Love Gone Missing @ AMERICAN DIGEST
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Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: "Do you smoke after sex?", "I don't know, I never looked."
Humor
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Friday, July 26, 2013
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The Minority Report Blog | Conservative News & Opinion
The Minority Report Blog | Conservative News & Opinion
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2013/07/18/white-people-rioting/
If you missed the news coverage we’re here to fill you in.
A neighborhood watch man, an adult carrying a concealed weapon, shot and killed an unarmed teenage boy and was just found not-guilty by a jury after two days of deliberations.
“I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,” [the shooter] said following the verdict. “I still have my regrets for the [young boy’s] family; it’s still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over.”
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2013/07/18/white-people-rioting/
If you missed the news coverage we’re here to fill you in.
A neighborhood watch man, an adult carrying a concealed weapon, shot and killed an unarmed teenage boy and was just found not-guilty by a jury after two days of deliberations.
“I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,” [the shooter] said following the verdict. “I still have my regrets for the [young boy’s] family; it’s still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over.”
Friday, July 19, 2013
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Computer Repair Tips By PCTechBytesAcer Laptop Recovery Without CD
Computer Repair Tips By PCTechBytesAcer Laptop Recovery Without CD: You can perform an Acer laptop recovery without CD or DVD disks if you need to.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
annual fee - Texas Secretary of State Search Results
annual fee - Texas Secretary of State Search Results: www.sos.state.tx.us/.../partnership_ppt.pdf
SeePage 57
SeePage 57
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Article 6132a-1. Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act - Texas Attorney Resources - Texas Laws
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Article 6132a-1. Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act - Texas Attorney Resources - Texas Laws: Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act law relating to LLPs
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Article 6132a-1. Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act - Texas Attorney Resources - Texas Laws
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Article 6132a-1. Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act - Texas Attorney Resources - Texas Laws: Texas Revised Limited Partnership Act law relating to LLPs
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Justice Alito denounces our “arrogant legal culture” | Power Line
Justice Alito denounces our “arrogant legal culture” | Power Line: Only an arrogant legal culture that has lost all appreciation of its own limitations could take such a suggestion seriously.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Poetry Lovers' Page - Rudyard Kipling: The Naulahka
Poetry Lovers' Page - Rudyard Kipling: The Naulahka:
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." Hustle=Hurry
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." Hustle=Hurry
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jonathan Goodwin
The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jonathan Goodwin: Bernard of Chartres:
"We are as dwarfs mounted on the shoulders of giants, so that although we perceive many more things than they, it is not because our vision is more piercing or our stature higher, but because we are carried and elevated higher thanks to their gigantic size."
"We are as dwarfs mounted on the shoulders of giants, so that although we perceive many more things than they, it is not because our vision is more piercing or our stature higher, but because we are carried and elevated higher thanks to their gigantic size."
