Quotes of the Month: June 2016

Quote of the Month: "I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers the country to its next destination."
 -David Cameron

Stupid Quote of the Month: “If you have a critique for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.We’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment... ghetto-lyzing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is — just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real."
-Jesse Williams

and the rest...
“From where I stand, I feel pretty strong. I don’t feel like I’ve got a lot of years, but I don’t feel old.”
-Neil Young

“He's written a lot of books about business -- they all seem to end at Chapter 11.”
-Hillary Clinton

 “She’s a world-class liar."
-Donald Trump

"Trump has made his campaign all about his ability to win. So if he stops winning, what’s his raison d’etre?"
-Maureen Dowd

"I don't have a recollection of almost anyone I've hung out with."
-Robert Plant

 "I hope he goes to jail."
-Paul Manziel on his son

"Make sure he loses. Grit [your] teeth for four years and win the White House in
2020."
-George Will
 

Quotes of the Month: January 2016

Quote of the Month: "I’ve done my damage"
-Ahmed Best on Jar Jar Binks

Stupid Quote of the Month: “It’s unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.”
-Danny DeVito

And the rest...
“This president is a petulant child. Now this president wants to act as if he’s a king, as if he’s a dictator."
-Chris Christie on Obama's executive action on guns

"He was smart, funny, curious and dedicated. We made a pact to give MASH all we had and it bonded us. I loved Wayne. I'll miss him very much."
-Alan Alda on Wayne Rogers

"It was all good until my eyelashes froze."
-Richard Sherman, on playing in sub-zero temperatures
 Right now, it feels as if the solar system
is off it’s axis, as if one of our
main planetary anchors has
lost it’s orbit. That said—I am
certain that wherever Bowie is
now—I want to be there someday.
—Michael Stipe

“I was born dead.”
-Charlie Sheen

"The bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken, even during the 14 years that the Eagles were dissolved, he said. "We were two young men who made the pilgrimage to Los Angeles with the same dream:  to make our mark in the music industry - and with perseverance, a deep love of music, our alliance with other great musicians and our manager, Irving Azoff, we built something that has lasted longer than anyone could have dreamed."
-Don Henley on Glen Frey

"Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite as inevitable as she did eight and a half months ago!"
-Bernie Sanders

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible."
-Donald Trump

Quotes of the Month: December 2015

Quote of the Month: "To me, especially in the Northeast, confronting my white privilege is going to the tanning salon."
-Katie Pavlich

Stupid Quote of the Month: “I sold them to the white slavers that takes these things, and…,”
-George Lucas on the sale of Star Wars to Disney

and the rest...

"Like I always say, the 2nd Amendment, the provision that gives every American the right to keep and bear arms, is blind and stupid."
-Geraldo

"This whole white privilege thing is indeed racist."
-Katie Pavlich

"She's killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity."
-Donald Trump on Hillary

"In short, Mr. Rose has not presented credible evidence of a reconfigured life either by an honest acceptance by him of his wrongdoing, so clearly established by the Dowd Report, or by a rigorous, self-aware and sustained program of avoidance by him of all the circumstances that led to his permanent ineligibility in 1989. Absent such credible evidence, allowing him to work in the game presents an unacceptable risk of a future violation by him of Rule 21, and thus to the integrity of our sport. I, therefore, must reject Mr. Rose's application for reinstatement."
 -Rob Manfred

"This president won't be the same feckless weakling that we have in the Oval Office right now."
-Chris Christie

"Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate."
-Donald Trump

“She was favored to win and she got schlonged."
-Donald Trump

Quotes of the Month: October 2015

Quote of the Month: "We Live in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter"
-Charles Krauthammer

Stupid Quote of the Month:
“If only there was a ‘coon of the year’ award."
-Professor Anthea Butler on Ben Carson

And the rest...
"If I don't move, I'll be demoted to Secretary of State or something."
-Joe Biden

"What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide?"
- Rupert Murdoch

"I'm really not even a human being."
-Hillary Clinton

“I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.”
- Hillary Clinton

"We may have overestimated his anger management skills."
-Megyn Kelly on Donald Trump

“I just don’t like the guy.”
-George W Bush on Ted Cruz

"The acoustic guitar is the most important."
-Keith Richards

“You can tell the Egyptian prime minister it’s a terrorist attack, but you can’t tell your own people?”
-Jim Jordan to Hillary Clinton

"I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that."
-Jeb Bush

"Calm people live. Tense people die."
-Adam Savage

“I’ve got to tell you the truth — even in New Jersey what you’re doing is called rude.”
-Chris Christie to the CNBC Moderator

“That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.”
-Ted Cruz

Quotes of the Month: June 2015

Quote of the Month:
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they dorespect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find itsfulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
-Anthony Kennedy in Obergefell v Hodges (2015)


Stupid Quote of the Month:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best ... they're sending
people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're
bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are
good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're
getting,"
-Donald Trump

Racist Comment of the Month:
“If you are a white man in America, this country is changing dramatically. You have always been in charge. So there is something to white men feeling like something has been taken away from them.”
-Annonymous White House Official quoted in Washington Post

And the rest...

