"The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech"

Quote: Pacomartin

Powers starts by making a distinction (and correcting a misimpression created by the subtitle): she is not talking about the “left,” she says, but about the “illiberal left,” the far end of the political spectrum that wants to suppress debate rather than engage in it. Good point. But it quickly gets lost in the rest of her book, as more often than not she refers only to “the left,”, including “lefty” pundits like Ed Schultz and liberal Democratic politicians. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159901#sthash.sShpDX0Y.dpuf

Quote: Fleastiff

Freedom of speech exists or it does not, its not based on content or popularity or political correctness

Quote: Pacomartin

Liberals are calling for a boycott of his films. I actually don't know if there exists an 86 year old man who doesn't think that way.

Quote: Pacomartin

Liberals are calling for a boycott of his films.

Quote: Evenbob

That'll really hurt him. Not. If he was 86 and
didn't think this was a pussy generation,
something would be wrong with him. He
was a teen during WWII, the non pussyist
generation we've ever had.

Quote: Eastwood in Esquire

In the first place, I was taller than most kids in my classes. In the second, we were always moving. Redding. Sacramento. Pacific Palisades. Back to Redding. Back to Sacramento. Over to Hayward. Niles. Oakland. So we were constantly on the road, and I was always the new guy in school. The bullies always thought, Here's this big gangly guy. We gotta take him on. You know how kids are. We gotta test him. I was a shy kid. But a lot of my childhood was spent punching the bullies out.

I kind of had a feeling "Make my day" would resonate, based upon "Do you feel lucky, punk?" in the first movie. I thought that Smith & Wesson line might hang in there, too. But "Make my day" was just so simple.

I still get it a lot.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

What can they do to you after you get into your seventies?

Even in grammar school they taught you to go with your first impression. It's like multiple-choice questions. If you go back and start dwelling, you'll talk yourself out of it and make the wrong pick. That's just a theory. I've never seen any studies on it. But I believe it.

As Jerry Fielding used to say, "We've come this far, let's not ruin it by thinking."

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody's become used to saying, "Well, how do we handle it psychologically?" In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you'd be left alone from then on.

The band guys were looked down upon when I was a kid. I remember playing the flügelhorn and everybody said, "What the...?"

I don't know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.

Quote: Pacomartin

I don't know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.