R2D2 OR TERMINATOR 2?

"R2D2 OR TERMINATOR 2?" --L. Reichard White.

Radical replacement

Agreements instead of laws! NOW!!  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:08 PM

The REAL drug problem?

We've got to get off federal largesse. It's been refered to here in Utah as Federal Crack: You get addicted to it and it's hard to get off. ...They [Washington D.C.] are clearly dysfunctional. We can't pass that dysfunction on to the states. --Utah Governor Gary Herbert, CNBC, March 19, 2010, 07:48:35

The REAL bad guys?

"...the Security Council passed a resolution...calling on all states to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to solve all their conflicts within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty without any threats of force. Well, that particular part of the resolution was not exactly headlined here, for a simple reason: it was directed at two countries, the two countries that are regularly threatening the use of force, the United States and Israel. The threat of force is in violation of the UN Charter, if anybody cares about that stale old stuff, even older than the ’60s. But that’s never mentioned." --Noam Chomsky on Obama's Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out, DemocracyNOW!, Monday, March 15, 2010 11:49 AM

Where 911 came from?

1. It is impossible to kill enough people to end up with no enemies.

2. For every person your military kills, you create 100 more enemies from family, friends, countrymen, religion colleagues, etc.

3. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. --via Jomama and with apologies to Intech Concepts 34, DougBuchanan.com  </a>

The intelligence services call it "Blowback," of course.

Unless you believe 911 was an inside job.

What "bi-partisan" means

Keeping in mind that the "bi" in "bi-partisan" means two, referring to the Democrats as one of the two and Republicans as the other one, "bi-partisan" means: If you're not a hard core Democrat and you're not a hard core Republican, YOU are not included. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:29 AM

Anachronism?

If useful at all, hierarchies are designed for emergency circumstances where the situation is clear, usually dire, requires special knowledge and/or information held by one or only a few and a quick co-ordinated response.  And a bad outcome otherwise.  Since this requires accurate anticipation of the future at all stages -- which decays the further ahead you look -- clearly hierarchies have very limited usefulness which spoils rapidly.  Thus, as Sufi traditions suggest, they should never be created as permanent -- and should be encouraged to decay rapidly.  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:16 PM

We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam'] - - -

We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam], we were the wrong side. --Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, NewsBusters.org

Epitaph?

"To grasp the horror of military Keynesianism, consider this statistic: By 1990, production for the Department of Defense amounted to 83 percent of the value of all manufacturing plants and equipment in the US. Only 17 percent of the US manufacturing base actually made products not meant to kill."--Trends for Downsizing the US: The Bright Side of the Panic of ‘08, Sunday, 27 January 2008, Christopher Ketcham

Pots & kettles

What exactly does it mean when the biggest bully on the block -- the U.S. Government, for example -- calls someone else a "troublemaker?" --L. Reichard White, Oct. 28, 2007