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"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a commonstock for man to labour and live on."

--Thomas Jefferson

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"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

--Mark Twain

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You know I was trying to think about who he was tonight and it's interesting... he is post-racial by all appearances. You know I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.

--Chris Matthews on Obama's State of the Union address

Damn Tweety, I can't give you the Douche Bag award twice in the same month... Pace yourself man.



- Mildly Brilliant

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"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who did not."

--Benjamin Franklin

- Mildly Brilliant

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Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

--Nicolo Machiavelli

- Mildly Brilliant

Douche Bag of the Week

"...And I think we have got to get serious about catching terrorists, not just catching weapons. I‘m waiting for the terrorist who knows kung fu or something that gets on an airplane without a weapon. God knows what that is going to be like."

-Chris Matthews

Wow, two days into the new year and decade... Ambitious for a douche.



- Mildly Brilliant

Quote du Jour

"Now we are face to face once again with a period of heightened peril. The risks are great, the burdens heavy, the problems incapable of swift or lasting solution. And under the strains and frustrations imposed by constant tension and harassment, the discordant voices of extremism are heard once again in the land. Men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from without are convinced that the real danger comes from within. They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders. They call for a 'man on horseback' because they do not trust the people. They find treason in our finest churches, in our highest court, and even in the treatment of our water. They equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, and socialism with communism. They object quite rightly to politics' intruding on the military -- but they are anxious for the military to engage in politics."

--John F. Kennedy, November 18, 1961, referring to the teabaggers of his time.

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“Obama is out there saying that Fox News is talk radio. I‘m living rent-free in this guy‘s head. Fox News is talk radio. If that‘s true, MSNBC is pornography. And Obama likes MSNBC. CNN is child porn.”

--Rush Limbaugh

Wow... Project there much Rush?

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"'To the clean are all things clean' — thus say the people. I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish! Therefore preach the visionaries and bowed-heads (whose hearts are also bowed down): 'The world itself is a filthy monster.' For these are all unclean spirits; especially those, however, who have no peace or rest, unless they see the world FROM THE BACKSIDE — the backworldsmen! TO THOSE do I say it to the face, although it sound unpleasantly: the world resembleth man, in that it hath a backside, — SO MUCH is true! There is in the world much filth: SO MUCH is true! But the world itself is not therefore a filthy monster!"

--Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during recent years."

--Adolf Hitler (My New Order, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939", Vol. 1, pp. 871-872, Oxford University Press, London, 1942.)

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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

--Jay Gould, Robber Baron extraordinaire

Jay knew a useful idiot when he saw one.

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Obama is a racist, Kenyan-born secret Muslim, communist; who is leading us down the road to fascism via his heathcare trojan horse which means death panels for grandma, veterans, republicans, and Wilford Brimley.

Seriously... Some people believe this.

--Mildly Brilliant

Quote du Jour

"It is President Obama who wants [to] mandate circumcision ... And that means, if we need to save our penises from anybody, it's Obama."

-Rush Limbaugh

Proving once again that the Republican party is way too fixated on penni.

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"Ever wondered why the left is so afraid
of the Second Amendment? It’s because
we're the ones with all the guns.”

--Rush Limbagh

Reminding us all why we should buys guns--because the crazies already have them.

Thoughts on love...

"Love is a four-letter word besides mind."

--Mildly Brilliant

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"The man of great wealth owes a particular obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."

--Teddy Roosevelt 1906

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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

--George Carlin

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"The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful."

--Robert A. Heinlein

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"Bush has been the most fiscally irresponsible president in history, taking surpluses that equaled 2.5 percent of GDP and turning them into deficits that are 3 percent. This is a $4 trillion hit on the country's balance sheet. On the central issue of energy policy, Bush has been utterly obstructionist, recycling the self-serving arguments of industry lobbyists."

--Fareed Zakaria

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I know this is old, but since I have decided to once again write Dr. Dobson on my other blog that it is once again relevant:

"The boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."

--Dr. James Dobson