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"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Nietzsche

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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." Alan Toynbee

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"If it’s moving, tax it. If it’s still moving, regulate it. If it’s stopped moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan describing liberal government

Unsuspected self parody at its finest

How do you get liberals to make fools of themselves? Ask them a question.

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"The people running the government are never sufficiently willing to contemplate that they are the problem." Jonah Goldberg

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I plowed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea faring men, Came to me, now and then, With their sagas of the seas. Longfellow

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How to close Gitmo? "Have Obama make it a government funded solar company." Jay Leno

Ah....ooooh......no comment

Don't miss this great celestial event on Sunday

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"Man plans and God laughs." Jewish proverb

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"Life is what happens when you're making other plans." John Lennon

Back when actors were more that one dimensional

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"Those who rob Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul."   Democratic Party maxim

"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."   Robert Heinlein 

Sigh....

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"The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society…. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution … that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change…. I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through courts… The Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day … The Framers had that same blind spot … the fundamental flaw of this country."   Barak Obama

Emphasis mine.  Wow, this guy is president of the United States and this is how he feels about the Constitution.  I don't know about you, but it doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.  

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Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.

          Thomas Gray

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"If you're coasting your going downhill."

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"You've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."     Barak Obama at Ohio State University commencement 

Now don't you worry about the IRS knocking at your door or the DOJ tapping your phones.  That could never happen.

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"It's always darkest before going pitch black."  Anon

When ice attacks

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“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.”   Goldfinger

I'm sure Leonard Nimoy wishes that this had never happened

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“The liberty of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry

Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time

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“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy”   — Charles de Montesquieu

On an Antarctic icebreaker

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“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”    — Voltaire

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“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

― Frédéric Bastiat