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| Not quite spring >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Not quite spring "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold--when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ---From Great Expectations by Charles ...more |
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| In memoriam >> Sound Bites | staff |
| In memoriam "Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." (Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye)---J.D. Salinger ...more |
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| Persona status for corporations >> Sound Bites | staff |
| The Supreme Court's ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress brought this dissenting opinion: "...In a democratic society, ...more |
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| Playmobil Security Checkpoint >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Playmobil Security Checkpoint I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5-year-old son pointed out that the passenger's shoes cannot be ...more |
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| War in Afghanistan >> Sound Bites | staff |
| War in Afghanistan "It would be a mistake to assume that the only motivation for the war in Afghanistan is oil. The whole agenda of military and business interests in the region and the continuing ...more |
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| MDR's word of the day >> Sound Bites | staff |
| MDR's word of the day "Hannanity," n. a right-wing inanity repeated ad nauseam such that those unaccustomed to thought mistake it for such. Used in a sentence: "If we must endure the hannanities of ...more |
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| The Mind >> Sound Bites | staff |
| The Mind "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." --Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist ...more |
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| The king that popped >> Sound Bites | staff |
| The king that popped "A tragic case like Michael Jackson's reinforces the recurring story of addicted celebrities and their enabling doctors. Being a celebrity does not change the simple fact that ...more |
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| Judging the judge >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Judging Judge Sonia Sotomayor"The most important issue when considering a Supreme Court nominee is their judicial philosophy and whether they are an activist who would attempt to legislate from the ...more |
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| Living in Joplin >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Living in Joplin "I feel free here. I have the freedom to go anywhere I want in the country. If I want to go to New York, I go to New York and spend a couple of weeks there. If I want to go to ...more |
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| Owning the news >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Owning the news"Newspaper companies became gatekeepers of information due to the happenstance of technology. They happened to own what was, for several decades, the most efficient medium by which to ...more |
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| Guiding economic principle >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Guiding economic principle "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."---Mayer Amschel Rothschild, early 19th century war profiteer ...more |
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| Britain's fighting lady >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Britain's fighting lady "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." --Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher (1925-), G.B.'s first female prime minister. She was ...more |
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| Nuances of greed >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Nuances of greed "There's nothing wrong with making money, but focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition."---Barack Obama (From Hopes and Dreams - The Story of Barack ...more |
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| Bond to retire in 2010 >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Kit Bond not to seek re-electionIn a short speech to members of the House chamber, according to Rep. Ed Emery who heard him, Senator Kit Bond announced that he will not run for re-election to the US ...more |
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| 12 Days of Christmas >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Neosho, MO's 12 Days of Christmas "On the twelfth day of Christmas the City gave to me, 12 D.R.E.A.M. Initiative grants, eleven city buildings, ten construction projects,nine free Civic Center ...more |
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| Advice for the holidays >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Advice for the holidays "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one ...more |
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| Empowerment >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Empowerment "Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked, so Obama could run. Obama is running so our children can fly."---Text message from a friend of Ed Welch, an instructor in the St. Louis non ...more |
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| Abe's words of wisdom >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Abe's words of wisdom "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot ...more |
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| Pertinent to W >> Sound Bites | mambo |
| Pertinent to W There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.---William Robertson Davies (1913-1955), ...more |
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| A letter >> Sound Bites | staff |
| A letter Dear Sirs or Ms--In view of what seems to be happening internationally with banks at the moment, I was wondering if you could advise me correctly...If one of my checks is returned marked ...more |
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| What closed minds have wrought >> Sound Bites | staff |
| What closed minds have wrought "When I told a right-wing friend of mine about what the president had done [ie. remain in the Sarasota elementary school classroom listening to kids read after being ...more |
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| On the national convention >> Sound Bites | staff |
| On the national convention: "It is not a political event; it is a retail event. Nothing will be decided here. Everyone knows this, and yet they are all here anyway, the media chattering in their vast ...more |
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| The asiniinty of anonymity >> Sound Bites | staff |
| The asininity of anonymity "If it's worth saying or putting in writing, it's worth signing. Otherwise, it's worth nothing." ---David L. Burton, civic communication specialist, in response to unsigned ...more |
