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Jan 16

“ Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor

— Stephen Sondheim

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Dec 22

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has issued a ban for cash payments over 1k euros.

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Dec 16

“ Be yourself, everyone else is taken

— Oscar Wilde

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Dec 15

69 is the number

of fund raisers Obama has attended so far this year. That’s one every five days.

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“ Character is much easier kept than recovered.

— Thomas Paine

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Dec 14

» The few who voted against indefinite detention of US citizens

The National Defense Authorization act allows the indefinite detention of US citizens who are suspected by a Presidential Administration of terrorist connections...without ever having a trial.

Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK]
Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
Sen. Mike Lee [R, UT]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D, OR]
Sen. Rand Paul [R, KY]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]

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Dec 05

The US national debt passed the $15 trillion mark recently.

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“ Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways of doing something.

— Robert Heinlein

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Nov 21

“ Three difference between genus and stupidity is that genus has its limits.

— Albert Einstein

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Nov 16

“ According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, the film, music and TV industries have spent more than $91 million on lobbying so far this year — an amount that puts them on pace to beat all of their previous spending records.

— Politico (Just in case you’re wondering where all the support for the PROTECT-IP act is coming from.)

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