[Rhodes22-list] jokes

[Michael Meltzer]

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When they took the 4th Amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment,
I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment,
I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment,
And I can only be quiet.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
 --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton,
July 18, 1864

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in
due course they actually become the person they seem.
 --W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
 --Leo Rosten (1908 - )

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
 --Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
 --Spanish Proverb (Mumf note: known as the "Joe Barton Effect"

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
 --Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
 --Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your
enemies.
 --Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
 --Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a
formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
 --Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

A liar should have a good memory.
 --Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying
down.
 --Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how
to lie well.
 --Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
 --Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
 --Quentin Crisp

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know
whether you did it or not.
 --Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses
to frighten you.
 --Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what
we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
 --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
 --Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own
plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
 --Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Eagle and the Arrow

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere.
 --Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

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http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.parascope.com/articles/1196
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Official Definition of DEMOCRACY

NOTE

Here are four (4) facsimile section reproductions taken from a 156 page book
officially compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30,1928,
setting forth exact and truthful definitions of a Democracy and of a
Republic, explaining the difference between both. These definitions were
published by the authority of the United States Government and must be
accepted as authentic in any court of proper jurisdiction. These precise and
scholarly definitions of a Democracy and a Republic were carefully
considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the
Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definition stake precedence
over any "definition" that may be found in the present commercial
dictionaries which have suffered periodical "modification" to please "the
powers in office. Shortly after the "bank holiday" in the thirties,
hush-hush orders from the White House suddenly demanded that all copies of
this book be withdrawn from the Government Printing Office and the Army
posts, to be suppressed and destroyed without explanation. This was the
beginning of the complete red control of the Government from within, not
from without.

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Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff.

CITIZENSHIP
This manual supersedes Manual of Citizenship Training the use of the
publication "The Constitution of the United States," by Harry Atwood, is by
permission and courtesy of the author.

CITIZENSHIP Democracy:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any
other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward
property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is
that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon
deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without
restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license,
agitation, discontent, anarchy

CITIZENSHIP Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials
best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of
justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a
strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of
territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of
either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason,
justice, contentment, and progress. Is the "standard form" of government
throughout the world. A republic is a form of government under a
constitution which provides for the election of

(1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a
representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of
legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and
are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality
of their government acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual
rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into
autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into
democracy.

Atwood. Superior to all others.--Autocracy declares the divine right of
kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or
unjustly administered. Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has
been repeatedly tried without success. Our Constitutional fathers, familiar
with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed
principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of
government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a
democracy * * * and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a
republic."

"By order of the Secretary of War: C.P. Summerall, Major General, Chief of
Staff. Official: Lutz Wahl, Major General, The Adjutant General.

WHY DEMOCRACIES FAIL

A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only
exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the
public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the
candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the
result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to
be followed by a Dictatorship. (Written by Professor Alexander Fraser
Tytler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen original states were
still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing of the decline
and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before.

"Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the
glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a
fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by
intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism,
miscegenation, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights
to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive."

 - from Jimi Pocius

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