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	Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the same sex partner of their choice. - The Connecticut Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage             -Gragg
	That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. -- Romans 10:9 -Cragg and if you buy this....i have some bank stocks to sell you...             -Gragg
	There lieing about the numbers. There all phony. -A dude in Michigan the numbers even if inaccurate, highlight the lack of oversight by the current administration and its consequences.             -Gragg
	Through the takeovers of Fannie and Freddie and the rescue of AIG, the government is now a mortgage lender and insurance provider to millions, prompting economists to question whether ours remains a free market. Meanwhile, developing nations exercising heavier government economic control are poised to weather the crisis better than the deregulated West, and that likely won’t change anytime soon.             -Gragg
	As Wall Street banks collapse like a house of cards, American capitalism isn’t just failing in practice; the very idea of unregulated, free-functioning markets has received a serious blow, writes Anthony Faiola in the Washington Post. Once the symbols of American economic might, there's a real possibility that many US banks may find themselves partially government-owned as part of the bailout, altering America’s influence in pushing laissez-faire policies in controlled economies worldwide.             -Gragg
	People around the world once admired us for our economy, and we told them if you wanted to be like us, here's what you have to do -- hand over power to the market . . . Everyone feels they are suffering now because of us. - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist             -Gragg
	Most State Senate hopefuls are so thrilled at any sign of interest that they would happily attend a reception given by a homeless couple in their cardboard box. - Gail Collins             -Gragg
	Whole professions have jumped ship on the GOP. “It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community,” Brooks writes. Sarah Palin captures the essence of this populism, leading a party “squeezed at both ends,” unable to create policy to address working class anxieties, and unable to win the educated elites it demonizes.             -Gragg
	Anti-intellectual populism has reduced the Republicans to a resentful rump party, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. A movement that once prized good ideas began to rely on bashing the educated as a political tactic. “What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole.” In the process, the party drove away much of the country - David Brooks, NY Times             -Gragg
	I think we can safely put the Peruvian cat eating festival down to one of those odd things that people far away do. Unless, of course, the credit crunch turns really bad and there's nothing left in the larder but the cat. - Justine Hankins             -Gragg
	Yeah, it's a confirmation. How much more has to happen before it is finally understood that Muslim's are not our friends. -Green_Velvet people who make sweeping generalizations about large groups based on the actions of a few...are not our friends.             -Gragg
	You've heard Al Gore say he invented the Internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with W? --George W. Bush Miami, FL 10/28/2000 on Headline News             -Gragg
	Even rednecks are abandoning the GOP... http://www.rednecks4obama.com/HomePage.php             -Gragg
	Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers the financial crisis has gone from severe to terrifying, but the response of the United States and Europe has been "woefully inadequate," writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. We are now at a tipping point, and if world policymakers don't come up with a coordinated plan—this weekend—then we may well experience the "worst slump since the Great Depression."             -Gragg
	If the polls are right, Republicans are about to lose the election, and when that happens Sarah Palin "will reign as the party’s crown princess,” writes Jay Bookman in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That would be a travesty, because Palin epitomizes the reason Republicans are falling from favor: “The Republican Party hasn’t taken seriously the responsibilities of governing.”             -Gragg
	If the Republicans could govern as expertly and as diligently as they campaign, the Democrats would have gone the way of the Whigs. - Jay Bookman             -Gragg
	P.S. No more public scatology. --George W. Bush 07/18/1997 in a letter to Harriet Miers (who he would later try to install on the Supreme Court)             -Gragg
	There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman             -Gragg
	Hello Michigan and England too!             -Gragg
	"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." - Ronald Reagan             -Gragg
	You only live once, no sense using it to make someone else rich. -Zephyrus use it to make yourself rich...or to provide yourself with whatever makes you happy             -Gragg
	wow...its too quiet in here...wake up!             -Gragg
	"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes." -- Confucius             -Gragg
	McCain's ampaign attack ads accusing Obama of questionable ties to Fannie and Freddie have backfired. It turns out that the Washington firm of Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, was profiting handsomely from Freddie retainers until the government took over the mortgage-finance companies last month amid the credit crisis. - NY Times Editorial             -Gragg
	Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase. It’s just incredible the nerve! to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, Oh, my God, he said it again. He’s a Republican, she said.             -Gragg
