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It's really hurts the Democratic party when liberal ideologues endorse Republican candidates
It must have been the liberal ideologues who endorsed Christie in NJ because we all know that pragmatic moderate centrist Democrats would never do such a damaging thing to the party they care more about than life itself.
I mean endorsing Republicans is the logical next evil step after not voting for Democrats, isn't it?
Hyperbole and a Half: The dinosaur costume was the greatest thing that had ever happened to me.
Allie does her usual hilarious job of talking about her life, the drawings are great too..
This is a long piece, read the rest of it at the link.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html
It is also dangerous.
And it is especially dangerous when applied to four-year-olds.
Four-year-olds lack the experience to wield power responsibly. They have no idea what to do with it or how to control it.
But they like it.
I never knew who said it until I just now looked it up: "Politics makes strange bedfellows"
This OP prompted by the current Booker/Paul food fight OP.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner
A couple of other choice quotes from Mr Warner...
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
I can download a torrent @ 200 KB/sec + on my connection but regular downloads are 20 KB/sec or less
I've tried Chrome, Firefox and now Opera and have had miserable success in downloading with all three but torrents with Microtorrent come in like gangbusters so I don't think it's an actual bandwidth restriction.
Every now and then a regular download will speed up to 100KB/sec or more but only very temporarily and then it's right back down to dialup speeds or even worse again.
Any ideas what the problem might be or what I should look at?
Daniel Waples - Solo hang played in a tunnel :)
Lucie Silvas - Nothing Else Matters (Radio 2 Concert)
No One Knows What It's Like To Be ... On A Mission From God
Comment #15 by TAPX486 knocks it out of the park
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/10/15/no-one-knows-what-its-like-to-be-hated-to-be-fated/
I think it is mistake to call them crazy or unhinged. They are not. They are working from a very specific world view. Just because that worldview does not accord with the majority world view doesnt make them crazy, mistaken maybe. but not crazy. The Iranian mullahs are working from a specific world view and they are not crazy either. It may be a worldview that we dont understand or accept but we have to deal with it. The same goes for the religious right.
The problem is I have no idea how you acknowledge their world view and still run a 21st century economic/political system that isnt based on visions of the second coming.
Error Recovery
Mark Kelly gives an astronaut’s view of ‘Gravity’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-kelly-gives-an-astronauts-view-of-gravity/2013/10/11/2b4e5e6c-3286-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html?hpid=z14Last weekend, my wife, Gabby, and I went to see the movie Gravity at our neighborhood theater in Tucson. Im a retired astronaut who has been to space four times, so Im usually a bit skeptical of films that take place in space. For me, watching movies about space is like a congresswoman watching House of Cards. Its entertaining, but its obviously not the real thing.
(. . .)
But the truth is, most of this doesnt matter. Cuarón has given us a glimpse of the awe that is the universe beyond our atmosphere. And physics aside, he does it remarkably well.
My only hope is that we continue our exploration of space in real life, too. The majority of NASA employees have been furloughed as a result of the government shutdown. If Sandra Bullocks Dr. Ryan were a real person, shed still be waiting on the beach somewhere on planet Earth.
So, do me a favor. After you see Gravity, tell your member of Congress. Perhaps it will inspire them to put NASA employees back to work.
Read the rest of the piece at the link.
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