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| 647e5ce | Give up!" Grandpa barked. "Now I don't want to hear you say that. No, sir, that's the last thing I want to hear. Don't ever start anything you can't finish." | Wilson Rawls | ||
| b0f75fb | I heard the "bam, bam, bam" of a woodpecker high in the top of a box elder snag. The cry of a kingfisher and the scream of a blue jay blended perfectly with the drum like beat. A barking red squirrel, glued to the side of a hackberry tree, kept time to the music with the beat of his tail. Each noise I heard and each sight I saw was very familiar to me but I never grew tired of listening and watching. They were a God-sent gift and I enjoyed .. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 8e68b3e | country | Wilson Rawls | ||
| c17c1f0 | She wonders whether she'll ever be able to fit her square-peg self into this round-holed world instead of constantly having to fake it. | Andrew E. Kaufman | ||
| a10cb5b | For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape--escape from a life I never understood. Opening a book felt like taking a trip someplace else. Someplace better. | Andrew E. Kaufman | ||
| c796437 | You always go for the gorgeous ones and you always get kicked in the teeth. When are you going to learn?" "Learn what?" "That they don't go for insolvent, failed DJs" | Andrew Cartmel | ||
| bb4dba4 | a clergyman I had come to think of as the Digital Divine, who lived nearby in Barnes, had decided to get rid of his enormous, and wonderful, collection of rare jazz records. He | Andrew Cartmel | ||
| 371b28d | Also, even when people feel they know nothing, they typically know a bit and that bit should tip them away from maximum uncertainty, at least a bit. The astrophysicist J. Richard Gott shows us what forecasters should do when all they know is how long something--a civil war or a recession or an epidemic--has thus far lasted. The right thing is to adopt an attitude of "Copernican humility" and assume there is nothing special about the point i.. | Philip Tetlock | ||
| 07c8ad1 | The development of the sugar industry was to have a significant impact on the politics and culture of the island, since it lead to a huge increase in Cuba's slave population. This in turn helped to fuel the growth of the island's white racism, fueled by the migrants from Santo Domingo and Louisiana. The image of the Haitian revolution, and the inflated memory of its excesses -- echoed not just in Cuba, but in the United States and Latin Ame.. | haiti racism slavery sugar | Richard Gott | |
| 2ecdd9d | The 'buccaneers' came ashore in search of bacon. The Cuban Indians had learnt (from the natives of Haiti) a process of preserving meat by drying it and then smoking it over a fire of green leaves and branches. The Indians called the rack on which the meat was laid out a boucan or buccan [bacon], while those who prepared and sold the meet were referred to as buccaneers. | Richard Gott | ||
| f777b39 | The 'buccaneers' came ashore in search of bacon. The Cuban Indians had learnt (from the natives of Haiti) a process of preserving meat by drying it and then smoking it over a fire of green leaves and branches. The Indians called the rack on which the meat was laid out a or [bacon], while those who prepared and sold the meet were referred to as or buccaneers. Pigs had been brought to Cuba from Europe by the first Spanish settlers. The .. | buccaneers | Richard Gott | |
| e6e4497 | In the history of all empires, it has proved difficult to enslave the local population for the benefit of foreign invaders. The indigenous inhabitants refuse to work, die off or leave to go elsewhere. Slaves have to be brought in from outside. The Indians of Cuba proved no exception to this. Many had been massacred during the punitive expedition of Panfilo, but many simply withdrew their labour and disappeared into the hills. | repartimiento spanish-colonial-period tainos | Richard Gott | |
| 24fb449 | Although the Indian population was clearly destroyed as a continuing civilisation and culture, the record suggests that individual groups of surviving Indians may have 'disappeared' becaues it suited Cuban authorities, at certain moments in the island's history, to say that they had. | Richard Gott | ||
| ac0c17d | Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, progressive Cubans were happy to downplay the survival of the Indians since those who promoted , and sought to praise and promote Cuba's Indian heritage, were usually conservative racists who wanted to glorify the Indian past and downgrade the contribution of the black African element in the population. Novelists in the nineteeth century, anxios to preserve Hispanic culture, often sought Ind.. | racism | Richard Gott | |
| bf7617b | Gott als personlicher Urheber und Lenker des Menschen war tot. Und die Naturwissenschaften feierten ihren Siegeszug mit einem neuen sehr nuchternen Bild des Menschen: Das Interesse an Affen wurde grosser als das an Gott. | Richard David Precht | ||
| 024a635 | Ich sehe das so: Ein Kerl, der stirbt, bevor Gott es fur ihn vorgesehen hatte, erlebt so etwas wie ein Baseballspiel, das wegen Regen abgebrochen wird. Die Sunden, die er begangen hat, zahlen nicht. Gott muss ihn einfach reinlassen, denn der Kerl hatte ja gar nicht mehr die Zeit zu bereuen, so wie Er es fur ihn geplant hatte. Wenn ich also einen umbringe, erspare ich ihm dadurch die Qualen der Holle. Auf diese Art tue ich sogar mehr fur ihn.. | sprengstoff stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 8d5444b | He often reflected on his reluctance to extend the struggle to the Caribbean, and wrote in one of his many letters that it was 'more important to have peace than to liberate these islands. An independent Cuba would take a great deal of work.' Even Bolivar was not immune to the belief that a liberated Cuba might become another 'Republic of Haiti. | latinoamérica racism | Richard Gott | |
| 0eeb3a9 | Although a handful of progressive individuals favoured independence from Spain, Cuba's economic elite was conservative, fearful of the economic and social consequences of a break with the colonial motherland. Without Spanish support, the planters would not be able to sustain the slave system on which their economic power was based, nor would they be strong enough to crush slave revolts | human-trafficking racism slavery | Richard Gott | |
| 2f526d0 | If it floats, flies or fucks, rent--don't buy! | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 5b2717a | 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. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 961a9fc | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 1cc344d | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| cdfc29d | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 7cb697f | Blood is the fertilizer of freedom. Maybe yours and mine. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 76dfa35 | 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. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 779cc1a | 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." | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 5653053 | 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 .. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| e8ac48c | 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. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| a02d6a3 | 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." | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 356c169 | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| e57ccd7 | 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 | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 7c7f9b8 | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| d1c2c7f | 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 .. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 04fabe3 | 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! | Stephen Coonts | ||
| a4ccb90 | What was it Pound had said in the Cantos? "I am not a demigod--I can't make it cohere." | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 0a76222 | This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 3c35bee | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 24fe0dc | 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.. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 9c7287f | 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. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| ed62693 | 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 .. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 85e2697 | 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. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 5d25a9e | Whoever rules the waves rules the world. --Alfred Thayer Mahan Six | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 56d9fff | 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 .. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| e707c51 | 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. | Stephen Coonts |