Letters to the Editor
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Ah, yes, I remember, clownsense, I do
Boudu, yes? Boudu sauvé des eaux. If he knocks at my door, I let him in, and I ask no questions.
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Article about Fred Hiatt's piece
You wrote that you wanted to write about this yourself, so in case you did not see this yet:
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/dependable_renegade/2007/03/fred_hiatt_hate.html
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I've been incognito all morn. And incorrigible too.
I could not get my computer to 'run' all morning. I could have dug a hole to Arizona while waiting for the molasses to flow after I hit the Send Letter section and editorialize. Transubstantiation?
I thing a 'little nsa's man' is growling inside on certain days in my tummy? My computer too? I no knot nothing' But, I doubt your family would let me see you when I knock On Heaven's Door? They may say, "Don't you have anything better to do than come here from Clear Spring to knock on this door to see a goofy lumberjack man?" I'll persist. See you later.
Holy Yukon Potato soup! Plant a 8-foot row: tan flesh, purple skins, yellow banana, white smooth inner flesh..etc, varieties...thanks? forgive 'us our daily trespassers. Maybe we can get a lawyer to appeal the decision?
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Here's where I go....
When I want good solid (and unshrill...) info on Plamegate....
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/03/the_libby_lobby.php
David Corn was after all rather central to the whole thing.
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Gator90 AIPAC
Gator,
In your burrowing through the AIPAC website and other materials, have you seen any evidence of any position that AIPAC has taken towards Iran?
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I, democrat
Elohim molded clay and called it "Adam". Elohim thought by naming it they controlled it. "Adam" did not know he existed until he was given a name. This was the first Master/Slave relationship. As Elohim only understood master/slave relationships, they gave Adam a "companion", and called it "Eve". Elohim considered "them" things of amusement, they were "free" so long as they did not displease Elohim (us). Elohim commanded not to eat from Tree Of Knowledge of Good and Evil out of fear that the fruit would make "Adam" and "Eve" unto them, as gods. Elohim had mistaken IGNORANCE for STRENGTH, and numbers for power. When Eve and Adam ate the fruit, they were born as individuals - Elohim cast them from the Garden because Elohim had themselves not eaten from the Tree. Elohim feared knowledge, they had given the tree a name and mistaked that for an explanation.
Elohim had believed We are all the same, thus we are multitude. When Human realized we are all different, thus we are all the same, democracy was born.
E pluribus, unum.
The world could begin a new.
I, Human. We, Humans. We are all Humans.
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Invisible men
"I read his most recent post about the libby conviction, and I just can't figure out how people like this function in the real world"
You can't understand what he's saying, so you don't notice him. We can hear someone, but that doesn't mean we hear that person.
When we fail to communicate we become afraid, we do not trust. We attack first.
"Hellen Keller" was born June 27, 1880 - she became blind and deaf before she could become Human. She barely knew she existed, she was a savage, a brute; the world frightened it, it lashed out in anger at its strange surroundings, "just go away, world."
Then she was given the Word, she could speak. Helen Keller was born and the world came into view. She could see further than many who had forgotten their eyes, taken them for granted.
"At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him...Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent."
She was invisible; "why is this thing, this blind and deaf thing trying to talk to me ... what is "it" saying?"
Its saying I'm a person, too. We're suffering a deficit of manners. There is no such thing as legitimate force, we can only approximate it. When Hitler learned that, he commit suicide - the circle completed itself.
That's what happened in Animal Farm, the circle completed itself Same=Samer.
When we can't communicate, we want to sever the corpus callosum. When we still can't get rid of our "other" we want to eliminate it, but too late we realize we eliminate ourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Crystal
The film takes place on Thra, a planet with three suns; the Great Sun, the Rose Sun and the Dying Sun.
One thousand years before the beginning of the movie, the urSkeks cracked the Crystal of Truth, and split into two races during the Great Conjunction of the three suns - the hunchbacked, gentle beings known as Mystics (or urRu in the original drafts and novelization), and the vulture-like, cruel bipedal beings known as Skeksis. In that moment the Crystal became the Dark Crystal. The Skeksis drove the Mystics from the castle where the shattered crystal resided and then instituted a reign of terror over their world. Their wrath was particularly directed toward the elf-like Gelflings due to a prophecy that promised the restoration of the crystal and the end of the Skeksis' power. The prophecy, rediscovered in an ancient Gelfling city, read:
“ When single shines the triple sun,
What was sundered and undone
Shall be whole, the two made one,
By Gelfling hand, or else by none."
When reason and passion communicate, conscience emerges. When they can't communicate they hate each other, they hate themself.
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Casual
From what I saw on its website, AIPAC believes that Iran's alleged nuclear program is a major threat to Israel, that Iran supports terrorism against Israel, and that Iran is a nasty rogue nation generally. It apears to support economic sanctions and international diplomatic efforts to rein in the alleged nuclear program. I hope, but can't say I know, that those who believe it has a darker, more warlike agenda are wrong. (Personally, I do not think Iran is any threat to Israel at all, but reasonable minds may differ on that.)