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If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy. – Proverb Cleaning up the Drafts file. Six years back or so. Guess that means – I’m no mathematician – now it’s half a century. Longer even. Came across a note I’d made almost forty-five years ago. Gives you…
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her…
‘The only good Indian is a dead Indian.’ – Gen. Philip Sheridan June 25th, 1876. Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Calvary were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana. Custer’s Last Stand is one of those tales of American history that gets embellished and…
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. – Booker T. Washington On March 2, 1807, Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa. The law took effect on January 1, 1808. The law stipulated that violators were to be fined $800 (for knowingly buying illegally imported slaves) to $20,000 (for equipping…
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency? – Joseph N. Welch On June 9, 1954, during the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Joseph N. Welch [no relation] berated Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin.) The Senator looked just like Ted Cruz, dumber than Ron Johnson, smelled like Josh Hawley…
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King A woman is having an affair during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year-old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman’s husband also…
It’s imperative to find out what role everybody played and figure out why, first of all. I thought it was an action movie, banana republic, some type of dictatorship. I was embarrassed, angry. And I want to make sure it never, ever happens again. – Scott Brown (R.- Massachusetts) Don’t keep silent just to protect…
“If you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.” – Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) Did the Nazis refer to D-Day as a normal tourist visit? Was the Battle of Little Big Horn a normal tourist visit? When fighting Mexicans who…
Yesterday I barely moved and my Fitbit says I took 800 steps. Our home is small, so that’s a lot of trips to the bathroom. Here’s something drafted not long after my right foot surgery. Almost eight years ago. ….My study of the martial arts continues. Please note this is not a new interest. I…
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do-it-yourself project. – Denis Waitley I am in no mood to write because I am scheduled for surgery in a couple of days. Oh, no, it’s today! So, my week involves blood tests and chest x-rays and an ultrasound. Many, many forms and…