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Tweet of the Week – February 19, 2022
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Worst Quotes of the Week – February 19, 2022
“Malice, really? It’s called news. Hillary, we invite you to bring it on.”
Sean Hannity, responding to Hillary Clinton’s “malice” accusations
“Those who attack my initiatives and create the appearance of impropriety are quite literally dream killers. They have canceled the hopes and dreams of children by trying to cancel me.”
Former First Lady Melania Trump, responding to critics that her charity is fake
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Best Quotes of the Week – February 19, 2022
“So now his accountants have fired him and investigations draw closer to him and right on cue, the noise machine gets turned up. Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again. And as an aside, they’re getting awfully close to actual malice.”
Hillary Clinton, in a speech during the New York State Democratic Party convention
Clinton was apparently making a connection between the legal troubles of former President Donald Trump and the FOX News network’s repeatedly negative coverage of her.
“These nine families have shared a single goal from the very beginning: to do whatever they could to help prevent the next Sandy Hook.”
Josh Koskoff, the attorney representing 9 families who sued gun maker Remington over the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting massacre
Adam Lanza had used a Remington firearm to kill 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut in December of 2012. Koskoff also noted, “It is hard to imagine an outcome that better accomplishes that goal.” The families went up against the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which made it nearly impossible for gun makers to be held responsible for the use of their products in criminal acts.
Remington Arms will pay the 9 families $73 million to settle the lawsuit. It is the first time a U.S. gun manufacturer has been held liable in a mass shooting and a legal outcome that could open the door to future lawsuits against gun makers.
Word of the Week – February 12, 2022
Anima
Noun
Latin, early 20th century
The part of the psyche that is directed inward, in touch with the subconscious. (Historical philosophy) the soul, especially the irrational part of the soul as distinguished from the rational mind.
This term was coined by psychoanalyst Carl Jung but stemmed from the feminine of the Latin “animus,” which means “the rational soul; life; the mental powers, intelligence.”
Example: After a lifetime of battling depression, I realized I have the anima to handle anything.
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Stupidest Quote of the Week – February 12, 2022
“Not only do we have the DC jail which is the DC gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, referring to the Democratic Speaker of the House
For the record, here’s what gazpacho is:
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Back-Track Quote of the Week – February 12, 2022
“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell, commenting on a resolution by the Republican National Party about the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill
McConnell added, “the issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views than the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 12, 2022
“There were tens of thousands of people engaged in peaceful free speech that the press and Democrats try to demonize falsely. Violence is wrong, and those who engage in violence should be prosecuted. But peaceful free speech is protected by the First Amendment.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, about the January 6, 2021 riot
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Best Quotes of the Week – February 12, 2022
“The extremists have gone off the rails and chosen to endorse violence as ‘legitimate political discourse.’”
U.S. Rep Colin Allred, on a Republican Party resolution that downplays the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill as “legitimate political discourse”
“Throwing plastic into the sea is criminal. It kills biodiversity; it kills the Earth; it kills everything.”
Pope Francis, during an interview on Italy’s RAI
He added: “Looking after creation is an education (process) in which we must engage.” He also cited a song by Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos in which a boy asks his father why “the river no longer sings” and the father responds that “we finished it off”.
Francis also reiterated some key themes of his papacy, condemning excessive spending on armaments, defending the rights of migrants, and condemning ideological rigidity by conservatives in the Church.
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Word of the Week – February 5, 2022
Haecceity
Noun
Latin, 17th century
The property of being a unique and individual thing. From the medieval Latin “haecceitas” – “haec,” feminine of “hic,” meaning “this.”
Haecceity is a philosophical concept attributed to Scottish Catholic priest and university professor John Duns Scotus. He defined it as a non-qualitative property of a substance or thing that is responsible for its individuation and identity, such as a particular person’s unique identity. Interestingly, Scotus is also where the term “dunces” originated from. His opponents equated Duns’ followers, who argued against Renaissance humanism, to dullards incapable of scholarship.
Example: I finally realized my haecceity prevents me from being placed in categories designed by others.
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