![]() September 03, 2009Mad as Hell Part 2Through the magic of you tube, Network - 1976 August 23, 2009Mad as HellI ran across this quote today while surfing and it seemed as relevant today at it did in 1976 I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad - worse than bad, They're crazy! It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone! I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad! You've got to say, "I'm a HUMAN BEING, GODDAMNIT! My LIFE has VALUE!!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!" I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!! Howard Beale - Network - 1976 October 03, 2006Carpe DiemQuote of the Day
Dead Poet's Society - 1989 July 28, 2006Play a gameThe quote of the day is one of those features that has been forgotten during my long hiatus from blogging. I decided to use it today when I read this story about the changing status of Cheyenne Mountain. The mountain you may know is or was the headquarters of NORAD and one of the star locations in the 1983 movie Wargames. In short an early hacker breaks into the NORAD computer network and causes an AI computer to play a game that almost starts a nuclear war. I was on the base outside the mountain years ago and it is very immpressive.
May 22, 2005George W. BushQuote of the Day
GWB - Commencement speech at Calvin College - May 21,2005 March 21, 2005The GeneralMarch 21, 2005
Quote of the DayLive the good life. Drink, smoke, gamble, feast, joke, fornicate and be tolerant of those who do. Take risks and thrive for the good challenge. Work hard and play hard without going over the edge. Live in the moment. Believe in moderation in all things, including moderation. Live it up!The General From a post on Ravenwood's |