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I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.
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Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have just told that recruiter to send me in prison instead.
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Doing nothing guarantees failure -Rubens
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His ranch adjoined the Rio Grande, the river that formed the boundary between the United States and Mexico, with its poverty, caste system, and systemic corruption. So the poor Mexicans migrated. Over thirteen million of them, over a fifth of the Mexican population, had crossed that border illegally in the last fifty years and were grubbing for work in the United States, usually for minimum wage, or living on welfare and food stamps. Illite..
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American politicians had done little through the years to stem the flood. Hispanic voters wanted their kinsmen to be able to enter the United States regardless of their ability to contribute to the economy or pay their own bills, yet this wasn't the decisive factor. Farmers and small-business men wanted a source of cheap labor, and were content to pass the true costs, the social costs, on to the taxpayers. Generous public welfare programs a..
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God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.
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Medicine often tastes bad, but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery.
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If there were no love there would be no hatred. Just sorrow. And
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I've talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now"."
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If it floats, flies or fucks, rent--don't buy!
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The president's chief of staff, Al Grantham, blew up. By reputation, he was one of the most aggressive leftists on the president's staff, and, although he was white, was of the opinion that white America would have to be conquered. He thought most whites were racists and Nazis.
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both hands against the door. "Feet wider apart. That's right. Like in the American movies." Satisfied, Qazi patted the man down. "What, no gun? A GRU man without a gun ..." Qazi carefully felt the man's crotch and the arms above the wrists. "First humor and now this! The GRU will become a laughingstock. But of course there is a microphone." Qazi lifted all the pens from the Russian's shirt pocket and examined them, one by one. "It had bette..
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As the governor scanned it, Swim explained. "Liberal progressive policies for the last fifty years or so have devastated the poor people of America. Welfare; aid to dependent families; food stamps; essentially free medical care; schools that try to prepare everyone for a four-year college degree, when only a fraction of the poor people will ever want or get one; lack of technical training; the breakdown of the black family--all those things..
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When Lyndon Johnson was lobbying Congress to pass his Great Society programs, he reportedly said, 'If we pass this the niggers will all vote Democratic for the next two centuries.' I don't know if he said that, but that has been the consequence. People do whatever it takes to get free money, because without an education and job opportunity they can't make it in America. We have to change that or we won't want to live in the poor socialist e..
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Blood is the fertilizer of freedom. Maybe yours and mine.
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I am reminded of the words of that great American patriot Thomas Paine: 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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As for leaving earth, the answer was universally no. "This is our home," one woman explained to the starship commander with tears running down her face. "Certainly we faced all the problems of immigrants, learning the language, earning a living, getting an education here that would qualify us for professional positions, but somehow we all did it. We became Americans, citizens of this planet."
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Barry Soetoro's declaration of martial law stunned the nation. His reason--the need to protect the nation from terrorism--met with widespread skepticism. After all, at least three of the Saturday jihadists had entered with Soetoro's blessing, over the objections of many politicians and the outraged cries of all those little people out there in the heartland, all those potential victims no one really gave a damn about. His suspension of the ..
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The desire of Barry Soetoro to drastically increase the number of non-white voters in America as quickly as possible to enhance the political power of blacks and Hispanics and Muslims and dilute the power of the whites is another.
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Grafton was silent, looking at nothing for a moment or two. Finally, he said, "Soetoro has been waiting for a terror strike so he could declare martial law, become a dictator, and fix all the things he doesn't like about America."
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The navy took them from all walks of life and winnowed out anyone who showed signs of self-doubt--in other words, anyone who carried the usual baggage of humility that weighed down most of the human race--and retained only those with balls the size of grapefruit and a brain the size of a pea, or so Marty liked to announce after a couple of drinks at the officers' club. Still, he reflected, Lundeen had a remarkable ability to look disaster i..
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though the corners were routinely used to store farm machinery and fodder for the animals and occasionally to get a sensitive animal in out of the sun. Primarily the building existed
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The hubbub subsided somewhat. Everyone wanted to know what Charlie Swim thought. "The problem here is that Washington politicians haven't had the guts to impeach Soetoro. And I'll tell you why. He's black. They're afraid of being called racists. If Soetoro had been white, he'd have been thrown out of office years ago. Rewriting the immigration laws; refusing to enforce the drug laws; siccing the IRS on conservatives; having his spokespeople..
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Charlie Swim wasn't finished, and his voice was rising. "The black people in America were doing all right, working their way up the ladder, until drugs came along. Then welfare, and payments to single mothers--when you pay poor people not to work and not to marry they are going to take the money. Barry Soetoro had a real chance to do something about what's taken black America down--drugs, welfare rather than work, kids without wedlock--but ..
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I sat there driving through America wondering about Barry Soetoro and his disciples. I have never trusted people who think they know how everyone else should live, and demand those other people obey. I am not a good follower. Aaugh!
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What was it Pound had said in the Cantos? "I am not a demigod--I can't make it cohere."
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This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political
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The admiral tossed the report at Molina and said to me, "Tell us about it." "Jade Helm is an exercise about how the government will put down a right-wing uprising, or rebellion, and arrest everyone they think might be sympathetic with the rebels. They'll use these paramilitary police they have tucked into every government alphabet agency as storm troopers and SS troops--" That was as far as I got. Molina exploded. "Comparing the federal gov..
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The criticism of the Soetoro administration kept rolling, mixing with a broad criticism of liberalism and federal judges. "I am sick of federal judges deciding that the United States Constitution requires abortion and same-sex marriage," a state senator from Enid said. "I challenge you to read that document from end to end, and if you can find the word 'abortion' in it I will kiss your ass tomorrow at high noon on the capitol steps. Ditto g..
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Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.
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The president is declaring martial law tomorrow. He wants you standing behind him tomorrow at ten o'clock in the press room when he announces it." Jake Grafton didn't look surprised. I was flabbergasted, but since I was sitting on the couch against the wall Sal Molina couldn't see the stunned look on my face unless he turned his head, and he didn't. "Why?" said Grafton. "These terrorist conspiracies need to be rooted out. We must make sure ..
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Martial law! Rule by decree from the White House! Barry Soetoro, emperor of the United States. People had been whispering for years about the possibility, but like most folks, I dismissed the whisperers as alarmist crackpots. Now, according to Sal Molina, the president's longtime guru, the crackpots were oracles.
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Whoever rules the waves rules the world. --Alfred Thayer Mahan Six
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Another delegate in the House had this to say: "Oklahomans are tired of being ruled by federal bureaucrats and judges, none of them elected. They decide everything from what can be taught in the public schools to what can be served to kids for lunch and whether the kids can have a prayer. They decree that welfare recipients are entitled to a color television and cell phone, all paid for by the working families of Oklahoma, some of whom can ..
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We are all tossed on the stormy seas of fate, at the mercy of men and forces beyond our power to comprehend, control or deflect. Sometimes we need an illusion.
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Barry Soetoro's declaration of martial law stunned the nation. His reason--the need to protect the nation from terrorism--met with widespread skepticism. After all, at least three of the Saturday jihadists had entered with Soetoro's blessing, over the objections of many politicians and the outraged cries of all those little people out there in the heartland, all those potential victims no one really gave a damn about. His suspension of the ..
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