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Wednesday, October 12. 2011

Political QQQ

Our struggle is not with Obama or Reid or Pelosi, it is with the system that they advance. A system of unrestricted power that mandates absolute dominance over all human affairs backed by an ideology that treats all human activity as political and in need of control in the name of the greater good. Getting them all out is a plus, but it's a battle, not the war.


Dan Greenfield (Sultan Knish) in Winning the System

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:56 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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...it's not the system they advance, it's human nature itself. It can't change because the change will still be human nature.
#1 buddy larsen on 2011-10-12 13:53 (Reply)
Smart folks like to remind that ''you can't push a string'' --meaning, a string can only be 'pulled'.

Right --but you can't pull it from where you are --you have to go to the other side of it.

The only way to pull it from where you already are, is to loop it around a fixed point out there and bring the end back to where you are.

Riggers --farming, drilling, building, sailing, whatever --historically and universally call this fixed point a ''dead man''.

One wonders why.
#2 buddy larsen on 2011-10-12 14:03 (Reply)
Nice figure of speech, buddy, and very true.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2011-10-12 16:35 (Reply)
Thanks, MM. But, it's not really a figure of speech. It's jargon, slang --i did a search and stopped with this example, where it's used in comments #14 and #17.


(did you know that the 'edit' function on the Explorer menu bar has a 'find on this page' feature?)
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2011-10-12 22:12 (Reply)
http://forum


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winching-recovery/344255


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#4 buddy larsen on 2011-10-12 22:16 (Reply)
MM, as you see, reassembly required (thanks, spam filter).
#5 buddy larsen on 2011-10-12 22:19 (Reply)

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