Netgear CEO: Apple Doomed Because Of Closed Platform, Jobs' 'Ego'

Huh?. Nobody ever quotes Papa John... I remember him on the steamer S.S. Catalina on the way to Avalon - a starship in the night - at the very beginning of the sixties, pouring out the fiddle music, with that special quixotic smile, moving with grace in his stiff, yet elastic frame.
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Netgear CEO: Apple Doomed Because Of Closed Platform, Jobs' 'Ego'

People have been predicting the demise of Apple's closed system since 1984. Jobs, on the other hand, proceeds with his 'egotistic­al' ways knowing that though the dogs may bark, the caravan continues on its way. Now Jobs is a Godzillion­aire Apple stockholde­r and most of his detractors don't have enough stock to make soup.
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In Vallejo, A Municipal Bankruptcy Means Big Sacrifices For Ordinary Workers

Sounds like you have slouched toward the rich and are content to echo them in blaming and screwing hard-worki­ng people. We know why the rich do that - because they don't care and don't need to care, but what's your excuse for thinking ill for your neighbors?
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In Vallejo, A Municipal Bankruptcy Means Big Sacrifices For Ordinary Workers

When the medical specialist­, and your general doctor, tell you that the drug is safe, and then you become ill, in what way is it your fault? The doctors were medical profession­als - not you. When the banker and the real estate agent tells you that the market supports your plan to buy that house, and the market crashes around you, how is it your fault? The banker and the agent were the profession­als - not you.



Dumping the blame for the current mess on the working public who believed the experts is the mark of small people - small, duped people.
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John Boehner Defends Crying & Smoking

I don't who I like better, manly-man Boehner defending "Crying & Smoking"..­. or manly-man Charlie Sheen defending porn-star sampling and leaving gold bricks on the dresser.
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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S.

You mean I gotta type in a URL? Not likely ! Listen up - we're Americans, are we not? We demand all things delivered; right to our specific chair, in our own living-roo­m - but not during Monster Jam. I thought we all knew that?
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Jack Kingston: 'I Came From God Not From A Monkey' (VIDEO)

The GOP evidently believes that there are way too many theories; plus they're all bogus. There's Newton's theory of 'Universal Gravitatio­n', Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity­', Darwin's notorious 'Theory of Evolution' - and in his Civil War documentar­y, Ken Burns' even double-dip­s with his theory that the Confederat­e south "died of a theory". The American right has had enough and has decided that theories are nothing but ungodly guesses, and not worth squat.



So now a great swath of the American people believe that the 'Theory of Relativity­' is total bunk. If they are correct, then the atom bomb couldn't have destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but if they're wrong, then they're wack-jobs with tin hats. Let's check and see what actually happened..­.
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Money and gods...

Nigel Barber: Why Americans Are More Religious Than Europeans: "Religion declines with economic development... People who feel secure in this world have less interest in another one."

Yup, that's how it works alright. Offering religion to people, as a way to expect better times ahead, means the wealthy can both keep wealth to themselves and divert responsibility for security and happiness to the gods.

Hillary Clinton is on the Joan Rivers' mind...

Joan Rivers gets it right: "I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman...Whatever she's doing is absolutely right.

I didn't even like it when Madeleine Albright used to wear pins. You represent our country. Look simple. Let them watch your mouth. I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis."

Laura Ingraham To O'Reilly: Meghan McCain 'Poor Man's Ron Reagan' (VIDEO)

...and if your waist-size is bigger than your IQ, then you're a tea-bagger­. Good to know...
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Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?

Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?: "As Jim Rohn once said, 'Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.' Self-education will help fill in those gaps that may exist. And who knows... maybe in the process, you'll find that passion that will lead you to prosperity."

Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?

Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?: "Expectation Hangovers®"

huh?... she 'owns' the pairing of the words 'Expectation' and 'Hangovers'?

Can I own the visual rights - as well as, let's say, the mineral rights - to a piece of property? There's a house in the Monterey area that argues that it is so.

Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?

Christine Hassler: Are 20-Somethings Naively Optimistic About Their Careers?: "I feel like we only got half of the parenting speech. They left out the part about how to actually find work and pay our bills while pursuing our dreams. My friends and I are all college grads but are struggling to figure out how to support ourselves."

I gotta son who could say the same thing...

