Posted on 08/22/2015 1:41:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like nominating Dole, McCain, Romney or any Bush was or would be better?
Two of my best friends converted to Trump after watching the rally last night.
It’s going to take 200 years to get the stench of that evil trash out.
I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offense against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the following week keep both lines clear of spots. Proceeding thus to the last, I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a years. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplished the first, proceeds to a second, so I should have, I hoped, the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress I made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks' daily examination.
This my little book had for its motto these lines from Addison's "Cato":
Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Another from Cicero:
O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.
Another from the Proverbs of Solomon, speaking of wisdom or virtue:
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace (iii. 16, 17).
And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit His assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use:
O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest.Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me.
I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's "Poems," viz.:
Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme!
O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself!
Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,
From every low pursuit; and fill my soul
With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure;
Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted
time, one page in my little book contained the following scheme of employment
for the twenty-four hours of a natural day:
....
Note that he awoke every morning and "Addressed Powerful Goodness" --- prayer.
I’ve noticed that the NYT does the double author whammy too whenever they need extra weight on the article. As though two authors makes it doubly believable.
I’m guessing they’ve gotten to the political state as that of the Russian Navy at the end of the USSR. There was always a party political officer on hand to keep the troop rabble in line.
The sad fact is that the entire liberal, government and media establishment is so far gone, so pathetic in their endeavors it boggles the mind as to why the get away with.
It is ball-less appeasing RINO congress coupled with a media that is steeped in escalated perversion, disinformation and willful lying and obfuscation of the real truth. This country is bereft with so many entitlement and ideological idiots it isn’t funny. Their ignorance and disregard of the future is astounding.
The only solace is that if a “Walking Dead” event would happen, they would be the first to go.
If your daughter wants to see the rise of Hitler she can look at Obama and Hillary.
I remember a few years back when Bush was being compared to Hitler.
Same old stuff when they can’t refute the facts and can’t even debate they call you all kind of names and accuse you being a racist and a Nazi.
You speak the truth FRiend! I have relatives that are among those you speak of. We all do! That’s how overwhelmed and surrounded we are. Just like those fighting off the Walking Dead! And yet we keep fighting. Little do our stupid relatives know we are also fighting for THEM!
“But it’s not gonna matter when Texas goes blue and they call the Alamo a hate site like they do my heritage”
I’m surprised she’s still red. Another generation of anchor babies and she won’t be.
I’ve lived in California and Texas, and found them to be equally invaded, with English becoming rare in both places.
You won’t catch me moving back to either, now that I see what it’s like to live in the US!
Let her know that NAZI means National Socialist.
Liberal = socialist = that stage Marx talked about in the Communist Manifesto
“Hitler was not right wing. He is as left wing as you can get.”
Exactly- I just posted that the term NAZI is an acronym for the German translation of National Socialist.
Alabama is only red state amongst whites.....90%
just like Mississippi
Utah doesn’t even come close cracker wise
But it’s not gonna matter when Texas goes blue and they call the Alamo a hate site like they do my heritage
Just wait
We lose Texas it’s all over and it may happen
Path to Citizenship will insure it does
One note....southerners like balls....even a Yankee when he has em
Truth! as always
The infield was full of people....I was there...safely it was 25 to 30,000
That’s interesting. I would have thought Alabama had a large black population, no?
Blacks were interviewed locally and they were all Hillary supporters....This old stadium is in the middle of black urban blight....I watched them set on their porches and never bother to go see Trump....even across the street....Heard many a comments from strangers about the lack of them and all of them concluded that Trump wasn’t giving away free $hit....we(white people and other mixes) took long shuttle buses and braved heat and humidity to see this rally....counted just a handful of blacks there(bless them) Black vote is almost an impossible nut to crack...the black bus drivers were surly as hell...we all thanked them for the ride (which Trump paid for) They wouldn’t even speak. Mobile is about 51% black btw!
Jack Edwards was a womanizing drunk...you can believe that.
Then a lot more than 35,000 total on the field and in the stands.
Kudos on being there.
In future years it may become regarded as one of those historic moments.
That’s typical. I’m not really surprised.
It does
90% of whites vote GOP
When (not if) Texas turns blue, ie when it’s US-born Hispanic majority is old enough to vote, the Alamo won’t become a hate site. It will be a celebratory site, marking a Mexican victory in their “ defensive war against White Racism”.
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