The Easter Marathon............

Beginning the Holy Week, in the wee hours of the day

and all day they run... run... run...

Some for fun and some to win,

They run... run... run...

Passing over one hurdle after another, 

reaching milestones, they run... run... run...

Centuries apart, keeping up with a 100 year-old tradition

during the Holy Week,

They run... run... run...

Some are young, some are old,

Some are strong, some are weak,

and there are women too, 

Yet they run... run... run...

Like Mary and her brothers in fellowship,

That stood before the open door,

To find the Holy One that showed us

The way to the heavens,

Beginning Easter they gather around in the wee hours

unburdening the past days,

Freeing themselves in resurrection of triumph and joy,

They run... run... run...

Some are young, some are old,

Some are strong, some are weak,

and there are women too.

Some for fun and some to win,

During Holy Week, like an Easter Bunny

They run... run... run...
  

Boundaries of Hypocrisy.....

Human hypocrisy like all other vices has no boundaries

It desires to transcend all that is good and human.

Facts and Due process.............

Facts like science help us 

towards due process.

From Mahatma Gandhi.....

"A nation's greatness is measured by 

how it treats its weakest members."

~ Mahatma Ghandi

Quote of the day......

"It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, 

that every man should worship according to 

his own convictions. One man’s religion neither 

harms nor helps another man. 

It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, 

to which free will and not force should lead us."

-- Tertullian(160?-230? A.D) Carthaginian 
“Father of Latin theology”c. 200 A.D.

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"The purpose of education is to make 

the choices clear to people, 

Not to make the choices for people."

-- Peter McWilliams (1949-2000) Poet, author

High and Low among US...............

One might not be so above all to Judge

But one certainly is not so low to Discern.

The Unexpected.....

Most often the unexpected comes in the form of Abuse

Leaving One unprepared and Vulnerable.

More so It come in violation of ones faith.

Human Trivia......

Most often and sadly all most all times 

Human life and its miseries are ruled by Trivia.

(In the good old days it was known as indigestion and

In modern times it may be known as boredom and pain)

The parasitic nature of human poverty.......

Poverty of humanity (of any kind) parasites

By bequeathing A gift up on those 

That are not a Monk by disposition, then

They would be forced to live like one.

-- Being one with those that are deprived of a Home. . . 

Quote of The day.......

"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty.

It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and 

To misapply even the best of laws.

He that would make his own liberty 

Secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;

For if he violates his duty he establishes 

A precedent that will reach to himself."

Thomas Paine(1737-1809) US Founding father, 
Source: Dissertation on First Principles of Government, 
7 July 1795

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"Sometimes the law defends plunder and 

participates in it.

Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and 

danger that their acts would otherwise involve..

 But how is this legal plunder to be identified?

Quite simply.

 See if the law takes from some persons 

what belongs to them and gives it to 

the other persons to whom 

it doesn't belong.

See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of 

another by doing

what the citizen himself cannot do without 

committing a crime.

Then abolish that law without delay ... 

No legal plunder;

this is the principle of justice, peace, order,

stability, harmony and logic.

"-- Frederic Bastiat(1801-1850) 
French economist, statesman, 
- the French Revolution of February 1848.

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"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures."

-- Gaius Julius Caesar(100-44 B.C.) Roman emperor

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"Censorship always defeats its own purpose,

 for it creates, in the end,

the kind of society that is incapable of

 exercising real discretion...

In the long run it will create a generation 

incapable of appreciating the difference between

 independence of thought and subservience.

"-- Henry Steele Commager(1902-1998) 
Historian and author 
Source: Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent, 1954

Quote of the day...

“There are no ordinary people. 

You have never talked to a mere mortal. 

Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - 

these are mortal, and 

their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. 

But it is immortals whom we joke with, 

work with, marry, snub and exploit - 

immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. 

This does not mean that we are to be perpetually 

solemn.-We must play. 

But our merriment must be of that kind 

(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) 

which exists between people 

who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - 

no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

― C.S. Lewis

As offered by Janathan Hill @St.francis.

Quote of the Day........

"It seems as if the Department [of Justice]

sees the value of the Bill of Rights as

no more than obstacles to be overcome."

-- Prof. Sanford H. Kadish

Quote of the Day.......

"The internal effects of a mutable policy are calamitous.

It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

It will be of little avail to the people that

the laws are made by men of their own choice,

if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read,

or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;

if they be repealed before they are promulgated,

or undergo such incessant changes that 

no man who knows what the law is today 

can guess what it will be tomorrow."

-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President


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"Sometimes the law defends plunder and 

participates in it.

Thus the beneficiaries are spared 

the shame and danger that

their acts would otherwise involve...

But how is this legal plunder to be identified?

Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons

what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons

to whom it doesn't belong.

See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of

another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do

without committing a crime.

Then abolish that law without delay .. No legal plunder;

this is the principle of justice, peace, order,

stability, harmony and logic."

-- Frederic Bastiat
"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat, 1850

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam../ Monuments Men.....

If history has anything to teach us,

It is not about winning war/s

Nor even it is about lossing one

But of we were to loose our humanity 

We loose not only ourself but 

Everything one has come to value.

Quote of the Day......

Facts are stubborn things;

and whatever may be our wishes,

our inclinations,

or the dictates of our passion,

they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

-- John Adams

(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President

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"Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning,

exclusively used in courts of justice,

but good for nothing anywhere else."


-- John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) 6th US President


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In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, 

there is in this country no superior, dominant, 

ruling class of citizens.There is no caste here. 

Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows 

nor tolerates classes among citizens."

-- John Marshall Harlan
(1899-1971) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

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Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies,

But let wasps and hornets break through.

-- Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745) Anglo-Irish Poet and Satirist
Source: A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 
1707, & Gullivers Travels, 1726

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When you have no basis for argument, 

abuse the plaintiff.

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

To be enlightened.....

There is nothing to prove in this world

Except to find out for oneself.

Quote of the day.....

"Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in

human beings more reliably than

sexual repression."

----Psychology Today article 4/20/2010

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       Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in human beings more reliably than sexual repression. Denied food, water, or freedom of movement, people will get desperate and some may lash out at what they perceive as the source of their problems, albeit in a weakened state. But if expression of sexuality is thwarted, the human psyche tends to grow twisted into grotesque, enraged perversions of desire.

      Unfortunately, the distorted rage resulting from sexual repression rarely takes the form of rebellion against the people and institutions behind the repression. (If it did, perhaps we'd be reading of abused priests rather than priests as abusers.)  Instead, the rage is generally directed at helpless victims who are sacrificed to the sick gods of guilt, shame, and ignorant pride.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201004/sexual-repression-the-malady-considers-itself-the-remedy

Unbecoming of Moses....

When a state begins to interfere in most issues

Where there is no regulatory Role to play 

In its overreach where the human agency that overseas it

Increasingly begins to invest itself in 

the abuse and misuse of its institutional mechanisms 

that are invested with Vast Powers by its constituents 

making the society unstable and morally vulnerable 

in lacking critical insight for it to guide 

Its citizenry towards A right direction

Thus breeding incompetence, unaccountability,

Nepotism and corrupt profiteering

On a scale that undermines its own historical viability.

Quote of the Day...

As for adopting the ways which

the state has provided for remedying the evil,

I know not of such ways.

They take too much time, and

A man's life will be gone."

-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)

About the Burglers....

The fear of burglars is not only 

the fear of being robbed, 

but  also the fear of a sudden and 

unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

---Elias canetti.