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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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FOOLS
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It has been said that if you deal with fools
you run the risk of becoming one.
Is this a scientifically established fact
or a theory of uncertain provenance?
I don’t know. I am not sure.
Speaking for myself,
I am personally acquainted with a Turcocentric ghazetaji
who, when contradicted, behaves like a Turk
with total unawareness of the metamorphosis.
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Politicians operate like lawyers: it is their job
to defend their side at any cost even if their
side or client happens to be a serial killer.
To this day Talaat, Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler
have their friends in the same way that Lincoln,
FDR, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King have their
enemies.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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The 1% are job creators? Bullshit. If the 99% stopped buying the products and services provided by the 1%, the whole system would collapse.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
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HISTORY AS GOSSIP
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When we speak of the past
we tend to forget that what we speak about
is a carefully edited version of it –
as carefully and drastically edited as the official Turkish version
in which the atrocities committed against defenseless innocent civilians
are treated as justified military action
whose sole intent was to maintain the territorial integrity of the nation.
What could be more blameless?
What could be more exemplary and worthy of universal admiration?
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We speak of the past in order to avoid speaking of the present –
which in many ways is as grim as the past.
Something similar happens in gossip:
to avoid speaking of our own failings
we speak about the failings of others.
To those so-called historians
in whose hands history has become the gossip of nations, I say:
So far you have been successful in fooling many people most of the time,
but no banquet under heaven is endless.
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