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Quotes & Quips

Compiled By Jack Nichols

Evil Evildoers of Evil

This much is true: It really is possible to love your country and value your freedoms and still believe the government is full of fools and prevaricators and BS artists and Dick Cheney. Really.

Mark Morford-"Evil Evildoers of Evil: How to Feel Calmly Patriotic and Yet Not the Slightest Bit Reassured by Bush & Co."-SF Gate, October 19

You Can't Swallow Wine/Blood Wearing That!

When someone intentionally carries a sign (such as a sash), which clearly states that he or she deliberately lives a lifestyle contrary to the teaching of the Church and will consider being allowed access to the Eucharistic Table (especially as a group) as a sign of acceptance of that lifestyle (as opposed to the person) on the part of the Church, the leadership of the Church does not have a legitimate choice. And, it is the intent of the Rainbow Sash Movement that puts us all in that position. It is clear from your own words that you come to our Mass for the purpose of making a statement, not so mush to worship with us.

Most Reverend Joseph V. Adamec-- Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown-in a letter to Mr. Joseph B. Murray U.S. Convener Rainbow Sash Movement, October 22

Operation Enduring Avarice

According to our leaders, we are not supposed to let the war on terror disrupt our normal lives. And, to their credit, they're leading by example. For instance, far from the war disrupting the House's normal run of shameless corporate toadying, it's enhancing it. Indeed, it's giving our leaders cover to put forward their answer to each and every problem America faces: a massive corporate giveaway. And they even have the gall to call it patriotism. Others, using the English language more rigorously, call it war profiteering.

Arianna Huffington- Arianna Online-November 1

Transgender Veterans Benefits

The Board of Directors of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) approved the formation of a Veterans' Affairs Committee, a group who will focus on issues affecting transgendered veterans and active duty service members. The idea for the committee came about when it was discovered that the Veterans Administration discriminated against Transsexual veterans concerning their health care benefits.

National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC)-Press Release, November 4 E-Mail: NTACMEDIA@AOL.Com

New York City: Jobless Hundreds of Thousands

The second kind of fear is linked to the growing economic insecurity that is spreading in hideous waves across the entire city. New Yorkers by the hundreds of thousands are either out of work or are saddled with the realistic expectation that they soon will be out of work…In the worst cases, families that were until recently were enthusiastic, if not highly paid, participants in a remarkably high-flying economy are finding themselves confronted by the horrifying parlay of hunger and imminent eviction from their homes.

Bob Herbert-"Hungry and Jobless"- New York Times, November 1

Right Wing Female Writer Hates Women, Others:

Women -- and I don't mean to limit that to the biological sense -- always become hysterical at the first sign of trouble. They have no capacity to solve problems, so instead they fret. But despite the fearful fifth columnists whiling away the war naysaying America's response, we will win this war. You just stay warm, girls; the men are fixing the car.

Ann Coulter-"The Eunichs are Whining"-October 31

Through Struggles and Wars…

Have the past struggles succeeded? What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature? Now understand me well-it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

Walt Whitman-"Song of the Open Road"-Leaves of Grass

The Right Wing Christian Dictionary -- (A):

Adam and Steve -- as in "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve". A clever saying you can use whenever you want to prove how brilliant and original you are.

The Right Wing Christian Dictionary- http://www.gumbopages.com/fridge/christian-coalition.txt

Four Well-Marked Species of Wars

There are in general four rather well-marked species of wars-Religious wars, Race wars, wars of Ambition and Conquest, and wars of Acquisition and Profit-though in any particular case the four species may be more or less mingled.

Edward Carpenter-"Introductory"--The Healing of Nations: And the Hidden Sources of Their Strife-published 1915, London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.

Peter or No Peter?

I am nearly 60 years old and have been married to "Peter" for more than 30 years…Things have not always been great, but I figured you just work it out…Peter recently confided to me that all his life he has secretly felt he should be a woman.

Miserable in Orange County California-" Find support to deal with gender muddle" Dear Abby, syndicated column, November 3