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January 30. The course of my song has led me to the altar of Peace. The day will be the second from the end of the month. Come, Peace, thy dainty tresses wreathed … and let thy gentle presence abide in the whole world. So but there be nor foes nor food for triumphs, thou shalt be unto our chiefs a glory greater than war. May the soldier bear arms only to check the armed aggressor, and may the fierce trumpet blare for naught but solemn pomp. Add incense, ye priests, to the flames that burn on the altar of Peace.
Remember! I never saw a purple cow,
I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia by the fact that a stronger race has come in and taken their place.
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using gases against uncivilised tribes. |
What was the greatest maritime disaster in history?
The Titanic? The Lusitania? |
Principle is OK
up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you
lose.
US Vice President Dick Cheney, born on January 30, 1941; during the
1976 US Presidential campaign
Source
I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.
Dick Cheney; on his five draft deferments, April
5, 1989
The good Lord didn't see
fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes
friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where,
all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the
business is.
Dick Cheney; speech delivered at the
Cato Institute,
June 23, 1998
Source
The US should assert its military dominance over the world to shape
"the international security order in line with American principles and interests," push for
"regime change" in Iraq and China, among other countries, and "fight and
decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars … While the unresolved
conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a
substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the
regime of Saddam Hussein."
'Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century', The Project for the New American Century [members include Dick Cheney and
Donald Rumsfeld],
September, 2000
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
Dick Cheney;
April 30, 2001
Simply stated,
there is no doubt that
Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our
friends, against our allies, and against us.
Dick Cheney; speech
at VFW 103rd National Convention, August
26, 2002
Source:
Bush Administration Officials' Lies about Iraq's Supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction in Their Own Words
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators [of Iraq].
Dick Cheney; March
16, 2003
We know [Saddam Hussein]'s been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
Dick Cheney; March 16, 2003 (On
June 24, 2003, at a press briefing, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld
declared: "I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons."
See
more quotes about WMDs from the Bush administration)
In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.
Dick Cheney; November
7, 2003
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
Dick Cheney; on the Iraq insurgency, June
20, 2005
Go f*ck yourself.
Dick Cheney; to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton,
June 25, 2004
Source: Stupid Quotes by Dick Cheney
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the
'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R Buckminster ('Bucky') Fuller, American visionary scientist, 1980. His one-man show opened at the US Embassy in London on January 30,
1962
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs ... But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that.
Woody Guthrie, American folksinger and activist; the Guthrie Center was opened on January 30, 1992
After a while we took in the clothes,
Nobody said very much.
Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants
Which nobody really wanted to touch.
Mama come in and picked up a book
An' Papa asked her what it was.
Someone else asked, "What do you care?"
Papa said, "Well, just because."
Then they started to take back their clothes,
Hang 'em on the line.
It was January the thirtieth
And everybody was feelin' fine.
Bob Dylan; 'Clothes Line'
(1975) [Do you know any famous song or book references to dates, like
this one? Send 'em in!]
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day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar, with 335
days remaining (336 in leap years).
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Iroquois
Midwinter Festival (Jan 30 - Feb 8)
"The
most important Iroquois celebration of renewal is the Midwinter Festival –
a six day festival which begins around New Years or when the Pleiades are
directly overhead at dusk, and which focuses on dreamsharing, dream
renewal and dream interpretation.
"The
Midwinter Festival, also called the 'Greatly Prized Ceremony,'
celebrates the battle between the creative and destructive forces in the
universe, as symbolized by an Iroquois myth which focuses upon the
antagonism between the Creator, Sky Holder, and his younger brother. It
concludes the old year and begins the new year, and involves both
thankfulness for the blessings of the past and hopes for the future. As
one Iroquois said, 'At the Midwinter Festival we beg the Creator for
everything; most of the time we are thanking him for what he gave us.'
"One
of the first rites of the Midwinter Festival is the extinguishing of old
household fires, the stirring of ashes, and the rekindling of new fires.
As the ashes are stirred, the Iroquois also participate in a tobacco
invocation, and pray:
'I am
thankful that I am alive in health. Now the time has come in which the
Midwinter Ceremony is marked. So then now do you, Sky-Holder who live in
the sky, do you continue to listen? ...You next, the nocturnal Orb of
Light, our Grandmother, and now also the Stars on the sky in many
places, do you know that every one of those who remain alive has made
preparation to thank you now with one voice? Now, our Grandmother, they
thank you, and also the stars fixed on the sky in many places'."
Source
Iroquois Dream Experience and Spirituality The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
Day of Livia, ancient Rome
Livia, Diva Augusta, was born on January 30, 58 BCE and became the wife of the emperor Octavian (Augustus Caesar). In the reign of Claudius, she was deified and took the new name, Julia Augusta. It was believed that empresses were carried up to Heaven by a peacock.
Commemoration of the execution of King 
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