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calimary

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4. It's also from "Forbidden Planet." Robbie the Robot, caught in a sub-atomic dilemma brought about
Sun Jan 20, 2013, 05:11 AM
Jan 2013

by the conflict between his master's direct order and his built-in inability to harm rational beings.

GREAT stuff.

I find myself yelling back at the TV every time somebody says they want a vigorous two-party system. They want two sides there to offer reasonable discourse and debate of issues. They want both sides, vigorous and well-represented, and blah-blah-blah. Well, I DON'T! I've seen too much wreckage and negativity and hatred and acting out, close-mindedness and narrow-mindedness and divisiveness and tyrannical, hostile arrogance and imperiousness. They've messed up too much. They've fucked up too much. They've sown too many bad seeds. For 30 or 40 years they've systematically gone about reprogramming the national mindset so it's completely cockeyed. Completely wrong. Started in earnest with fucking reagan. Like a toxin, or an opportunistic infection, or a cancer, metastasizing throughout the body politick.

We have a LOT of work to do. As Mad-Eye Moody warned Harry Potter: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!" The enemy never sleeps. So we can't.

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