"It may have been a church full of pedophiles and criminals covering up other criminals' sins … it may have been a church riddled with hypocrisy, deceit, and corruption … but [my family's] megachurch experience taught us that we were captive Catholics."
"I am going to be famous," Rielle said. "Rich and famous. I am going to meet a rich, powerful man." I was by now leaning against the kitchen cabinetry, and the fact that it was holding me up made me almost certain that Harrison Ford's virility had gone into its construction.-- Sarah Miller, a contributor to the book, Bitch In The House, in The Gazette
"Wow," I said. "How are you going to do that?" Rielle slid a toe out from under the tip of her flared yoga pants and poked me with it, playfully.
"I'm going to manifest it," she said.
I couldn't play along anymore.
"Good luck," I said. "I just ... I don't really believe in stuff like that." She backed away from me now, a conspiratorial smile on her face.
"You don't have to," she said. "I'm just going to keep using your amazing energy, and you'll see."
"She is one of millions of other girls, not smart enough to make it as a writer, not pretty enough to model or act.-- A friend of Rielle Hunter's, painting an accurate picture of Hunter as the average NewAger, for New York's Daily News
"She was average in every way, except for her drugs and whacked-out sense of truth."
"At this point, he doesn't want to comment, because he's thinking it's her affair. This is Rielle's problem."-- Kelly McGovern, daughter of Hunter's friend, Bob McGovern (who set up the last Edwards trist) showing the loyalty NewAgers give to those they claim to love, in the New York Daily News
"As painful as it will be for him, he needs to come clean. There's an overwhelming view that he's still lying."-- A former colleague of John Edwards, voicing the dominant feeling around the scandal, for New York's Daily News
"[Elizabeth Edwards] has no part to play at this year's Democratic National Convention. Edwards has not been buoyed by the sympathy one might expect for a woman scorned by a cheating husband."-- WRAL.com
"I never figured you for a comforter, John. Sure, I heard your spill about the two Americas and your fight against poverty, but you were so bright and shiny that I could not make the words align with the speaker. You proved me wrong. You are a comforter. In your own way, albeit an affair, you lightened my days, reminded me of simpler times when I was less aware and much more naive. Thank you, John. For a second or two, I forgot to think like an informed adult."-- Rebecca Powell, acknowledging her world being up-ended, for New West.
"When it comes to alternative medicine, what you don't know can be bad for your health.
"Dear Christina,-- Suzanne Somers, former actress and Thighmaster huckster (and current NewAge con woman) in a really creepy letter to Christina Applegate, reprinted on Respectful Insolence.
Cancer is scary, and lonely. You can't ask anyone to make decisions for you because it's just too heavy.
There is a lot of 'rush to treatment,' when what you really need is time to research and think about how you want to approach this. Take your time Christina, there is no rush. Take your time and think it through. Use your cancer to learn and grow and as a force to work for you. You might choose to take an alternative approach."
"DENVER -- If they want to win in November, Democrats have one task to accomplish this week: Snap out of it.
In case television's pre-packaged Democratic National Convention is causing you indigestion (or you find your screams getting stuck in your throat) Zombietime is snapping behind-the-scenes photos of Denver's free-range Democrats and posting them with my new friends at Little Green Footballs. Now, everyone can continue to feast on something overly-familiar, knowing it's 100% organic. Nothing can make it go down any easier though. This is just gravy.
"It's ironic how life plays out ... I have to have John Edwards' mistress on my show. She was a chanter and a yoga person when I saw her. Apparently there's more to that chant than meets the eye. I know that there's a difference between smart and cunning and very seldom does smart and cunning go together, but apparently in her case it does."
Let's take, say, Obama. Just how ethically impaired is he? It's a little difficult to say when one is immersed in an ideology that has its own ethical norms. For example, in Obama's world, infanticide is permissible, even a sacred right. Furthermore, it would seem that he has an ironclad defense, since his ideology also values multiculturalism, which means that there are no objective values that can be judged from outside the culture in question. Therefore, from 'within' Obama's ethical system, murdering a baby who is 'accidentally' born alive is not problematic.
Likewise, if we surrender in Iraq and genocide ensues, it is 'not our problem,' since Obama is for peace. People who are against peace are bad, whether it is people who want to commit genocide or people who want to stop them from doing so.
With multiculturalism, it goes without saying that one cannot say 'you shall have no other gods before me.' Rather, this is inverted to say 'you shall have all other gods coequal or even above me, since I'm such a demanding and judgmental tyrant. In fact, the more the merrier.' Nor can you have an injunction against bearing false witness, since multiculturalism and deconstruction insist that there is no such thing as objective truth, and that truth is a function of power. Of course, this only proves that the left is power mad, but you're not supposed to notice that.”
Those compassionate pirates at Death By 1000 Papercuts have started a fund - to help Barack Obama's brother, George! See, George lives on $1.00 a month, and the millionaire candidate doesn't seem too intent on doing anything about George's situation right now because, understandably, he's too busy trying to bring the same kind of prosperity George enjoys to the rest of us. Family values and all that.
TMR can only assume that, when Biden told the man in the clip, "I have a much higher I.Q. than you do," he meant "Insecurity Quotient."