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| Whoopi's senior moment >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Whoopi's senior moment "I couldn't remember if I did the Tonys. We had to Google it to find out."---Whoopi Goldberg reminiscing about accepting the role as 2008 Tony Awards emcee during a segment of ...more |
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| A simile from an Israeli >> Sound Bites | staff |
| A simile from an Israeli "Guess we have Arabs; you have tornadoes. Each takes a toll of death! I saw a nice slogan written on a wall in Tel-Aviv, 'If there are no Arabs .. there are NO Arabs.'" ...more |
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| Giving criminals a second thought >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Charlton Heston's legacy “...Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout. I've got advice for those critics: Leave deception to the Hollywood ...more |
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| Dropping the color barrier >> Sound Bites | staff |
| On being black in a white world"...My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my "Blackness" than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded ...more |
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| A political conundrum? >> Sound Bites | staff |
| A political conundrum?"Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are ...more |
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| Air travel >> Sound Bites | staff |
| In response to TSA's new website blog "This will just make it easier for them to receive complaints for them to ignore in the name of 'national security.'"---David Stempler, president Air Travelers ...more |
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| Govern with a prayer >> Sound Bites | staff |
| Govern with a prayer "...In reflecting on this year's theme of guidance and direction, we must remember that we should not take actions and then seek God's approval after the fact. We must ask God ...more |
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| Anti-Semitism >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Anti-Semitism As Paul Johnson (an English Catholic) wrote in "A History of the Jews," anti-Semitism is a poison that corrupts and ultimately destroys the societies that harbor it. It happened in ...more |
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| Independent thinking >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Independent thinking "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” ---Ralph Waldo ...more |
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| Buckle up, St. Nick >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Results of national poll: Buckle up, St. Nick, it's going to be a bumpy ride "Fifty per cent of U.S consumers report in October 2007 that they intend to spend less for Christmas this year than last. ...more |
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| Government of the people... >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Government of the people, by the people...bah humbug "The conservatives complain bitterly about government regulation and such being the "nanny state". So with less government oversight and ...more |
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| Wisdom unearthed >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Wisdom unearthed:"The greatest danger we face is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and hit it!" ---Author ...more |
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| Bedrock of CAFO-decision-making >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Bedrock of CAFO-decision-making "Agriculture is the bedrock of our state’s cultural heritage and major driver of our state’s economy....."---Gov. Matt Blunt speaking at a roundtable ...more |
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| Reprecht on Bush >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Attributed to Pat Lionetti, third-grade teacher "George was one of my students. I remember how eager he was to learn. He'd sit right in the front row. His eyes were always wide open as if he was ...more |
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| What's important in life? >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| What's important in life? "Google: Well, that's about everything right there; between Google and the library I'd have all the information I'd ever need." ---Martha Stewart in answer in part to a ...more |
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| Corporate activism >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Corporate activism "New Rule: If you have to eat crap, at least eat humane crap. This week, Burger King announced that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that don't keep animals in ...more |
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| Local identity theft rankings >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Local identity theft rankings "Data from the Federal Trade Commission shows that in 2005, Missouri ranked 19th on a list of states with the most Identity Theft Victims with 67.6 victims per 100,000 ...more |
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| A military officer speaks out >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| A military officer speaks out "Just because we volunteered for the military doesn't mean we volunteered to put our lives in unnecessary harm and to carry out missions that are illogical and ...more |
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| Root of all evil? >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Root of all evil?: "Money can't buy you happiness. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
---Spike Milligan: Irish writer, musician, and black humorist (1918-2002) ...more |
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| From Molly Ivins' last column >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| From Molly Ivins' last column-- "We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this ...more |
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| The wavy line >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| The wavy line "Missouri is proud of its waterways. On our license plate, a wavy blue line appears under the state name. The line symbolizes the state's many bodies of water--rivers, streams and ...more |
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| Analyzing the ISG recommendations >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Analyzing the ISG recommendations Recommendation 77: The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense should devote significantly greater analytic resources to the task of ...more |
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| Let the taxpayers handle it >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Let the taxpayers handle it "MoArk and other ag industries have a vested interest in doing business in a 303-D EPA listed watershed for livestock nutrients. It just seems to be a happy coincidence ...more |
