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January 14th, 2010 at 5: 14 pm tombaker says: so many cassandras, so few workable ideas.
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We on the left have our hand wringers and cassandras and that is OK but we and the nation as a whole need to go beyond griping, anger and denunciation to do more like Michael Moore is doing and rouse people to action.
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If you hark the cassandras, we should be growing our own barley and salt-curing our own gazelle meat.
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If you hark the cassandras, we should be growing our own barley and salt-curing our own gazelle meat.
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"Everyone" knew such and such had to be true, and knew that certain things just could not happen, and the handful who thought otherwise -- Nouriel Roubini comes swimmingly to mind -- were ignored, as comical cassandras.
Jihad Watch 2009
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Internet cassandras charge O'Brien was terminated immediately thereafter because he dared to venture into The Great Taboo.
THE UFO CHRONICLES 2009
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Internet cassandras charge O'Brien was terminated immediately thereafter because he dared to venture into The Great Taboo.
THE UFO CHRONICLES 2009
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In the midst of all these cassandras of doom, we see PEs enter a twilight zone that may offer multi-year profitable opportunities.
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They may even be persuaded to think that if such "trivial" demands set off worried warning-sounds, then those who sound the tocsin must themselves not be far-seeing, but merely alarmists, neurotics, and easily dismissable cassandras.
Jihad Monitor 2008
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… could work jut fine despite the cassandras shilling for the oil companies (forgot my conclusind line)
Think Progress » Novak Selectively Edits Report to Defend Big Oil 2006
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