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Art Spander. "The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." [Quotes of the Day]
This will be ever so true next Tuesday. (LP)
11:30:01 PM 
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Monterey Bay Aquarium WebCams
This is a real treat if you have a high speed Internet connection. Try to catch the otters at feeding time. When viewing one of the cams be sure to right click on the small picture and then click on Zoom/Full Screen. Thanks Linda Lou. (LP)
3:49:20 PM
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I think our attitude toward America should change … we have a chance, in America, to be the moral leadership of America. The problem is when? It will happen, it will happen [Allah willing], I have no doubt in my mind, Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you, either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I [think] if we are outside this country we can say 'Oh, Allah destroy America,' but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.
- Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, a prominent American Muslim leader.
Are you scared yet? And you thought the Russians were scarey! (LP)
3:12:56 PM
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How Reagan Fooled Us [AndrewSullivan.com]
He was extraordinarily humble. Even while in office, he would take hours out of his day to hand-write detailed and earnest replies to complete no-bodies. Even the crackpots who vented at him received polite and gracious counter-arguments. I loved this opening sentence to an angry woman in 1977, when he was recovering from his failed first run at the presidency: "I have been informed of your complaint about my broadcasts and your suggestion that they be taken off the air. I'm sorry you feel that way and hope you won't mind my writing a few words in my own defense." Why didn't he just throw the hate-mail in the dust-bin? Or in another missive, he could find a gentle way to inform a correspondent that his idea was preposterous: "I found your suggestion very interesting and yet as I turned it over in my mind it had a drawback - at least in my opinion." How's that for letting someone down gently? And remember that this was a nobody who had written to him, no one he had to impress or cajole or flatter. To a critical teenage girl who was president of her school, he concludes the letter, "We presidents must stick together."
1:15:17 PM
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Dennis Miller Interview. [Wizblog]
TAE: How would Americans respond to Senator Clinton as a Presidential candidate?
MILLER: Forty percent of voters would probably support her. I’d like to think there’s 60 percent who wouldn’t. Most people know that the Clintons are just career politicians, but it’s amazing to me that some people really believe in them. Bill and Hillary’s marriage couldn’t have been any more about convenience than if they’d installed a Slim Jim rack and Slurpee machine at the base of their bed.
12:50:36 PM
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It doesn't get any better than this.
Jessie Jackson has added former Chicago democratic congressman Mel
Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the
176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence
for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five
years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a
subordinate...won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate,
then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job...Youth Counselor.
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
12:01:19 PM
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