"We Want More People to Have Control Over Your Own Life"
G. W. Bush on the philosophical differences between himself and John Kerry: "Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life. And that's a difference. There's a difference in philosophy, when you think about it. That's why you've got to be careful about this rhetoric, we're only going to tax the rich. You know who the... the rich in America happen to be the small-business owners. That's what that means. Just remember, when you're talking about, oh, we're just going to run up the taxes on a certain number of people ... first of all, real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes. And the small-business owners end up paying a lot of the burden of this taxation." [1] [2] [3] [4] Thank you to the humanoid for these links. I'm Trevor Blake, and I support this blog post.
"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."