We’ve come a long way since the blind obedience of the Founding Fa….Oh. Wait a minute.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
- John Locke

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
- Woodrow Wilson

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- James Madison

Just listen to the hippy dippy words of these, these, LIBERALS.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.  It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every actual state is corrupt.  Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This week’s quotes are devoted to protest, in honor of the Wall Street protestors

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face.  But I left with a smile.  I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.  Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
- Malcolm X

We’re devoting this week’s quotes to protest, in honor of the Occupy Wall St protesters. We thought we’d start with some scientists:

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
- Richard P. Feynman

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
- Robert A. Heinlein

This Friday’s facts are dedicated to our very own Hal, who is probably enjoying some irrational exuberance this year due to Michigan’s 4-0 record.

Have a ball. Give or take a million:

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.

Michigan Football Facts:

As of this writing, the Michigan Wolverines are the winningest team in college football history.

The Michigan Football stadium is the largest college stadium in the country, seating 109,901*

When Michigan Stadium was being built, a crane sank into the wet land under the site during construction, and according to legend, remains buried under the stadium today.

A Deadly Game

In 1905, 18 men were killed in college football games, and 159 were permanently injured.

In 1943, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged to form The Steagles due to player shortages created by the World War II draft.

Watch Out For Those Self Fulfilling Prophecies:

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.” On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

*Michigan always has that extra seat, it’s reserved for Fritz Crisler

I got the bill for my surgery.  Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.
- Walter Matthau

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
- Henny Youngman

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
- Hart Pomerantz

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost quotes

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
- Norm Crosby

Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer.
- Will Rogers

Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
- John Ralston Saul

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves.
James Buchan

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
- Dorothy Parker

I think the “Invisible Hand” needs to bitch-slap some bankers.
- Ian Gray

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its stupidest member divided by the number of people in the mob.
- Terry Pratchett

A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths
- Barry Shein

The mob has many heads, but no brains
- Thomas Fuller

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson

We still haven’t gotten a response on the question we posed last week to highlight the impending (by 2013 is “impending”, right?) launch of Quiztistic.com, so we have an even more difficult challenge this week. If you think the statement below is untrue, Danza choke window for your head:

Due to constriction of the inferior alveolar nerve on its way to the tongue, there is only a limited combination of sounds a human being can make. For example, it is impossible to pronounce the words “eye”, “laws”, “dug”, and “aim” in sequence.