Be Careful What You Wish For!
Expecting a nice little refund check? Keep in mind the fact that you sold another piece of your soul for that $300.
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said on Wednesday such a deal was within reach, but he called a special meeting of Democratic senators for 10 a.m. Thursday to discuss the surveillance bill and the stimulus plan, indicating that the fate of those bills was now linked.
Emphasis mine. Found buried in the very last paragraph here.
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Door to Door for Dr. Paul
My feet hurt and I’ve got some chafing. I’ll just let you all know that. It was, however, worth it. Today a group of local supporters did some canvassing around Spartanburg. If you haven’t seen us yet, keep looking! We’ll be on the East Side tomorrow.
One thing I heard over and over was, “He’s got great ideas, but he can’t win.” Really? If everyone who said that came out and voted, maybe we’d get somewhere! It’s amazing how many people immediately assume a defeatist attitude.
Another man told me that although he agreed with him, he didn’t think he had enough money to compete. I informed him that Dr. Paul has $20 million in the bank and Rudy’s people are working pro bono - involuntarily, I might add. If only we all paid attention…
I Feel Safer…How About You?
Not one, but two - that’s right, two five year olds are on the no-fly list. From BoingBoing:
A five-year-old boy was taken into custody and thoroughly searched at Sea-Tac because his name is similar to a possible terrorist alias. As the Consumerist reports, “When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk.
Round one, yesterday. And today, this:
Saw the article you posted on Boing Boing about the five year old on the no-fly list. My son, also five, is on that same list and it’s a nightmare. Every time we fly with him, we can’t use the computer terminals to check in and the attendant has to call some never named government agency to make sure he’s not a terrorist. Some attendants joke it off but some are insanely serious about it. His seat always goes unassigned (even if it was assigned when the reservation is made) which always causes problems.
Everyone calls people crazy when they talk of a police state and encroachment on civil liberties. Well, here you go. You can keep your Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security. Let’s fix the real problem and quit meddling in the affairs of others, huh?
South Carolina SBE Votes on Biology Text
Where Are They?
John F. Kennedy appeared as the quote of the day in my Gmail, so I followed the link and read a few of his quotations.
I was absolutely blown away.
Of course, I’d heard most of these in school and in video clips growing up. The thing that scares me the most is how far we’ve deviated from what America used to stand for. If you don’t believe me, here are a few to think about:
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The very word ’secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
Make an attempt to find that level of intelligence today. Show me a single candidate with that much depth.
We have to look to the past if we want to see the future. The time is now. Wake up, people.
Then:
Now: