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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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Schwarzenegger takes shots at Palin's global warming stance »
Posted by: 1 week, 5 days ago in Political News
"I think there are people that just don't believe in fixing and working on the environment. They don't believe there is such a ...
(read more)Read (39) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at sacbee.com
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This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity »
Posted by: 1 week, 5 days ago in Political Opinion
It's hard for a species used to ever-expanding frontiers, but survival depends on accepting we live within limits.
(read more)Read (33) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at guardian.co.uk
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Coldplay - Square One »
Posted by: 1 week, 6 days ago in Arts & Entertainment
From the start in your own way
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You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are (Glastonbury 2005)Read (38) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at youtube.com
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Marijuana legalization initiative headed for 2010 ballot, organizers say »
Posted by: 1 week, 6 days ago in News
Supporters of an initiative that would legalize marijuana in California say they have collected enough signatures to ensure that it will be on the November ...
(read more)Read (48) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at latimesblogs.latimes.com
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Gallup: GOP Losing Lead Among Independents »
Posted by: 1 week, 6 days ago in Political News
The conventional wisdom for some time has been that Dems are bleeding support among independents, and this claim - based, in fairness, on a number of ...
(read more)Read (48) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at theplumline.whorunsgov.com
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A Mounting Suicide Rate Prompts an Army Response »
Posted by: 1 week, 6 days ago in News
"Soldiers who are suffering from posttraumatic stress are six times more likely to commit suicide than those that are not," General Peter Chiarelli told the ...
(read more)Read (84) | Share | Discuss (2) | Read Full Story at time.com
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Little Green Footballs - Hot Air Comments of the Day »
Posted by: 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Time for another episode of “Hot Air Comments of the Day,” a look into the pestilent sewer of hatred, racism, talk of violent overthrow of ...
(read more)Read (36) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at littlegreenfootballs.com
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Outraged Brits want Blair prosecuted for war crimes »
Posted by: 2 weeks ago in Political News
Tony Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked ...
(read more)Read (61) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at rawstory.com
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Climate change? Well, we'll be dead by then »
Posted by: 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
So as we career towards a mediocre outcome in Copenhagen, why do roughly half the people in this country not believe in man-made climate change ...
(read more)Read (101) | Share | Discuss (5) | Read Full Story at guardian.co.uk
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Review: E-mails show pettiness, not fraud »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Science & Technology
E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global ...
(read more)Read (66) | Share | Discuss (6) | Read Full Story at msnbc.msn.com
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Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Health & Fitness
New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than ...
(read more)Read (44) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at www10.nytimes.com
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Obama declares war on Christmas and Hanukkah! »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Political Opinion
By now, the "war on Christmas" has become a familiar feature of the, um, holiday season, with right-wingers from Bill O'Reilly to Focus on ...
(read more)Read (70) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at salon.com
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Sweeping bank reform bill clears House »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Business & Finance
The House passed legislation Friday aimed at preventing the next big financial crisis, ushering in the most sweeping set of changes to the banking regulatory ...
(read more)Read (58) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at money.cnn.com
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Why Do Airstrikes in Afghanistan Keep Killing Exactly 30 People? »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 2 days ago in News
Pentagon policy from the Rumsfeld days on acceptable kill rates still seems to be the guiding logic for what field commanders are telling the news ...
(read more)Read (80) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at alternet.org
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Cremated remains dumped in Arlington landfill »
Posted by: 2 weeks, 2 days ago in News
Records at Arlington National Cemetery suggest that workers found an urn of cremated remains that had been dumped - presumably accidentally - in a dirt landfill, reburied ...
(read more)Read (40) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at salon.com
