I dont really know if i’ve got three other pictures of doors, In reality, there are probably about a dozen.

We waited out a rainstorm in this Dali art gallery in which they didnt seem to mind me taking pictures.  Awesome…

..to be able to read that stuff from back here.

I’m so blind, that I my nose was almost touching the wall before I could read it.

After about four days, dad & I both realized that they didnt really mind if we took pictures inside museums.  It. Was. Awesome.

This dude is totally flashing a gang sign…

“Hi!  I want people to think I’m Avril Lavigne!”

“Of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences upon the human mind, the must vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences” – nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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For the idea that any means – mass murder, the misuse of science, the corruption of professionalism – are acceptable to achieve the end of national power, the ultimate example of our time is Hiroshima.  For us, as citizens, the experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suggests that we reject Machiavelli, that we do not accept subservience, whether to princes or presidents, and that we examine for ourselves the ends of public policy to determine whose interests they really serve.  We must examine the means used to achieve those ends to decide if they are compatible with equal justice for all human beings on earth.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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The end of dropping the bomb seems, from the evidence, to have been not winning the war, which was already assured, not saving lives, for it was highly probable no American invasion would be necessary, but the aggrandizement of American national power at the moment and in the postwar period.  For this end, the means were among the most awful yet devised by human beings – burning people alive, maiming them horribly, leaving them with radiation sickness, which would kill them slowly and with great pain.

I remember my junior-high-school social studies teacher telling the class that the difference between a democracy like the United States and the “totalitarian states” was that “they believe that the end justifies any means, and we do not.”  But this was before Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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