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Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is essential to any revolution.

— Saul alinsky

I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… I am shocked that CNN would take trash like that and use it in a presidential debate.

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Newt Gingrich, leading off the South Carolina debate with a rebuke to moderator John King, who asked Gingrich about his ex-wife Marianne’s claims he asked for an “open marriage” while leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton. He was met with thunderous applause.

More debate coverage: ShortFormBlog | DC Decoder

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Well guess what, Newt, when you attack gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transfolk, and single families, your sexual history is relevant. When you attack us for destroying the institution of marriage, you must be held accountable to your own standard.

For more than a decade, Google search wasn’t “social” in any way. When I searched for a new car or a European hotel or the best way to plunge a toilet, Google would give me results that reflected the collected view of all Web users. That worked really well!

Not once during those years did I get to a Google results page and lament that I couldn’t see my friends’ ideas about the car I should buy or the hotel I ought to book. While my friends are thoughtful and knowledgeable people, their views on the tens of thousands of large and small inquiries that I bring to Google every year are almost always irrelevant. When I’ve got a clogged toilet, I want advice from an expert—a plumber, preferably, but I’ll even take the stranger who wrote this eHow post. What I don’t want to know is which link my boss consulted when his toilet was clogged.

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Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine (via ayjay)

Agreed.

Despite the fact that Christ was abandoned and rejected, God in Christ had opened a path for a new way to be together. The No of the cross was not only a No to Satan but also a No to all suffering and evil. However, the community’s response is finally a No to humanity’s initial No to the crucified Christ that reverberates in an ultimate Yes to being together in communal relations just as God in Christ said Yes to us ultimately in the incarnation by denying His sovereign power and control and coming to earth.

— The Incarnation as God’s Leap of Faith « An und für sich

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message — of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the Vietnam War)