A Modern Crone's Life: July 2013

Friday, July 05, 2013

Really, Rupert?

In regard to the ongoing News of The World scandal, "Murdoch told them: "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years."

Really, Rupert? You don't get that it is still corrupt whether it's been going on a century or just started an hour ago? Silly old man.

Bothering Things

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? -- Ray Bradbury

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -- John Steinbeck

"Spirtual malnutrition is connected to moral constipation - Dr. Cornell West

Why is the Republican Party marketing mediocrity and immorality as their New Great Thing? - Sarah Jones, PoliticusUsa

“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other." -- Mark Twain

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” -- Oscar Wilde

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men” -- Abraham Lincoln

A Modern Crone's Life

Thursday, July 25, 2013

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt

Friday, July 05, 2013

Really, Rupert?