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chomskian

Joined: 4/2/2009

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/23/2009 5:55:48 PM
“Self interest and freedom of enterprise were a secular faith in the old world. In the New World they emerged as religion.” (JK Galbraith) “When a man builds a factory he builds a temple. And the man who works there worships there.” (Calvin Coolidge)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/15/2009 1:16:03 PM
"We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether disproportionate share and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence and maintained by force, often seem less reasonable to others than to us. " (Winston Churchill)

chomskian

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Conviction Posted: 11/15/2009 6:42:44 AM
Precluding the possibility of Cross contamination Sterile impervious dividers are believed to Separate the exhaustively dissected Arts and sciences Consequently it’s possible to forward The ludicrous notion that Economic and environmental concerns Can be independently weighted In favour of the former Yet the belief that we can’t afford To stop poisoning the planet Confirms that, “When sufficiently vast Economic power becomes by its very nature Political power”

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/14/2009 6:32:37 AM
I'm a man without a corporation. It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. Paddy Chayefsky

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/6/2009 7:36:54 PM
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." (Aldous Huxley)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/3/2009 6:45:55 PM
"A laissez faire economy is maintained in an industrial era by the ignorant belief that the general welfare is best served by placing the least possible constraints on economic activity. The history of the past hundred years is a refutation of the theory; but it is still maintained, or is dying to lingering a death in a country as politically incompetent as our own." (Reinhold Niebuhr 1932)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 11/1/2009 4:23:17 AM
Man is the rational animal; any peculiarly cruel or unnatural action is called “brutal” or “bestial.” Such actions are in fact distinctively human. (Mark Twain) Our instinctive apparatus consists of two parts: the one tendency to further our own life and that of our descendants, the other tending to thwaft the lives of supposed rivals. The first includes the joy of life, and love, and art, which is psychologically an offshoot of love. The second includes competition, patriotism, and war. Conventional morality does everything to suppress the first and encourage the second. (Bertrand Russell)

chomskian

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reflection of past year into the future... Posted: 11/1/2009 4:04:56 AM
A monster moon on Halloween Among the things these eyes have seen So round and fat and seemingly near Yet in reality so far from here And so it is with time and space Turn back the clocks and slow the pace This repeated hour in winters name In spring will be returned again But who are we to adjust the light To shorten day and protract the night The thoughts of those who think too much Can’t help that they were made as such Endless questions only now annoy Small inroads made they do destroy Better they should remain unsaid Than turn what lives toward the dead

chomskian

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~lost in thought or flight of fancy~ Posted: 10/28/2009 3:13:03 PM
For the first time in a month I didn’t see the sun rise Over Malpeque Bay this morning Where draped across the mouth The appropriately named Curtain Island Breaks the fury of the Atlantic surf Allowing old men in wooden dories To tend their oyster beds While a thousand miles inland I lingered in mine Back to reality Far from the bright red mud Closer to her now Or perhaps further Like all the important questions This can’t be known with certainty Does she look for a window Or through one Can an incorporeal man Really make a place in such a heart Naturally Karl took good care Of the castle in my absence Beyond the moat the capitalist hoard Relentlessly chanted the praises of competition But he insisted From each according to his abilities To each according to his needs Not the survival of the fittest But the fitting of as many as possible For survival

chomskian

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What led to the downfall...? Posted: 9/25/2009 5:01:29 PM
If one has the tenacity to wade through the endless gender bashing, very occasionally a gem of authenticity can be found in these threads. Without presuming to know anything about the author, I think it likely that considerable internal debate took place before message 3 was posted. Such rare courage can only be commended. Raised in a house of love, I knew nothing of hatred. Didn't understand it could completely consume a person and choke out all other emotions. After 10 futile years trying to fix the irreperable damage done to a child, I learned that love's antithesis is equally armed. Unfortunately, from a psychological and financial perspective this education was enormously expensive. Regardless of the gospel of conventional wisdom, I will not assume 50% responsibility for the failure of a marriage that was doomed from the outset. Far from perfect, I have erred often and greatly, but had no hand in the horror that ruined what could easily have been a wonderful human being.

