Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Re: “Musn’t Have Gotten the Memo”
Obviously, the poor slobs can’t get access to CNN, NYT, LAT, WaPo, STrib, etc. All would then be clear.
Old USAF Guy: Haven’t those people suffered enough?
And now I’m confused. Because besdies reading this here, I think I also saw something similar in the newspaper or somewhere a few days ago.
But then today in the Globe and Mail (far from my favourite read) I read that a survey taken for BBC showed (numbers are approximate because my memory isn’t 100% clear) 35% of Iraqis being happier with the current leadership and over 50% being happier under Saddam. Including some dude they interviewed who had quite happily smashed up Saddam’s statue four years ago. Which makes not much sense to me but….???
Can someone clarify?
Oh, you know it’s all about how the questions are framed in these polls, Michelle. That’s the dirtly little secret between, “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”