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my playlist right now...
Pink Floyd - US & Them
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd - Breathe
today in history...
1729 - Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1865 - Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1947 - Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by Pres Bush
and birthdays...
1495 - John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1878 - Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice
1941 - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1944 - Marcia "Marcy" Carsey, TV executive/producer
1966 - Jerry Fontenot, NFL center/guard (Chic Bears, New Orleans Saints)
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Nothing to say really except that quotations
about government deserve a category of their own ...and I wonder if
Ronald Reagan will eventually be remembered as one of the most
sensible politicians ever? ;)
- "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul." _ George Bernard Shaw
- "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he
proposes to pay off with your money." _ G. Gordon Liddy
- "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to
have for dinner." _ James Bovard (1994)
- "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries." _ Douglas Casey (1992)
- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys." _ P.J. O'Rourke
- "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at
the expense of everybody else." _ Frederic Bastiat
- "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidise it."
_ Ronald Reagan
- "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the acts." _ Will
Rogers
- "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free." _ P.J. O'Rourke
- "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other." _ Voltaire
- "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you." _ Pericles
- "No man's life, liberty, or property is sage while the legislature is in
session." _ Mark Twain
- "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I
repeat myself." _ Mark Twain
- "Talk is cheap _ except when Congress does it.
- The government is like a baby's
alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the
other." _ Ronald Reagan
- "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The
inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." _ Winston
Churchill
- "The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist
leaves the skin." _ Mark Twain
- "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools." _ Herbert Spencer
- "There is no distinctly Native American criminal class save congress." _ Mark
Twain
- "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the
consequences." _ P.J. O'Rourke
- "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." _
Winston Churchill
- "What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." _ Edward Langley
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