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  • But, please don't call it a marriage, an impossibilty, no matter how many laws past or newspeak there is.

    Marriage vs. Civil Unions: Separate Is Never Equal 2010

  • So she's speaking in simpleton extremes to simpleton extremists who don't "get" that "absolute" is also spelled "perfectly" -- an impossibilty.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • The arrest, imprisonment and heavy fines of those who breach necessary laws to preserve voluntary exchange against fraud, and such like, is evidence of a healthy society or as healthy as it is reasonable to expect any human society, given the impossibilty of utopia and not one that is terminally beyond repair.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Consider for a moment the logistic impossibilty of the medias wild claims — If you got 200 million people talking 30 minutes a day, what you have is six billion talk minutes or 100 million talk hours.

    Think Progress » 63%. 2006

  • The arrest, imprisonment and heavy fines of those who breach necessary laws to preserve voluntary exchange against fraud, and such like, is evidence of a healthy society or as healthy as it is reasonable to expect any human society, given the impossibilty of utopia and not one that is terminally beyond repair.

    Retreating to ideal communities from an imaginary past is no solution Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • I trust only by oversight by Michael McCoy on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 9: 03: 52 PM improbability versus impossibilty by gravity32 on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 10: 40: 29 PM

    Naudet's 9/11 Plane Shot Staged 2008

  • We have government adverts that say you can save ‘up to’ $80 a year by turning off the telly instead of leaving it on standby, another numerical impossibilty.

    More Unthreaded « Climate Audit 2007

  • The ‘islamofascist’ wording, which in itself is an impossibilty, of the punditry is just plain idiocy when looked at from a distance.

    Think Progress » Bush Warns Iran: ‘I Recently Ordered The Deployment Of An Additional Carrier Strike Group To The Region’ 2007

  • PeaceBang kicked off a lively blog conversation about the (un)availability of Christian language in a UU context with a list of assumptions "God talk"-wary UUs cultivate in others, followed it up with a post on the near impossibilty of speaking devotionally about Jesus, and then (just to keep things lively) put in a good word for "Lord."

    Philocrites: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • PeaceBang kicked off a lively blog conversation about the (un)availability of Christian language in a UU context with a list of assumptions "God talk"-wary UUs cultivate in others, followed it up with a post on the near impossibilty of speaking devotionally about Jesus, and then (just to keep things lively) put in a good word for "Lord."

    Philocrites: How I understand 'God language.' 2006

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