Now that you have read about the “Compassionate Conservative”, how about this bit of bigotry

29 Apr

CNN: Bush: Sing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in English

The national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — President Bush declared Friday, amid growing restlessness over the millions of immigrants here illegally.

“One of the things that’s very important is, when we debate this issue, that we not lose our national soul,” the president exclaimed. “One of the great things about America is that we’ve been able to take people from all walks of life bound as one nation under God. And that’s the challenge ahead of us.”

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Leonard Pitts

29 Apr

Bush dusts off the compassion on immigration

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Another highly appropriate quote on politics

27 Apr

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

Sound like anyone we all know (and don’t love)?

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Marx on Politics… Not Karl, Groucho

27 Apr

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Somehow this seemed especially appropriate.

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War is peace?

27 Apr
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002

“War is Peace”
George Orwell in “1984“

Credit “Impeach for Peace“.

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Impeach Bush Yourself! (86-43)

27 Apr

Go here and download the forms.

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Pay it forward

26 Apr

I’m sure you have heard of the concept of “pay it forward”. The idea is to repay an act of kindness by a similar act of kindness to another unrelated person in need at some future time. It dovetails nicely with the “Threefold Law”, and is something I have always tried to do, even before I ever heard of either concept. Then there is the Golden Rule I was taught as an infant.

But do you know where the specific “pay it forward” concept originated? Probably not where you think. Neither the movie nor the the book by that name was the original source.

The earliest reference to the actual phrase “pay it forward” of which I am aware is in a book by Robert Heinlein titled Between Planets, originally published in 1951.

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26 Apr

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The Nation: Nuclear Madness

25 Apr

Nuclear Madness
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

I like this quote, a lot. It really says it for me.

“… all the while the charge is led by a little man/would-be cowboy with a messianic vision who finds himself at the helm of the most powerful nation in history. …”

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Heinlein: On Theocracy

25 Apr

Robert Heinlein himself, not one of his characters:

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