Re: Swiftboating History

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Swiftboating History
By Denis Keohane

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it."      George Santayana

What a laugh - typical conservative saying.

Always looking in the review mirror at a fantasy that never
was.

Overlooking the poor performance of the DOW since Bush, the
huge invasion across our borders, the missing reason for the
Iraq war, the current divin
g
economy, the huge morgage meltdown, and the numerous scandals
does make fo
r
a fairy tale Bush world doesn't it Jose No Se.

The past is by it's very nature remembered. The problem is the
import placed on memories and myth versus that placed on the
future.

--
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too
much libert
y
than to those attending too small a degree of it."  Thomas
Jefferson

"History is earmarked by the successes of liberals and mistakes
of conservatives." - ETG

George Santayana was hardly a conservative. He is perhaps best
known as an aphorist, and for the oft-misquoted remark, "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," from
Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of his The Life of
Reason. -Wikipedia

Of course the left and especially the Demoroids are unknown for
their grasp of reason or common sense. Thomas Jefferson would
have abhorred today's money grabbing Demoroids.

The saying isn't a problem - just the import consevatives put on
the idealized past.

It is hard to tell where your going when you don't know where
you've been.

Nothing wrong with a glance or two. It's when folks confuse the past
with progress, safety with liberty or faith with science when I start
having problems.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Patriot Act - trades liberties for temporary safety.

More bumper-sticker thinking. Just enumerate the liberties
you have personally lost due to the Patriot Act.




The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human
race.
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

Global Warming is humans being an obsticle to humans.

First someone has to prove that temperature trends, either
up or down, are a result of human activity. To believe that
puny mankind has God-like powers is megalomania.


Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.
His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins

To bad the fundimentals don't agree.

Treat the fundamentalist Christian man's faith gently; it is all he
has to
believe with. He is free, in this country, to believe as he chooses;
just
as you are free to disbelieve what he believes. So let him be.
Anything
more you do against him is fascism and will all know where that leads.








"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"

        -- Omar Khayyam

You can pick up the pen and write your future or sit obstinately and
let others write it for you.

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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too
much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
 Thomas Jefferson

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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
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