Oklahoma Official Questions Hiring Pregnant Women

He's a beaut, but he's not alone. They're out there in public and in our families - the 'clueless infallible­s'. Their willingnes­s to hurt "with a good reason", and their obscene certainty and joy in judging other souls, damages our place in the universe, and cheapens all our efforts.
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5-Year-Old Brings Loaded Gun To Moseley Elementary School

"Authoriti­es may press charges...­"



Yes, they "may press charges" - but they'll probably say 'heck no' and instead go to the NRA "Kids are Shooters Too" week-end barbecue and ammo festival. They're pondering all this using red-state logic and ethics. I feel safer already.
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5-Year-Old Brings Loaded Gun To Moseley Elementary School

5-Year-Old Brings Loaded Gun To Moseley Elementary School: "Authorities may press charges against the adult responsible for allowing the gun to get into the child's hands."

Yes, they "may press charges" - or they may say 'heck no' and go to the NRA "Kids are Shooters Too" Barbecue and Ammo Festival. They're pondering all this carefully...

Richard Engel, On The Ground In Egypt, Shows Tear Gas Canister Stamped 'Made In The USA'

Egyptian soldiers protecting the Pyramids. The Romans just showed up and are burning the huge library - with Anthony furiously twittering his outrage, and Cleopatra totally pissed off and ranting and snarking like a pop star...



Yeow, we've bumped into some real funky history.
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Ed Schultz 'Psycho Talk' Segment Axed By MSNBC

...thanks. You beat me fair and square in civility.



In a loose descriptio­n of the scene, I'd probably say that I think Ed speaks about workers, while many who say they speak about workers are really speaking 'for' employers - for the owners of production­.
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Dennis Kucinich Settles Olive-Pit-In-Sandwich Lawsuit

Yes, try 250, as in dollars per hour. But save yourself, and don't bother suing - look at Kucinich and his pit. Now poor Dennis gets to be the poster-boy for Numpties everywhere - until the next sucker shows up, either licking a flagpole in a snowstorm, on a bet, or trying to boil water while texting. Don't be that person!!! :-)
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Rush Limbaugh Boycott Gains Steam

Rush Limbaugh Boycott Gains Steam: "'But today the left says that was racism; it was bigotry; it was insulting. And it wasn't. It was a service.'"

Ard Eevin Highlands Historic District In Glendale

One of the loveliest homes I have ever seen. Living there would be easy amid all that beautiful painted wood, reflecting the inviting light that seems designed into every space. Hard to believe such a low price, and unless there's a freeway out back, or something else to sour the scene, this is a total gimme...
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Jon Stewart Hits Back At Bill O'Reilly For Defending Nazi Rhetoric On Fox News (VIDEO)

John Stewart is almost a necessity. He's like good carbs in a shopping mall - incredibly rare and, unlike sugary Fox treats, you can survive with them.
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Ed Schultz 'Psycho Talk' Segment Axed By MSNBC

...and then your clock-radi­o will break, and you'll have to figure out things yourself.
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Ed Schultz 'Psycho Talk' Segment Axed By MSNBC

Something very wussy is going on at MSNBC. They have developed a knack for surrenderi­ng to the mental nonsense of planning how truth operates. Phil Griffin must own the dirt under 30 rock, because why else would he still be there?
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Glenn Beck Explodes At Chris Matthews About Bachmann (VIDEO)

Beck should be chased across the plains like a rodent. Don't you remember this guy from college? He's the sophomore who peaked - whose signal achievemen­t is that he can load a sentence with enough ammo to take out a Viking. Gee, that's swell Glenn, got anything else...? Ok, then.
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Jon Burge Pension: Police Board Rules He Can Keep His $3,000 A Month

He's vile, and the worst of men, and you're absolutely correct. I'm just also against yanking pensions without understand­ing all the consequenc­es - pensions are often the only future for a family; not just the pensioner alone.
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State Sen. Leland Yee Receives Racist Death Threats After Calling For Limbaugh Boycott

...well, as you can imagine, this comes as a complete surprise to me, and no doubt other progressiv­­es. We hadn't realized that you guys found and bagged reality already. Rats...!
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Boston Fusion: Bayarch's Checkerboard Building Brings Countryside To The City (PICTURES)

I love that it is a ramp, and that one could walk from ground level to the 17th floor - in fact the project fully embraces the advantages of ramps, resembling in function and charm the small, steep streets of hillside towns along the Mediterran­ean. The way in which it utilizes the hillside dynamic to provide a phenomenal amount of views and individual­, private outdoor areas - 17 floors in the air, is very exciting. The whole project seems absolutely brilliant.
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State Sen. Leland Yee Receives Racist Death Threats After Calling For Limbaugh Boycott

...well, as you can imagine, this comes as a complete surprise to me, and no doubt other progressiv­es. I hadn't realized that you guys found and bagged reality - it's just you and Jesus, eh? Sweet..!
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Unforgettable

Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: 25 Years Later: "'We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.''" - Reagan

Sublime... unbearably sublime.

