the right wingers are freaking over all the "citizen of the world stuff" in obama's speech as if it were some brand-new god-awful symbol of the antichrist and impending doom----check out kennedy's inaugural address in 1961----
it is a little wierd that we also have former astronaut and moonwalker ed mitchell going on about aliens---not mexican or other furriners, but outerspace, alpha-centauri aliens---he is of the opinion that we should thank our lucky stars that they weren't hostile
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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