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Fumesucker's JournalA strongly theist family member lost a good friend to cancer recently and I'm puzzled
The outpouring of grief has been something to behold for the last week and judging by previous experiences it's going to go on for weeks more if not longer and the rest of us will get to suffer right along with them.
This is someone who is absolutely convinced of some sort of Christian interpretation of the Bible and I'm positive they believe they will be seeing their friend in heaven.
The only reason the friend wasn't in constant excruciating agony was due to pain meds, their quality of life has been zip for months. The death was a relief to most of us, not glad to see them go but glad they were no longer suffering and I say that as someone a lot closer to the end of my life than the beginning.
Why do some people who think they will see their friends and loved ones soon in heaven carry on so?
Mad magazine updates a famous Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover for today
Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney and Bernie Sanders before the Iraq war in their own words
If you haven't seen the Cheney video in particular you owe it to yourself to watch it, it's quite eye opening.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/03/27/485014/-The-War-Journals-of-Hillary-Clinton-Vol-1Asimov was wrong, violence is not the last refuge of the incompetent
Violence is the first choice of the incompetent.
A thread everyone in this forum needs to read and reflect upon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027334050Next fall, if you want to know what winning the White House is about, ignore the liberal or conservative tribes. The data most worth knowing will describe people who will have spent the past two years ignoring pretty much everything that Democrats and Republicans say they stand for and will do. These Americans will be unlike you, but the difference will not be ideological. It will be the difference between being passionate about a leader who shares your beliefs, and being uninformed, disengaged, alienated, indifferent.
Just like you, they'll have only one vote to cast. But theirs will actually make a difference.
Legendary football coach Bear Bryant on what it takes to make a winning team
Ridiculously over the top rant about a candidate not to my taste and their supporters
Personal insults, hyperbolic distorted cherry picking and lots of virtual spittle.
The vast majority of non-troll DUers will vote for the Democratic nominee in the general
Outside of DU I'm not so sure, I'm of the opinion that many of the non voters, crossover voters and occasional voters who are enthused by Bernie simply won't bother to show up at the polls if Bernie is not the nominee.
I really don't have a good handle on the Hillary supporters but given the way things turned out in 2008 I suspect that at least some of them have as strong an emotional attachment to Hillary as many Bernie supporters do to him and they too won't show up although probably not as big a percentage of them as the Sandernistas.
The Democratic party desperately needs to increase turnout not just of Democrats but people who while not Democrats as such will vote for Democrats if sufficiently motivated, I honestly don't see Hillary doing that and I think Sanders might be able to, there are a lot of people out there who don't feel either party is on their side and for that reason don't bother to vote. Quite a few of them turned out for Obama in the elections where he was on the ballot but Obama was to a big extent a tabula rasa, a blank slate without much legislative or executive record and people projected their own wishes on him.
Neither Hillary nor Bernie is a Barack Obama and neither will have all of Obama's coalition.
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