May 2012
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“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking...”
– Renton
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“People who may mean well promote and enact measures that produce results they neither intended nor anticipated. The explanation for this discrepancy between what is planned for and what results can be found in the study of chaos, or complexity. The ability to predict outcomes is dependent upon an awareness of all factors influencing events. With complex systems, however, such complete...
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Iraq, Afghan War Vets Toss Away Their Medals →
“You don’t win the hearts and minds by doing night raids. It’s an insult to their culture.”
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“…You judge a policy not by its stated goals; it’s easy to state good goals. You...”
– Don Boudreaux
Check out our NEW video: http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/saving-endangered-species (via learnliberty)
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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Elections are short term efforts, revolutions are long term projects.”
– Ron Paul
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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
– Banksy (via nirvikalpa)
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“History is the propaganda of the victors.”
– Ernst Toller (via thinksquad)
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Supposed Would-Be Underwear Bomber Is CIA... →
Members of the Obama administration spent virtually all of yesterday parading throughout major media outlets claiming their intrepid counterterrorism efforts successfully foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an American airliner. But now officials have anonymously confirmed that the plot, like so many other “successfully foiled” terror attacks, was hatched by the CIA from the start.
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Obama and Gay Marriage →
I’m sorry, but I’m not really seeing the bravery or heroism, here. It’s important, sure. And it’s historic. And it might prove to be an effective use of the bully pulpit.
It’s also about f*cking time. Basically, Obama announced to the country today that he, personally, is cool with gay marriage. It’s a position he has allegedly held all along, but didn’t have the political spine to state...
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A vital (and unlearned) lesson from Julius Caesar →
socialuprooting:
If you’re faced with this question — should President X have the power to impose Punishment Y on Bad Person Z? — and you answer in the affirmative based on your adoration for or trust in current President X, or your belief in the wisdom and justness of Punishment Y in the specific proposed case, or your acute scorn for Bad Person Z, you’re actually doing much more than ratifying...
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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between...”
– George Orwell, in a letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (1948)
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“If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those...”
– Stephen Fry (via addictedtocaffeine)
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“I’m not a very good American, because I like to form my own opinions.”
– George Carlin
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Watchfuckyeahdrugpolicy:
Joe Rogan Live: March 28, 2012
“Who’s doing more harm? The guy who’s smoking pot or the person who locks him in a fucking cage and destroys their life, and does it because it’s written on paper somewhere that that’s okay? Well that guy is a destructive force. The law becomes the destructive force in society, not the drug. Don’t put people in cages because they don’t agree...
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“What the United States military and the national security state are doing day in...”
– Gareth Porter on Antiwar Radio - Listen
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
– Howard Zinn (via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
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“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be...”
– Carl Sagan
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