chomskian

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Enslaved to the System Posted: 9/24/2009 7:46:34 AM
Is this the place? "Yes come in And close the door behind you We don’t want our darkness Spilling out into the street" May I speak freely? "We would accept nothing less Give us your uncensored thoughts We won’t be shocked Nor will we judge" You know of the pit? "Yes we’ve all been there Floundered in the soul sucking abyss Where the walls collapse upon you Crushing hope like a paper cup" I can’t see to the back How many are you? "Too many to count A biblical multitude Tens of millions" Do you never leave this place? I see only a handful on the outside "We come and go But you wouldn’t know us Out in the real world" "Ruled by the iron fist of positivism We can’t afford to show our true faces To the masses who would chastise us For being the way we are But surely you know this" "You’ve felt the burning eyes That deal a caustic mix of Contempt and pity How they love to despise us For not sharing their enthusiasm" Yes but why do they take such pleasure From berating the already downtrodden How does it profit the legions Of perfectly adjusted To further augment our humiliation "They need us desperately Our failure confirms their superiority We are to blame for our own misfortune After all it’s a perfect world In which only the deficient find fault" Can they not be made to see That we try as hard as they That we don’t want to despair That we desire to feel joy That we long for peace of mind "Try and they will beat you senseless With a club of inane platitudes Bury you under a mountain Of popular psychology Burn you at the stake of superficiality" "They can’t allow themselves to consider The system that pits neighbour against neighbour In a competition that produces Both winners and losers The former inevitably dwarfed by the latter" So what is our recourse? How shall we survive? "By lying of course By presenting a false face A contrived guise of normality" "Hold your head high Thrust out your chest And don’t flinch when you walk Over those who lay broken and bleeding On the streets of paradise" Is there no other way? Must I be so callous? Can I not avoid such inhumanity? Escape the survival of the fittest "Oh yes there’s always the pit"

chomskian

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Thoughts on Canadians being involved in the Gulf War Posted: 9/23/2009 7:15:25 PM
Necessary for political purposes, yet utterly without merit, is the relentless belief in a war, for the people of Afghanistan - against the evil Taliban. Formerly the government of said country, the latter are by definition part of the former. The idea that without widespread popular support, a handful of extremists from one of the world's most impoverishied countries, could for eight years resist the most powerful military force in human history, is patently absurd. Of course in Canada such considerations are tantamount to treason because, "While normally only ill mannered, in wartime the truth is considered criminal." (Bertrand Russell)

chomskian

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Islam Goes to bat for America Posted: 9/21/2009 12:18:33 PM
Wudger For President In 2012! I can certainly understand why some would want people who point out the truth to leave their country...makes it much easier to misrepresent brutality as benevolence.

chomskian

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As you've gotten older, are you more sensitive regarding suffering in the world? Posted: 9/20/2009 1:53:39 PM
"So long as it's experienced by some faceless others in a distant elsewhere, we have a remarkable tolerance for human suffering." (G Slinger)

chomskian

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Is red hot romance possible after 50? Posted: 9/20/2009 1:44:55 PM
One of those forced to wade through the mire of suspicion left by the allegedly contemptible players, wonder if the the last two posts can only serve to sooth the concience of these much-maligned artists. Just a thought.

chomskian

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I don't care what you write...... Posted: 9/20/2009 1:20:20 PM
Frozen in a reality shower In the place where hope never visits A million icicle daggers Pin me to the wall of actuality

chomskian

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~lost in thought or flight of fancy~ Posted: 9/20/2009 12:56:30 PM
Unlike fools who believe their capacity To distinguish between fact and fantasy Is beyond reproach The enlightened soul Thinks much on the subject And if the substance is marked by honesty A willingness to expose the vulnerable underbelly All humans possess Probability falls on the side Of reality Obstinately blind to a forest of red flags We’ve all imposed fiction at some point But this doesn’t mean it's necessarily so Sometimes the intangible harbours a truth Hard surfaces only reflect In the final analysis And the words of an authentic poet “Blue is grey and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion?”