	In a way, we should not be surprised that Mr. McCain has stooped so low, since the debate showed once again that he has little else to talk about. He long ago abandoned his signature issues of immigration reform and global warming; his talk of “victory” in Iraq has little to offer a war-weary nation; and his Reagan-inspired ideology of starving government and shredding regulation lies in tatters on Wall Street. - NY Times Editorial page...             -Gragg
	"Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe             -Gragg
	The McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k).             -Gragg
	But McCain has apparently settled on a closing argument that “is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person." The Democrat seems almost wearily bemused by it all. McCain’s choice to focus on Obama's Chicago associations while the economy tanks seems surreal—“or as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, ‘like being savaged by a dead sheep.’”             -Gragg
	With Barack Obama making a strong showing in so many red states, wild proposals are all that’s left for John McCain to try, writes George Will in the Washington Post, because this election seems over. McCain's proposal to pad the bailout with several hundred billion more for a mortgage-buying plan may garner disapproval, but “it may be politically prudent for McCain to throw caution, and billions, to the wind.”             -Gragg
	Good AM Madam Butterfly!             -Gragg
	My hearts are with the Jeffcoats right now, that's what I'm thinking. --George W. Bush San Diego, CA 10/25/2007 After meeting with California wildfire victims             -Gragg
	Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell             -Gragg
	Sarah Palin is really asking for it, writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, when she blithely criticizes paying taxes as unpatriotic—especially when Uncle Sam needs the cash to pay for wars and a bailout that she supports. Does Palin "think borrowing money from China is more patriotic than raising it in taxes from Americans?" It takes some nerve to support the bailout and call the taxes to pay for it unpatriotic.             -Gragg
	Conservatives believe that government doesn’t work. They may be on to something, because our conservative Republican government has bungled most of the big tasks that have fallen to it, writes Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal. Yet the GOP candidates tell us the only answer is to elect conservative Republicans yet again. Cynicism’ seems too small a word for this circular political fraud, writes Frank. One reaches instead for images of grosser malevolence.             -Gragg
	We are supposed to vote for more conservative Republicans because we learned from the last bunch of conservative Republicans that government just doesn't work. - Thomas Frank             -Gragg
	They continued to fish, until they realized the fourth guy had not said a word.So they asked him. 'You haven't said anything about what you had to do to be able to come fishing this weekend. What's the deal?' Fourth guy: 'I just set my alarm for 5:30 am. When it went off, I shut off the clock, gave the wife a nudge and said, 'Fishing, or Sex,' and she said, 'Wear a sweater.'             -Gragg
	Four married guys went fishing. After an hour or so, the following conversation took place: First guy: 'You have no idea what I had to do to be able to come out fishing this weekend. I had to promise my wife I will paint every room in the house next weekend.' Second guy: 'That's nothing! I had to promise my wife I'd build her a new deck for the pool.' Third guy: 'Man, you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife that I'll remodel the kitchen for her.'             -Gragg
	Best line of the year goes to Steven Colbert, of the Colbert Report. In referring to US presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain’s charge that Barack Obama doesn’t understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy Colbert suggested the following: “A tactic is when [then Texas governor] Bush used political operatives to slander McCain in 2000. A strategy is when McCain hired those same operatives to run his campaign in 2008. Totally different.”             -Gragg
	Similar to questions about the overall economy, many parents are wondering, 'Should I bail my kid out? Or let him claw his own way, let him fail?' - Bruce McClary, a credit counselor for ClearPoint Financial Solutions, a nonprofit credit-counseling service             -Gragg
	I'm a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There's a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane. --George W. Bush New Orleans, LA 03/01/2007             -Gragg
	“When you decide to become wealthy, you should take some time to consider your goals and ambitions before you select the business you will start.” - Michael Masterson             -Gragg
	With investors unconvinced the government’s $700 billion bailout or the Fed’s new plan to buy commercial paper will thaw frozen credit markets, markets remained trapped in “a downward spiral of fear,” reports BusinessWeek. The Dow’s 29% loss this year is its worst since 1937’s 32.8% drop. But it still has a ways to fall before it outdoes the market’s worst year ever: 1931 when the Dow plunged 52.7%.             -Gragg
	“I’m not saying he’s dishonest, but in terms of judgment, in terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two different parts to this. The judgment and the truthfulness and just being able to answer very candidly a simple question about when did you know him, how did you know him, is there still — has there been an association continued since ’02 or ’05, I know I’ve read a couple different stories. I think it’s relevant.” - Sarah Palin             -Gragg
