Showing posts with label Liberal opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberal opinion. Show all posts
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 19th, 2010
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information." -- Thomas Jefferson
Jan Brewer Gets It From The Onion
Dec 18th, 2010
In what is actually a pretty perceptive analysis by The Onion, Jan Brewer gets skewered over SB 1070 ,which we have been recommending every American read for months because it is still an insane giveaway of taxpayer money to the private corrections system:
"Brewer also made it possible for citizens to sue police officers who fail to carry out the troublingly vague terms of the new law, no matter how much it might tie up the state's court system—a bold stance the federal government simply couldn't be bothered with.
"Brewer also made it possible for citizens to sue police officers who fail to carry out the troublingly vague terms of the new law, no matter how much it might tie up the state's court system—a bold stance the federal government simply couldn't be bothered with.
And shouldn't be bothered with, because it's a really, really awful idea.
Like the growing tide of up and coming conservative politicians, Brewer understands that real change—the disturbing, almost surreal kind of change that drives a wedge between Americans, increases fear and xenophobia, and makes Arizona, and by extension the nation as a whole, seem impossibly backward—has to start at home."
Thursday, December 16, 2010
MERS' Machiavellian Mortgage Mystery
Dec 16th, 2010
As if the housing economy weren't infuriating enough, Yasha Levine reports on this over at AlterNet:
"For the first time in the nation's history, there is no longer an authoritative, public record of who owns land in each county." -- University of Utah law professor Christopher Peterson
"For the first time in the nation's history, there is no longer an authoritative, public record of who owns land in each county." -- University of Utah law professor Christopher Peterson
"There is an unbelievable scandal in the making that threatens to subvert our four-century-old method for guaranteeing a fundamental building block of the American republic—property ownership. The biggest reason why you probably haven’t heard much about it is that it involves one of the most generic and boring company names imaginable: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., or MERS. It is a story of deception engineered at the highest level of power for short-term gain, and another epic failure of the private sector to uphold the laws and traditions of American society, even something as fundamental as property rights."
Quote Of The Day
Dec 16th, 2010
"Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." -- Laurence J. Peter
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 15th, 2010
"I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -- James Baldwin
Monday, December 13, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 13th, 2010
"The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 12th, 2010
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." -- Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 11th, 2010
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation." -- Robert M. Hutchins
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 8th, 2010
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." -- John F. Kennedy
Friday, December 3, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 3rd, 2010
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -- Abraham Lincolm
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 2nd, 2010
"No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls." -- William S. Burroughs
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Dec 1st, 2010
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." -- James T. Farrell
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Nov 29th, 2010
"I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio, and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering." -- Noam Chomsky
Friday, November 26, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Nov 26th, 2010
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." -- Leo Buscaglia
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Nov 25th, 2010
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you," that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart
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