chomskian

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Enslaved to the System Posted: 9/16/2009 2:41:24 AM
My father attended a one-room school Eight grades in a single space This arrangement he believed much better Than the system that places walls Between seasons When I was 21 One of my best friends Turned 85 Twice a week we shot pool And drank whiskey in his basement I couldn’t imagine what so fine a mind Could possibly hope to learn From such a green child But he insisted it was so And he was wise Today I walk in a system Of chronic division Where institutions and technology Conspire to bind cohorts Against all others Blocking input from the real world Headphones eliminate the possibility They might hear a strangers greeting Head down and texting All attention riveted on the palm of one hand Thusly insulated against encounters With a grandmother or a newborn They miss the wonder of both Cemented among their peers Unavailable to the balance of humanity Thankfully there are exceptions Bright bold ageless spirits Amenable to interaction across the spectrum Open to conversation with the wrinkled ones And Hannah Montana fans To believe wisdom follows naturally with years Is a fallacy Some remain impervious to understanding Regardless of the decades While others embrace it early and often

chomskian

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Enslaved to the System Posted: 9/15/2009 4:38:27 PM
Hi Sarah. Admire your writing and love the thread title. Please excuse the dumpage. Given that yesterday and today And every other day in recorded history The sun rose in the east We fully expect that tomorrow It will again emerge Over the same horizon Such is the nature of the Correspondence theory of truth Invariable patterns Unmistakeably aligned Transcending the realm of probability With the voice of certainty To hold out hope against them Is to invite disappointment Encourage despair For when the data is studied The hallmarks of reality Emerge against our will Ignored at our extreme peril They provide safe passage Along the perilous cliffs of denial Which so seductively beckon the weak To abandon the path And plunge into the abyss of unreality So we need not exhort the details Who how or why matters not Faced with the vivid pattern The definitive understanding We won’t forward the questions The answers to which are irrelevant

chomskian

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A Vast Wasteland Posted: 9/14/2009 8:26:17 PM
As a dating forum, the Internet offers enormous potential for misrepresentation. Of course this isn't necessarily exploited, but even for the honest and sincere, "To mistake the excitement of virtual connectedness with the real thing, is like mistaking the map of a country for the land itself." (L Monke)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 9/14/2009 7:00:52 PM
"In a world where God has been banished from the classroom (and where technology has eliminated the constraints that once rationalized massive global hunger) the belief that food is a commodity (the price and supply of which can in good conscience be manipulated for economic gain) speaks for evil. " (PE Grossman)

chomskian

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~lost in thought or flight of fancy~ Posted: 9/10/2009 5:12:45 PM
Today at precisely twelve noon On the most glorious of late summer days Someone dared intrude upon my Myopic depression Shouting on my quiet street Not the high-pitched voices of The kids across the back fence Or the loud mouth two doors down Heading for the front room window The anguish in the man’s voice was plain “Call 911. Send the ambulance. Jesus God.” He cried bent double on the lawn My neighbour’s son across the street I’ve seen him many times But we’ve never spoken Nor would we now Already I could hear the sirens A full three-branch response Fire Trucks, Ambulance, Police All available at the call of despair Eddie across the way had told me Jack wasn’t long for this world And now it seemed the time had come But life seldom follows orders Had never met Jacks wife Monica Who seldom left the house But today she left the world Death visits near on a glorious late summer day In twenty minutes it was all over Urgency exchanged for solemnity No more flashing lights or sirens As uniforms returned to the service of the living Tonight is unbelievably fine As the sun falls on Monica’s family Bracing one another against the pain While an unknown stranger weeps

chomskian

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Lacking tip for my friend / server Posted: 9/6/2009 11:00:13 AM
Spent 30 years creating the food that the servers put on tables...never once got a tip. As the Aussi's quite acturately point out, it's far better to demand a decent living wage for those in the food service industry, than facilitating the system that makes them work for tips.

chomskian

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reflection of past year into the future... Posted: 9/6/2009 10:27:54 AM
Exceeding the talents of Picasso, Renoir and Van Gogh The modern propagandist works in the medium of ideas Rendering its instruments incapable of delivering The information prescribed in their original design The political sanitization of words Destroys the functional capacity of language Thusly supply becomes not what its possible to produce But rather only what’s profitable to produce And instituting a brutally dehumanizing distinction Between people and consumers When demand is restricted to the monetarily empowered Both the word and the world are effectively redefined

