Over- and Under-Coming

There are two ways to overcome fear: be convinced you are precious and that God loves you; or know that you are worthless and God doesn't give a shit.

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Neo Trickledown©

Turns out, Obama is an advocate of Neo Trickledown: throw money at banks and corporations and "hope" some of it blows back your way.

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Letting Be

There is a thin line between that tolerance which flows from a genuine respect for difference and dignity and that laissez aller that is apathy of indifference. The one is social, the other is not.

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Praising Him from Whom All Sorrow Flows

Religion is just a Stockholm Syndrome.

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Ignorance

Ignorance is a collection of certainties.
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Justice

Of Banksters: They commit so many injustices, they deserve to suffer injustices. That would be just.
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The Liturgics of Memory

Memory is always shaped to conform to expectations; therefore, remembrance is a religious act.

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The Human Heart

No human heart is pure. Goodness and evil exist in adjacent chambers.

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Republicans

We Republicans are the party of ideological blockage. We will not be metamucilled.
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Self-Goating

It seems that Germans are now the only people in the world who scapegoat themselves.
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Police

I love our police men and women -- they are all that stand between us and freedom.
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