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    Wednesday, August 31, 2011

    Quotes

    You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
    - Pablo Picasso

    Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
    - Randy K. Milholland

    In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
    - Calvin Trillin

    To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
    - Albert Einstein

    It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
    - David Brin

    Monday, August 29, 2011

    Quotes

    Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
    - William S. Burroughs

    My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
    - Rodney Dangerfield

    At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
    - Aldous Huxley

    A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
    - Woodrow Wilson

    All the world's a cage.
    - Jeanne Phillips

    Sunday, August 28, 2011

    Politicization of Layton's death was what he wanted

    Politicization of Layton's death was what he wanted

    Quotes

    Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
    - Robert Service

    Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
    - Gary Zukav

    We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
    - Tom Stoppard

    Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
    - Voltaire

    Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
    - Pat Paulsen

    Saturday, August 27, 2011

    Quotes

    Men willingly believe what they wish.
    - Gaius Julius Caesar

    Quotes

    To forget oneself is to be happy.
    - Robert Louis Stevenson

    Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    - Honore de Balzac

    If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
    - Ted Turner

    That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
    - A. Whitney Brown

    I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
    - W. C. Fields

    Friday, August 26, 2011

    Celestial Junk: Stephen Harper, Herman ... and Nigel Farage

    Celestial Junk: Stephen Harper, Herman ... and Nigel Farage: It's no secret that Mr. Harper is a micro-managing control freak (in itself, there's nothing wrong with that) From his propensity to bully...

    Celestial Junk: Once Again, It Comes Down to the Sun

    Celestial Junk: Once Again, It Comes Down to the Sun: ... who'd have thunk it? Personal rivalries aside, the important question is what the new CLOUD paper means for the Svensmark hypothesis. P...

    Media Reports Jackson’s Tea Party Slam, Ignores His Comments on Obama

    Media Reports Jackson’s Tea Party Slam, Ignores His Comments on Obama

    Ahmadinejad: Iran is determined to eradicate Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

    Ahmadinejad: Iran is determined to eradicate Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

    Teen Admits Attacking Couple To Teach 'Racists A Lesson' - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |

    Teen Admits Attacking Couple To Teach 'Racists A Lesson' - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |

    Quotes

    Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
    - Karl Von Clausewitz

    A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
    - David Coblitz

    Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
    - Sue Murphy

    There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
    - James Thurber

    I am just going outside and may be some time.
    - Captain Lawrence Oates

    Europe needs a revolution

    Thursday, August 25, 2011

    Editorial: I’m Sick And Tired Of The Bull . . . - Galganov.com

    Editorial: I’m Sick And Tired Of The Bull . . . - Galganov.com

    Wayne Mathison (@wmathison) has shared a Tweet with you: "wmathison: Are hate crimes different than the crimes of serial killers and mass murderers? Joe Hicks' answer might surprise you: http://t.co/VekYpH6" --http://twitter.com/wmathison/status/106538536735485952


    Wayne Mathison (@wmathison) has shared a Tweet with you: "wmathison: @AnnCoulter I respect you. But, you're wrong on evolution. Response to Irreducible Complexity (bacterial flagellum) http://t.co/ce0FMIC" --http://twitter.com/wmathison/status/106547609828720640


    Wayne Mathison (@wmathison) has shared a Tweet with you: "HayekForums: Austrian Economics: Why It Matters | XYDO: Austrian Economics: Why It Matters #austrianecon... http://t.co/NuCVyhZ - #Mises #Tlot #Tcot" --http://twitter.com/HayekForums/status/106554553805189120


    Wednesday, August 24, 2011

    Earthquakes and Alien Invasions are good for the economy

    Canadian Author dragged into woods and beaten by Muslim extremists. :: Wire Service Canada

    Canadian Author dragged into woods and beaten by Muslim extremists. :: Wire Service Canada

    Quotes

    A quiet mind cureth all.
    - Robert Burton

    We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    - Mark Twain

    Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
    - Hob Broun

    I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
    - Steven Wright

    Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
    - Lillian Hellman

    Tuesday, August 23, 2011

    Ezra Levant Saves The CBC!

    Earthquake in Washington, DC and Joe Biden Said What?!

    Quotes

    Independence is happiness.
    - Susan B. Anthony

    Boxing is just show business with blood.
    - Frank Bruno

    I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    - Fred Allen

    The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
    - Stephen Jay Gould

    Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
    - Jef Raskin

    Monday, August 22, 2011

    Quotes

    Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
    - Vash Young

    A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
    - George Bernard Shaw

    Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
    - Franklin P. Jones

    The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
    - Sir William Preece

    I'm as pure as the driven slush.
    - Tallulah Bankhead

    Sunday, August 21, 2011

    Politics, Activism and Skepticism

    Quotes

    What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
    - Abraham Maslow

    Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
    - Ernie Kovacs

    If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
    - Pierre Gallois

    This book fills a much-needed gap.
    - Moses Hadas

    When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
    - Lord Falkland

    UK rioting youths : News : SunNews Video Gallery

    UK rioting youths : News : SunNews Video Gallery

    Classical Liberal Defined.

