"I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace."
"People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war. It won't stop 'til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."
"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
"Things ain't what they used to be, and never were."
All these quotes are courtesy of the late, great Okie, Will Rogers.
Life hasn't really changed that much in 80 years, has it?
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And this is by my other favorite Okie, Woody Guthrie.
"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. 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 and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
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So, okay, there's only been a few great Okies, but damn, what a few.
If you ever want to hear a modern guy in the Okie progressive vein, check out Jim Hightower. He's from Denison, Texas, but I won't hold that against him.
"People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war. It won't stop 'til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."
"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
"Things ain't what they used to be, and never were."
All these quotes are courtesy of the late, great Okie, Will Rogers.
Life hasn't really changed that much in 80 years, has it?
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And this is by my other favorite Okie, Woody Guthrie.
"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. 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 and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
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So, okay, there's only been a few great Okies, but damn, what a few.
If you ever want to hear a modern guy in the Okie progressive vein, check out Jim Hightower. He's from Denison, Texas, but I won't hold that against him.
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Just wanted to thank you for the stuff you post. Very level headed. I'm sometimes ready to rage when I see stuff like stockula's posts, but you seem to respond well enough to make me cool off.
A little.
Get yourself over to gamers chat board and read my advice on games for gamecube.
In it you will see that I slate mario karts a bit, but if you want you can buy a gameboyplayer, stick it on your cube and the play any gameboy game onscreen. mario Karts for gameboy totally rocks and you can unlock the original game on it too.
All the best