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A queer person who reads the suttas of Buddha, the words of Christ and the writings of Abraham Heschel. I do not do ad hominem.
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If you aren't willing to go to jail for the beliefs you profess, then what are your beliefs that you live?
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Maybe these individuals should remember that the leaders of civil rights did a lot of writing from U.S. jails.
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The cure for me was Their beauty, the remedy
for me was to
love.
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My eye kept telling me, "Something is missing from all I see." So it went in search of the cure.
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When an animal is wounded no one has to tell it,
"You need to heal"
so naturally it will nurse
itself the best it can.
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Why is it we think of God so much?
why is there so much talk
about love?
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This is a damning indictment of our lack of US civics or the retention of US civics in our lives, to turn something so fundamental into a game show.
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Amen, George Packer.
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I like Kurt Vonnegut line from "The Breakfast of Champions"
"In nonsense is strength."
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Amen Sarah!
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—that is, themselves and their own record." As in their own court rulings and ethical failings.
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This is a wonderful in depth article that goes into the dilemma of Roberts court in wanting to stop Trump, "When Roberts and those of his colleagues who choose to join him set out on this high road, they may quickly find themselves saying, “We have met the enemy, and it is us”
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Demand that they do whatever parliamentarian/political actions they can. Demand that they make speeches from the rostrum of the Senate and House. Have them say it loud and as often as they can.
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I like this variation by Kurt Vonnegut "In nonsense is strength."
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I say that their thinking is as superficial as the image is.
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For Trump, each win is beautiful. For anyone else who wins, it's a problem.
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I'm sure there are plenty of experienced, articulate individuals among the those fired who can one up Bill Clinton and say I don't just feel your pain, I know your pain.
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My suggestion is that the Democratic party needs to recruit the various federal employees who've been fired in swing districts and get them running.
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What needs to be said here is, it's about winning a majority. Winning a battle while being outnumbered can happen in a war, it can not be done in politics.
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I’m sure there are a lot of intelligent, articulate people who know what is needed to make government effective again and want the U.S. to recommit to the U.S. constitution, from its preamble to the bill of rights.
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Someone posted this Monday; but, I neglected to get the name.
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100 % agree.
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In a speech of January 1846, the great free-trader Richard Cobden said of the protectionists of his day: