Steve Earle “The most important thing to remember is, no matter what anyone tells you, it is NEVER EVER unpatriotic or un-american to question ANYTHING in a democracy.”

System Of A Down “The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create. We have the power to stop and reverse the tides of time by making our awareness of abuse known to the powers of industry and their uncouth political arms. Only by raising this awareness and promoting personal peace within today’s self-defeatist society, can we allow the planet a chance to avoid self-destruction. Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hand and make a fist.”

Bill Hicks (referring to the Kennedy Assassination Museum in Texas) “It’s called “The Sniper’s Nest”…boxes are set up…It’s glassed in, you can’t actually get to the window…and the reason they did that is because… they didn’t want thousands of tourists each year coming through to the window goin’…’NO WAY.’ Yeah, that would’ve started this TRUTH INERTIA happening… You can get to the window next to it and say “I can’t even see the ROAD from here…there’s a TREE right here…there’s no way unless Oswald was hanging from his toes upside down from the window ledge…surely someone would’ve seen that…either that or some pigeons grabbed on to him and flew him over the motorcade…ya know there were rumors of Anti Castro pigeons seen drinking in bars the week before the assassination…they were overheard saying “coup…coup…coup…”…Bill, quit talking about Kennedy, man, let it go…it was a long time ago, would ya just forget it…and I’m like alright…then quit bringing up Jesus to me…as long as we’re talking shelf life here…how ‘bout this, let’s get Pilate to release the fucking files…” Bill Hicks, “Salvation”, England 1992

Leonard Cohen “Maybe there’s a God above, but all I’ve ever learned from love is how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya…” From “Hallelujah”

T.S. Eliot “We shall not cease from exploring.  And at the end of our explorations, we will return to where we started, and know the place for the first time.”

Chief Joseph, Nez Pearce, 1840-1904 “If the white man wants to live in peace…he can live in peace - treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”

Me. “Echoes of your own COMPLACENCY will be your death rattle.” 6.25.05

Zadok Rabinowitz “A Man’s Dreams Are An Index To His Greatness.”

Me. “not everyone in a person's close inner circle must be tight...but...by the sheer nature of their mutual existence into that circle...they must make an effort to rid themselves of any and all negative energy between them…to allow the circle to attain perfection and harmony.

Timothy S. Goff “If everyone in the world was nice to each other, we wouldn’t have wars.” May 2005

Thomas Lovell Beddoes “If there were dreams to sell, what would YOU buy?”

Roy P. Cunningham "We live in A SOCIETY WHERE TECHNOLOGY HAS EXCEEDED OUR ABILITY TO PROPERLY UTILIZE IT."

Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."

Unknown "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car."

Steve Corino “I can only disappoint one woman at a time.” :) 2007.

System Of A Down “Boom”

Modern globalization
Coupled with condemnations
Unnecessary death
Matador corporations
Puppeting your frustrations with a blinded flag
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game
The bottom line is money nobody gives a fuck

4000 hungry children
Leave us per hour from starvation
While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers

Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born…

Bob Dylan “Masters of War”

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

George Washington:

"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.  Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated.  I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
                            - letter to Edward Newenham, 1792

Thomas Jefferson:

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity.  What has been the effect of coercion?  To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.  To support roguery and error all over the earth." - "Notes on Virginia"

"On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind."
- to Carey, 1816

"... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various  batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering.  I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off.  Their sway in New England is indeed formidable.  No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself."
- letter to Horatio Spofford, 1816

There have been bloody Christian crusades, there was much Native American blood shed during the "founding" of this country.  What of those folks?  "Savages" because they were a nature loving, contented people who were quite literally raped and pillaged as the almighty dollar reared its head even early on disguised as a break from "tyranny" (religious and social) put forth by The King?  Sound familiar?

Timothy S. Goff: “Daddy, if the Government has so much money, they should SHARE it with the poor people” 5.25.2005

Mark Twain: "PATRIOTISM is supporting your country ALL the time, and your government when it DESERVES it."