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    A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Vote for Optimism and Change, Not More Horror

    Video highlights:

    PRIORITIES

    Tax cut for 95% of working Americans

    End tax breaks for “outsourcers”

    Reduce health care costs

    Energy independence

    Better education

    FUNDING

    Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq

    Bailout oversight

    Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire

    Close corporate loopholes

    Audit spending and eliminate programs that don’t work



    walk and knock for the hungry

    This year’s Walk & Knock canned & boxed food drive is taking place December 6th, with opportunities to volunteer that day, and/or on Saturday Oct. 25 and Saturday Nov. 29, when we’ll be folding the paper Walk & Knock grocery bags that will be put into the Columbian for subscribers.

    You can find information about the event here, and sign up to volunteer here. This [...]



    Cleese on Palin, Palin for President

    John Cleese of Monty Python’s Flying Circus says he used to think “Michael Palin was the funniest Palin”:

    For those of you who do not know Michael Palin, here is Michael Palin for President:

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    Vidal on the US elections

    Gore Vidal is a true national treasure. The first part of this 7 minute video has a brief bio. The entire 13 minute interview is here.

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    edwards is my pick – who’s yours?

    None of the candidates are perfect, and I wish Edwards was out in front on marriage equality. But I trust that he will do his best for the majority, and that he is not a Clinton-style triangulator who will sell out good policy for power and “political capital.”

    We need to be like the Republicans in this one way: we need to try to win the [...]



    trying to make a silk purse out of a horse’s ass

    It’ll take more than an expensive haircut to make the border nazi attractive to voters:

    Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo is getting his hair clipped for a cause while poking fun at a Democratic rival’s high-dollar haircuts.

    Tancredo, a Colorado congressman, will pay $400 for a haircut on Friday – a play on former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ $400 cuts, which appeared on campaign spending reports [...]



    Edwards – Iowa JJ Dinner

    All the speeches from the Iowa JJ Dinner are available on Campaign_Wikia.Com thanks to Chad Lupkes.

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