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raffaellasworldThis week has been insane. No let up, I've barely had time to run to the bathroom twice a day.
I intended to at least catch up on the good stuff, Gamer geek fun, etc. but see above statment about lack of time.
Here are two quick blurbs, then I'm back to the grind
Amazingly cool memorial made out of table salt. Statues intended to corrode:
http://lotstribe.typepad.com/lots_tribe/
Also, stumbled across this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912584/page/2/
The two things that most caught my attention are:
"In four simple words last Friday, the President brought into sharp focus what has been only vaguely clear these past five-and-a-half years - the way the terrain at night is perceptible only during an angry flash of lightning, and then, a second later, all again is dark.
“It's unacceptable to think," he said.
It is never unacceptable to think.
And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on one topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase extracted from its context, he takes us toward a new and fearful path -- one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic visionaries."
And one of my favorite parts of our Declaration of Independence:
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”
I intended to at least catch up on the good stuff, Gamer geek fun, etc. but see above statment about lack of time.
Here are two quick blurbs, then I'm back to the grind
Amazingly cool memorial made out of table salt. Statues intended to corrode:
http://lotstribe.typepad.com/lots_tribe/
Also, stumbled across this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912584/page/2/
The two things that most caught my attention are:
"In four simple words last Friday, the President brought into sharp focus what has been only vaguely clear these past five-and-a-half years - the way the terrain at night is perceptible only during an angry flash of lightning, and then, a second later, all again is dark.
“It's unacceptable to think," he said.
It is never unacceptable to think.
And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on one topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase extracted from its context, he takes us toward a new and fearful path -- one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic visionaries."
And one of my favorite parts of our Declaration of Independence:
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”
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Date: 2006-10-08 04:12 am (UTC)my favorite contemporaneous quote is
"That government is best which governs least." Thomas Paine
I would care little who the president was if the office (and the whole federal government) has half as impotent as it was meant to be.
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Date: 2006-10-10 07:27 pm (UTC)How's life treating you, daddyman? I saw the pictures, she's a cutie-pie.