“WAR is a racket. It always has been… It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — General Smedley Butler, 1935 Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his …
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Black Pigeon offers a unique and intelligent global perspective. In this video he notes that the worst insult that can be given in China is to call someone a Baizuo, meaning literally “white left.” It is meant to end the conversation, basically calling the designee unhinged and incapable of being reasoned with — like the …
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you can’t make this stuff up… It has come out that the FBI report which started this whole Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax claimed as fact that the “operation” was being run out of the Russian Consulate in Miami. The problem? There is no Russian Consulate in Miami. Either someone had a great big laugh over that …
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“People are always saying, ‘What would Jesus do?’ They don’t wanna know so they can do it — they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!” — George Carlin Amen
I was going through an old personal blog I had started back in 2010 and came across this page. I thought this had been marvelously written and I clicked the link to discover again who had done so. It was done by a man named Michael Rivero who I used to follow but had forgotten …
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Added Page Bastiat’s Parable of the Broken Window to the More Documents tab at the top of the site.
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” — Margaret Thatcher
Long ago I decided that the majority of what I was told or taught about food was most likely bullshit. One of the bonuses of being a cynic is that you assume that pretty everything you are told or taught is that way. You learn to do a lot of your own research, and your …
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This is one of my favorite quotes, yet I hesitated to post it to my spacebook wall for many years. I post it here as I finally posted it there a couple months ago, and will follow up with more thoughts below… I fear this will be misunderstood by most, even the ones who at …
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I stole a pen from the bank and it didn’t even last a year. It really makes one think about where are the best and worst places to steal pens.
We think we are unique when, throughout the day, we encounter synchronicity. Yet it happens to us all, all the time, if we are open to seeing it and knowing it. We open a random book to some random page, and there is the very thing we were looking for. We wake up humming a …
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Many years ago we were introduced to the fact that the Universe was expanding. Then more recently it was discovered that the expansion was not slowing down, as had been previously surmised, but was in fact accelerating. So what is the universe? It is easy to get caught up in thinking of the universe as …
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated a pilot program earlier this month (May, 2019) on the Southern border. They used a 90-minute DNA test to confirm that the children actually belonged to the adults they accompanied. Almost a full ONE THIRD did not. You may draw your own conclusions, but when people tell you that child …
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A liberal-leaning friend chastised me recently for something I said on spacebook. I joked in passing (in the comments of one of my own posts) that I had had a friend in the early 1990’s who had made a real nuisance of himself, calling every night and talking at length about how bad his life …
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Pregnancy Kills Abortion Saves Lives — New York Times, 2019 War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength — Ministry of Truth, 1984
These people are demonic. Literally. Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was “worth it” — wins Medal of Freedom. This is the same person who told you that any woman who did not vote for Hillary Clinton had a special place in hell. I expect she knows more about that than she says. Is …
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“Though the name of liberty delights the ear, and tickles the fond pride of man, it is a jewel much oftener the play-thing of his imagination than a possession of real stability; it may be acquired to-day in all the triumph of independent feelings, but perhaps to-morrow the world may be convinced, that mankind knows …
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“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor …
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Moved to companion site, Compendia.
RULES, by the Observation of which a Man of Wit and Learning may nonetheless make himself a disagreeable Companion. Your Business is to shine, therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished. To this End: If possible engross the whole Discourse; and when other Matter fails, talk much …
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If— 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; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or …
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Abraham Lincoln loved telling jokes. He believed that a humorous story was often the best way of teaching something. This was a favorite joke he was known to have told his sons… “How many legs would a dog have if you called its tail a leg?” “Five!” his sons would answer. “No, it would have …
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I haven’t sold anything on eBay in a long time, although a number of years ago I did. I like eBay, or the concept of it at least, before it got so greedy. It was like a coast-to-coast garage sale. If you couldn’t find something anywhere else, you might still find it there. And the …
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