Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 16

brunians at brunians.org · 19 May 2009, 14:41 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:41:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 16
In-Reply-To: <4A12BDD9.9020900 at verizon.net>
References: <mailman.68358.1242741493.12296.urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
	<4A12BDD9.9020900 at verizon.net>
Message-ID: <1131.67.142.130.41.1242744080.squirrel at brunians.org>

Mao was a perceptive guy about some things. Power and how to use it, for
instance. Decent poet also, I'm told.

Not a very nice man, but pretty smart.

If three people as different as Mao, Washington and Geller agree about
something, I'd say it's time to sit up and take notice.





.


> If Mao said it, it must be true.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: brunians at brunians.org
> Subject: Re: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 16
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Message-ID: <2061.72.171.0.145.1242696774.squirrel at brunians.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
> This does not change the nature of the interaction, Dan'l. I do understand
> why one would want to deny the reality of the thing, of course.
>
> Government is force. It is a dangerous servant and a fierce master.
>
> -- George Washington
>
> Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.
>
> -- Mao Zedong
>
> Government is the monopoly on legitimate violence.
>
> -- Josh Geller
>
>
>
> ---
> avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
> Virus Database (VPS): 090518-0, 05/18/2009
> Tested on: 5/19/2009 10:10:34 AM
> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.
> http://www.avast.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net