malloy

10) The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I
don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist
called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called
George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy
Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of
America. — Malik Zulu Shabazz

9) "It's about time that we have an intifada in this country that
changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know
every — They're gonna say some Palestinian being too radical — well,
you haven't seen radicalism yet." — U.C. Berkeley Lecturer Hatem
Bazian fires up the crowd at an anti-war rally by calling for an
American intifada

8) The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes
a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No,
no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent
people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human.
God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme. Jeremiah Wright

7) I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see
one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself
longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature's fist of fury,
Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon
nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal
habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and
teach us that there are forces greater than our own. — James Wolcott,
Vanity Fair Contributing Editor

6) General Petraeus or General Betray Us? …Today, before Congress and
the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General
Betray Us. — MoveOn

5) Through every Abu aib and Haditha, through every rape and murder,
the American public has indulged those in uniform….We pay the soldiers
a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing
and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene
amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every
possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll
over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let
them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to
speak up because they are above society?…[T]he recent NBC report is
just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary — oops
sorry, volunteer — force that thinks it is doing the dirty work. — The
Washington Post's William Arkin

4) In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby
killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will
tell you – there has never been an army as violent and murderous as
our army has been in Iraq. — Seymour Hersh

3) Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in
natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home,
the average I.Q. soared. — Ted Rall

2) As to those in the World Trade Center…Let's get a grip here, shall
we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a
break. …If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other
way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the
little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers,
I'd really be interested in hearing about it. — Ward Churchill

1) The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not
'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION,
the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win." —
Michael Moore

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