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 9/6/2009 8:57:15 AM
"After our experiences of the last few months, can we now please stop insulting scientists everywhere by calling economics a science. Put those economics texts on the fiction shelf where they rightly belong, next to other works of imaginative flights of fancy." (Alec Mitchell) professor emeritus, metallurgical engineering, UBC, Vancouver

chomskian

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What Of Equity Posted: 9/3/2009 11:40:34 AM
The anthropologists offer Opposable thumbs cranial shape and posture As evidence of our uniqueness Yet capable of a set of Simultaneously conflicting impulses Artistic ability sets the human animal Apart from the balance of creation Able to paint its best interests The colour of right Volume upon volume of Exquisitely crafted rationalizations Masterful forgeries of truth Are employed toward this Truly ignoble end But when the propagandists are Properly bound and gagged We’re faced with understandings Acquired in the sandbox None enjoys a greater right than another To commonly held and finite resources No hoarding…the toys must be shared Yet no sooner are these principals Of fairness and equity established Than the schizophrenic educators Invert the rules so as to excuse A world based on dollars Where individuals have billions And billons have none Ignoring centuries of colonial conquest And the inequitable distribution Of the earths precious natural resources Upon which national currencies are based Such staggering economic disparity is said to result From the immutable laws of supply and demand Which pull humanity the way the moon pulls the tides Therefore despite the definitive understanding That it’s a man-made construct Unrelated to any natural order We accept the ludicrous notion Of an economic storm This contrasts sharply with the 1930’s experience Of a market crash Yet relentlessly clinging to delusion And dismissing the dictates of elementary logic Which scream of a fundamentally flawed design The consensus of all right thinking people Is to once again rebuild from the original plans A structure that with devastating implications for millions Has twice collapsed in eighty years

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 9/3/2009 11:14:35 AM
On the perils of excessive drinking. "Went to bed with Bo Derek one night and woke up with Bo Diddly" (Ronnie Hawkins)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 9/3/2009 8:00:41 AM
For the first several hundred thousand years, humanity had no appreciable effect on the natural enviornment. The ominous threat posed by global warming is the direct result of choices made during the last three hundred. So clinging to the flawed belief that, "money makes the world go round," as we watch capitalism's wildly spinning wheels leave their axles, we might wish to revisit the circumstances that once before felled a political Titan. “The Ptolemaic system, in which the sun and stars were assumed to revolve around the earth, had required more and more amendments in order to coincide with the astronomical data available. Wheels within wheels, these amendments became cumbersome and arbitrary.” (Ian Barbour)

chomskian

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reflection of past year into the future... Posted: 8/31/2009 10:28:48 AM
To speak of innocent children Suggests the existence of another kind But surely this isn’t the case Nowhere do little ones hold counsel Plotting military intervention Or broad-spectrum domination These are the thoughts and plans of men Adult engineers of human misery Proud proponents of inequity And the same principal applies to Unconditional love The one and only kind Where terms and conditions apply Routinely misrepresented as the genuine article We have an altogether different product Bound by contractual obligations The substance of the agreement Is simple self-interest

chomskian

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The Fireside Posted: 8/30/2009 10:05:18 PM
The depth of a mother’s love The grains of sand on a beach A man’s capacity for self-delusion These things can’t be measured Over such a vast expanse Lay ten thousand opportunities To deceive oneself A million chances to believe But those who have eyes And the sense to read the lines Rather than between them Eventually stumble to the light Seared by the sun of comprehension They wish not to hear What when plainly spoken Estelle would understand

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 8/30/2009 8:42:17 PM
"It's with infinite ease that we become lost in conjecture and speculation. If the subject of your inquiry is truth, proceed only on the basis of that which can be known with certainty." (C. Boundas)

chomskian

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Fed official says real unemployment rate is 16%, not 9.4. Posted: 8/30/2009 7:56:27 AM
Re: "I am a Mathematican. 1/4 kids are not ready for college. " There's a quarter of a man in the market He's got a quarter of a car So it's easy to park it He shops and he saves what he can But he only saves a quarter He's a quarter of a man (David Lindley) But seriously, you're right about corporate salaries and bonuses. We have a minimum wage, why not a maximum wage. Oh shyte...I hear capitalists screaming already. Run for the socialist hills.

