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  • January 14th, 2010 at 5: 14 pm tombaker says: so many cassandras, so few workable ideas.

    Think Progress » Poll: Americans think standing for principle is more important than bipartisan compromise. 2010

  • 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.

    Yellow City? Spineless Cowards Almost Everywhere in DC 2009

  • If you hark the cassandras, we should be growing our own barley and salt-curing our own gazelle meat.

    a dozen eggs: $46,713.88 2009

  • If you hark the cassandras, we should be growing our own barley and salt-curing our own gazelle meat.

    seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me 2009

  • "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

  • Internet cassandras charge O'Brien was terminated immediately thereafter because he dared to venture into The Great Taboo.

    THE UFO CHRONICLES 2009

  • Internet cassandras charge O'Brien was terminated immediately thereafter because he dared to venture into The Great Taboo.

    THE UFO CHRONICLES 2009

  • In the midst of all these cassandras of doom, we see PEs enter a twilight zone that may offer multi-year profitable opportunities.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines 2008

  • 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

  • … 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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