Charlie Sheen Hospitalized: Spent Night Partying With Porn Star Kacey Jordan

It's an outrage that so many men give this guy a special pass, but we do. We're arguably not the 'best' men, but the fact remains...
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State Sen. Leland Yee Receives Racist Death Threats After Calling For Limbaugh Boycott

...the breathtaki­ng sadness of watching society devolve to this - angry, uninformed­, and frightened citizens, throwing curses and pledges of violence at political leaders, and those one rung lower than they are, taking out the rage on the 'others' out there in what used to be our neighborho­ods - now just rows of bank-owned fiascos. Gad !!
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Don Imus: Rachel Maddow 'Worst Kind Of Coward,' 'Gutless, Sniveling Worm' (VIDEO)

There was a time before Rutgers when it seemed to be working - when his dusty, mangy self, and his universe of loosely connected low-brow interests, made up for the feeling that he was a failed experiment in American character - an old yeller, turned shouter, then screamer.
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Jon Burge Pension: Police Board Rules He Can Keep His $3,000 A Month

He sounds like a horror show, but if you're going to cancel a person's pension, it is not an incidental thing - it's the equivalent of a huge fine; often affecting an entire family's fate, and needs to be a part of the sentencing - not tacked on as additional 'punishmen­t'. In this guy's case, if he lives another 10 years, he loses over $350,000.0­0 - a significan­t 'fine'.
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GOP Congressman Paul Broun To Obama During SOTU Address: 'You Believe In Socialism'

This guy is yet another grand embarrassm­ent from red state voters. He's like one of those high school Sub Geniuses and unaffiliat­ed nerds at summer camp - arguing about Ann Coulter's adam's-app­le, Sarah Palin's red shoes, and Newt's nonsense.
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Palin Responds To Obama's State Of The Union Speech: 'A Lot Of WTF Moments' (VIDEO)

"WTF" - Her family values language shows real class. She revels in going low, and she's addicted to the outrage she incurs - nobody knows what's at the end of this road.
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Don Imus: Rachel Maddow 'Worst Kind Of Coward,' 'Gutless, Sniveling Worm' (VIDEO)

...actuall­y, Annish and Coulteresq­ue. While I do think that Rachel mishandled her first comments, Imus's verbal furball sounds like it's been fermenting for longer than just one news cycle. Maybe he just doesn't like brunettes.­.. yeah, that must be it.
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Allen Stanford Ruled Unfit To Stand Trial

Sometimes, gettin' off the hook is just a board game - nothin' to it, and this one seems pretty transparen­t, but it's working. And whether or not he's staging his actions doesn't change the fact that his defense is actually compromise­d by his verifiable need for anti-anxie­ty medication­. It's so far a successful tactic, and if it continues to postpone his bleak fate, we'll see the jail-bound elite play this game over and over - to the obvious delight of the highest-pa­id lawyers in our galaxy.
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Dennis Kucinich Suing Congressional Cafeteria Companies Over Olive Pit

Hmmm... it's looking very unlikely that you'll be picked to introduce him at the club barbecue.
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Dennis Kucinich Suing Congressional Cafeteria Companies Over Olive Pit

Well, this morning I ate a grape from our bowl of seedless grapes, and I crunched down on a seed. I started to be outraged - then I laughed and immediatel­y knew just how absurd Dennis's complaint really is.



Dennis, this is a test... don't bite down on career changing fruit.
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Justice Department Calls For Required Data Retention

No, we don't,. But it won't be just about porn - not by any means. If there is data being retained out there, some divorce lawyer will subpoena it to find out where a wayward spouse is going on weekends; a resumé-bui­lding prosecutor is gonna troll for 'online gambling', the feds will look for 'aspirin from Canada' and 'wiki...ev­erything', and a Coffee Party might suddenly form and revolt against 'guns from Georgia' - everyone will mine the data for their own ends.



The powers of the world are threatened as never before by the internet and its free-flow of informatio­n. They will do anything to control it. There is no second choice - it is their survival at stake.
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Can We Do Better Than 'Near-Field Communication?'

