tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72814774972143775412011-04-21T13:07:52.320-07:00"Truth Thoughts" is a play on the words of Orson Wells "Thought Crimes"w3bsmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11926018172574808162noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281477497214377541.post-42078235586882549992009-05-18T23:15:00.000-07:002009-05-18T23:32:59.730-07:00

My chains are gone,I've been set free;My savior god,Has ransomed me.I'm not sure why, but those words from a bastardized version of Amazing Grace were reverberating through my head tonight. As they repeated over and over, I wondered what those words really meant. Where is the meaning? How are those words defined?Well funny enough this tied in with a theme in my head as I was sweeping my driveway

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Bernard Baruch, Woodrow Wilson's commissar for war production, was similarly blunt in his description of the WWI-era “war socialism” system for which conscription provided a foundation:“Every man’s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man’s property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he

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Digg Comment ChecklistCourtesy of KhabiDigg Comment checklist:---------------------------------------[x] Generalized statement[x] 'Clever' change of a (companies / persons) name[x] Direct insult[x] In-direct insult[ ] Comment about a minority

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The Fraudulent Fraud SquadThe incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights.By Richard L. HasenSource: http://www.slate.com/id/2166589/pagenum/all/#page_start Examining punch-card ballots in Florida in 2000Imagine the National Rifle Association's Web site suddenly disappeared, along with all the data and reports the group had ever posted on gun issues. Imagine Planned Parenthood

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Children are simply wicked unpolite versions of our wicked polite selves.

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Arise, then, women of this day!Arise, all women who have breasts,Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!Say firmly:"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearnAll that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.We, the women

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The best paragraph from 1984:The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are

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