Hybrid vs. Gasoline Vehicle Comparison – Are Hybrid Vehicles Worth it? | Million Dollar Journey
Hybrid vs. Gasoline Vehicle Comparison – Are Hybrid Vehicles Worth it? | Million Dollar Journey: Hybrid vs. Gasoline Vehicle Comparison
Car Cost Difference City L/100km HW L /100km AVG L/100km L / year Gas $/yr yrs to payback
Civic LX $25,170 – 8.2 5.7 6.95 1390 $1,807 –
Civic Hybrid $29,200 $4,030 4.7 4.3 4.5 900 $1,170 6.33
Corolla LE $24,665 – 7.4 5.6 6.5 1300 $1,690 –
Prius $32,866 $8,201 4 4.2 4.1 820 $1,066 13.14
Ford Escape (fwd) $30,226 – 10.3 7.7 9 1800 $2,340 –
Escape Hybrid $35,119 $4,893 5.7 6.7 6.2 1240 $1,612 6.72
Camry LE $30798 – 9.5 6.2 7.85 1570 2041 –
Camry Hybrid $36191 $5,393 5.7 5.7 5.7 1140 1482 9.65
Car Cost Difference City L/100km HW L /100km AVG L/100km L / year Gas $/yr yrs to payback
Civic LX $25,170 – 8.2 5.7 6.95 1390 $1,807 –
Civic Hybrid $29,200 $4,030 4.7 4.3 4.5 900 $1,170 6.33
Corolla LE $24,665 – 7.4 5.6 6.5 1300 $1,690 –
Prius $32,866 $8,201 4 4.2 4.1 820 $1,066 13.14
Ford Escape (fwd) $30,226 – 10.3 7.7 9 1800 $2,340 –
Escape Hybrid $35,119 $4,893 5.7 6.7 6.2 1240 $1,612 6.72
Camry LE $30798 – 9.5 6.2 7.85 1570 2041 –
Camry Hybrid $36191 $5,393 5.7 5.7 5.7 1140 1482 9.65
George F. Will: Obama hits a wall in Berlin - The Washington Post
George F. Will: Obama hits a wall in Berlin - The Washington Post: Napoleon said: “If you start to take Vienna — take Vienna.” Douglas MacArthur said that all military disasters can be explained by two words: “Too late.”
George F. Will: Obama hits a wall in Berlin - The Washington Post
George F. Will: Obama hits a wall in Berlin - The Washington Post: Napoleon said: “If you start to take Vienna — take Vienna.” Douglas MacArthur said that all military disasters can be explained by two words: “Too late.”
Thursday, June 20, 2013
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House of Eratosthenes
House of Eratosthenes
Liberal Women
We start with the A-through-E “get me a beer” scale. An “A-girl” will get a guy a beer so he doesn’t have to get up. A “B-girl” will get a guy a beer provided he treats her as a dignified and intelligent human being, meaning, says “please” and “thank you” as his Mom taught him. A “C-girl” might get him a beer but she’s going to keep count of who does how many things for who, and after she gets his beer he’s going to “owe” her one. A “D-girl” won’t get him a beer, and an “E-girl” will build an identity for herself out of her refusal to get him a beer.
Liberal Women
We start with the A-through-E “get me a beer” scale. An “A-girl” will get a guy a beer so he doesn’t have to get up. A “B-girl” will get a guy a beer provided he treats her as a dignified and intelligent human being, meaning, says “please” and “thank you” as his Mom taught him. A “C-girl” might get him a beer but she’s going to keep count of who does how many things for who, and after she gets his beer he’s going to “owe” her one. A “D-girl” won’t get him a beer, and an “E-girl” will build an identity for herself out of her refusal to get him a beer.
If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, Why Aren’t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well? by John W. Whitehead
If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, Why Aren’t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well? by John W. Whitehead: “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1943
Saturday, June 08, 2013
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: June 8, 2013
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: June 8, 2013: “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…”
—Winston Churchill, November 1936
—Winston Churchill, November 1936
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: June 8, 2013
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: June 8, 2013: “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…”
—Winston Churchill, November 1936
—Winston Churchill, November 1936
Friday, June 07, 2013
JoeRoseBlog
JoeRoseBlog
North Korean Leaders Fascinating story
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201306/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013
kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013
North Korean Leaders Fascinating story
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201306/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013
kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
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Simple Justice: Nothing To Salvage in Kern County
Simple Justice: Nothing To Salvage in Kern County: The officers involved are Deputies Ryan Greer, Tanner Miller, Jeffrey Kelly, Luis Almanza, Brian Brock, David Stephens and Sgt. Douglas Sword
The Volokh Conspiracy � “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”
The Volokh Conspiracy � “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”: Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
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The Gospel of Gatsby and Draper | Christianity Today
The Gospel of Gatsby and Draper | Christianity Today: "Worship power," he said, "and you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out." Real freedom, in Wallace's estimation, "involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day."