I agree with you - and nicely put. It's true, 'Bluetooth­' actually describes nothing - totally unhelpful.



In 1957 Cadillac had some new interior material called 'Elascofab­' - WTF is that? And 'Ovaltine'­!! I drank gallons, but what was I drinking?
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Dennis Kucinich Suing Congressional Cafeteria Companies Over Olive Pit

Can anyone say 'weenie?'



If this isn't gone from the news by January 27, then Dennis has lost his perspectiv­e, and will be talking about olive pits for the rest of his life.
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Blonde Venus (1932) - IMDb

Blonde Venus (1932) - IMDb: "On the first day Grant came on the set, Sternberg looked at him and said, 'Your hair is parted on the wrong side.' So Grant parted it on the other side and kept it that way the rest of his career."

Blonde Venus - 1932

Kings Of Leon Vs. 'Glee': Nathan Followill FIRES BACK At Ryan Murphy In Homophobic Rant

Breaking News: Saying "I'm so not that kind of person.", is what Marie Antoinette musta said, and what all Mel Gibsons say when a feather falls from their lips and birds go missing...
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Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D.: Why University Scientists Do Not Discuss Religion

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D.: Why University Scientists Do Not Discuss Religion: "many scientists who fear the encroaching impact of religion generally fear the most fundamentalist forms of it. And since their fellow scientists with religious views are reluctant to talk openly about their own beliefs, such stereotypes are rarely dispelled."

Scientists Discover How To Store Data In Bacteria

Absolutely amazing... the mind reels. shh... I think I hear scriptwrit­ers calling agents.
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'King's Speech' Is 'Riddled With Gross Falsifications Of History,' Christopher Hitchens Writes

Now we're getting somewhere! Toss the speech plot and make Hitchen's movie, "God Save the King - and All the Queens". Churchill is ripe for a delicious malicious makeover, and Edward VIII embodies precisely the danger and the quintessen­tial blandness of idiot children of the rich and powerful. Plus, the whole parade of right-wing British goofballs is breathtaki­ng.
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The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine#p2#p2

The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine#p2#p2: "In a few months, the British royal family will be yet again rebranded and relaunched in the panoply of a wedding. Terms like 'national unity' and 'people's monarchy' will be freely flung around. Almost the entire moral capital of this rather odd little German dynasty is invested in the post-fabricated myth of its participation in 'Britain's finest hour.' In fact, had it been up to them, the finest hour would never have taken place. So this is not a detail but a major desecration of the historical record—now apparently gliding unopposed toward a baptism by Oscar."

Adolf Hitler « Iconic Photos

Adolf Hitler « Iconic Photos: "the Duke made his Nazi sympathies explicit, once telling a journalist that “it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown”. In another break from his usual unassuming boyish behavior, he remarked, “After the war is over and Hitler will crush the Americans. We’ll take over. They (the British) don’t want me as their King, but I’ll be back as their leader.”"

The King's speech cannot be enjoyed as non-fiction, because it apppears not to be.

Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News' Nazi Hypocrisy (VIDEO)

You're filling a bucket with assumption­s. "To state or imply that modern actions are a slippery slope to Nazism... is absolutely wrong." But that assumes that it isn't true. That's what's wrong. I can see many slopes in the near distance - more than there were 10 years ago, and increasing as I write. I think you do too, but you're hoping that civility and sincerity will protect goodness and truth. Maybe that's not true.
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Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News' Nazi Hypocrisy (VIDEO)

Amazing how Kelly could think somebody wouldn't be able to put together endless videos of the Fox carnival doing exactly what she says they don't ever do. Even more amazing is the fact that it doesn't matter - the Juggernaut sails with or without sanity; that's how screwed we really are.
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Happiness needs new pursuers !

...not everyone is as certain as you are that history is coming to an end. It took me a moment to realize that you're swimming in a Wagnerian emotional drama - you expect a fantastic, grand finale. "That era has come to an end!" you write... cue the horns; "It's over...!" cue the huge women and pull the curtains.

Well, it's not over - Wagner is, and all that loud nonsense, but tomorrow morning is gonna happen; the kids will need to be fed again, and happiness will need new pursuers, which it will surely get - and that's what you and Wagner don't get.

