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Oct 26, 2009 1:36pm
“ Oh, great. Thanks for the warning about cutting back “population” the hard way. Germany. ” - “The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children.”
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Oct 20, 2009 9:17am
“ Where the White House has gone way overboard is in its decision to treat Fox as an outright enemy and to go public with the assault. Imagine the outcry if the Bush administration had pulled a similar hissy fit with MSNBC. ” -

PostPartisan - Obama’s dumb war with Fox News

N.B. I don’t support Fox and have seen some atrocious things on there.  Oddly, I find myself in the position of supporting Fox because what the Administration is doing is worse than anything Fox could do - they’re demeaning the office of the President.

As with everything this administration does, turn the parties around, substitute Bush and his team for Obama and his, and if you have differing reactions based on who the actor is, ask yourself why.
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Oct 14, 2009 7:06pm
“ And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. ” - Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn - Telegraph
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Oct 14, 2009 12:06pm
“ It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember… and I need to remember… Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in. ” -

American Beauty (1999) - Memorable quotes

This is how I’ve felt about a lot of things in life.  Inexplicable beauty everywhere.
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Oct 13, 2009 2:18pm
“ A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. ” - Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
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Oct 12, 2009 8:17pm
“ We’ve got ourselves a real health care shooting war now,” said Robert Laszewski, a former health insurance executive turned consultant. “The industry has come to the conclusion that the way things are going in Congress, we’ll have a … formula that will be disastrous for their business, so they can’t stand on the sidelines any longer. ” -

My Way News - Dems scramble after warning from health insurers

Well, duh.  It’s hard to have empathy with insurance companies who deny coverage to the sick, but it’s also naïve to think that changes to the health care system wouldn’t have ramifications.  Wishful thinking otherwise.
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Oct 10, 2009 3:03pm
“ Remember, during the Bush years, when our friends on the left (rightfully) bemoaned those who “questioned the patriotism” of opponents of the war in Iraq? Those who harrumphed that to not support the president was to support the terrorists? Well, that was then. Here is the DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse, speaking to Politico’s Ben Smith: “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists - the Taliban and Hamas this morning - in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. ” - Praise Our Nobel Laureate, You Churlish Anti-American - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
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Oct 6, 2009 9:42am
“ So for the FTC to go after bloggers and social media – as they explicitly do – is the same as sending a government goon into Denny’s to listen to the conversations in the corner booth and demand that you disclose that your Uncle Vinnie owns the pizzeria whose product you just endorsed. ” -

FTC regulates our speech «  BuzzMachine

Under what theory of the First Amendment is the FTC regulating the Internet?
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Oct 6, 2009 12:14am
“ As the journalist Henry Hazlitt wrote in his classic, “Economics in One Lesson,” you can’t raise living standards by breaking windows so some people can get jobs repairing them. ” - Cash for Clunkers Fails to Help Economy and Environment - WSJ.com
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Oct 5, 2009 1:09am
“ Here’s an example, from Leigh Allen of San Francisco, who said she relies on The Times to keep her informed: “I often don’t hear about the latest conflict until I read a Facebook rant from an old high school friend or talk on the phone with my mother (both in conservative Orange County, Calif.). It’s embarrassing not to be able to respond with facts when I hadn’t even heard about the issue.” Michele Cusack of Novato, Calif., said that when someone asked if she had heard the latest about Acorn, “I had to answer ‘no’ because I get all my news from The New York Times. ” -

The Public Editor - Notes About Bias, From Opposite Points of View - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

This is what I’ve been ranting about all these years.  That we, as Americans, are being let down by our journalists slanting their coverage.  We are simply not served by slanted coverage - report and then let Americans sort out the truth.
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