Spot the Not #154 - mistakes were made...

All of the following are real quotes from politicians except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Mistakes were made. Then, other larger mistakes were made.

2. Mistakes have been made, as all can see and I admit.

3. Serious mistakes were made.

4. It is quite possible that mistakes were made.

5. Mistakes were made in terms of comments.

6. Serious mistakes were made.

Ah, the glory of the passive voice. It is the prevaricating politician's perfect pal. 

Spot the Not #153 - the oldest trick in the book

All the following are real events except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. This Muslim king released flaming birds into an enemy city to destroy it.

2. This Viking warrior released flaming birds into an enemy city to destroy it.

3. This queen released flaming birds into an enemy city to destroy it.

4. This Mongol released flaming birds and cats into an enemy city to destroy it.

5. This country considered releasing bats with firebombs to burn enemy cities.

6. This Chinese general released flaming oxen into an enemy city to burn it.

Spot the Not #152 - Pat Buchanan

All the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

2. Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

3. No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

4. Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.

5. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.

6. The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance.

Spot the Not #151 - Mitch McConnell

All of the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers.

2. We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

3. The problem with the world today is people have put away their Bibles. They're living by the law of the jungle and not the law of the land.

4. We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

5. The Patriot Act is one of the most important and overdue pieces of legislation in a generation.

6. Under ordinary circumstances, I would have opposed such a measure. Government intervention in the marketplace cuts against all my ordinary impulses. But this was not an ordinary event.

Spot the Not #150 - Mitt Romney

Two of the following are real quotes from him. Can you Spot the Not?

1. The one by L. Ron Hubbard...I'm not in favor of his religion by any means, but he wrote a book called Battlefield Earth that was a very fun science fiction book.

2. I've been hunting my whole life. Not big game, but rodents and varmints and such. I was 15 when I first bought a gun.

3. I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Spot the Not #149 - Michael Savage

All of the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Oh, so you're one of those sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig; how's that?

2. These here are the top of the line. Scientifically engineered and all that crap. Guaranteed by some Sierra Club asshole not to hurt a chipmunk IF you step on it!

3. Your job is to struggle until you drop dead. That's it. Stop trying to be happy.

4. When I go to a religious service, I want the heavy-duty. I want the heavy duty; I want the tequila of services.

5. Marijuana was the most destructive element in my life... Marijuana is the most dangerous of all drugs.

6. I would also make the construction of mosques illegal in America and the speaking of English only in the streets of the United States the law.

Spot the Not #148 - Louis Farrahkhan

All of the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. America is in trouble, and I say God is about to wipe this nation from the face of the Earth. I'm not crazy, I'm not drunk, how long do you think a nation can do evil and not face the wrath of god?

2. You see everybody always talk about Hitler exterminating six million Jews. That s right. But don't nobody ever ask what did they do to Hitler.

3. The Mother Wheel is a heavily armed spaceship the size of a city, which will rain destruction upon white America but save those who embrace the Nation of Islam.

4. If somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I'd spend it choking a White man. I'd do it nice and slow.

5. White people are potential humans; they haven't evolved yet.

6. Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

His sartorial excellence may be viewed here:

Derpetology: The Many Colorful Outfits of Louis Farrahkhan

He's Alex Jones with a tan and a more interesting wardrobe. 

Spot the Not #147 - Jeb Bush

Two of the following are real quotes from him. Can you Spot the Not?

1. I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

2. If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions, I think we'd have a better society.

3. Immigrants built our country. They have more children, start more businesses, and bring new ideas.

Spot the Not #146 - Adam Smith

All the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

2. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

3. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

4. Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

5. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

6. Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute.

Spot the Not #145 - Robert Heinlein

All the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

2. An armed society is a polite society.

3. Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent.

4. Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

5. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

6. The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

Spot the Not #144 - the Koch brothers

All the following are real quotes from them except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful and should be abolished.

2. I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

3. 'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.

4. I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

5. People should only profit to the extent they make other people's lives better.

6. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Spot the Not #143 - quirky sci-fi authors

All the following are real science fiction writers but one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. He never brushed his teeth, and they were literally green. Deeply embarrassed by this, he developed the habit of holding his hand in front of his mouth when speaking.

2. He was gaunt with dark eyes set in a very pale face (he rarely went out before nightfall). For five years after leaving school, he lived an isolated existence with his mother, writing primarily poetry without seeking employment or new social contacts.

3. He wrote over 117 novels and over 2000 short stories, but his works were used only as filler material in pornographic magazines. He committed suicide by drinking Drano.

4. He hated flying and only flew twice in his life. He rarely traveled long distances.

5. His mother was warm but changeable of character and had an identical twin who visited them often and who disliked him. He was unable to tell them apart and was frequently coldly rebuffed by the person he took to be his mother.

6. He has a reputation for being abrasive and argumentative. He has generally agreed with this assessment, and a dust jacket from one of his books described him as "possibly the most contentious person on Earth". He has filed grievances and attempted lawsuits; as part of a dispute about fulfillment of a contract, he once sent 213 bricks to a publisher postage due, followed by a dead gopher via fourth-class mail.

Spot the Not #142 - Supreme Court Justices

Two of the following are actual quotes from Supreme Court justices:

1.Frankly I had thought that at the time, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don t want to have too many of.

2. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.

3. The founders did not intend the Constitution to be a suicide pact. Moreover, they could not have anticipated and surely would not have wanted ordinary citizens to possess assault weapons. It is the duty of the court to uphold reasonable, common-sense gun regulations.

Spot the Not #141 - Nancy Grace

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?

1. I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

2. I wanted to be a prosecutor so I could lock up scumbags.

3. I'd rather have a black crack whore watch my children than some pot slammer.

Spot the Not #140 - Martin Luther

All of the following are real quotes from him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Like the drivers of donkeys, who have to belabor the donkeys incessantly with rods and whips, or they will not obey, so must the ruler do with the people; they must drive, beat, throttle, hang, burn, behead and torture, so as to make themselves feared and to keep the people in check.

2. If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham.

3. It is not in opposition to the Holy Scriptures for a man to have several wives.

4. People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon.

5. The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

6. If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel's moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

Spot the Not #139 - weird advertising slogans

All the following are real ad slogans except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Make 7 Up Yours

2. How Else Can Two Month's Salary Last Forever?

3. Take a Cheetos Break with Cheetos

4. It Kills Bugs Dead

5. Virginia Is For History Lovers

6. Be the King of Your Kitchen

Spot the Not #138 - Newt Gingrich

Two of the following are real quotes from him. Can you Spot the Not?

1. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

2. A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

3. I am committed to restoring America's technological dominance. And the first step is to revitalize NASA and resume manned space flights.

Spot the Not #137 - John Bolton

Two of the following are real quotes from him. Can you Spot the Not?

1. I'm a conservative. I believe in strong defense and self-reliance.

2. I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

3. Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

Spot the Not #136 - Nancy Pelosi

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?

1. The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, "To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us." On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.

2. The President's stimulus helped save or create 20 million jobs and is projected by the non-partisan CBO to reduce the deficit by over a trillion dollars in the next 10 years.

3. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Spot the Not #135 - non-military groups with military names

All the following are real groups except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Peace Corps

2. Love Army

3. Friendship Brigade

4. Joy Brigade

5. Peace Navy

6. Love Corps

7. Salvation Army

8. Friendship Navy