“When cosseted, millionaire journalists bellow at the great unwashed population for being stupid and racist and selfish, it almost doesn’t matter what they’re yelling about.  The message is clear: We’re the overlords; you’re the serfs; behave yourselves.

Serfs, of course, are supposed to get yelled at.  Citizens aren’t.  Citizens resent it, and then vote accordingly.” - Rob Long

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“Constitutional rights are small hurdles for covetous lawmakers.” - Investor’s Business Daily

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1 Then we should dig some tiger pits on the far side of the hurdles, shouldn't we?

Posted by: Nathan at 08/26/10 11:50:25 (cBrDo)

2 Is a cilpfile like a clipfile?

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3 I believe it's called "Laptop Keyboard Syndrome."

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4 ...which shall henceforth live on ONLY in the permlink. (heh!)

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“It isn’t enough to win back power.  Conservatives and classical liberals need to do with that power what needs doing.  Our very liberties are at stake — and it will no longer do to attribute to our ideological opponents the benefit of the doubt that they are good men with whom we merely disagree.  They aren’t:  They are the architects of our country’s demise who hope to rebuild in its stead a new society wherein they take their rightful place as our ruling betters.” - Jeff Goldstein

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AP, Which Can’t Issue a Stylebook Guidance To Mention Democratic Party Affliation in Stories About Democratic Lawbreaking, Issues An Important New Diktat to Reporters:

We should continue to avoid the phrase “ground zero mosque” or “mosque at ground zero” on all platforms...  The site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque is not at ground zero, but two blocks away in a busy commercial area.  We should continue to say it’s “near” ground zero, or two blocks away.

Two common factually wrong talking points made by Ground Zero Mosque supporters in private, government and media circles are that:

-- The proposed location is not at Ground Zero, and
-- It is two blocks away.

Neither is true.  The Burlington Coat Factory, the location for the Mosque, was hit by landing gear sheared off of Flight UA 157 when it stuck the South Tower and that gear stuck the roof of the Factory.  An engine from the jet hit further beyond the Factory.  The site of the Mosque is part of Ground Zero.

Second, WTC 7 which was destroyed by the attack, is only one block [away from] the the proposed Mosque location.

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“Isn’t it a shame that ‘intellectual’ has come to mean either ‘ideologically strait-jacketed psuedo-intellectual posuer’ or ‘member in good standing of the righteous-thinking better class,’ depending on your point of view?  We need a word for the smarty-pants type that doesn’t mean, well, smarty-pants.” - “Ernst Schreiber”

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