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The Witching Hour in Delaware

"I dabbled into witchcraft -- I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do, One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar."  

That is what Tea Party Darling Christine O’Donnell had to say in an October 29, 1999 taping of the Bill Maher show Politically Incorrect.  It is 11 years later and Ms. O’Donnell is the Republican nominee to fill the Senate Seat vacated by Vice President Joe Biden.  Now 41 she was 30 when she made the remarks describing her experiences dabbling with witchcraft; experiences she now says dated back to her high school years. 

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The thieves of Wall Street are hurting

The thieves of Wall Street are hurting

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Open Discussion - Week of 09/20/10

Open Discussion #1.   The topic is whatever topic you want to discuss.  Thank you in advance for keeping it civil and respectful.

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DEATH AND TAXES

In 1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote to Jean-Baptiste Leroy saying, "'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."  He borrowed and paraphrased the epigram from Daniel Defoe’s A Political History of the Devil published in 1726.  Death is an inevitability of life and, so long as human society has been organized into communities, taxation has been an inevitability of human existence in order to finance the community’s common services and improvements. 

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The Media, Koran Burnings and Community Center

The Media, Koran Burnings and Community Center

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Bozo Illini

Bozo Illini

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