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Just Plain Traci

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... for PRESIDENT OBAMA!!



"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
~ Mary Oliver

"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one." ~ Richard Dawkins

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents,
not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
~ Abbie Hoffman

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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I'd like to meet:



This free-thinking, intelligent man (that's MISTER Dawkins, to you):

"Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The only people for me are the mad ones."
~ Jack Kerouac

But wait, what was the question? Ah yes, whom would I like to meet? Let's see: an honest person. A brave person. Also, some real people, dead or alive: William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Nelson Algren, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Harry Crews, Emerson, Plato, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Nelson Mandela, Robert Green Ingersoll, Thomas Hobbes, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Barbara Tuchman, John Muir, Wangari Maathai, Steve Biko, Edith Hamilton, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Ayn Rand, Victor Frankl, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, my grandparents' parents, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Teddy Roosevelt, Ty Cobb, Bear Bryant, U.S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, A. Lincoln, Richard Dawkins, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and most of all, Shelby Foote, on whom I have developed a ferocious crush, courtesy of his incredible Ken Burns' Civil War movie interviews.

"Let us treat men and women well;
treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

   

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Potential Benefits of a McCain Presidency

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Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Christianity and Democracy are Fundamentally Incompatible

Christianity and Democracy are Fundamentally Incompatible(The United States is not-- and was never intended to be-- a Christian state)The shrill cries of the morally outraged modern-day Christians, an...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:54:00 GMT

Strewing with Flowers

Memorial Day Yesterday was Memorial Day.  In keeping with the spirit of that holiday, which is a sort of languid, not-exactly-enthusiastic-yet-not-as-solemn-as-it-might-be holiday, I thought I'd ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 00:18:00 GMT

Talking to my kids

Just some random bits of conversation from the last few weeks&     Me:  Don't say ain't. Suttree (my 5 year old):  Why? Me:  It isn't proper English. Suttree: ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:00 GMT

My Dad

    Plumb Lovely   A postcard from my dad-  'I have found our European meeting place.' He sent them for my collection. They came from everywhere- Saudi Arabia, Mazatlan, Londo...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 23:09:00 GMT

I Dont Want to be Your Friend

I don't want to be your friend if...1. Your page has a background composed entirely of Corona, Jagermeister, or any other kind of alcoholic beverage.2.  You say anything resembling this in your f...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:24:00 GMT

I Might Have to C-I-L-L My MySpace

In the spirit of a person who complains about problems but then does nothing to change/fix/get away from them, etc. I offer the following MySpace Gripes (in other words, I’m not part o...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Peace Post

"Cowardice asks the question, ’Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ’Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ’Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the quest...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT

Proof of Gods Existence

stole these proofs for god’s existence from godlessgeeks.com... ARGUMENT FROM PRAYER(1) When I pray, either it comes true or God has a better plan.(2) Therefore, God exists. ARGUMENT FROM BIOGEN...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:38:00 GMT

Did someone say pet peeves?

--Your where you're should be; --Uninformed and/or disingenuous subscription to a movement/group/philosophy; --Emotional cowardice accompanied by big and free-wheeling mouths; --The fostering and...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:28:00 GMT