But sometimes, sometimes, you get the impression that you are living in an alternative reality.
Listening to the Republicans talk about the economy and economic policy, however, is like entering into an alternative reality.
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How different that alternative reality is from the one that we live in.
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The other thing is that there are so many transactions that he says were legitimate or he has an alternative version of reality for, you just think to yourself, well, the prosecution doesn't have to nail them on all of them.
And the Obama call for government "investment" in alternative energies will be easier to turn into reality if it, too, can be cloaked as part of stimulus spending.
The reality is that there is an effective alternative to SQ 755 legislation and its various copycats around the country.
But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
Investors have yet to fully awaken to the reality that Qualcomm (QCOM) is one of the alternative clever ways of playing Apple (AAPL) and the fast growth in overall demand for smartphones.
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Rather than seek an alternative explanation to understand what was happening, the administration alternatively denied reality - as in the case of Turkey where it pretended that the AKP was a moderate, pro-Western Islamist party in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
That reality can then be taken into account in the negotiations and alternative security and other arrangements made accordingly, with minimum disruption caused to the peace process.
The reality is that the status quo that Democrats pretend is an alternative to "privatization" is already irretrievably gone and Medicare is already changing, for worse or for far worse.
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The filmmakers were so inept in their portrayal of any kind of recognizable reality that their creations became a form of grubby science fiction, documentaries about an alternative planet.
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