Social technician

The new social technician, part schoolmarm, part bully,

Thanksgiving

I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. - Theodore Roosevelt

[W]e shall destroy all of them. - Thomas Jefferson, referring to Native peoples

Ministers

"A minister with TWO ideas! I don't think I've ever..."

English Universities

Sir Humphrey's wonderful "The universities.....both of them."

Senators

“the model that best predicted the network structure of U.S. senators was that of social licking among cows.”

Zabar's

After conferring with everyone at Zabar's, Obama decided...

Capitalism

“Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin,” Meltzer sharply observed.

GM

DETROIT – General Motors Co. said Monday it lost $1.2 billion from the time it left bankruptcy protection through Sept. 30, far better than it has reported in previous quarters and a sign that the auto giant is starting to turn around its business.

The company also said it will begin repaying $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans with a $1.2 billion payment in December. It plans to repay the debt over the next eight quarters, but could pay it back as early as next year. But the money will come from funds loaned by the government".

It will pay back the government with funds loaned by the government. For simple folk, this is called kiting checks.

Liberal

Liberal - some one with whom you are free to agree.

The new medical bill

Fannie Med

ADL

"the ADL is doing its part to combat one stereotype: that Jews have a sense of humor."

Billion

If you sat down to count from one to one billion, you would be counting for 95 years!

Microsoft

As Bill Gates has said, “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” (Of course, Microsoft is one of the most litigious companies in history

Talmud

"People were given two ears and one tongue so that they may listen more than speak."

--- Talmud

Lincoln on slavery

“What we want, and all we want, is to have with us the men who think slavery wrong. But those who say they hate slavery, and are opposed to it, but yet act with the Democratic party — where are they? Let us apply a few tests. You say that you think slavery is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to restrain it. Is there anything else that you think wrong, that you are not willing to deal with as a wrong? Why are you so careful, so tender of this one wrong and no other? You will not let us do a single thing as if it was wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even called wrong! We must not call it wrong in the Free States, because it is not there, and we must not call it wrong in the Slave States because it is there; we must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into the Tract Society or the other societies, because those are such unsuitable places, and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can properly be called wrong!”

Abraham Lincoln

Loyola U

the Loyola University's press release stated that the "benefits [of contraception] still outweigh risks for most users."

California

The optimistic assessment is that things are going to get worse in California before they get better. The pessimistic assessment is that they’re going to get worse before they get much worse.