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<eventtime>2006-05-07 11:07:00</eventtime>
<logtime>2006-05-07 15:06:45</logtime>
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RJ Eskow: The "Kennedy Curse," the "Bush/Cheney Blessing" - and the Journalists Behind Them Both
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060506/cm_huffpost/020496;_ylt=Aj6lNK4JtB197A27NKmRvVL9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--">Bush/Cheney family OK. Kennedy family not OK.</a>
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<itemid>15386</itemid>
<eventtime>2006-05-08 16:21:00</eventtime>
<logtime>2006-05-08 20:22:05</logtime>
<subject>On Magic in Stories</subject>
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Magic can be anything. Magic can be as cold as science, down to the rules used to dicate what kind of chemical formula is used to make the plastic cord on the telephone your grandfather used, or it can be as emphemeral as 'It happens simply because it happens'. Magic is the 'X' in the formula. It is the wonder of the world. Magic should never be defined, and by its very lack of definition allows itself rules. What good is breaking rules, if there are no rules to be broken? So go ahead and say that magic only works on the sick or weak, or that Moon magic only works at midnight on a Solar Eclipse, or that you have to read from a spell book or sacrifice blood. Because anyone who really knows the magic of the world understands that there is always something else. Every rational thinker who tries to draw a circle around reality and say, "This is it! We have it! We have established the rules and boundaries of creation" will just as quickly be made a fool of when something skitters out of the darkness of the night, for just a flash, prancing away on all nine of its tentacles to complete its alien mission. The world is better for rational, logical thinkers. The food we eat, the cars we drive, the roads we drive on, these all have useful purposes. There are those who say the world is worse for it, but I doubt they'd enjoy a world without science. Science and logic make your story strong. The world makes sense. The rules make it easier to believe. If the people of your story are primitives, then they should have a reason that they have crossbows, even if you never tell it to us. A good writer understands the clock work about how things go in the back of his mind. Tolkien's genius was only showing us just enough of it, or making us believe that he did. But magic makes the gears turn. Magic makes the clock MEAN something when it strikes midnight. There will always be shadows. There will always be unknowns. Magic is more than just an energy that manifests itself upon the will of the caster; it is the context of the moment...it is the WHY of the thing, and it is the color to the portrait. Hem it in at your peril.
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<itemid>15630</itemid>
<eventtime>2006-05-16 19:58:00</eventtime>
<logtime>2006-05-17 00:01:59</logtime>
<subject>This is disgusting.</subject>
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Listen. I am in favor of mostly open borders. I think that assylum is basically the only realistic solution to the fact that we've got 13 million people here who have no identities and don't pay taxes. I agree it is grossly unfair to the hundreds of thousands trying to work within the system, but then again, sometimes (often) life is not fair. The Federal government didn't round up all of the 'sooners' in Oklahoma who cheated and snuck in to grab land a hundred years ago, and it would be unrealistically draconian to round up MILLIONS of people who want to be here and contribute to society in a meaningful fashion and then catapult them back over the border as Dave Lettermen throwing a letter through an invisible non existant window pane. Moreover, we are a nation of immigrants. This country is made stronger when we take in people who don't want to be here (so long as they are actually willing to work and do something productive, which these people ARE willing to do). Having said all that....Mexico is using our own legal system to allow Mexican people to come across our border. Mexico is providing little booklets to encourage people to come here and break the law. Read about it <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/16/mexico.immigration.ap/index.html">Here.</a>. Fine. Well if encouraging people to disobey laws is perfectly fine, then we should pay everyone in Mexico $200 to vote out their current leaders. We have the money. Why not interfere in the affairs of another nation?
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<itemid>16020</itemid>
<eventtime>2006-05-19 11:30:00</eventtime>
<logtime>2006-05-19 15:35:30</logtime>
<subject>Interesting. Sad, but interesting.</subject>
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I stopped mostly posting on the talk back section of the <a href="http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/entries/2006/05/18/miss_liberty_on.html#comments">AJC</a> 'Mike Lukovich' cartoons a while ago because I wasn't convincing anyone of anything. So two days ago or so, I posted a comment out of frustration, "The reason I stopped posting here is because I realized that a lot of the conservative commentators might just be paid lobbiests instead of real people and that I was never going to convince them of anything." ....it never showed up. I posted a similar comment yesterday. It never showed up. The guy who runs this talk back seems to be willing to put up with personal insults, spam (in one case 'Andy' posted quotes from 10-12 different articles in a row. It makes me wonder....when I worked in pest control, the rule of thumb was that for every roach you saw, there were 10-20 you didn't. MANY conservative commentators have been caught taking money to espouse their 'beliefs'..... So the question is....just HOW MANY conservative commentators really believe what they believe vs how many are simply paid to? One must wonder.
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