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Rush
"The American people have had a huge helping of statism aggressively forced on them, and they don't like it, and it shows up everywhere in the polls." Rush Limbaugh

"If the election were held today the Democrats would be thrown out of power and everybody knows it and that's why there's all this angst on the left. They are truly cracking up." Rush Limbaugh

"The Democrats want to create all these programs and conditions, which they intend to be irreversible regardless of the outcome of the next election. That's why the haste.  This is how destructive and dangerous these people have now become." Rush Limbaugh

Charles Fort
"The title of The Book of the Damned referred to what Fort termed the "damned" data - data which had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not conforming to accepted guidelines. The way Fort sees it, mainstream scientists are trend followers who believe in what is accepted and popular, and never really look for a truth that may be contrary to what they believe. He also compares the close-mindedness of many scientists to that of religious fundamentalists, implying that the supposed "battle" between science and religion is just a smokescreen for the fact that, in his view, science is, in essence, simply a de facto religion."

Politics

 * "From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root....If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly....Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated." Ronald Reagan in a Speech to the House of Commons, (1982-06-08)
 * "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,-a most sacred right-a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the teritory [sic] as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the Tories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones." Abraham Lincoln
 * "I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours... They are nations of eternal war." Thomas Jefferson
 * "Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities." George Washington in his Farewell Address
 * "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."- Thomas Paine (Common Sense)
 * "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
 * "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
 * "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
 * "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington
 * "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington
 * "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." - George Washington
 * "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
 * "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that: ‘All powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people'." Thomas Jefferson (Quoting the 10th Amendment to the Constitution)
 * "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson
 * "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
 * "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting…Correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues…Such was the man for whom our nation mourns." Congressman Henry Lee, a Revolutionary War comrade and father of the Civil War general Robert E. Lee, eulogizing George Washington.
 * "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Ronald Reagan
 * "There is nothing new in the world but the history you do not know." - Harry Truman

Ancient Civilizations

 * "Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared." Frederick Soddy

Earth

 * "I think we are property. I say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this Earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something: That something owns this earth - all others are warned off." Charles Fort
 * "I suspect that, after all, we're useful - that among contesting claimants, adjustment has occurred, or that something now has a legal right to us, by force, or by having paid out analogues of beads for us to former, more primitive, owners of us - that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received - from Somewhere else - in our mysterious usefulness." Charles Fort
 * " But I accept that, in the past, before proprietorship was established, inhabitants of a host of other worlds have - dropped here, hopped here, wafted, sailed, flown, motored - walked here, for all I know - been pulled here, been pushed, have come singly, have come in enormous numbers, have visited occassionally, have visited periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing harems, mining, have been unable to stay here, have established colonies here, have been lost here: far advanced peoples, or things, and primitive peoples or whatever they were:white ones, black ones, yellow ones... Charles Fort

Earth Quarantine
Is the Earth Quarantined??? Why haven't we met aliens yet? Why aren't we still sending rockets to the Moon? And why aren't we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being quarantined! A combination of higher alien civilizations and our own Earth-based (military) forces are working together to keep the Earth contained and neutralized. The reasons why they would do this are obvious, but where is the evidence? Possible reasons/answers:
 * 1) We are located in a backwater part of the galactic rim.
 * 2) Space debris is a shield to keep us from hearing alien broadcasts.
 * 3) Space-based weapons prevent aliens from wanting to bond with us. See Exopolitics
 * 4) JPL scientists perpetuate the myths that were reported in Wired about how we could "never achieve interstellar travel."
 * 5) NASA's launch of a suborbital rocket fails.
 * 6) Large Hadron Collider.
 * 7) Project Bluebook closed.
 * 8) Twelve missions to Mars failed en route to the planet.
 * 9) Global warming (sic) makes Earth more comfortable for everybody.
 * 10) Fly Me to the Moon This movie about flies stowing away on a moon rocket was actually a government-sponsored plot to make traveling offworld seem so awful that nobody would ever want to do it again.

In the face of such evidence, MAYBE Somebody — or something — doesn't want us to leave the planet.

Spaceship Moon
Spaceship Moon Theory - also called the Vasin-Shcherbakov Theory, was put forth in July 1970 by two Russian scientists, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, in an article titled "Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?". In the article they put foreword the theory that the moon was a hollowed out planetoid by persons unknown bearing a technology far superior to any on Earth. They prose that huge machines were used to melt rock and form large cavities within the moon with the molten lava spewing out onto the moon's surface. Thus the moon was protected by a hull-like inner shell and an outer shell made from metallic rocky slag. They propose that for reasons unknown, the spaceship moon was steered thru spaced and was then parked in orbit around the earth. In 1975 Don Wilson published "Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon" in which he compiled what he considered supporting facts.

Madascar
"The penguins are psychotic" - Alex the Lion

Germans
"Hand a German a gun and he heads for Paris." Billy Connolly

French

 * "France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country." -- Mark Twain
 * "France has usually been governed by prostitutes." -- Mark Twain
 * "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." -- General George S. Patton
 * "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." -- General H Norman Schwartzkopf
 * "We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." - -Marge Simpson
 * "The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." -- Regis Philbin
 * "You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." -- John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
 * "The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." -- David Letterman
 * "Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada." -- Ted Nugent
 * "War without France would be like ... World War II." -- Unknown
 * "The favorite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France.'" -- Tom Brokaw
 * "What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?" -- Dennis Miller
 * "It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us." -- Alan Kent
 * "They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house." -- Argus Hamilton
 * "Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day --the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.'" -- Rep. Roy Blunt, MO
 * "The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven we've found truffles in Iraq " -- Dennis Miller
 * Paris Mayor in WW2
 * Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they entered the city in WWII?
 * A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?
 * "Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris? It's not known, it's never been tried." -- Rep. R. Blount, MO
 * "Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer France in WWII? And that's because it was raining." -- John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv
 * The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. (The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate.) The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military.
 * French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney - The French Government announced today that it is imposing a ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists. (AP), Paris, March 5, 2003
 * "You thought that we were the enemy, and we thought that you were the enemy, Imagine our surprise when we both found out that it was the French!" Billy Crystal to a Russian audience in Moscow.