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Edition #57 — June 3, 2004

Hi there realitycheckers. I confess, I don't watch a lot of TV news. I find the blood, gore, sports and weather formula too one-sided and depressing. I do, however, make a habit of scanning the news headlines at Yahoo.com or CNN.com and read whichever articles catch my eye. Sometimes I save things for further digestion.

It's a lucky thing, because this month's newsletter is a collage of quotes from some of those news articles attributed to anyone from The Dalai Lama to George W. Bush, Prince Charles and yes, even Ted Nugent.

All quotes are separated by an "*" asterisk. (Can I say that?) I'm sure you'll like this! So let's begin...

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"They've proven to me that God is universal."

- famous UFO abductee, Betty Hill (Betty and Barney Hill — 1961)

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"It currently takes over 50,000 dollars a day to maintain our television and radio airtime. We can't accomplish this monumental task on our own. We need your help. Together we can make a difference with the Word of God."

- Pastor John Hagee invoking GOD in a letter designed to raise money and hatred against homosexuals.

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"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

- Adolf Hitler, from his book, Mein Kampf

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"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."

- George W. Bush speech excerpt, Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2004

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"Burn, baby, burn!"

- Audiotapes from Enron's West Coast trading desk, obtained by CBS News, reveal Enron traders singing as a forest fire shuts down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising profits)

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"All these [games] severely distort historical facts and violate China's gaming and Internet service regulations. The game should be immediately prohibited."

- Communist Chinese censors in response to "Hearts of Iron", a Swedish-made computer game accused of "distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty," by showing Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations, and Taiwan as a part of Japan.

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"I don't want to judge what people consider to be entertainment, but watching him force-feed himself to the point of vomiting and getting a rectal exam is not how I prefer to spend my free time."

- Cathy Kapica, McDonald's global nutrition director, defending against the light that Morgan Spurlock's junk food condemning documentary, "Super Size Me!" sheds upon American eating habits and the fast food industry.

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"I AM MRS. SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE. NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC). I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER, THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE CONSIDERING MY PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION."

- opening paragraph of email scam spam enticing internet surfers to get involved in an international internet money laundering scam.

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"Why, of course, the people don't want war....But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

- Nazi second in command, Hermann Goering, as quoted by his trial psychologist in 1946 from the book, Nuremberg Diary.

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"Of course not, Tim ... And as Vice President, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the [Army] Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government."

- Dick Cheney, US Vice President and former Halliburton CEO, denying involvment for Halliburton's being awarded multibillion dollar contracts to rebuild Iraq on NBC's Meet the Press.

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"We live in fictitious times, where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president... We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."

- Documentary film-maker (and realitychecker) Michael Moore, delivering his Oscar acceptance speech.

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"Los Angeles sends 200 tons of euthanized cats and dogs to West Coast Rendering every month."

- New York Times reporter, Sandra Blakeslee, writing about euthanised dogs and cats from veterinarians and animal shelters that are routinely picked up and made into pet food — thus turning pets into cannibals.

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"I believe that if we are to achieve genuinely sustainable development, we will first have to rediscover, or re-acknowledge, a sense of the sacred in our dealings with the natural world and with each other. If literally nothing is held sacred any more -- because it is considered synonymous with superstition or in some other way "irrational" -- what is there to prevent us treating our entire world as some "great laboratory of life," with potentially disastrous long-term consequences?"

- Prince Charles, BBC Reith Lectures, May 2000.

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"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think the very motion of our life is towards happiness. "

- HIS HOLINESS THE XIVth DALAI LAMA

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"... but if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody."

- Musician/NRA advocate Ted Nugent, defending his manhood to the Detroit Free Press Magazine, July 15, 1990, after being questioned about why he dodged the Vietnam draft.

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"Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter."

- George W. Bush advising quail hunter and New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, Roswell, N.M., Jan. 22, 2004

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"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching."

- Popular inspirational quote, author unknown.

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"Hey — buy my book!"

- author Roland Kriewaldt, pitching his wares.

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Added 2009

“Is it political? Is it sexism? What is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip and lies?”

- Defeated White House VP candidate, Sarah Palin, bemoaning unfair press coverage of her and her family.

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