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>My favorite quote from Jon Stewart, when reviewing the repub debate last week, was right after they show the 2 candidates raising their hand to the question, "Who does not believe in evolution?". After a moment of silence that someone actually answered to the question, Stewart read off their names. Then bid the 3 a fond farewell to them, as I doubt they will go far in the primaries.<
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http://alexfeldstein.blogspot.com/2007/05/if-you-are-stupid-raise-your-hand.html>
I was encouraged at least that I didn't recognize any of the three faces <s>
From your blog :
>This is what the Republican Party has to offer? Welcome to the 18th Century.
>To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Tis best to keep one's hand down and appear stupid, than to raise it and remove all doubt."
more Twain:
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
