Waiting for Obama and Thoughts from Kant

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On Tuesday, all eyes and ears will be turned to the man whose oratorical skills have been compared to Abraham Lincoln’s, Franklin Roosevelt’s and John Kennedy’s. What does Barack Obama need to do in his inaugural address? We asked William Safire and other former presidential speechwriters for their ideas.'The Speech': An Experts' Guide - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com

For, in the present case,we shall commence with the principles and proceed to the concepts and only then, if poosible, to the senses; whereas in the case of the speculative reason we began with the senses, and had to end with the principles.
from Critique of Practical Reason by Emmanuel Kant

Lieocracy,Democracy & other foibles

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Never write when you can speak; never speak when you can nod; and never nod when you can wink.But when it comes to that Senate seat, his real crime may be forgetting the old truism. Blagojevich Nation: Should We Really Be So Shocked? | The New York Observer

Tell me Why and Let's XChange

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What’s happened to America? Why is it so heavy-handed? Why won’t it sit down, eyeball to eyeball, with its enemies and try to work things out?
“the way she (he)looked me in the eye, the way she(he) wasn’t on a pedestal, but one of us.”

Michael Pollan:We do very little to encourage farmers to grow what are called specialty crops, which is actual food you can eat.

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He had more to say recently on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show, where he talked about how food is closely tied with some of the biggest political issues of the day, even though it’s not widely discussed.
“It’s true that neither candidate has talked about food policy very much,” Mr. Pollan said. “Some of the issues they have talked about — energy independence, climate change and the health care crisis — I think they will find, as soon as they get into office, that you can’t deal with any of those three problems without dealing with the food system.”


.Mr. President, Let's Talk About Food - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

Of Blood,Memories,Conscience and Life's reality

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The blood on their hands represents the inability to annul the murder from their memories.
While sleepwalking, Lady Macbeth was aggravated with own hands. She was seen muttering, ?
Out damned spot! Out, I say!? (V,I,39)
This proves that her evil deed in still on her conscience.
The odor of the blood also has the same effect. ?Here?s the smell of blood still.
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.?
( V, sc 1, 58-89) Her imagination grows of dreadful pictures and she tries perfume to mask the aroma.Shakespeare


But even the tiniest cut or gap in the smooth vessel wall will expose some of the fibrous strands beneath, and the platelets are primed to instantly detect the imperfection. A passing platelet will stick to the raggedy strand and change shape, from round to octopoid, which in turn attracts other platelets, forming a little clump. Natalie Angier -Basics - The Wonders of Blood - NYTimes.com

America,America: On Application of Intellect

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They disdained the ideas of the liberal professoriate, but they did not disdain the idea of a cultivated mind.
The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, oversecularized denizens of the coasts.

What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole. The liberals had coastal condescension, so the conservatives developed their own anti-elitism, with mirror-image categories and mirror-image resentments, but with the same corrosive effect.Republicans developed their own leadership style. If Democratic leaders prized deliberation and self-examination, then Republicans would govern from the gut.

Bushism:the anti-immigration fervor, the isolationism ....

It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away.

Intellect :Definition

1. [noun] knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"
   Synonyms: mind
   
   
2. [noun] the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
   Synonyms: reason, understanding
   
   
3. [noun] a person who uses the mind creatively
   Synonyms: ual

P.S:The smartest young Americans are now educated in an overwhelmingly liberal environment.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Class War Before Palin - NYTimes.com

Of Bubbles and Wrath or Grapes of Dust

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We’re living in an age when a vast excess of capital sloshes around the world fueling cycles of bubble and dust ,as smoke clouds typically promise..Op-Ed Columnist - Revolt of the Nihilists - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Talking within your Mind:Replace Defeatism with Hope

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Senator McPain:“we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say”

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At the Intersection of History and Memory...

channeling a famous Bush dictum of 2003: “Somehow you just got to go over the heads of the filter.” In Bush’s case, the lies lobbed over the heads of the press were to sell the war in Iraq. That propaganda blitz, devised by a secret White House Iraq Group that included Rove, was a triumph. In mere months, Americans came to believe thatSaddam Hussein had aided the 9/11 attacks and even that Iraqis were among the hijackers. A largely cowed press failed to set the record straight.Frank Rich- The NYTimes

George Bush: No Mea Culpa or Plus Ca Change,Plus c'est la Meme Chose

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WASHINGTON — For his entire presidency, George W. Bush has tried to avoid the fate of his father, brought low by a feeble economy. Now, as the financial crisis radiates far beyond Wall Street, Mr. Bush faces an even grimmer prospect: being blamed, at least in part, for an economic breakdown.

“There will be ample opportunity to debate the origins of this problem,” Mr. Bush said in the Rose Garden on Friday. “Now is the time to solve it. from the New York Times
And by the way, where is Dick,Rummy,Condi et all??????? These days????????
So much for the Invasion of Iraq,Death and Maiming Innocent People,creating Chaos Unlimited,eh???
" Ample Opportunity",Lipstick,Moose,Caribou& etc,no?