chomskian

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reflection of past year into the future... Posted: 8/22/2009 7:33:01 PM
As usual they were seized But with great effort The windows of my mind Were forced open Time to exchange the air Let the winds of reality Blow freely through the place Dispelling all trace of fantasy Far too easy to believe These seductive delusions That only inevitably maim The accommodating host No I will not mourn the loss Of the brutal beauties Incredibly talented impostors Of actuality Driving out the unclean I will restore the temple Pristine, hollow and empty To its former glory

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 8/18/2009 9:31:30 AM
No offence intended here to a deeply thoughtful and and much appreciated poster. Just doing my small part to ensure balance in the universe. "While many laud the value of dreams, others remain addicted to a fully awakened state of conciousness." (PE Grossman)

chomskian

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Why are Americans so Anti Socialist? Posted: 8/16/2009 10:03:30 AM
While sharing the OP’s concern for the American disdain of socialism, Canadians are in no position to be throwing stones. Twenty years after promising to eliminate child poverty by 2010, the Ontario government recently revised its target. But (after promising to reduce the problem by one quarter over the next five years) it may well be asked how this percentage was chosen. Why not an eighth, a sixteenth, one thirty-second or a sixty-fourth? Moreover, it would seem government is satisfied that 75% of the current number is a perfectly acceptable level of child poverty in one of the world’s richest jurisdictions. It’s painful to listen as Americans try to forward obviously socialist ideas, while simultaneously declaring their essential opposition to the root evil. But this stems from the demonization of language, which results in the imprinted belief that socialism represents a threat to freedom, the greatest form of which is of course freedom of enterprise. From this perspective (regulating the mega corporation’s ability to exploit the millions of unemployed, thereby impeding the accrual of vast fortunes into ever fewer hands, and advocating for a more equal distribution of wealth) there is merit in such an objection. Devoted to the fallacious belief that capitalism is a natural extension of evolution, they subscribe to a gladiatorial theory of existence that celebrates the survival of the fittest (the most ruthless and brutal) confirming the understanding that might is right. Underpinning this philosophical aversion is a complete inability to distinguish between the intent of political ideologies and the perversions of them that result from practical implementation. Thusly, Stalin’s reign of terror is considered typical of a godless Communist, and GW Bush can be represented as a good Christian. Immune to objective analysis, these unassailable determinations don’t acknowledge that the system of social organization advocated by an impoverished Galilean carpenter most closely resemble those of Mr. Marx, or (constantly advocating for foreign war) the Texas oilman demonstrates nothing but contempt for the Christian commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” Still clinging to Reverend Beecher’s assertion that, “God intended the great to be great and the little to be little,” there’s no room for human collectivity in the modern economy. Therefore, “Whether the elderly widow across town has enough to eat is a question that must be driven from our minds.”(NC) Nevertheless, “One of the noblest, and eventually perhaps too one of the more workable expressions of the ideal equality is embodied in the communist principal, From each according to his abilities – to each according to his needs.” (Philip Wheelwright)

chomskian

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Pseudoscience - knowledge which masquerades as science Posted: 8/13/2009 9:58:40 AM
The idea of a purely objective discipline, which when properly applied offers acts as a singular avenue to truth, is tempting. Nevertheless, what's certain is that, "Human observers make mistakes. All they can really say is, I think this why and I believe this is how. Science it would appear is a system of beliefs." (John Polanyi 1988 Nobel Laueate in Physics)

chomskian

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All You Need Is Love and communicate,Is that true??? Posted: 8/13/2009 9:29:36 AM
Re -The four words men hate most in any language. "WE NEED TO TALK" Actually second to, "Is it in yet."

chomskian

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Thoughts On A Courtesan Posted: 8/13/2009 9:17:41 AM
Powerful words So skilfully spun Touch total strangers Yet however moving The exercise of such power Refutes the poet’s claims For eviscerating the mundane A still finely honed blade Cuts to the bone of truth No fleeing power Beauty undiminished Runs freely from her pen By way of poor offering We give thanks For a glimpse of such passion

