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This is part of my non-ending series of my favorite quotes. I'll keep publishing them as long as I keep finding new ones. The entire series is here. Here are my new favorites: "The mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality." Henry David Thoreau. "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." —Epictetus, Greek philosopher "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." Frank Zappa "It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti "By Learning you will teach. By teaching you will learn." Latin Proverb "In the Age of Information ignorance is a choice." Facebook - attributed to Danny Miller "I have no problem paying taxes because roads don't pave themselves." I have no problem paying taxes because I'm an adult and that's part of the deal." Facebook photo of two demonstrators with signs “We may have democracy in this country, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” — Glen Cook (from Sweet Silver Blues...first in the Garrett P.I. series), “Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.” Mark Twain "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) “Don’t try to tell me a loving and caring god exists. How do you explain stillbirth? What was the loving and caring plan of your god there?” Marina C (on Facebook). "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation." Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) “Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.” Ron Paul “The trouble is, you think you have time.” Buddha

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1,000 pound woman

I just don't know what to think when I hear of mega-fat people, those who grew while they were bed-ridden. This type of spectacle simply has to be enabled by others, because there's no way these people can get to food on their own. These are stories of intense co-dependence. They have to be. The murder allegations here almost seem like a distraction to the main story.

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Amber Lyons reveals how CNN “news” coverage is bought

Amber Lyons recently lost her job as a reporter for CNN. The problem is that she is a reporter who simply reports what she sees, and lets the chips fall where they may. This is much too inconvenient for CNN, which allows subjects of news reports buy favorable coverage. Let that sink in. Here is an eleven minute video where Lyons reveals the extent of the problem, referring to the censorship of her reports regarding the regime in U.S.-ally Bahrain. Her message is even much broader, however, and applies to the willingness of the lapdog media to encourage needless war against Iran. This is really eye-opening information. This story also points to the incredible importance of preserving net neutrality, because you won't hear about this mainstream media corruption on the mainstream media.

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Matt Taibbi excoriates the media coverage of the presidential election

Time to focus on the terrible "news coverage" of the election. Matt Taibbi nails it:

Banning poll numbers would force the media to actually cover the issues. As it stands now, the horse race is the entire story – I can think of a couple of cable networks that would have to go completely dark tomorrow, as in Dan-Rather-Dead-Fucking-Air dark, if they had to come up with even 10 seconds of news content that wasn't centered on who was winning. That's the dirtiest secret we in the media have kept from you over the years: Most of us [members of the news media] suck so badly at our jobs, and are so uninterested in delving into any polysyllabic subject, that we would literally have to put down our shovels and go home if we didn't have poll numbers we can use to terrify our audiences. . . . Mainly for grim commercial reasons, we in the media manipulate people to stay wired on hate and panic-focused on the race for every waking moment, indifferent to how much this depresses the hell out of everyone. In doing so, we rob people of their patriotism and their desire to vote.

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