My heart breaks for the cancellation of this show.

thanks for sharing that. what a heart breaking story. my friend is also dying from late stage lyme disease and had a similar story

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Author Amy Tan has the disease and her account is an interesting read:
http://www.amytan.net/LymeDisease.aspx

My heart breaks when I see stuff like that.

He's so damn ugly, and he has no freaking idea.

But he's vibrant and alive and he loves his master so much!

Damn, the tender bitter-sweetness of life.

CP thanks for kickstarting the discussion. Some interesting points have been made. The couple hugging in the picture were in fact p'wned by the the ban. They decided to try anyway either out of lack of planning or in order to "make a standing" and file a lawsuit, as dghandi points out.

The video doesn't really lead me to believe that this was a willing protest based on their reactions, but on the other hand being told "no" even if you expected it might still be heart-breaking. I wonder if they will file suit and cause lots of litigious machinations where there really needn't be any if voters just lived and let live. What problems were same-sex marriages causing?

It's absolutly heart breaking... you know the sad thing is over one hundred thousand people die... and I believe its something almost forgotten already in the west...

I think alot of Americans misunderstand the roots of the criticism.

I am not American, but I believe in the idea and ideals that lie behind America as a nation expressed through the Bill of rights, the Constitution and in the countless writings of the founding fathers who have tried to address almost every possible problem that might befall the nation, if only all their words were taught more thoroughly in schools rather in universities.

It's the fusion of many ideas of liberty and democracy, starting with perhaps with Rome, the Magna Carta in Britain right up to the French revolution and so on.

I criticize the US not from a blind hatred towards its foreign policy or corporate hegemony but because it is perhaps the strongest beacon of individualism and democracy that remains in our world, almost every nation regardless of its personal views strives to achieve what America allows for it's people, the idea that any man or woman can achieve progress through hard work, that they can influence the course of government, that they essentially have a voice. A fundamental idea that still has to take stronger roots elsewhere in the world, especially now with a rise of a new neo-despotic capitalism taking place in Russia and China.

This is not to say that America has perfected the idea or it's execution, no not at all but is has come close, but it has hit obstacles, corporate control has replaced population control and the vote of the people only because the people have slowly forgotten their civil liberties over the liberties of the dollar and the corporate sector.

In this way America sets the standard for the rest of the world, this is why seeing the War on terror, Iraq and Afghanistan was so heart breaking because the thinking goes if America can do it... so can any one else, the moral high ground of being against torture has been lost. That's why the criticism is so harsh, the world wants America to be better, in fact it wants it to be the best. I think its like that perhaps to the wide spread of it's culture, the fact that its in reality the representation of many populations of the world coming together.

This is my personal belief. I think developed from reading these words for the first time when I was younger.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus, 1883

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), written in 1883 and, in 1903, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty.

These words, that essential idea is something all Americans need to remember. There is such richness of ideas in American political and constitutional history with regards to liberity, that really makes me happy inside. Like reading about liberty for someone who has known only the shackles of jail all their life.

Oh man, what a heart-breaking song! Such a phenomenal album though. Here's to getting more indie stuff like this on the Sift.

Sorry, I didn't laugh one time. In fact, it was a bit heart-breaking as the kitty is put in there and he's looking around, a little curious...trusting that his humans wouldn't do anything mean to him. Then they break that trust.

It's just cruel. You know, water-boarding doesn't really hurt or kill you...so maybe we should do that to all you that liked this and just say "I laughed my ass off...look at him squirming like he's drowning! Oh come on, he's not REALLY being hurt....I LOL'ED!"

Fucking morons.

This was especially heart-breaking for me, because I'm from the area. When he shows the refinery, a little to the east is Yscloskey (pronounced "why-clawskey"). I used to work for a company that sold camps out that way, Fort Beauregard Marina. It's all gone. Dozens of camps just swept away. No one was in them at the time thank god, but it's still heartbreaking to see that destruction. Like the man said, when they say run.....RUN.

I think it is absurd to exploit what happened to all those people because we have a crazy conspiracy theory. Those sounds could have been the floors falling on each other internally before it was evidenced outside the building. Unless the government comes out and says they did it intentionally I will forever belive that we were in fact attacked. Shame on us for watching the videos of those towers falling and instead of our hearts breaking everytime, we choose to look for something stupid. I can tell you I still tremble with sadness everytime I see those vids.

I think it is absurd to exploit what happened to all those people because we have a crazy conspiracy theory. Those sounds could have been the floors falling on each other internally before it was evidenced outside the building. Unless the government comes out and says they did it intentionally I will forever belive that we were in fact attacked. Shame on us for watching the videos of those towers falling and instead of our hearts breaking everytime, we choose to look for something stupid. I can tell you I still tremble with sadness everytime I see those vids.

Aw yeah, it's one of those films I have to warn people about before recommending it to them - I cried my eyes out when I saw it.

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I love articles such as the one quoted from Literature Film Quarterly. You can tell the author was using the Thesaurus features of Word to a great degree to come across as an intellectual.

Besides, the most heart-breaking moment of the movie is where Salieri confesses his total and complete admiration for Mozart when he says "You are the greatest composer known to me". And Mozart in a rare glimpse of humility asks for forgiveness because he had always thought that Salieri didn't like his music.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Masterpiece.

I'm not a big fan of this band, but this song is just heart breaking, great stuff