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Saturday, December 17, 2005 |
Robert Greenwald: Well Done, Senator. When Senator Russ Feingold announced that he was going to refuse to support the Patriot Act, even if it meant a filibuster, he was a lonely voice in the wilderness. He for sure did not do a focus group, he convened no spin doctors, nor did he work the phones consulting every possible consultant. He didn't try to fight the act and embrace the act at the same time. He did what he believed in...Remember that? When people in elected office pursue matters that they believe in? So without negotiating, meeting with everyone who ever had an opinion or wrote a check, Senator Feingold took a strong, clear and powerful position. This Patriot Act is wrong, and I will oppose it! And it was so strong and clear and inspiring because it was an act of conscience and principle...... And HE WON...So lets try and remember this, the way to win is not the way of eternal compromise into nothingness. The way to win is not by racing to embrace all sides of every issue. The way to win is not some idiotic theory that leaders can be all things to everyone. The way to Win is through principle..
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Meg Wolitzer and Patricia Marx: Meg and Patty's Phone Conversation [ANNOTATED BY NSA]. Transcript of Meg and Patty's phone conversation 12/16, 8:03-8:07 pm. Annotated by National Security Agency (agent #33)
PATTY: Are you going to the Gladmans' party?
NSA: 'Gladman': Same number of letters as Osama, plus 2. Also, 'party'?: possibly Dems? Link to Hillary? Note: Arrest Gladmans?
MEG: I don't know, I'm exhausted. The baby was up all night.
NSA: Sleeper cell? Wiretap baby monitor.
PATTY: Listen, my mother wants a scarf for Christmas. What's the best place to get one?
NSA: Burka reference?
MEG: I don't know. Can't you get one anywhere? My mother wants an immersion blender from Williams-Sonoma.
NSA: Mother = spy? Do security check.
PATTY: What's an immersion blender?
NSA: Is she kidding? Everybody knows what an immersion blender is!!!!
MEG: It's this blender-stick thing you can put inside a bowl. You can make a bechamel sauce in ten seconds.
NSA: Wow, ten seconds!
PATTY: Is that the one with lemon?
NSA: Lemon? That's HOLLANDAISE, idiot.
MEG: Hey, I have to ask you something serious...
NSA: Tie with Al-Zawahari?
MEG: Do you think I should let my bangs grow out?
NSA: DON'?T DO IT!!! I once let my bangs grow out and I looked like a monkey!!!!
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