"The past is history, the future a mystery, and the present is a gift"
--Eleanor Roosevelt.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"Certain things really do belong to Caesar, and other things most emphatically do not. One of the things that does not belong to him is defining what things belong to him."
Douglas Wilson
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Amazing how pertinent that is today.
JFK, the last good Democrat. 😉
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Yeah, you can lead a horse to water but u=you can't make him drink.
I’m not depressed, just in a square root.
A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.
At the start of Homer’s Odyssey, Zeus laments: ‘See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.’
"The past is history, the future a mystery, and the present is a gift"
--Eleanor Roosevelt.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"Discpline is only a rabble-rouser's shout from anarchy!"
"Certain things really do belong to Caesar, and other things most emphatically do not. One of the things that does not belong to him is defining what things belong to him."
Douglas Wilson
“Bridge, what bridge”
Ted Kennedy
A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.
Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.
"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens
That almost makes it sound like beliefs are bad, and being bound is something to be avoided.
Or they are neither good or bad, our actions will force them into a category