    Saturday, August 20, 2011

    Robert Reich: Jobs Not Cuts, The Critique

    Quotes

    If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
    - Dwight L. Moody

    In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
    - Thomas Jefferson

    A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
    - Samuel Johnson

    If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
    - Laurence J. Peter

    The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
    - Hubert H. Humphrey

    Slow Road to Hell

    Friday, August 19, 2011

    Black Cloud of Debt

    Quotes

    Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
    - Laurence Sterne

    Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
    - Edith Sitwell

    Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
    - Hesketh Pearson

    Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
    - Milton Friedman

    My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles

    UK riots: It’s not about criminality and cuts, it’s about culture... and this is only the beginning

    Condemned as a racist for his comments on 'Newsnight' following the riots, the historian David Starkey speaks out against those who tried to silence him for confronting the gangster culture that has ruptured our society.

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    Thursday, August 18, 2011

    Keynes and Hayek Head to Head | Roger W. Garrison

    Environmental and Resource Economics | Timothy D. Terrell

    Hugo Chavez Steals the Gold

    Quotes

    Night is the mother of counsels.
    - George Herbert

    There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
    - Jeph Jacques

    We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
    - David Russell

    I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
    - Will Rogers

    The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
    - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011

    British Mum Proud of Pregnant Daughter

    PJTV: The President's Political Meltdown: Obama Can't Hold His Own Base

    John Oakley with Mark Steyn - 2011-08-16

    Quotes

    Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
    -Grandma Moses

    Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.
    - P. J. O'Rourke

    There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
    - Alice Thomas Ellis

    There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
    - James Branch Cabell

    Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
    - Jean-Paul Sartre

    Tuesday, August 16, 2011

    Tax the Rich?

    Rob Nicholson is being hoodwinked by his bureaucrats

    Rob Nicholson is being hoodwinked by his bureaucrats

    Ezra Levant Shoves A Hyperlink Up Rob Nicholsons Butt

    Why do liberals hate gays so much?

    Quotes

    Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
    - Baltasar Gracian

    We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
    - W. H. Thompson

    Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
    - Albert Schweitzer

    I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
    - John Cage

    I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
    - Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Monday, August 15, 2011

    Mother of 13-year-old who smashed up shop blames government

    Five Key Reasons to Reject Class-Warfare Tax Policy

    Labor, Unemployment, and Interventionism | Walter Block

    Quotes

    If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
    - Laurence J. Peter

    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
    - Hunter S. Thompson

    Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
    - Robert Orben

    I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
    - H. L. Mencken

    Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
    - Unknown

    Ayn Rand - Reason Requires Capitalism

    Sunday, August 14, 2011

    Quotes

    Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
    - Sallust

    The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
    - Bertrand Russell

    You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
    - Art Buchwald

    The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
    - Alex Levin

    Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
    - Christopher Morley

    Saturday, August 13, 2011

    Quotes

    A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
    - Bennett Cerf

    Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
    - Jane Austen

    Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
    - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

    An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
    - G. K. Chesterton

    A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
    - Senator Everett Dirksen

    Friday, August 12, 2011

    Quotes

    Every failure is a step to success.
    - William Whewell

    A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
    - Carl Reiner

    Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
    - Carl Sagan

    There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
    - Don Herold

    As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    - Albert Einstein

    Thursday, August 11, 2011

    Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! OBAMA PAY YOUR &*%$#% BILLS

    The Black Rod: News nobody else is going to tell you

    The Black Rod: News nobody else is going to tell you

    Quotes

    Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
    - Eckhart Tolle

    Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
    - Jean Paul

    Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
    - Eric Hoffer

    If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
    - Tom Robbins

    The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
    - Robert R. Coveyou

    I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Wednesday, August 10, 2011

    True News: The British Riots

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    Quotes

    It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
    - Elizabeth Kenny

    You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.
    - Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon

    When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
    - Rodney Dangerfield

    The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
    - Leo Rosten

    This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
    - James Reston

    Tuesday, August 9, 2011

    Quotes

    I praise loudly. I blame softly.
    - Catherine the Great

    Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
    - Brooke McEldowney

    If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
    - Paul Beatty

    We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    - Samuel Johnson

    There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
    - Arthur C. Clarke

    Michael Coren on the London riots

    Monday, August 8, 2011

    Quotes

    Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
    - Baltasar Gracian

    Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
    - Jeph Jacques

    The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
    - Mark Twain

    It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
    - John Andrew Holmes

    I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
    - Charles M. Schulz

    Saturday, August 6, 2011

    The Price of a U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade

    Quotes

    Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
    - Samuel Johnson

    Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
    - Carlos A. Urbizo

    Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
    - John Benfield

    History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
    - Leonard Louis Levinson

    Thursday, August 4, 2011

    Quotes

    Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
    - Robert Louis Stevenson

    The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
    - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

    Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
    - George Santayana

    Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
    - Soren Kierkegaard

    On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
    - Will Rogers

    Wednesday, August 3, 2011

    Quotes

    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
    - Socrates

    Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
    - Michael Crichton

    No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    - W. H. Auden

    There must be more to life than having everything.
    - Maurice Sendak

    For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
    - Richard Feynman

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011

    Quotes

    We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
    - E. M. Forster

    A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
    - Anonymous

    Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
    - George Ade

    A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
    - Robert Frost

    Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
    - Frank Zappa

    Monday, August 1, 2011

    Quotes

    Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
    - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

    The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
    - Virgil Thomson

    He talked with more claret than clarity.
    - Susan Ertz

    I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
    - Oscar Wilde

    After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
    - Cato the Elder