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    Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other

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    Try to Convince Me that You aren't Rascist and/or Delusional

    Time magazine quote of the day today:

    “We sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there … try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose.”

    RUSSELL WISEMAN,  mayor of Memphis suburb, Arlington, Tenn., writing on Facebook that President Obama deliberately timed his Afghanistan war speech to block the Christian message in a Christmas [...]



    Margaret and Helen is Right

    Margaret and Helen weigh in on the lack of  important news coverage in America.  Or put another way, these two wise souls discuss the copious amounts of drivel which parades as news spewed by huge corporations with agendas that are inimical to the best interests of our citizenry.

    Just to give you some perspective:

    1925 -  Ku Klux Klan – 35,000 KKK members marched on Washington
    1963 [...]



    ACORN Head Bertha Lewis on Democracy Now

    Bertha Lewis does a good job defending her organization and speaking out about how her organization is being targeted by those that are no longer in power. She may have made a mistake by not warning her employees that these actors were out there trying to trap employees into providing erroneous advice which would result in crimes being committed. However, in her defense, [...]



    Ted Kennedy Remembered

    Every American should have the opportunity to receive a quality education, a job that respects their dignity and protects their safety, and health care that does not condemn those whose health is impaired to a lifetime of poverty and lost opportunity.  -Ted Kennedy

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    farewell to the king

    Ted Kennedy stumbled into my awareness sometime in the mid-70s, as the butt of late-night jokes. I didn’t understand the references to driving and bridges and drowning, but I did understand that this Kennedy was some relation to the demi-god who was assassinated before I was born, and his younger brother, who was assassinated shortly after.

    I felt my birth order position keenly in those [...]



    Edward Kennedy Eulogy of Robert Kennedy

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    His brothers would have been very proud of him.

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    On behalf of Mrs. Robert Kennedy, her children and the parents and sisters of Robert Kennedy, I want to express what we feel to those who mourn with us today in this Cathedral and around the world. We loved him as a brother and father and son. From his parents, and [...]



    Hartmann To Obama: Drop Public Option - Good Idea! KISS Principal

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    Hartmann lays out a perfect solution to the health care debacle.  Why don’t we have more people like him running our government?

    Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

    Dear President Obama,

    I understand you’re thinking of dumping your “public option” because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good [...]

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