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First Principles: Those Citing Scriptures In Support of the Bondage of Slavery Are Reminded of Its Consequences to Egypt
“[E]ven the sacred Scriptures had been quoted to justify this iniquitous traffic. It is true that the Egyptians held the Israelites in bondage for four hundred years, . . . but . . . gentlemen cannot forget the consequences that … Continue reading
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Tagged 400 Years, Almighty, Bondade, Consequence, Continental Congress, Deliver, Egypt, Elias Boudino, First Principles, Forever, Iniquitous, Isreal, Justify, President, Remember, Sacred, Scripture, Today, Traffic, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Egotism Is the Anesthetic That Dulls the Pain of Stupidity
“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” – Frank Leahy
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Tagged Anesthetic, Dull, Egotism, Fank Leahy, Pain, Stupidity, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Choice Isn’t Left Or Right; It’s Up Or Down
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down.” – Ronald Reagan My response to Bernie … Continue reading
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Tagged Down, Dream, I, Individual Freedom, Left, Order, Right, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Told, Totalitarianism, Up, You
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society Ever Pursued Until Liberty Is Lost
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue
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Late Night Nachos Pantoum
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #15 is the Pantoum. The word prompt for this form is ‘swan song’. The Pantoum form is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum “The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacon, Bake, Cheese, Clock, Health, Late Night, Meat, Microwave, Milkwood, Nacho, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Quatrain, Simmer, Sublime, Swan Song, Three Cheses, Will Power
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Talk Is Cheap Rondel
The Poem A Day form for Day#14 is the Rondel form. The word prompt is ‘sunspot’. Sorry to say. But, I am not going to use the word prompt. It’s only provided here in case there is a reader out … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Broody, Cheap, Dissonance, E, Everyday, France, Harmony, Jump Beat, Key, Life, Lost, Melody, Milkwood, Misery, Modern, Moody, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quick Time, Rondel, Talk
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Thought For the Day: The Way of Truth and Love Has Always Won
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think … Continue reading
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Tagged Despair, End, Fall, History, Invincible, Love, Mohandas Gandhi, Murderer, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth, Tyrant, Won
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Facts, First Principles, Inclinations, John Adams, Passion, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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Truth Is Coming
A good case might be made that we are possibly living in the end times with the attacks on Christianity, the genocide committed against the unborn, and so many other countless atrocities including groups like ISIS. I was at church … Continue reading
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Tagged Alter, Bold, Christianity, Coming, Deploy, Die For, End Times, Forgive, Gatitude, Genocide, God, Gospel, Hands, History, Holy, ISIS, Joy, Liturgical Dance, Mercy, Peace, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Power, Praise, Prayer, Preach, Relevation, Rest, Revelations, Rhetoric, Rising, Sermon, Shout, Slavery, Stand, Steady, Strength In the Blood, Strong, Talk, Thought, Truth, Walk, Word of God, World, Written
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Home On Phone, the Homophones Echo
The Poem A Day for Day #13 is to be prepared in the Echo Poem form. The word prompt if needed is ‘dense’. From https://www.britannica.com/art/echo-verse: “Echo verse, a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line … Continue reading
