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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Happy Independence Day!!
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized
Tagged Bald Eagle, Celebrate, Fireworks, Flag, Fourth of July, Indpendence Day
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Thought For the Day: Free Speech Is the Greatest Freedom
“I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Fools, Free Speech, Freedom, Safety, Wisdom, Woodrow T Wilson
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First Principles: All Are Created Equal With Inalienable Rights
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson Time … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Creator, Declaration of Independence, Endowed, Equal, First Principles, Liberty, Life, Pursuit of Happiness, Self-Evident, Truths, Unalienable
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg stretched from July 1st through 3rd, 1863. It was one of the most horrendous battles that was ever fought in the Western hemisphere and it occurred between two sides of Americans – the North versus the … Continue reading
Posted in Second Life, Thought For the Day
Tagged Battle, Civil War, Confederacy, Franklin Haskell, Gettysburg, Harvard Classics, History, Union
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WordPress Daily Prompt – Dash
In response to the daily prompt, dash, another photograph from Second Life. Dragon Ship Dashed On the Rocks At Dawn
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life
Tagged Daily Prompt, Dragonship, Fantasy, Memories, Photographs, Second Life, Vikings
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A World of Difference
As some readers might know, my eldest daughter and I have a deal that in progress and process. She wants to be a good writer and asked me who I thought a good writer was. From this conversation we made … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Right to Property Is A Positive In the World
“Property is the fruit of labor-property is desirable – it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not who … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Diligence, Encouragement, Example, Good, Labor, Opportunity, Outcome, Positive, Property, Self Responsibility, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: A Juror Has A Duty to Follow the Juror’s Conscience
“It is not only [the juror’s] right, but his duty…to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.” — John Adams, 1771 (2nd US President)
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Consience, Duty, First Principles, John Adams, Judgment, Juror, Understanding
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is also known as Parallel Lives or Plutarch’s Lives. This book is believe to have been written in the beginning of the Second Century A.D. It consists of a series of 23 pairs … Continue reading
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Tagged Biographies, Ethics, Harvard Classics, Julius Caesar, Lives, Plutarch
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 