Quote of the day......

Human nature itself is evermore 

an advocate for liberty. 

There is also in human nature 

a resentment of injury, and 

indignation against wrong. 

A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. 

These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… 

If the people are capable of understanding, 

seeing and feeling the differences 

between true and false, 

right and wrong, 

virtue and vice, 

to what better principle can 

the friends of mankind apply 

than to the sense of this difference?

-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: the Novanglus, 1775

Quote of the day......

I am very sure that any man of 

common understanding may, 

by culture, care, attention, and labor, 

make himself what- ever he pleases, 

except a great poet.

-- Philip Stanhope
4th Earl of Chesterfield.

Life & Death.............

Some time life is....... 

More cruel then Death.

Quote of the day.....Scandalous.

"They say,

You really need a high level of proof 

to change recomondations,

which is ironic because 

they never had a high level of proof 

to set them."

--- Walter Willet.

Harvard Epidemiologist. 

Truth amongst us........

If we have truth amongst us..... 

There would be only One truth /One story 

As all of Our Truths and Stories 

Become One.....

Quote of the day....

It does not require many words 

To speak the truth.

-- Chief Joseph
(1840-1904) Chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain 
(Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians

Quote of the day......

Glenn Greenwald Retweeted
 bart‏ @bart_smith  Mar 19

It's astounding how anyone could be 

arguing with a nazi and 

lose the moral high ground.

Quote of the day......

 Prosecutors are not obligated 

to protect their convictions, 

“They’re obligated to seek the truth. 

And do justice.”

--- Cuyahoga County Judge Mike Donnelly.

One's standing.......

If one stands for nothing

Then......

One is not even standing up

For one self.

Quote of the day.....

If honor be your clothing, 

the suit will last a lifetime;

but if clothing be your honor, 

it will soon be worn threadbare.

-- William D. Arnot (1808–1875)
 Scottish preacher and theological writer.

Quote of the day....

Freedom from something is not enough. 

It should also be freedom for something. 

Freedom is not safety but opportunity. 

Freedom ought to be a means to enable 

the press to serve the proper functions of 

communication in a free society.

-- Zechariah Chaffee, Jr.
(1865-1957)
Source: Nieman Reports, April 1948

Techno switch.....

Human evolution through technology is 

another myth.

Myth / co / pithecus.....

The need for myth building is rooted in 

social & culturally antiquated self moorings.

quote of the day.....

If liberty means anything at all, 

it means the right to tell people 

what they do not want to hear.

-- George Orwell. [Eric Arthur Blair]
British author.
Source: Animal Farm 1945

Homage ....

I for one does not have true privilege 

To judge the high or low

For they both exist 

In the realm of God's creation. 

Quote of the day......

Joan Walsh@joanwalsh 
Joan Walsh Retweeted Bernie Sanders....

Anytime you say "but" after an important declaration, 

clarification or apology,

you're saying the opposite in what follows.

https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/801283907308126208

Quote of the day....

That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, 

and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, 

temperance,industry and frugality, 

are absolutely necessary to  preserve 

the blessings of liberty, 

and keep government free. 

The people ought, therefore, 

to pay particular attention to these points, 

in the choice of officers and representatives, 

and  have a right to exact a due 

and constant regard to them, 

from their legislators and magistrates, 

in the making and executing such laws as are 

necessary for the good government of the State.

-- Vermont Declaration of Rights
Source: Article 16

Quote of the day.........

The fate of the country does not depend on 

how you vote at the polls --

the worst man is as strong as 

the best at that game;

it does not depend on what kind of paper

you drop into the ballot-box once a year,

but on what kind of man 

you drop from your chamber

into the street every morning.

-- Henry David Thoreau.
(1817-1862) American author.
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4

Look at the proud!

their spirit is not right in them,

but the righteous live by their faith........


It is alright if one has little respect for 

Other's virtues....

but should be aware of one's own 

short comings.

Quote of the day.....

[There can be no] rational administration of government

when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

-- Polybius
(ca. 203-120 BC,) Greek historian