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Let's all jump to conclusions
My all time favorite, which I think about a lot whenever I see some of the accusations made by folks who have no facts, just "wishful thinking" or maliciousness intent in their writing.

"Where do I go to get my reputation back?" Ray Donovan, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Labor.
wanderer
1:51:14 PM
6/20/06

Bill Clinton -After raping Juanita Broderick "Here put some Ice on that."
XL400236
1:52:37 PM
6/20/06

Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow
StoveStomper
1:52:41 PM
6/20/06

Clinton: "I can spend your money better than you can."
In a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, NY on January 20, 1999, Bill Clinton was asked why not a tax cut if we have a surplus. Clinton's response:
XL400236
3:05:11 PM
6/20/06

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.


Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.

One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.




September 04, 2007
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
last edited: 9/04/07 6:00:58 AM
XL400236
5:58:09 AM
9/04/07

dont forget sweeping over-generalizations and strawmen
crash bang
7:05:44 AM
9/04/07

LOL..thanks you just made my point
XL400236
7:10:25 AM
9/04/07

actually, sweeping over-generalizations and strawmen by your sowell friend

then theres trumped up claims of victory by those such as yourself
crash bang
7:45:51 AM
9/04/07

You just made my point too. I won!
Sarge
7:48:17 AM
9/04/07

you made my point! i win
crash bang
7:48:54 AM
9/04/07

last word
crash bang
7:49:26 AM
9/04/07

really the last word
crash bang
7:49:54 AM
9/04/07

Crash...you got a problem with Dr Sowell? um is this a "black" thing? (LOL)
XL400236
7:50:37 AM
9/04/07

Anyone heard from Armstrong Williams lately?
Tilt
7:57:33 AM
9/04/07

"A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe."

- Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts75.html
Tilt
8:30:39 AM
9/04/07

I think that is pretty much true..but I am thinking its higher than 42%.....WAY HIGHER
XL400236
6:33:41 PM
9/04/07

Ain't it the truth
"... the term "democrat" originated as an epithet and referred to 'one who
panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.'"


Joseph J. Ellis "Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation."
XL400236
7:06:07 AM
9/20/07

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."

~ Elbert Hubbard
hikerboy
12:54:52 PM
9/20/07

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

~ General Douglas MacArthur

We need a common enemy to unite us.

~ Condoleezza Rice
hikerboy
12:58:39 PM
9/20/07

"Joke 'em if they can't take a phuck."
- Robin Williams
Nigal
5:27:53 PM
9/22/07

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet
And whither then? I cannot say.

- J. R. R. Tolkien
minish223
7:51:04 AM
2/07/08

Tolkien was a blue blazer
Nimblefoot
7:57:42 AM
2/07/08

Hope that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?


And a mighty fine writer.
minish223
8:01:42 AM
2/07/08

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last edited: 3/20/08 5:19:36 AM
thriftyhiker
5:22:30 AM
3/20/08

Wow, thrifty finally got his period. LOL!
Nigal
5:27:04 AM
3/20/08

nah, just a bout of conscience ;)
thriftyhiker
5:43:31 AM
3/20/08

I get that a lot too.


Better not stray too far from the toilet.
humanpackmule
6:36:51 AM
3/20/08

Just read this, but no author cited.

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
manuka
8:44:40 AM
4/01/08

Do say? LOL
StoveStomper
6:22:43 PM
4/01/08

wah wah liberals under my bed wah wah
crash bang
7:41:42 PM
4/01/08

wah wah liberals in the trees wah wah
crash bang
7:42:05 PM
4/01/08

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

- Ayn Rand
Nigal
2:34:09 AM
4/02/08

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