	Morning Madame Butterfly, Zeph, and Dude             -Gragg

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	Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the same sex partner of their choice. - The Connecticut Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage             -Gragg
	That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. -- Romans 10:9 -Cragg and if you buy this....i have some bank stocks to sell you...             -Gragg
	There lieing about the numbers. There all phony. -A dude in Michigan the numbers even if inaccurate, highlight the lack of oversight by the current administration and its consequences.             -Gragg
	Through the takeovers of Fannie and Freddie and the rescue of AIG, the government is now a mortgage lender and insurance provider to millions, prompting economists to question whether ours remains a free market. Meanwhile, developing nations exercising heavier government economic control are poised to weather the crisis better than the deregulated West, and that likely won’t change anytime soon.             -Gragg
	As Wall Street banks collapse like a house of cards, American capitalism isn’t just failing in practice; the very idea of unregulated, free-functioning markets has received a serious blow, writes Anthony Faiola in the Washington Post. Once the symbols of American economic might, there's a real possibility that many US banks may find themselves partially government-owned as part of the bailout, altering America’s influence in pushing laissez-faire policies in controlled economies worldwide.             -Gragg
	People around the world once admired us for our economy, and we told them if you wanted to be like us, here's what you have to do -- hand over power to the market . . . Everyone feels they are suffering now because of us. - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist             -Gragg
	Most State Senate hopefuls are so thrilled at any sign of interest that they would happily attend a reception given by a homeless couple in their cardboard box. - Gail Collins             -Gragg
	Whole professions have jumped ship on the GOP. “It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community,” Brooks writes. Sarah Palin captures the essence of this populism, leading a party “squeezed at both ends,” unable to create policy to address working class anxieties, and unable to win the educated elites it demonizes.             -Gragg
	Anti-intellectual populism has reduced the Republicans to a resentful rump party, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. A movement that once prized good ideas began to rely on bashing the educated as a political tactic. “What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole.” In the process, the party drove away much of the country - David Brooks, NY Times             -Gragg
	I think we can safely put the Peruvian cat eating festival down to one of those odd things that people far away do. Unless, of course, the credit crunch turns really bad and there's nothing left in the larder but the cat. - Justine Hankins             -Gragg
	Yeah, it's a confirmation. How much more has to happen before it is finally understood that Muslim's are not our friends. -Green_Velvet people who make sweeping generalizations about large groups based on the actions of a few...are not our friends.             -Gragg
	You've heard Al Gore say he invented the Internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with W? --George W. Bush Miami, FL 10/28/2000 on Headline News             -Gragg
	Even rednecks are abandoning the GOP... http://www.rednecks4obama.com/HomePage.php             -Gragg
	Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers the financial crisis has gone from severe to terrifying, but the response of the United States and Europe has been "woefully inadequate," writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. We are now at a tipping point, and if world policymakers don't come up with a coordinated plan—this weekend—then we may well experience the "worst slump since the Great Depression."             -Gragg
	If the polls are right, Republicans are about to lose the election, and when that happens Sarah Palin "will reign as the party’s crown princess,” writes Jay Bookman in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That would be a travesty, because Palin epitomizes the reason Republicans are falling from favor: “The Republican Party hasn’t taken seriously the responsibilities of governing.”             -Gragg
	If the Republicans could govern as expertly and as diligently as they campaign, the Democrats would have gone the way of the Whigs. - Jay Bookman             -Gragg
	P.S. No more public scatology. --George W. Bush 07/18/1997 in a letter to Harriet Miers (who he would later try to install on the Supreme Court)             -Gragg
	There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman             -Gragg
	Hello Michigan and England too!             -Gragg
	"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." - Ronald Reagan             -Gragg
	You only live once, no sense using it to make someone else rich. -Zephyrus use it to make yourself rich...or to provide yourself with whatever makes you happy             -Gragg
	wow...its too quiet in here...wake up!             -Gragg
	"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes." -- Confucius             -Gragg
	McCain's ampaign attack ads accusing Obama of questionable ties to Fannie and Freddie have backfired. It turns out that the Washington firm of Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, was profiting handsomely from Freddie retainers until the government took over the mortgage-finance companies last month amid the credit crisis. - NY Times Editorial       &nbs