Cesspools

You think you're morally righteous, that these "cesspools" are "obviously" evil, and that the city has a right to eliminate them for the good of society, yet you are blind to the over-riding political issue. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Since Huckabee's campaign ended, Jerry Jenkins has been seen discussing whether Barack Obama is the Antichrist or merely a pre-cursor to the Antichrist; Star Parker has been heard declaring that public schools are "cesspools" designed to indoctrinate students with ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, having made his point that local elections cannot be reliably used as barometers for national mood, our good friend drhunt (any relation to howard, by the way?) has moved on to the very pertinent squirrel that Ivy League universities are “liberal cesspools”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment — ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our prisons are cesspools that reform few, because of the abuses allowed to occur there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The current bodies are just social clubs with arcane rules, silly customs, sinkholes of money and national priorities, cesspools of greed and lust, recipients of bribes and political gifts, and clearly unable to do the work that is needed! — ❋ Unknown (2009)

“All the toilets and cesspools are flooded, of course,” Paul noted dolefully, “and the amenities of life are impossible to preserve.” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Teabagger rhetoric is manifested from Libertarian cesspools as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For whatever reason, King isn't really concerned that prisons are cesspools of rape, violence, racism and gang activity that shelter individuals already predisposed to crime and otherwise anti-social behavior, multiply those tendencies and spit them back out into society, making honest-to-God threats to the homeland. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

(Although CNN and the like are comment cesspools, the same kind of thing goes on at smaller blogs as well.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both amateur and real shock-jocks circle in the cesspools of human foibles like sharks. ❋ Rev. Barbara Kaufmann (2011)

If we don't, then things that can live in the cesspools we make will be very happy to take over. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not far from the beautiful beaches, hip suburbs and great cuisine that saw it recently named the world's top tourist destination by one website, women in Khayelitsha could be seen last week drawing water from a communal tap near cesspools strewn with rubbish. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They are cesspools of hypocrisy – selfish, wealthy, bellicose and obsessed with gaining greater political power. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When all of our great educational reformers, those beacons of light in the cesspools known as public schools, have learned that the only way students can learn is for each teacher to follow the same script word for word, how can we tolerate these so-called educators who believe they have to abandon the script and try something new when the script is not working with the majority of our students? ❋ Randy Turner (2011)