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SAY WHAT?!?!?!? for 2008
What our leaders and people of influence sometimes say is sometimes amazing. Here are some examples.
In the past I've kept copies of these quotation in the Archives, but I've discontinued this practice as of 2008.

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Posted here for 5-12-08
"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains."
-- Hamas' Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshaal. He's one of the individuals Jimmy Carter met with during his meeting at the West Bank town of Ramallah on April 15, 2008.
(Source: "Jimmy Carter and Hamas," editorial, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 21, 2008, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 5-5-08
"Stop scapegoating immigrants [. . . Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'"
-- Howard Dean, DNC Chairman, criticizing Republicans, as quoted in The Washington Times.
(Source: The Limbaugh Letter, January 2008, page 6. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website. )
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Posted here for 4-28-08
"I am prepared to sacrifice my life. All I want is martyrdom. I'm willing for all my children to become martyrs. May my husband also become a martyr, and Allah willing, may I die as a martyr."
"Compared to others, what I sacrificed is nothing. It's true I sacrificed a son, but others have sacrificed two or three. I hope more of my sons will become martyrs."
"Allah be praised. I thank Allah for all the good He has bestowed upon us. He blessed us with martyrdom. Allah willing, we too will be martyred, just as they did."
-- Mothers whose sons sacrificed their lives as terrorists..
(Source: "Mom of Martyr: Sacrifice More of My Children," by WorldNetDaily, Whistleblower magazine, March 2008, page 18. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.)
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Posted here for 4-21-08
"Land [. . .] cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice." [Note the Marxist flavor of these statements. They represent mainstream UN thinking.]
-- Report from the 1976 United Nations Habitat I conference.
(Source: "Sustainable Development: The Root of All Our Problems," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, February 2008, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 4-14-08
"I stand before you, a vagina-friendly mayor. I am in!"
-- New Orleans Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, welcoming the author of "The Vagina Monologues," to his city.
(Source: "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, April 2008, page 10. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 4-7-08
"[M]y books are about killing God."
-- Philip Pullman, British author of a series of novels for young readers.
(Source: "Broken Compass," by Rebecca Grace, American Family Association Journal, February 2008, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.)
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Posted here for 3-31-08
"Chickens understand sophisticated intellectual concepts, learn from watching each other, demonstrate self-control, worry about the future and even have cultural knowledge that is passed from generation to generation."
-- Bruce Friedrich, vice president of PETA.
(Source: "Monks Poached by PETA!" by Marshall Lewin, America's First Freedom, April 2008, page 46. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.)
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Posted here for 3-24-08
"This [talk in opposition to global warming] is treason. And we need to start treating them [those who don't believe in global warming] as traitors."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
(Source: "Crash Goes the 'Consensus'," by William F. Jasper, The New American, January 21, 2008, page 44. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 3-17-08
"We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions because we have to save the planet." [Even though there's no proof doing so will "save the planet"?]
-- Bill Clinton.
(Source: "You Make the Sacrifice, Not Me," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2008, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 3-10-08
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."
-- William Ayers, one-time leader in the Weather Underground.
(Source: "Radicals Never Say Sorry," by Jonah Goldberg.)
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Posted here for 3-3-08
"Clinton is now a historical figure who remains a breathing, walking presence, and when he enters a room of strangers, even those who didn't vote for him react as if witnessing a small miracle."
-- "Unbiased" reporter Matt Bai, in The New York Times Magazine.
(Source: "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2007, page 11. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website. )
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Posted here for 2-25-08
"The Border Patrol's job is not to stop illegal immigrants. . . The Border Patrol's job is not to stop narcotics. . . or contraband or narcotics . . . [T]he Border Patrol's mission is not to do any of those things. . . The Border Patrol's job is not to stop criminals. . . The Border Patrol's job is to stop terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering this country."
-- Border Patrol Laredo Sector Chief Agent Carlos X. Carrillo, during a video-taped town hall meeting August 15, 2007.
(Source: JW Obtains VIdeotape of Border Patrol Sector Chief Decrying Illegal Immigration Enforcement," Judicial Watch Verdict, January 2008, page 6. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.)
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Posted here for 2-18-08
"Watching President Bush try to complete a sentence is like watching a fat drunk try to cross an icy street."
-- Paul Begala, in a Democrat fundraising email.
(Source: "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2008, page 11. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website. )
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Posted here for 2-11-08
"[A]ll white people living in the United States are racists [. . .]"
-- A statement in a University of Delaware "Diversity Training Handbook" that was given to all Resident Advisors who manage the freshmen dorms.
(Source: "Radical Bureaucrats," Culture, etc., quoting Richard B. Spencer, writing on "four Year Plan" in the December 3, 2007 issue of the American Conservative., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 10, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 2-4-08
"No woman is illegal [. . .] and no man either." [Thus, it goes without saying that no illegal alien is illegal. So much for the laws of the country.]
-- Senator Hillary Clinton.
"There are no illegal human beings."
-- Representative Dennis Kucinich.
(Source: "On Illegals, Hillary Adapts Stance to Audience," by Christina Bellantoni, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 21, 2008, pages 1, 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.)
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Posted here for 1-28-08
"Fox News is worse than al Qaeda -- worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was."
-- Keith Olbermann in an interview with Playboy magazine for the October 2007 issue.
(Source: "MSNBC's Olbermann Has History of Outrageous Rhetoric," Human Events, January 14, 2008, page 22. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.)
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Posted here for 1-21-08
"[Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's not a liberal. He's a conservative. He's very right-wing."
-- Alan Colmes, Fox News.
(Source: "Minibits," Watchdog, November 2007, page 5. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.)
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Posted here for 1-14-08
"[Religion -- including Christianity and Judaism -- is] violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children."
-- Christopher Hitchens, author of the New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great; Why Religion Poisons Everything.
(Source: "How Atheism Is Being Sold to America," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.)
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Posted here for 1-7-08
"The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States . . . was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable."
-- Katie Curic, CBS News anchor, speaking at the National Press Club.
(Source: "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2007, page 13. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website. )
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