Freedom, contra Sartre, is about obligating yourself to others—not freeing yourself from their expectations. It is about finding yourself in the steady, unrelenting, knowing, freeing gaze of someone who knows you—you, the you that you despise—and who is glad to be near you, who loves you anyways. Freedom, at its core, is about love, is inextricable from love, is love.
"Perfect love," John reminds us, "casts out fear."
Freedom, contra Sartre, is about obligating yourself to others—not freeing yourself from their expectations. It is about finding yourself in the steady, unrelenting, knowing, freeing gaze of someone who knows you—you, the you that you despise—and who is glad to be near you, who loves you anyways. Freedom, at its core, is about love, is inextricable from love, is love.
"Perfect love," John reminds us, "casts out fear."
GraphOilogy: The IMF and Hubbert
GraphOilogy: The IMF and Hubbert
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12109.pdf
Great Paper and curves Peak Oil
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12109.pdf
Great Paper and curves Peak Oil
Monday, May 13, 2013
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AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: If anyone has labored from the first hour,
let them today receive the just reward.
If anyone has come at the third hour, with thanksgiving let them feast.
If anyone has arrived at the sixth hour, let them have no misgivings; for they shall suffer no loss.
If anyone has delayed until the ninth hour, let them draw near without hesitation.
If anyone has arrived even at the eleventh hour, let them not fear on account of tardiness.
For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first.
let them today receive the just reward.
If anyone has come at the third hour, with thanksgiving let them feast.
If anyone has arrived at the sixth hour, let them have no misgivings; for they shall suffer no loss.
If anyone has delayed until the ninth hour, let them draw near without hesitation.
If anyone has arrived even at the eleventh hour, let them not fear on account of tardiness.
For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first.
Antonia Larroux Guest Book: sign their guest book, share your condolences, or read their obituary at New York Times
Antonia Larroux Guest Book: sign their guest book, share your condolences, or read their obituary at New York Times
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=antonia-larroux&pid=164596250#fbLoggedOut
Great OBIT
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=antonia-larroux&pid=164596250#fbLoggedOut
Great OBIT
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AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Elegy Found in a Seattle Churchyard
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Elegy Found in a Seattle Churchyard: There are those that are celebrated and then there are the great. God knows the difference and those that are His knows the difference.
tombstone
tombstone
Saturday, April 20, 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Sultan Knish
Sultan Knish: The worst slavery is of the most insidious kind. It leaves the slave able to think and act, but not as a free man. It leaves him with cunning, but not courage. He is able to use force, but only to bring other slaves into line. And most hideously, this state of affairs seems moral and natural to him. This is his freedom.
The true slave has come to love big brother, to worship at the foot of the system that oppresses him. It is this twisted love that must be torn out of him. It is this idolatry of the whip before which he kneels, this panting to know who his superior and who his inferiors are, this love of a vast order that allows him to be lost in its wonders, to gaze in awe at the empire of tomorrow which builds its own tombs today, that must be broken. These are his gods and he must kill them within himself to be free.
The true slave has come to love big brother, to worship at the foot of the system that oppresses him. It is this twisted love that must be torn out of him. It is this idolatry of the whip before which he kneels, this panting to know who his superior and who his inferiors are, this love of a vast order that allows him to be lost in its wonders, to gaze in awe at the empire of tomorrow which builds its own tombs today, that must be broken. These are his gods and he must kill them within himself to be free.
On Healing Wings
On Healing Wings: So surely as the stars are fashioned by His hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon
Sunday, March 24, 2013
90Ninety Miles From Tyranny
90Ninety Miles From Tyranny
1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. Police were called to a day care, where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
4. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
6. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
7. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
8. A thief who stole a calendar… got twelve months.
9. A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
10. Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
11. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U. C. L. A.
