December 2008
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“A man came up to me after my father was murdered and said, “I hope they...”
– Renny Cushing, NH State Representative
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Geez, Homer
Moe: Come on, don't take this so hard, Homer. You still got that other kid, uh... Lisa. Let's, uh, take her out hunting tomorrow; make her into a man.
Homer: Aw, she'd never go. She's a vegetarian.
Moe: Oh, geez! Homer, geez! You and Marge ain't cousins, are you?
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“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via rainier) (via gregbrown)
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“A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common...”
– James Madison
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“We’re not going to deport 12 million people, so let’s stop this...”
– Mike Bloomberg
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Rick Warren: I‘m opposed to having a brother and sister be together and call that marriage. I‘m opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage. I‘m opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.
Reporter: Do you think those are equivalent to gays getting married?
Rick Warren: Oh, I do.
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Borowitz Report: Recession Resulting in Crappiest... →
It’s true that it’s the thought that counts. But if all you’re going to give is some stupid hand-knit scarf, like the one my sister-in-law just gave me, that’s a pretty shitty thought.
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“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in...”
– Senator Ted Kennedy, following the assassination of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy
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“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
– Gov. Mario Cuomo (D-NY)
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SparkFun Large Solar Cell 8V @ 310 mA
SparkFun Arduino Pro Mini 3.3 V @ 8 MHz w/ FTDI Basic Breakout Board
SparkFun Logomatic V2.0 3.3V CMOS TTL
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“Love is something to do with hugs and kisses and a warm feeling inside.”
– Chelsea on Sesame Street, telling Grover what love is. (via gregbrown)
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“Non-violence supposes above all we are able to fight. But at the same time, it...”
– Gandhi
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Quayle: I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.
Bentsen: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy: I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. (Prolonged shouts and applause.) What has to be done in a situation like that is to call in the —
Quayle: That was really uncalled for, Senator. (Shouts and applause.)
Bentsen: You are the one that was making the comparison, Senator — and I'm one who knew him well. And frankly I think you are so far apart in the objectives you choose for your country that I did not think the comparison was well-taken.
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“We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta...”
– Joseph Lowery, speaking at Coretta Scott King’s funeral
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“I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect...”
– Newt Gingrich
(Source)
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LINK: DPIC: One Year Later, New Jersey Prosecutors... →
We have not viewed it as an impediment in the disposition of murder cases. As a practical matter, we have really seen no difference in the way we conduct our business in prosecuting murder cases.
— Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio, who served on a state study commission that reviewed the death penalty
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Watch
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“The truth needs no defense. Nobody — nobody — can take those...”
– Gene Cernan
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“[A district attorney] may prosecute with earnestness and vigor - indeed, he...”
– Justice George Sutherland, for the majority, Berger v. United States, 1935 (SCOTUS)
Larry Swearingen
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“Look, examine, reflect. You hold capital punishment up as an example. Why?...”
– Victor Hugo, Speech at the Constituent Assembly, September 15, 1848
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Out-going Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Diaz:... →
Even as murderers commit the most cruel and unusual crime, so too do executioners render cruel and unusual punishment…
Just as a cockroach scurrying across a kitchen floor at night invariably proves the presence of thousands unseen, these cases leave little room for doubt that innocent men, at unknown and terrible moments in our history, have gone unexonerated and been sent baselessly to...
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“Noticing that no one held the values I defended, I decided to make a spectacle...”
– Richard Foreman
(Source: The Ethical Spectacle)
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“Ninety-seven percent white, mostly rich, they represent the most right-wing,...”
– Brian Becker describing the delegates at the 2000 GOP Convention
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“The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its...”
– George Soros
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“The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration stands in opposition to the...”
– George Soros
(Emphasis is mine. Source)
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Western Civilization?
Reporter: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
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WatchTwin Epidemics: The Struggle Against TB and HIV
The Open Society Institute (George Soros)
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LINK: MegaNom →
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Wikipedia: Mercury-Redstone 1 →
Not a joke:
“Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was launched on 21 November 1960 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was to be an unmanned suborbital flight. This was the first launch attempt for the Mercury-Redstone combination. It has been referred to as the “Five-Inch Flight”.
The Redstone’s engine cut out about 1 second after lift-off. The launch failure was...
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“When the Sputnik went up, there were a lot of us, not all of us, but a lot of...”
– Max Faget, lead designer of Mercury, contributing designer of Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle. 1921—2004 (source)