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Post by anni on Jan 26, 2011 22:09:03 GMT -8
''Never trust anyone over 30.''
It is hard to believe that ''Jerry Rubin Is 50 (Yes, 50) Years Old'' (news story July 16). I didn't even realize he was 30 years old in August 1968 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where we were arrested for trying to nominate a pig for President and where it was reported he said, ''Never trust anyone over 30.'' Indeed, he may have said it often, but Jerry Rubin did not coin the phrase. Credit must be given to Jack Weinberger, the civil rights and Berkeley free-speech activist, back in 1964.
DENNIS DALRYMPLE New York, July 23, 1988
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Post by Jeanne on Jan 27, 2011 5:59:52 GMT -8
''Never trust anyone over 30.''It is hard to believe that ''Jerry Rubin Is 50 (Yes, 50) Years Old'' (news story July 16). I didn't even realize he was 30 years old in August 1968 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where we were arrested for trying to nominate a pig for President and where it was reported he said, ''Never trust anyone over 30.'' Indeed, he may have said it often, but Jerry Rubin did not coin the phrase. Credit must be given to Jack Weinberger, the civil rights and Berkeley free-speech activist, back in 1964. DENNIS DALRYMPLE New York, July 23, 1988 Thanks, Anni. Bob Dylan's off the hook for that one and is free to turn 70 in May, although he still doesn't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. |
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Post by Brian on Feb 3, 2011 0:00:21 GMT -8
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've been running into that quotation a lot lately. The first time, I assumed that it was part of his farewell address about the military-industrial complex. No, Eisenhower delivered that line only three months after he was inaugurated in 1953 to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. What follows:
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. […] Is there no other way the world may live?
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Post by Roberta on Feb 3, 2011 7:07:36 GMT -8
Because I was up so early, I only had to wait a few minutes to get through to the live human volunteer taking comments at the White House. I was extremely brief, said I fully support Bradley Manning and asked President Obama to look into his treatment while he is detained but not convicted of any crime. As for the leaks, as my mother used to say, if you are embarrassed about something you said (or something said on your behalf, say by a diplomat), maybe you shouldn't have said it. PLEASE JOIN US - PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY - SPREAD THE WORD - STAND WITH BRAD votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=4663 [ votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=4663 ] National White House Call-in Day to Support Bradley Manning, Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 Whitehouse switchboard: 202-456-1414 (or Whitehouse comments: 202-456-1111) Call the White House Thursday to voice your support for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower US Army PFC Bradley Manning, specifically that his human rights be respected by the Quantico, Virginia, brig authorities. Bradley has been held in solitary confinement-like conditions for over eight months, and his trial is still months away. This American citizen-soldier has been convicted of no crime, yet continues to endure inhumane conditions of pre-trial confinement like no other inmate at the Quantico brig. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs recently stated that the White House was not paying attention to Bradley Manning's extreme confinement conditions, or the fact that recent pre-approved visitors of Bradley's have been detained and interrogated by military police in order to block their scheduled visit. It is critical that we educate the White House of this ongoing injustice! Recommended points to make: - US Army PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower being held at the Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia, is an American citizen who is innocent until proven otherwise. Yet, he has been subjected to continuous illegal pre-trial punishment since his arrest in May 2010. Based on these abuses alone, Manning should be freed pending court martial. - Military pre-trial confinement is supposed to be about ensuring a soldier's presence at court martial, yet for eight months now Manning has been subjected to extreme pre-trial punishment through the arbitrary use of rarely applied regulations--specifically the "maximum security classification" and the "prevention of injury" order. If he is not freed pending court martial, then at the very least, Manning's human rights need to be respected, and the illegal pre-trial punishment must end. - The arbitrary restrictions placed on Manning, and no other inmates at Quantico, mean that: Manning is allowed no meaningful physical exercise, he is allowed no social interaction with other inmates, he is kept in his cell at least 23 hours per day, and he is not allowed out of his cell without restraints. - If the charges against him are true, they actually show that Manning is a patriot acting to advance an informed democracy. There is no allegation that Manning did anything but share truthful information with the American public regarding the realities of our nation's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with absolutely no benefit to himself, in order to spark public debate regarding foreign policy. |
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Post by anni on Oct 8, 2011 19:52:19 GMT -8
This I forward from our old friend, Marian:  |
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Post by anni on Jan 9, 2012 15:58:57 GMT -8
The opposite of poverty is not wealth -- the opposite of poverty is justice.
We were struck by that quote when we heard it last week, which has been attributed in recent years to a guest on Bill Moyers' show and a Catholic priest in Brazil. Whoever said it first, it's the thought that counts.
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Post by Jeanne on Jan 10, 2012 18:15:17 GMT -8
The opposite of poverty is not wealth -- the opposite of poverty is justice. We were struck by that quote when we heard it last week, which has been attributed in recent years to a guest on Bill Moyers' show and a Catholic priest in Brazil. Whoever said it first, it's the thought that counts. Like. Agree. |
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Post by Roberta on Feb 3, 2012 15:50:31 GMT -8
Apparently too random for the L.A. Times. They didn't publish it. I responded to : articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/26/business/la-fi-auto-drone-20120126(This article originally appeared on the front page, now the online version says Collections -- Business. Go figure. And go see if you can find the title I refer to, among the forest of ads/junk.) "Pioneer of aerospace though he may be, Simon Ramo has made a fundamental error in titling his new book. It should be "Let Robots Do the Killing," since the dying in war will continue to be done by human beings." |
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