12. The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
13. The professor discovered that his theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
14. The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
15. If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
16. A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
17. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
18. A will is a dead giveaway.
19. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
20. A backward poet writes inverse.
21. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
22. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
23. If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
24. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
25. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
26. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
Knowledge is Power - Comments on today’s celebrity wtf
Knowledge is Power - Comments on today’s celebrity wtf
murder statistics
Looked up FBI UCR data:
USA murders 1992 – 2011 inclusive – 356,470 over 20 a year period
USA murders with firearms 2011 – 8,583
USA total murders 2011 – 12,664, IOW, about 67% with firearms
Make a rough interpolation – about 239,000 firearms murders over a 20 year period.
Make a rough extrapolation – 239,000 x 1.5 -> 358,000 firearms murders over the tweeter’s 30 year period.
IOW, tweeter is a liar by three fold.
BTW, more goodies from the FBI:
In 2011, guess which state leads in firearms murders? – DiFi’s “gun free” California, by a huge margin.
And of the 1,220 firearms murders in DiFiland, only 45 were committed with *tah-dah* rifles.
A few murder rate per 100,000 population, UN statistics.
Note the highest are gun free socialist paradises:
4.8 United States
5.0 Cuba
7.8 Pakistan
8.0 Mali
8.4 Cayman Islands
8.6 British Virgin Islands
8.7 Senegal
8.7 Turks and Caicos Islands
8.8 Mozambique
8.9 Bolivia
10.0 Costa Rica
10.1 Liberia
10.2 Russia
10.3 Peru
10.8 Gambia
10.9 Togo
11.3 Barbados
11.5 Grenada
11.5 Paraguay
11.6 Cape Verde
12.2 Comoros
12.2 Nigeria
12.3 Bermuda
12.9 Swaziland
13.3 French Guiana
13.6 Nicaragua
13.8 Gabon
14.3 Zimbabwe
14.5 Botswana
14.7 Mauritania
14.9 Sierra Leone
15.1 Benin
15.2 Ecuador
15.2 North Korea
15.7 Ghana
15.8 Chad
17.1 Rwanda
17.2 Namibia
17.8 Eritrea
18.0 Burkina Faso
18.6 Guyana
19.0 Angola
19.2 Greenland
19.7 Cameroon
19.7 Montserrat
20.1 Kenya
20.1 Kyrgyzstan
20.2 Guinea-Bissau
20.7 Equatorial Guinea
21.0 Brazil
21.6 Panama
21.7 Burundi
21.7 Democratic Republic of the Congo
22.1 Dominica
22.5 Ethiopia
22.5 Guinea
22.7 Mexico
22.9 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
24.2 Sudan
24.5 Tanzania
25.0 Dominican Republic
25.2 Saint Lucia
26.2 Puerto Rico
27.4 Bahamas
29.3 Central African Republic
30.8 Congo
31.8 South Africa
33.4 Colombia
35.2 Lesotho
35.2 Trinidad and Tobago
36.0 Malawi
36.3 Uganda
38.0 Zambia
38.2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
38.5 Guatemala
39.2 U.S. Virgin Islands
41.4 Belize
45.1 Venezuela (Oh looky – Hugo’s socialist legacy!)
52.2 Jamaica
56.9 Côte d’Ivoire
69.2 El Salvador
91.6 Honduras
murder statistics
Looked up FBI UCR data:
USA murders 1992 – 2011 inclusive – 356,470 over 20 a year period
USA murders with firearms 2011 – 8,583
USA total murders 2011 – 12,664, IOW, about 67% with firearms
Make a rough interpolation – about 239,000 firearms murders over a 20 year period.
Make a rough extrapolation – 239,000 x 1.5 -> 358,000 firearms murders over the tweeter’s 30 year period.
IOW, tweeter is a liar by three fold.
BTW, more goodies from the FBI:
In 2011, guess which state leads in firearms murders? – DiFi’s “gun free” California, by a huge margin.
And of the 1,220 firearms murders in DiFiland, only 45 were committed with *tah-dah* rifles.
A few murder rate per 100,000 population, UN statistics.