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| On being an American >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| On being an American "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact ...more |
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| The Jihad Way >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| The Jihad Way"Poor Islamists. They get insulted. We get beheaded and we apologize and they say we gonna kill you anyway."---a quote attributed to John Alstad, a U.S. Marine ...more |
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| Don't muddy the water >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Don't muddy the water: "There has been much discussion about the water quality of the Illinois River [and any other waterway for that matter] and its impact on local tourism, recreation and land use ...more |
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| Values and forgiveness >> Sound Bites | admin2 |
| Values and forgiveness "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their ...more |
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| More consumption equals more waste >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| More consumption equals more waste"No matter what technologies are available and how careful people are, it's almost impossible for someone who makes and spends $100,000 a year to create fewer carbon ...more |
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| Washington, D.C.'s shifting morality >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Washington, D.C.'s shifting morality "Indeed, the chicanery, the bullying, and the flouting of the rule of law that emanates from the nation's capital these days make Richard Nixon look like a ...more |
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| Was the 2004 Election Stolen? >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Was the 2004 Election Stolen?:..."But what is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception they hurt John Kerry and benefited George ...more |
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| Cracking down on illegal immigration >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Cracking down on illegal immigration "...I have stated many times that any immigration solution I will support must address our porous border, must not provide amnesty or reward illegal behavior, and ...more |
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| Why did you lie? >> Sound Bites | gotownus |
| Why did you lie? "Why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary, that has caused these kinds of casualties? Why?"Ray McGovern questioning Donald Rumsfeld, May 4, 2006, ...more |
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| Joplin makes the national news >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Joplin makes the national news"Missouri got reportedly $6 million to relieve traffic in Joplin...all money critics say could have been much better spent....."Tom Foreman for CNN Headline News, 4/6/06 ...more |
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| Repression >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Repression "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it ...more |
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| Let's be pragmatic >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Let's be pragmatic: "If we ban the lobbyists there wouldn't be anybody to write the laws." ...more |
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| Poor Richard's advice >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Poor Richard's advice: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."
Benjamin ...more |
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| Republican morality: Lies, lies and more lies >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Republican morality: Lies, lies and more lies "The grand jury indictment charged Lewis "Scooter" Libby with one count of obstruction of justice, two of perjury and two of making false statements. It ...more |
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| Missouri governor lauds anti-choice legislation >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Missouri governor lauds anti-choice legislation: “I am grateful to the Missouri General Assembly for passing a good pro-life piece of legislation that will reduce the number of abortions in our ...more |
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| What is the nature of this, Gary? >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| What is the nature of this, Gary?:
"I don't believe there to be much credibility to blog sites like this one, as they don't conform to journalistic ...more |
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| Bill Moyers speaks out >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Bill Moyers speaks out: "Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control, using the government to threaten and intimidate. I mean the people who are hollowing out middle class security even as ...more |
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| Payback for conflict of interest >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Payback for conflict of interest:"If CAFO passes the Missouri Legislature, I plan to buy some land close to Wilson (Kevin Wilson, Republican representative, district 130) and put in a big chicken ...more |
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| Point Counterpoint >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Point Counterpoint: Sciavo on Sciavo: "This is a sad day for Terri. But I'll tell you what: it's also is a sad day for everyone in this country because the United States government is going to come ...more |
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| Ecological education >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Ecological education: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist ...more |
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| Is there an answer? >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| Is there an answer to peace in the Middle East? A weighty question for a one minute response: "...Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently."
---Shimon Peres, Israeli ...more |
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| And then came Iraq >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| And then came Iraq: "...It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the ...more |
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| USA redefined >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| USA redefined: "Communities all over America must come together to hone a perception of what being a citizen of a democratic country means. A country split into red and blue states is a nation ...more |
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| On Flourides >> Sound Bites | mariwinn |
| On fluorides: "If the stuff gets out into the air, it's a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it's a pollutant, if it gets into a lake, it's a pollutant; but if it goes right straight into your ...more |
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