But today both Bush and Olmert will reject these options in favor of mindless peace process prattle.

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We prattle about the beautiful scenery, the warm hospitality shown by everyone we meet and the progress the Kurds are making in rebuilding their nation.

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Rather than prattle on about the coming apocalypse, they could work to replace treeless, dense slums with shaded low-lying clean houses that are easier to heat or cool.

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Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the citation said "in his plays he uncovers the precipice in everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".

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As for these United States of America, well, you can prattle on about Michael Phelps or Bruce Jenner or Muhammad Ali or any other famed Olympian we have produced, but keep in mind this: Our wrestlers have won 50 golds.

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Notice that in none of this platform prattle have I even mentioned the current titans that have been warring over TV for years: The cable service providers, satellite companies, even the programmers that produce and deliver the content we all love.

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Let's start with the prattle.

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It is a pity that this central issue seems to have been shoved aside by mendacious distortions from Sarah Palin, Betsy McCaughey, Rush Limbaugh and other extremist commentators seeking to frighten Americans with their prattle about "death panels" and "pulling plugs on granny" that no bill before Congress even remotely envisions.

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