Quotes of the Day

Quotes of the day. These should make you feel good

Monk

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"Umm Qasr is a town similar to Southampton", UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr", said one British soldier, informed of this while on patrol in Umm Qasr. Another added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes, and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."

Mark Steyn, in London's Spectator:

"Indeed, given the way [EU 'External Relations Commissioner'] Chris Patten’s ‘smart development assistance’ to Yasser Arafat appears to have wound up funding the intifada, America’s smart bombs now cause fewer deaths than the EU development budget."

[By the way, read the whole thing. It's worth it:]

Conservative Professor (!) David Gelernter, Chief Guru of Artificial Intelligence (!), at a pro-war rally (!) at Yale (!):

"Where do you Americans get the arrogance to believe that no man is an island entire of itself? Who ever gave you the crazy idea that each man murdered, each man tortured, each woman raped diminishes you because you are involved in mankind? Who ever told you that crazy arrogant stuff?

"It IS a radical doctrine and always has been. But America is a radical nation, and has always tried, sometimes successfully and sometimes not -- but always TRIED to see what's right and do it. To do the right as God gives us to see the right.
"I've often been proud of this country in my lifetime, but I've never been prouder of it than I am today. It's never been such an honor and such a privilege to be part of it."

By the way, check out Gelernter, Super Genius