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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. (Auden)
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. (St. Francis of Assisi)
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. (Lincoln)
The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. (Churchill)
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. (Walton)
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Emerson)
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Dem Calls For Firing Of Geithner, Summers - RealClearPolitics - Video »
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DeFazio makes a good point.
4 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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There's No There There: IAEA Inspects Iran Nuclear Site; Finds"Nothing To Be Worried About"| Crooks and Liars »
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Why should we listen to the IAEA? They're the same ones who downplayed Iraq's WMD's before Bush's Shock and Awe(TM). Sure they were correct, but ...
4 weeks ago 1 reply View »
8 comments from 7 members total
Norah O'Donnell Stumps Palin Supporter by Asking About Palin's Support of Bailouts »
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Amazing that when presented with Palin's actual quote, denied it anyway. Powerful belief, to override facts. That's the type of supporter Palin needs to keep ...
4 weeks ago 1 reply View »
38 comments from 17 members total
Gaffe-Prone Biden Embarrasses Nation Yet Again By Sneezing During Meeting - The Onion »
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"Are you sure this is satire?"
I know. This sort of thing is usually enough to get the extremists worked into feverish outrage. ...4 weeks, 1 day ago 0 replies View »
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Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate »
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Idiot Beck and Palin the Quitter? Please do it! Run Sarah run!
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Will the Hadron Collider send the world into a black hole? »
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This was discussed awhile back. The answer is yes. The world will end when they flip the switch. At least I won't have to worry ...
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The Weekly Standard's ACLU Smear Indicts Only Itself »
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FTA: "Here are the profoundly un-American "principles" he implicitly - and at times explicitly - embraces:
1. If the Government asserts accusations against ...4 weeks, 1 day ago 0 replies View »
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? »
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Whenever the wingnuts get into their state of frothing outrage, it's a good bet the source of their outrage is a deception. The only thing ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago 1 reply View »
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'Fearmonger in Chief' Beck goes militia, warns of impending 'New World Order' »
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His show needs a laugh track.
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Our Most Embarrassing President? »
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Nixon bowed to Chairman Mao: http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/17/attention-right-...
Now what?4 weeks, 1 day ago 1 reply View »
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10 year old uses marijuana for autism, with positive results »
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Knowledge is power (for change): Health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are ...
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Could be. Maybe wolfie thinks the family voted Democrat - that's usually the trigger for condemnation from a neocon. However, I'm told that wolfie doesn't ...
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US Army suicides on track to hit new high in 2009 »
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I only referenced one article because the Propeller filter won't allow multiple links, but there are numerous articles that document the increase. And as I ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago 1 reply View »
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The Army acknowledges this despite your denials.
The suicide rate among Army soldiers reached its highest level in three decades in 2008, military ...4 weeks, 1 day ago 3 replies View »
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Frank Schaeffer Warns Against New Religious Right Threat to Obama (Psalms 109:9) »
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Hear, hear. Using God for cheap political theatrics is contemptible no matter what organization it comes from. I won't take this article to generalize about ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago 0 replies View »
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It's evil that perverts the Bible this way.
1 month ago 0 replies View »
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Giving hypocrisy a bad name »
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You know what else is revealing? That the Republicans were against the use of filibusters during W's reign and now are pointing the fingers at ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago 0 replies View »
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End the GOP's filibuster folly »
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Yep. More hypocrisy from the GOP.
From their greasy lips during W's terms: Up or down...the president gets to pick his justices...senate's role ...1 month ago 1 reply View »
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