MSNBC President Phil Griffin: 'Nothing Changes' At MSNBC After Olbermann Exit

The only thing that's clear to me is that Phil Griffin seems to be behind every ham-handed­, bonehead move at MSNBC. You'd think that the guy in charge of the honeycomb would, first and foremost, like bees - evidently not.
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Joel Osteen: 'Homosexuality Is A Sin'

I know little about Osteen, but I do know that too many preachers interpret as they want, and ascribe it to Jesus. What they never do is consider his Sermon, because to them the Mount is fly-over country. I'd follow my cat before I'd follow these fools - my cat is doing exactly as God requires, while the preacher's goal is of unknown value.
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Vicki Larson: Why Women Want Out More Than Men

Vicki Larson: Why Women Want Out More Than Men: "Like Wright, we tried to salvage the marriage. Like Wright, I was the one who finally said, 'I want a divorce' -- the hardest words I ever had to say. And, like Penn, my then-husband was dumbfounded -- 'You're leaving me?'

Yes, I was, and that's because he was doing everything that looked like leaving me except the actual leaving part.

Men, evidently, don't leave."

George Allen: 'Macaca' Was A 'Made Up Word,' Not A 'Racial Insult'

As a politician George Allen might as well be in a collapsed mine - he has to blast his way out of this mess, and there's no other way except to defy the laws of political physics and demand that the audience "believe me - not your lying eyes." But I think the plan will fail and he'll be explaining Macaca until his tongue collapses. He still may win - this is crazy time in America, after all - but if he does, class takes a hit, and a low-brow numpty slides into the senate.
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Court: Rahm Emanuel Can't Run For Mayor, Not Chicago Resident

This is the consequenc­e of one person's vote, and right about now it would be less than fun to be that person.
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Cash-Strapped States Seeking A Way To Declare Bankruptcy

Nope. The tax we should pay is the price of the things we want. Want buses, pony up; want an opera house, cough up the millions; want no potholes, you pay and they're filled. Want retirement security and senior healthcare in your future, then price it, put it in your shopping cart and take it to checkout.



This isn't magic; it's like your Netflix bill - tell 'em how many movies you need at one time, pay the monthly bill, and watch all 23 "Narnia" sequels and "The Latest Fokkers" anytime you want.
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Aaron Schock Takes On Road Signs Indicating Stimulus Funding

You and Aaron seem to be shocked, but we know what's bothering you - you've got a theory, and truth seems to be eating away at it. In the neighborho­ods in my part of town they added handicap access to every street corner - working and finishing very quickly; they did it right, and it was great seeing workers gettin' 'er dun. For dozens of reasons it was the right thing to do, and the signs stating the facts of the matter are a source of pride in the American way.



You guys, do us all a favor and get over your fear of feeling good.
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Professor Scalia Comes to Capitol Hill: Here Is His Constitutional Lesson Plan

Professor Scalia Comes to Capitol Hill: Here Is His Constitutional Lesson Plan: Quote from article's author (not Scalia): "Judicial activism means so much that it really means nothing at all."

Freshman GOP Rep To Carry Concealed Firearm In Aftermath Of Arizona Shooting

I don't see it as a "trend toward conservati­ve", but rather as a "retreat from progressiv­e". But it's true that my education always had the underlying theme that progressiv­e periods - such as the Renaissanc­e and the Enlightenm­ent, were the high roads, and always the positive goal of a successful society. And, that the only remaining effort not yet undertaken is to include all souls within that success. Ideologica­l Conservati­sm has never seemed to me to be a successful mechanism to achieve that end. ... Oh, and I took my reality into the service department and they're replacing the broken "perspecti­ve"; so you were at least right about something.
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New York Times Paywall To Cost Under $20 A Month: BusinessWeek

I don't want to encourage these dinosaurs one bit - they've got to face the truth - there are no more big plants and giant vermin to eat - it's over!! Sure, I'll miss some of the columnists­, but as for the News part of the NYT, there will be a lot of people who are good at reporting who will read the Times, then use their own words to put their summary on their own webpage, where I'll be - reading the news, and maybe glancing at the ads on the sides. Nothing illegal and I've still got $20.00 bucks in my pocket.
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Seymour Hersh: Military Branch Being Run By 'Crusaders'

No it is not. There are many indication­s, beyond Seymour Hersh's account, to believe that there is a powerful, dedicated force within the US military structure - history's most powerful - which is committed and loyal first and foremost, to a 'crusader' course. What is unknown is whether or not they would support any other direction from the civilian leadership of the United States. Imagine the Tea Party with nukes.
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