Create a fund for taking out "Hall OF Shame Name List" ads in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, etc., every Sunday for a year. Any better ideas?
seems history does repeat itself now doesn’t it....
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of
Pharaoh get first all the peoples money, then their lands, and then make them and
their children servants forever. It will be said that we do not propose to establish kings. I
know it. But there is a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government. It sometimes
relieves them from aristocratic domination. They had rather have one tyrant than 500. It
gives more the appearance of equality among citizens, and that they like. I am
apprehensive therefore perhaps too apprehensive that the government of these
States may in future times end in a monarchy [not called a monarchy but an executive
with monarchial powers]. But this catastrophe, I think, may long be delayed, if in our
proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction and tumult, by making
our posts of honor places of profit. If we do, I fear that, though we employ at first a
number and not a single person, the number will in time be set aside, it will only nourish
the fetus of a king (as the honorable gentleman from Virginia very aptly expressed it),
and a king will the sooner be set over us.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In
our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement, 8 June 1978, Harvard University]
[Found before a statue of Hussein-I in a radioactive desert]
We all heard of an undocumented man named Obama ,
Who denied the confusion with a lost Kenyan or Osama.
The man wanted our country defeated,
With every single natural American deleted,
Said he, If my death panels dont work, Ill let them bomb ya.
Unfortunately, when they have no shame, it’s hard to humiliate them - Rangel, Jefferson (La), Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Reid, Craig, Spitzer, Sanford... sorry my fingers are getting tired.
There is no more egregious violation of “taxation without representation” than borrowing and spending the money of those who are not even born yet.
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. ---Gerald Barzan