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 8/10/2009 9:38:57 PM
"Where the press used to shield the public from the worst of these baseless false and factless claims, now there's no gatekeeper. There's no gate. There isn't even a fence." (Brookes Jackson - Factcheck.org)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 8/6/2009 9:42:26 AM
“The theories of Milton Friedman gave him the Nobel prize: they gave Chile General Pinochet.” (Naomi Klein)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 7/28/2009 6:54:09 PM
The human race's prospects for survival were greater when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. (A. Toynbee)

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 7/24/2009 10:50:54 AM
JKG - when asked if the wealthy wouldn't oppose more equitable income distribution. "Yes quite a lot. But you must remember that social tranquility at all times and in all countries is always advanced by the cries of anguish by the affluent. They have a much deeper sense of personal injustice than the poor and a far greater capacity for indignation. And when the poor hear the primal screams of the well to do, they imagine that the fortunate are really suffering and become more contented with their own lot. Good statesmanship has always required not only the comforting of the afflicted but the afflicting of the comfortable."

chomskian

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Half Full or Half Empty? Posted: 7/19/2009 6:50:42 AM
The most irritating of tired old cliches, few things send me sceaming from a profile as quickly. An instrument of uniformity, whose proponents have somehow convinced themselves that by selecting half full, they demonstrate a positive and therefore superior attitude toward life. In terms of authenticity, this gem ranks right up there with, wash rinse repeat, your call is important to us, and have a nice day. Enough to drive a man to consume whatever portion remains of the glass. There now...I feel much better. We now return you to Better Homes and Platitudes.

chomskian

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Aphorism Posted: 7/15/2009 5:12:28 PM
"As far as the laws of mathematics apply to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they do not apply to reality." (AE)

chomskian

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Dedicated Golfer Posted: 7/14/2009 7:11:47 PM
As the were about to tee off at the first hole, three guys noticed an attractive lady by herself, wainting to play behind them. Naturally, they invited her to join them, which she accepted to do. By way of polite conversation, one of the guys said, "It's not so much fun to play golf by yourself, is it?" The lady concurred. "Yes, when my husband was alive we played every day." Somewhat taken aback, he mumbled his condolence as to her loss and asked if there wasn't anyone else among her family or friends she could play with. To this the lady replied, "Yeah, I guess so, but they're all at the funeral."

chomskian

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Personal Favourite Quotes I Like Posted: 7/11/2009 8:34:40 AM
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.” U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, 1957

chomskian

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~lost in thought or flight of fancy~ Posted: 7/7/2009 6:59:30 AM
While millions praise the sunset The first moments of day Offer the greatest of life’s promise Before the rat race begins While the capitalists still slumber The morning birds beckon Before the harsh light of day An old fool can still walk easily Not yet reinvested in reality He can ponder the dew Pretend all lies before him And thank God for the refuge of first light.

chomskian

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DAILY QUOTES Posted: 7/6/2009 5:59:03 PM
Is the human mind so feeble that it can't come up with a superior mechanism for resolving disputes than war? (B. Forenz)

chomskian

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narrowed dating pools? Posted: 7/6/2009 3:39:31 PM
Of course DB is always armed with sound reasoning and statistical support. And having no experience with LDR's, perhaps my opinion is naive. Nevertheless. If, sitting out on my deck on a beutiful summer evening soaking up the sunset, I'm overcome with desire for a cold beer, this will require a trip to the refrigerator. If this reveals an absence of the desired beverage, an even further trip to the beer store is in order. If that effort is too great, I have to ask myself if I ever really wanted a drink in the first place. Admittedly, it's not 300 miles to the beer store, but surely London to Toronto isn't an unreasonable cast of the net. Incidentally, drinking analogies allow the cultured to substitute a fine wine for blue collar milk, but those who forward them probaly shouldn't be taken seriously anyway. Forgive them, they know not what they do.

chomskian

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Mental punching bag Posted: 7/5/2009 10:20:15 AM
Sorry. Thought the thread title was, "metal punching bag," which, however ill advised, would at least be a novel idea.

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