The Hanover Area Heritage Association made a promise in front of 300 people to help pay the borough's legal expenses in maintaining a depiction of the Ten Commandments at Wirt Park (a tax-funded public area). In June and July, council forwarded its legal bills to the Association with a request for payment. And of course the Ten Commandments don't apply to their strongest advocates: no restrictions on lying or stealing there! The Association is refusing to pay. As time passes, more and more people who sleep with these dogs will wake up with their fleas. I'll be over here, making fun.
"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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