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>I love this quote from one of the people commenting on the article:
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Think she's egregiously abusing the powers of her office? Imagine what she'd be capable of if she was say, VP. Dick Cheney would be "relegated" to sainthood>
>~~Bonnie
Given the sort of wild and wooly culture of Alaska, I think after he tasered the kid it showed alot of restraint not to just take his piece off the board. Taser my nephew, once, and somebody pressuring your boss won't be an issue.
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.