"What could he possibly be thinking?”
-Dan Rather reporting on the military's reaction to Obama's Iraq policy

"I won't be the youngest president, but with your help I'll be the youngest female president."
-Hillary Clinton

"I will take nothing and no one for granted. I will run with heart. I will run to win."
-Jeb Bush

"I identify with black."
-Rachel Dolezal

"Fuck you Eddie Van Halen."
-Sammy Hagar

"You're in my house."
-Barack Obama to a heckler

"It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters.”
-Fredericka Whitfield on the attack on Dallas Police HQ

"Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being
polite to say [n-word] in public."
-Barack Obama

“We should start calling this law SCOTUScare."
-Antonin Scalia on King v Burwell (2015)

"Whatever you think of Reagan, you have to admit, he had a black belt in badassery."
-Brad Meltzer

"It was all this contemporary music geared for that audience, and it was so disappointing listening to it. Really weak songwriting, insipid vocals and productions. It was really discouraging. I was sorry to hear that. You're waiting for something to happen, musically. You're waiting for some great thing. Like every generation or every decade seemed to have that big thing that carried it through. There's nothing now, at least in rock."

-Alex Liefson

Quotes of the Month: August 2014

Quote of the Month:"Don't ever second guess me again on Hamas."

-Benjamin Netanyahu to John Kerry and Barack Obama

 Stupid Quotes of the Month: 'First of all, let me tell my friends from Africa, I do not whip people!'

-Steny Hoyer
"One problem that I've had today is keeping my Wongs straight."

-Harry Reid at the Asian Chamber of Commerce

and

"We don't have a strategy."

-Barack Obama on ISIS
Chilling Quote of the Month: "It's best not to mess with us."

-Vladimir Putin

and the rest...
"They just lied to people."

-Barney Frank on The Obama Administration and health care.
"Don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle."


-Hillary Clinton on Barack Obama's foreign policy
"Drug addicts and alcoholics are always, 'The world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don't want to hear f**k all about "the world as a harsh place." She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle.' F**k you, then kill yourself."


-Gene Simmons
"I am you, I will protect your right to protest."


-Ron Johnson
"Michael Brown's blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justice."


-Rev Charles Ewing
"I'm sorry for being such an idiot."


-Mark David Chapman

Quotes of the Month: May 2014

Quote of the Month: "I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened."


-Monica Lewinsky
Stupid Quote of the Month: "i guess there are some out there who dont like to think that a holocaust survivor had a leg up over a black/brown person due to skin color."


-Oliver Willis
"Basically, I was against all white people."


-Michael Jordan on growing up
"Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that."


-Karl Rove on Hillary Clinton
"What has he done, big Magic Johnson, what has he done?" -


-Donald Sterling
"We must lead."


-Chris Christie on American foreign policy
"I will not stand for it."


-Barack Obama on the VA Scandal
"If there’s ever been evidence that a government-run system of health care is a disaster, it’s here. It’s rationing. It’s waitlists and corruption and laziness, as you get when people are salaried rather than working in the free market."

–Charles Krauthammer on the VA


"I mean, is that how we're now setting the strategy of the United States of America in a war zone, where so many have died and so much treasure and blood has been spent, so a president can leave office looking good?"


-Charles Krauthammer
"It is absolutely true that in the 21st century, American isolationism is not an option."


-Barack Obama

Sci Fi History: Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes might be the most disturbing post apocalyptic film ever. Humanity devolved to little more than cattle. Meanwhile, apes became the planet's dominant species. The apes hunt people for sport and enslave them. The dominant species developed speech and advanced intelligence. On top of this, the film's star, Charlton Heston, was an A-list actor and hero. Despite this, not even Heston could not overcome this threat to humanity, which is part of the film's appeal. Moses could not escape the Planet of the Apes, so who could? In addition to Heston's helplessness, the end was particularly disturbing when his character discovers he is on Earth after a long space voyage. Lastly, the film dealt with racial tensions by focusing on three types of apes. Gorillas were the enforcers, chimps the intellectuals, and orangatans ruled. Each type of ape held their own prejudices against the other reflecting modern America.
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