I posted this in a thread last year sometime, it seems as apt as ever:

Battered Wife Syndrome: In lay terms, this is a reference to any person who, because of constant and severe domestic violence usually involving physical abuse by a partner, becomes depressed and unable to take any independent action that would allow him or her to escape the abuse. The condition explains why abused people often do not seek assistance from others, fight their abuser, or leave the abusive situation....

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That’s pretty much it for me….
Osatwork.com was a god send for me as the regular OS site was filtered at work. I could still access all the OS goodness, (except blogs) but now the creeping reach of regulation has reached out and gobbled up anything ‘/forums’. And seeing as how I do about 90% of my interweb surfing at work, and 99% of my time on OS in the forums, well….. you can do the math.

And I'm probably not the only one affected. All these filter ‘engines’ seem to be in...

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I'm offering this up to give liberals a chance to defend obamas policies and actions over the 1st 100+ days. Lets see if the rubber can meet the road. Or are you going out when no ones looking and scraping that ‘O’ bumper sticker off your car? Or to paraphrase Jerry Orbeck in ‘dirty dancing’ – “When your wrong, say your wrong”
1. $900,000,000 for hamas controlled Palestine. (Guess our economy recovered when I wasn’t looking and we've got money to burn (and hamas stopped being terrorist...

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FDR's Treasury secretary, Henry Morganthau, speaking before Congressional Democrats in 1939:

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From Joshuapundit read it all.

Much has been said about President Obama and his supposed 'role models'. Even the president himself hasn't been amiss to trying on the masks of Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John Kennedy on occasion, and the press has gone out of its way to treat the Obama Administration as the Second Coming of Camelot.

But in looking at the actual decisions Obama has made as opposed to the rhetoric and the stance, a different model comes to mind....

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