"You campaign from black and white. You govern from gray."
~unknown~
"You don't need hearings."
~Newt Gingrich~
"Would ya stop making things up!"
~Sarah Palin~
"Would ya stop making things up!"
~Sarah Palin~
'If I don't tell someone, I'm not sure what will happen.
I'll crack perhaps.'
~(6!9)~
Biden says gay marriage 'inevitable' - Yahoo! News: "Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday the evolution in thinking that will permit gays to soon serve openly in the military eventually will bring about a national consensus for same-sex marriage.
Changes in attitudes by military leaders, those in the service and the public allowed the repeal by Congress of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, Biden noted in a nationally broadcast interview on Christmas eve.
'I think the country's evolving,' he said on ABC's 'Good Morning America.:' And I think you're going to see, you know, the next effort is probably going to be to deal with so-called DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). He said he agreed with Obama that his position in gay marriage is 'evolving.'
Gay marriage is legal in only a handful of states, mostly in the Northeast, and in Iowa. President Barack Obama recently said his feelings on the gay marriage issue were in a state of transition. But he also said he still believes in allowing strong civil unions that provide certain protections and legal rights that married couples have."
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Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse: January 2010: "The literature of the oppressed believes not only in the right of and need for storytelling, but also in its power. Storytelling can change things-within the storyteller, within the hearers, and, perhaps, even within the larger society. Most of all, storytelling has the power to heal. A battered woman in the opening line of a short story by Jane Augustine reveals the psychological necessity of bearing witness: 'If I don't tell someone, I'm not sure what will happen. I'll crack perhaps.'"
