This, from my Google news page. Why…this… picture?
“[A]ny forecast calling for a “permanent” shift in auto tastes based on a quantum as volatile as the price of gasoline is nuts.”
“I cannot keep my pleasure to myself. I saw my Iraq – one that I have only seen in poetry – in the near future: an oasis of peace and prosperity amidst the scorching desert, a home for its children and a sanctuary for its guests.
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“They were of every color in the Iraqi rainbow, but you can speak of two common things among them: telling you about their plans to go home within months and considering the Americans to be partners in that home they are returning to.”
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My greatest fear – and it seems to be the case for all my new friends here – is the future of the American presence in Iraq. Our tongues and our minds have been freed, and yes we are heading home, but the Americans might run out of patience before we can make it.”
“A light carbon footprint has become the 21st-century equivalent of sexual abstinence.”
“The sense one gets from Obama is not that he isn’t patriotic, but that his feelings about America are complicated. But when expressing feelings, simpler usually is better. Saying “I love you” in three words is many times more powerful than saying it in 3,000.”
For many practicing Christians, the inability to compromise may apply to gay marriage. I find such a position troublesome, particularly in a society in which Christian men and women have been known to engage in adultery or other violations of their faith without civil penalty. I believe that American society can choose to carve out a special place for the union of a man and a woman as the unit of child rearing most common to every culture. I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights no such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simlpy because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.
I read this quote from The Audacity of Hope last night. Kinda grabbed my attention, especially that last little bit. More on this later.