Note the highest are gun free socialist paradises:
4.8 United States
5.0 Cuba
7.8 Pakistan
8.0 Mali
8.4 Cayman Islands
8.6 British Virgin Islands
8.7 Senegal
8.7 Turks and Caicos Islands
8.8 Mozambique
8.9 Bolivia
10.0 Costa Rica
10.1 Liberia
10.2 Russia
10.3 Peru
10.8 Gambia
10.9 Togo
11.3 Barbados
11.5 Grenada
11.5 Paraguay
11.6 Cape Verde
12.2 Comoros
12.2 Nigeria
12.3 Bermuda
12.9 Swaziland
13.3 French Guiana
13.6 Nicaragua
13.8 Gabon
14.3 Zimbabwe
14.5 Botswana
14.7 Mauritania
14.9 Sierra Leone
15.1 Benin
15.2 Ecuador
15.2 North Korea
15.7 Ghana
15.8 Chad
17.1 Rwanda
17.2 Namibia
17.8 Eritrea
18.0 Burkina Faso
18.6 Guyana
19.0 Angola
19.2 Greenland
19.7 Cameroon
19.7 Montserrat
20.1 Kenya
20.1 Kyrgyzstan
20.2 Guinea-Bissau
20.7 Equatorial Guinea
21.0 Brazil
21.6 Panama
21.7 Burundi
21.7 Democratic Republic of the Congo
22.1 Dominica
22.5 Ethiopia
22.5 Guinea
22.7 Mexico
22.9 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
24.2 Sudan
24.5 Tanzania
25.0 Dominican Republic
25.2 Saint Lucia
26.2 Puerto Rico
27.4 Bahamas
29.3 Central African Republic
30.8 Congo
31.8 South Africa
33.4 Colombia
35.2 Lesotho
35.2 Trinidad and Tobago
36.0 Malawi
36.3 Uganda
38.0 Zambia
38.2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
38.5 Guatemala
39.2 U.S. Virgin Islands
41.4 Belize
45.1 Venezuela (Oh looky – Hugo’s socialist legacy!)
52.2 Jamaica
56.9 Côte d’Ivoire
69.2 El Salvador
91.6 Honduras
Knowledge is Power - abortionist!! Comments on everything you ever wanted to know about progressives part 562.84
Knowledge is Power - Comments on everything you ever wanted to know about progressives part 562.84
DHS, Uhbamacare, more taxes and regulation of our daily lives, billion rounds of hollow points, 2,700 MRAP’s, drones, Patriot Act, election fraud, imminent runaway inflation…
Forgive the OT, but today is March 23, a notable day here in Richmond, Virginia. Take heed; change a few words and this fits well right now:
….They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave….
…It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry, in an address at St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia, on March 23, 1775.
DHS, Uhbamacare, more taxes and regulation of our daily lives, billion rounds of hollow points, 2,700 MRAP’s, drones, Patriot Act, election fraud, imminent runaway inflation…
Forgive the OT, but today is March 23, a notable day here in Richmond, Virginia. Take heed; change a few words and this fits well right now:
….They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave….
…It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry, in an address at St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia, on March 23, 1775.
Knowledge Is Power
Knowledge Is Power: How much easier is self-sacrifice than self realization. Our greatest pretenses are built not to hide the evil and the ugliness in us, but our emptiness.
--Eric Hoffer
Men think in herds; it will be seen they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
--Sydny Smith
Human beings will cling to their delicious tyrannies and exquisite nonsense until death stares them in the face.
--Charles Mackay
When walking in the forest, upon realizing that you are being stalked by a ravenous, man-eating beast; the first thing to do is accept the fact. With that, any number of options become available. Without that, you become scat.
--Eric Hoffer
Men think in herds; it will be seen they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
--Sydny Smith
Human beings will cling to their delicious tyrannies and exquisite nonsense until death stares them in the face.
--Charles Mackay
When walking in the forest, upon realizing that you are being stalked by a ravenous, man-eating beast; the first thing to do is accept the fact. With that, any number of options become available. Without that, you become scat.
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