May 13, 2003

• Up late working and not planning on having time to post today (tomorrow, whatever), so some cut and paste.
  
  Some quotes I like:
  

  
  “And shepherds we shall be,
  For Thee, my Lord, for Thee.
  Power hath descended forth from Thy hand,
  That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.
  We shall flow a river forth to Thee,
  And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
  In nomine patrie, et fili, et spiritu sancti.”
  (from Boondock Saints)

  “Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or 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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
  –Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the
  Nuremberg Trials after World War II

  “we have met the enemy, and he is us” – pogo

  “if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”
  - unknown

  “Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.” – Turkish proverb (about coffee).

  Impermanence:
  “To what shall
  I liken the world?
  Moonlight, reflected
  In dewdrops,
  Shaken from a crane’s bill.”
  -Dogen-Zenji

  Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separation. A world longing for the light again. I see a time long after the skies have grown dark and dirty and the water has become bad smelling. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred tree of life and one whole Earth will become one circle again. And in that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry the knowledge and understanding and unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the life within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at the center within you, and I at that place within me, we shall be as one.
  Crazy Horse

  “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
  –Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

  Bush speech, Pierre’s short version:
  We’re at war all over the world, but the country has never been more eager to shop. I plan to expand more wars if and when my poll rating dips below 82%. Y’know, folks, a brave little girl named Sally-Lou looked up at me with her big eyes and asked, “Where’s my daddy?” So I will raise military spending and lower taxes on the rich. We won’t have a balanced budget, but Reagan didn’t, so I’m using voodoo economics too. And to those who are ask why, I tell them: Because I am not ashamed when a retired fireman goes every day to Ground Zero to pay tribute to his firefighter son. That’s why I support bipartisanship, as long as those Democrats support Republican programs. I’m here to tell you, retirement programs should be safe, so there, I said so. We need to be less greedy, so while I serve corporate interests, I’m expanding the Boy Scouts so that unemployed people of all ages can volunteer for their community like I never, ever did. Volunteer work will fill the social service gap as we close down our government social programs. That’s my wife sitting over there. God bless!
  - Peter Gelman

  And a post I made to a politics list a while back that I recently came across. It struck me because something about it felt a notch above my usual:
  http://mapnp.mnforum.org/pipermail/mpls/2002-October/017875.html
  
  G’night.

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