War game was fixed to ensure American victory, claims general - on the face of it, a slightly alarming revelation, but who's to say for sure that Saddam won't be amenable to similar collusion when the real thing goes off, in return for safe passage to Sudan, or wherever? After all, he past record shows he's the kind of guy that Bush, Cheney and co. can do business with... (Guardian via Robot Wisdom)
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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