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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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We'll see how hypocritical they are when a repubican does something praiseworthy. Quote:
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05-06-2011, 01:48 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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@ bri: awesome poem.
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05-06-2011, 01:13 PM
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After reading this sad, hateful thread I've decided to post this poem here. It explains how I feel about myself and this thread and the Cellar, as it has been these past few days. I'm not being cheeky or tongue in cheek. I'm being honest about my feelings.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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05-06-2011, 01:41 PM
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I agree Bri. The second coming is nigh. When the Republican control both houses and the presidency, then the dawn of the era will begin
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05-06-2011, 01:42 PM
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i knew someone would shit all over my post.
Why try?
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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05-06-2011, 02:55 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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This is the dawning of the age of nefarious, age of nefarious
NE FAR EEEEEEE ous
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05-06-2011, 03:00 PM
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05-06-2011, 04:00 PM
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I believe classic crystallized it best, first when he said the refusal of the House to pass a similar bill is because the leadership does not want to acknowledge a political point for their political opponent.
They have LOUDLY made their political point of their own, though. I find their refusal petty.
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05-06-2011, 04:20 PM
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Flint makes an important observation that, having been in the lie-making industry for 30 something years, I can personally corroborate.
What you see as "news" is often not even based on actual events.
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05-06-2011, 04:24 PM
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I'm not saying it didn't happen (a lot of things happen). I'm saying: who cares?
If it had no other purpose than to intentionally outrage people, why was it shown? Why were news consumers outraged, and why did this discussion happen? To further the cause of political divisiveness? Mission Accomplished. Meanwhile, many things that were actually important passed by without comment. The news is largely nonsense.
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To shreds, you say?
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As a friend of mine says, "There's what He said, and there's what She said, and there's what really happened." And I agree about the one purpose being political divisiveness. Another thought I usually have is "Who stands to profit from this story and in what way?" You can usually follow the money trail back to the source.
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Dude, are you banging my wife?
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To shreds, you say?
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