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Not-so-Occasional Comments on Life, Death and Many Things in Between by Laurie Mann

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Astronomy Delivers a Real SensaWonder Sighting....

space.com's report of the discovery of a planet in a triple sun system is one of the most wonerful things I've seen in a long time.

Triple sun planet.

Leave it to scientists to find the really interesting things!

And a possible sunset on this planet.

Awesome!

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When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis (Channeling W. Bush, Palin, Huckabee and Romney, decades early)

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin

This is a time for reason to find its voice
Teresa Heinz Kerry, 2005

(The US government acts) as if there's no middle ground between killing everyone in sight and running away. There's a middle ground as wide as the Middle East, but to inhabit it requires attributes our leaders don't have -- intelligence, humility, foresight. Knowledge of the past and vision for the future.
Joe Haldeman, 2006

Living with offense is the price we have to pay for living in a free and diverse society. Being offended is not the same as being oppressed.
Irshad Manji

As I read Biblical principles, marriage was intended, ordained and started by God
State Senator Nancy Jacobs (Republican, of course, during a hearing on an anti-gay marriage bill hearing in Maryland)

People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
Jamie Raskin (in response; attendees are reported to have cheered Mr. Raskin), 2006

This administration reacts to anyone who questions this illegal program by saying that those of us who demand the truth and stand up for our rights and freedoms somehow has a pre-9/11 world view. In fact, the President has a pre-1776 world view. Our government has three branches, not one. And no one, not even the President, is above the law.
Senator Russell Feingold, 2005