For 5/11: “If Congressional Democrats say they support the troops but not the war, how can they continue to fund a war that they say they don’t support? The irony of this paradox is that they may believe that funding the war is their way of supporting the troops.” — Gordon Bennett, 5/9/08.
For 5/10: “The level of U.S. household debt has risen consistently over the course of the century, climbing from just 33.2 percent of disposable income in 1949 to 102.2 percent in 2000, and to 131.8 percent in 2005, making it the highest ever measured in our national history.” — Nan Mooney, from her book “(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents,” in Utne Reader, 5-6/08, p. 40.
For 5/9: “We need to do the people’s business and achieve what we were sent there to do.” Barb McIlvaine Smith (D-PA156), referring to the state legislature, 5/8/08.
For 5/8: “WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” — Major Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler (born in West Chester PA, 1881), “War is a Racket.”
For 5/7: “We have some deep patterns of media avoidance when the US is involved in a war based on lies.” — Norman Solomon, re “War Made Easy.”
For 5/6: “There’s selective purging of voters without any accountability.” Robert Fitrakis, co-author of What Happened in Ohio. More here.
For 5/5: “I have NO doubts ..the recent changes in global climate ARE man-induced. I insist that you immediately remove my name from this list since I did not give you permission to put it there.” / “I am horrified to find my name on such a list. I have spent the last 20 years arguing the opposite.” / “Please remove my name. What you have done is totally unethical!!” — some of the 500 scientists whose names were added without their permission to a list purportedly of scientists who doubt that human activity affects global warming.
For 5/4: “State legislators are demanding aid to borrowers. Delegate Dereck Davis, D-Md., told The Washington Post that homeowners ‘need a federal bailout from Congress.’ But in the land of Potomac Fever, bailouts are for financial firms.” — David Sirota, 5/2/08 Read more »
