Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day
Originally uploaded by Stunted Growth.

to all our friends at Air America Radio. You wouldn't be able to sit on your fat asses and bitch without the USMC.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
- George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell