Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
“He went to the desert; he sat quietly. He sat so quietly that he heard the voice of God. He heard the truth. He felt the truth. He was able to receive the truth because he emptied himself and he had the ability to do it. Perhaps that was his specialness, or part of it.”
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you’re gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that’s not a problem,” Garlasco explains. “But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.”
From the mouth of Marc Garlasco, [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
Hat tip: Colonized Mind
Leslie Southwick was confirmed to fill a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week. Southwick previously served as a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals where authored two interesting opinions.
In 1998, Southwick joined a ruling in an employment case that upheld the reinstatement, without any [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
The House Passed H.R. 1955. The bill now goes on to be voted on in the Senate.
The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health. There’s something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact. You cannot be a president of the United States who’s wanton in his expression of violence. There’s a lot of people who need care. He might be one [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee
a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
Chicklessness
thestateof failing to have a chick (i.e., a woman). A phenomenon deeply ingrained in today’s African American male.
the irrational fear of relationships with women.
the prioritization of career over love and family.
Synonyms: feminism, homosexuality
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
Denzel Washington stars in “American Gangster.”
“As a teenager visiting Harlem, Denzel Washington never came across drug lord Frank Lucas in person. But Washington certainly saw the human wreckage that Lucas helped create, especially along 116th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
“There were junkies everywhere,” Washington says. “The neighborhood was destroyed by people like Frank [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by thestateofblog
The Perm (pictured above) and MLK III met last week to announce a boycott for this Friday. They call on all Americans to not spend any money on that day. He said the one-day boycott is designed to call attention to a series of national concerns, ranging from displays of nooses to wrongly [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2007 by thestateofblog
“People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease in their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2007 by thestateofblog
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