m II wrote in message news:ro2ac.5493$x44.150@clgrps12...
N8KDV wrote:

"It's for us to find out what we can do to make sure it doesn't happen again
and to make sure the people of the United States are safe and secure," Bush
said. "That's the goal of my husband and his administration."


You'd better check your medication too!




Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter
to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people
can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists
for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials



I hold the following truths to be self evident. Feel free to deny every
one of them. You know you want to. It's your nature.


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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.

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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They
have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of
government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and
pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them.
Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is
made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a
broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale
of stolen goods."

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the
urge to rule it.

For every complex problem there is a simple solution... and it is wrong.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known
quotations. (On Shakespeare)

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a
cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all
other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add
that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is
identical with the discovery of truth—that the error and truth are
simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to,
when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and
maybe one worse than the first one.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that
is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the
miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of
superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above
their betters.


The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his
hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save
humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running
flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he
knows to be idiots.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records
for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain
people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of
advance auction in stolen goods.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and
to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and
his children smart.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks
anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this
uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into
which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein
they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to
heels with official rubber-stamps.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas
is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often
very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit
to oppression.

All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in
virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every
industrious and well-disposed man.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take
it anyhow.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that
the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to
either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the
urge to rule it.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a
woman for a purely moral reason.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms
of the-not-worth-knowing.

The ideal government of reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one
which lets the individual alone.

Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.


Above quotes by:

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956

http://www.watchfuleye.com/mencken.html
http://www.freedomsnest.com/qmencken.html
httphttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/mencken.htm




mike

Bravo! Bravo! Mencken forgot more about human nature after one
night's heavy drinking than the deep thinkers in our bloated
cartoonish government will ever know. What sheep we are, and what
evil shepherds they have become.

Regards,

Grumpus

Grumpus wrote:

http://www.watchfuleye.com/mencken.html
http://www.freedomsnest.com/qmencken.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/mencken.htm

mike


Bravo! Bravo! Mencken forgot more about human nature after one
night's heavy drinking than the deep thinkers in our bloated
cartoonish government will ever know. What sheep we are, and what
evil shepherds they have become.


A very intelligent man, that Mencken. He should get statues dedicated to
him. Maybe holding the Constitution over his head, like the statue of
liberty holds the torch.





mike

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..let the cat out to reply..

m II wrote in message news:ro2ac.5493$x44.150@clgrps12:

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

http://www.tomslatin.com/version6/assets/images/BushHalo.jpg
http://www.maryjones.us/BushHalo.jpg
http://www.maryjones.us/hailbush.jpg
http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2003/10/273370.jpg

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them,
and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,
and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.
If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come
and I will have to focus on them." -- George W. Bush.
http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity7.html#quote
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=310788

DSM-IV: 297.1 Delusional Disorder: Grandiose Type:
"Delusions[*] of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or
special relationship to a deity or famous person."
http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/DDGrandiose%20Type.htm

[* delusion: "Commonly defined in behavioral health care as a fixed false
belief (excluding beliefs that are part of a religious movement), this
_psychotic_symptom_ is present in a variety of serious mental disorders."
http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/delusion.htm]

Raven wrote:

m II wrote in message news:ro2ac.5493$x44.150@clgrps12:


Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)


http://www.tomslatin.com/version6/assets/images/BushHalo.jpg
http://www.maryjones.us/BushHalo.jpg
http://www.maryjones.us/hailbush.jpg
http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2003/10/273370.jpg

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them,
and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,
and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.
If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come
and I will have to focus on them." -- George W. Bush.
http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity7.html#quote
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=310788


Here is something from a "progressive" web site regarding that quote:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0630-04.htm

-Before you jump to any conclusions, remember that you are reading a
-translation of a translation of a translation. Mahmoud Abas does not
-speak English. Bush does not speak Arabic. If Bush said these words,
-or something like them, Abas heard them from a translator. Then Abas
-repeated them, as he remembered them a couple of weeks later, in
-Arabic. Some unknown person wrote down what he thought he heard Abas
-say. Then Regular, or someone at Ha'aretz, translated them back into
-English-or perhaps first into Hebrew and then into English.

As you'd expect, they go on to trash President Bush - but they scored a
point for integrity by mentioning this.

Raven wrote:

http://www.tomslatin.com/version6/as...s/BushHalo.jpg

Looks like the story about the Anti-Christ is true. Until now, I thought
it was just a myth.


I think we're doomed.




mike


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..let the cat out to reply..

That Xanaxed out bitch who mowed down her fiancee' and of course got out
of it probably doesn't even remember Sept 11,2001.I got a friend who
works it the "old Executive Office Building",next to the White House in
DC and she tells me that rumors are rampant that unless she has a
photo-op with like the Crawford,Texas Cheerleaders High School Dance
Team,she pops "Zannies", a couple of Gin and Tonics and down she
goes.That explains that Minimum wage Glaze she has on her that every
convenience store clerk in America has."Duhhhhhhhhhhh--I am the
Presidents wife...hummmmmmmm,he good man...hummmmmmmmm".
You Bushnicks are all the same.STUPID.

PLONK
"parker smith" wrote in message
...
That Xanaxed out bitch who mowed down her fiancee' and of course got out
of it probably doesn't even remember Sept 11,2001.I got a friend who
works it the "old Executive Office Building",next to the White House in
DC and she tells me that rumors are rampant that unless she has a
photo-op with like the Crawford,Texas Cheerleaders High School Dance
Team,she pops "Zannies", a couple of Gin and Tonics and down she
goes.That explains that Minimum wage Glaze she has on her that every
convenience store clerk in America has."Duhhhhhhhhhhh--I am the
Presidents wife...hummmmmmmm,he good man...hummmmmmmmm".
You Bushnicks are all the same.STUPID.

PS,

You oh so exemplify the Liberal-Left's HATE for the 'other' Side.
[ With You There Can Be NO Middle Ground - NO Room for Compromise.]
- A War of Ideas.
- A War of Words.
- A War of Hate.
- Leading to a Civil War 'fueled' by Your Hate.
= Resulting in Victory of Death for One Side or the other.

JUST ANOTHER "OWLES":
Then you go on to disparage a whole class (Convenience store clerks)
of good honest working people. Americans who perform a low paying
jobs that needs to be done. Just one more Liberal ELITIST who thinks
that he is better than the average working man.

FWIW: The problem with Liberalism and the Left is not the good honest
people who believe in "The Justness and The Fairness of "The Cause".
But the ELITIST who they allow to be their Leaders.


Blessed by God with Life and Progressive by Nature thru Living ~ RHF
[Just an Old Retired Blue Collar Union Member - Dosvedanya Tovarisch]
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= = = (parker smith) wrote in message
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That Xanaxed out bitch who mowed down her fiancee' and of course got out
of it probably doesn't even remember Sept 11,2001.I got a friend who
works it the "old Executive Office Building",next to the White House in
DC and she tells me that rumors are rampant that unless she has a
photo-op with like the Crawford,Texas Cheerleaders High School Dance
Team,she pops "Zannies", a couple of Gin and Tonics and down she
goes.

That explains that Minimum wage Glaze she has on her that every
convenience store clerk in America has.

"Duhhhhhhhhhhh--I am the Presidents wife...hummmmmmmm,he good
man...hummmmmmmmm".

You Bushnicks are all the same.STUPID.

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