The goal is not to bring your adversaries to their knees but to their senses. -- Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” -- Physicist Neils Bohr

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

Howard Zinn

"I have to say, I do not consider these people [Holocaust deniers] normal. We have to stick to the truth. There are people denying it, but what happened, happened, and it is not up for dispute."
-- SS veteran Oswald Kaduk, who served at Auschwitz

this quote made me think of john and Bannana who

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
-- Primo Levi, survivor of a year's imprisonment in Auschwitz

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain

“Follow the money” -William Goldman, All the President's Men

Deep Throat: Follow the money. Always follow the money.

May the genuine loving Kindness in your minds grow; may it arise in the minds of all beings in the world.

The Sublime Life Mission
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

"Nip it in the Bud".....Swami Sivananda
When a follower told him she was doing something counter-productive to spirituality.

“But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an Enemy and Truth is a Menace.” -Rod Serling

"To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire





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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

•Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
by Noam Chomsky



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Dr. David Deming in the Washington Times:


“With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly clear that global warming is not a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification, but a political ideology that has to be fiercely defended against any challenge. It is ironic that skeptics are called “deniers” when every fact that would tend to falsify global warming is immediately explained away by an industry of denial.”

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."

-- Lyle Myhur

“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on future Holocaust denial

Certainly one of Uncle Adolf's most interesting quotes is that he said of himself that he "moves with the certainty of a sleepwalker"......

That one always stuck in my mind - it suggests he was moving mindlessly toward the murder of untold millions. Of course what he meant was that he was easily achieving his agenda.

"There is no sense in having an argument with a man so stupid he doesn't know you have the better of him." -John Raper

"On second thought, the surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't." -Laurence J. Peter

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." -William G. McAdoo

“No one can make a convincing rational argument to counter and convince an opinion from irrational people.” -John Rose

Billions of cubic feet of poisons gases floating in our atmosphere, untold millions of tons of chemical by-products passed into our water, The destruction of the green cover of the earth. This happens day in day out. It takes a sociopathic state of mind to deny these simple facts.No science is needed. Humans are shitting in their own nest. But not the denialists. They are much nicer than the rest of us

PA

"This film will show that the Brave New World they seek is nothing more than the failed Policies and Ideologies of Communism that have enslaved over one third of the World’s population during the 20th Century. It will show that most people on the Left aren’t Communists - just the useful idiots Lenin spoke of being used to promote a Socialist Agenda, which is the first and necessary step toward Communism." -Curtis Bowers, AGENDA: Grinding America Down [www.youtube.com]

May the genuine loving Kindness` in your minds grow;
may it arise in the minds of all beings in the world

The Sublime Life Mission.

Malcolm X put it best when he said, “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” We would add: “You can’t have racism without capitalism.”

Mike Tyson on George Zimmerman: ‘It’s a disgrace he hasn’t been shot yet’





Mike Tyson thinks that George Zimmerman deserves violent retribution for the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

In an interview with Yahoo News about his upcoming one-man show in Las Vegas, the former heavyweight champion sounded off on the polarizing case:

"My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out—the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn't follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, 'Stop following the kid.' That tells you everything right there. But my all-around perspective, I wasn't there, I don't know what happened. But it's just so widespread and overt what happened. Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages. It's a majority versus a minority. That's the way God planned it. He didn't want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don't, it's gonna stay this way. We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that's not the case, he was killed in vain, and we're just waiting for it to happen to our children. He'll have gotten away with impunity. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That's the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested--the fact that he hasn't been shot yet is a disgrace. That's how I feel personally about it."

In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant, and served three years in prison.



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You Are Standing On Indian Land!
A bumper sticker in Ca.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

--HL Mencken

“It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Americans buy bottled drinking water, for example, even though water runs from the faucets at home for a fraction of the cost, and government quality standards are stricter for tap water than for bottled. At any income level, we can be relied upon for categorically unnecessary purchases: portable-earplug music instead of the radio; extra-fast Internet for leisure use; heavy vehicles to transport light loads; name-brand clothing instead of plainer gear. "Economizing," as applied to clothing, generally means looking for discount name brands instead of wearing last year's clothes again. The dread of rearing unfashionable children is understandable. But as a priority, "makes me look cool" has passed up "keeps arteries functional" and left the kids huffing and puffing (fashionably) in the dust.”

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.

"Seventy years later, through the persistent research of Eustace Mullins, Archibald Maule Ramsey and others, we have learned that World War II was a concerted effort of nations controlled by Jewish financiers — principally the United States, Britain and Soviet Union — to exterminate the major threat to worldwide Jewish financial hegemony, which was the blossoming barter economy of Nazi Germany." -John Kaminski