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If women governed the entire world, it is my theory that soon we would have world peace and healing of the entire planet. – Leland Lewis Former President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a bizarre rave review on Tuesday after Russian military forces began moving into Ukraine and threatening the civilian population ― while simultaneously claiming nothing like…
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy…
“Critical Race Theory” = Willie Horton. – Barker Ajax On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a white 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was stuffed in…
There is no way this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don’t see any other way out. He’s got to be stopped. And I have to stop him. – Phil Connors [What follows is Happy Groundhog’s Day 2021. My prediction last year was on point….
Even after the capitulation it was generally accepted as a fact by the population that the quislings were mainly recruited among psychopaths and intellectually deficient persons. – From the Cambridge English Corpus quis·ling/ˈkwizliNG/ noun 1.a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. Synonyms: apostate, backstabber, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, Judas, recreant, serpent, snake, traitor, turncoat. Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/, Norwegian: [ˈvɪ̂dkʉn ˈkvɪ̂slɪŋ]; 18…
He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. – Gabriel García Márquez An informed guide to the pandemic, with the latest developments and expert advice about prevention and treatment. Or not….
To understand a phenomenon, we need to make sure we understand the shape of its curve. By assuming we know how a curve continues beyond what we see, we will draw the wrong conclusions and come up with the wrong solutions. – Hans Rosling Over 22% of U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been credibly accused of…
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion…
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…. – Rudyard Kipling Why Republican Voters Think Americans Have to Get Over Jan. 6 By Patrick Healy and Adrian J. Rivera for The New…
You claim to be the devil? You are nothing but my imposter; far less than a shadow. – Mecha Constantine Focus groups interest me. So, when I saw in The New York Times, January 6, 2022, a promise of insight by Patrick Healy and Lora Kelley, I was on it. The promise was nine American voters, all Democrats….