Bullet the Blue Sky

Bullet the Blue Sky March 15, 2012

Was I wrong on the afterlife, as so many among the bien-pensant brayed for me to admit that I was wrong on Iraq? Plainly, no.”

To flounce … the professional flounce / To sigh … when the comments are cruel …”

You taught us to treat everybody fairly and as individuals, not to judge, that we’re all in this together, and God put us here to help each other out.” (via Shakesville)

“The founders believed that because people were ignorant by nature, and thus incapable of understanding what was best for the common good, education was absolutely essential to the survival of the American republic.”

“Quakers have exercised their consciences for centuries, only to be executed and otherwise oppressed. By other people exercising their consciences, of course.”

Is it a Communist plot to tell a landowner he can’t put a smelting plant in a residential neighborhood?”

They won’t let me use the word ‘vagina’ in my book because we have to sell it to Christian bookstores, which apparently have a thing against vaginas.”

“In a September 2011 presidential debate, [Gov. Rick] Perry stated that ‘Cervical cancer is a horrible way to die’ — yet he is moving to end cervical cancer screenings covered by WHP for over 130,000 Texan women.”

“The death penalty and international warfare simply do not energize the sex-obsessed American electorate the way that women’s sexual autonomy does.”

“Right-wing activists have always had a difficult relationship with the truth, especially when it comes to Planned Parenthood.”

“On the way he did not stop beating her, said Amina to her family, a few hours before her death.”

Tell me about it if it’s something human.”


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