Try this, sent to me this morning by an English friend (and I have no way of
checking if it is kosher):
Quote of the Week
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of
all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered.'
Thomas Jefferson 1802
2008/11/7 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> It's always nice to think that a writer's in charge. On the other hand,
> some very bad people have risen to power on the strength of rhetoric, which
> in itself is quite neutral.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> At 01:40 PM 11/6/2008, you wrote:
>
>> I've lost the sources, but I'm pretty sure she's quite proud of how
>> she ignored the accepted scientific advice on a lot of environmental
>> issues. She appeased the fundies by seeming to ban books but in
>> reality not. She seems to be an opportunist who will play any card to
>> gain her advantage. I think she plays to Ken's idea of an ignoramus,
>> but I also think she's dangerous.
>>
>> Yes, I saw Jackson. The whole acceptance speech was emotionally
>> charged. It had elements of Chaunce the gardener on the one hand, the
>> good bits nicked from a variety of sources, including Reagan ("beacons
>> of hope", I think), and some tremendous cadences that lifted me away.
>> "calloused hand by calloused hand", hope but also sacrifice. In spite
>> of the fact that the words weren't shaped for me, I could feel myself
>> being drawn in and up. As an orator, he's fantastic.
>>
>> I'm not sure how Obama slipped through the net. I might try and read
>> Obama's memoir. The reviews I've read have been good.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Douglas Barbour
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Given the way the two presidential hopefuls ran their races, the real
>> divide
>> > in the US seems not so much to be that of race any more but that between
>> > those who seek intelligent, curious, learned leadership & those who take
>> > pride in their ignorance. That it remains such a close race between
>> those
>> > two Americas is still rather frightening. Palin's proud ignorance of
>> what
>> > fruit fly experimentation has meant for 80 years or so is truly
>> shocking.
>> > And she was continually applauded for such a stance.
>> >
>> > Obama steps into a political Augeian Stable and it will take a long time
>> for
>> > even the best person to clean up such a mess. We can only wish him the
>> best.
>> > That he has a real version of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition behind
>> him
>> > gives one hope (& did you watch Jackson in the crowd as Obama spoke?)
>> >
>> > Doug
>> > On 5-Nov-08, at 12:29 PM, Roger Day wrote:
>> >
>> >> I was watching the round-up interviews tonight and Spike Lee said
>> >> something interesting: if you look at the audiences for Palin &
>> >> McCain, they're all white, but for Obama they're mixed. Sure enough, I
>> >> watched Obama's speech - and boy can he speak - and the audience was
>> >> mixed. I then watched McCain's resignation speech - which was quite
>> >> graceful btb and at odds with his campaign invective that I've seen in
>> >> the 100 x 150 square - and sure enough, a white audience throughout.
>> >> It was almost a different planet.
>> >
>> > Douglas Barbour
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> >
>> > Latest books:
>> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> > Wednesdays'
>> >
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>> >
>> > We now know that 95 per cent of the universe is made of the something
>> other
>> > than those 12 particles. And we have very little idea what the other 95
>> per
>> > cent is, which is kind of embarrassing.
>> >
>> > Brian Cox
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "I began to warm and chill
>> to objects and their fields"
>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>>
>
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