Posted on 07/02/2002 9:23:49 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I mark the coming holiday remembering the words of a friend of Samuel Johnson, who said, "I meant to be a philosopher, but happiness kept breaking through."
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and we must celebrate. Let us hold high a single sparkler to honor those American institutions that, in this interesting year, did not flounder or fail. Much has been said of those that did--Wall Street, big business, big accounting, the Catholic Church, the FBI and CIA. But most didn't. Some stayed good and some improved and some seem to summon a metaphor: While the towers of the institution tottered, the men and women who worked within them took the stairs two at a time, hauling 80 pounds of gear to save the structure.
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Bingo. Hear that, "LA Times," and "Washington Post." America needs both you and us.
God bless Free Republic and the free republic in which it stands.
So, now we know what we have been doing all this time. Not Freepin' - but Bloggin'! I can see a new shirt / song coming on!
Skypilot - yes, Free Republic has had and continues to have an impact. The power of "bloggers" getting together to get to the truth through the spin. And doing so without being paid to do so.....unlike every one of their constituencies who only follow orders when knowing the paycheck is coming.
Peggy, have a great 4th! Thom at The Ranch
Peggy Noonan is the poet laureate of the War on Terror. Her Irish heritage is giving us the gift of her sight, and it is a blessing in these times.
Happy Independence Day to both of you!
"Blogging" is a new term to me. But I guess "independent information entrepreneurs" are Jim Robinson and JR wannabes. So I guess you are "blogging".
I use throughout [The Road to Serfdom, first published in 1944] the term "liberal" in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in [America], helped by the muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that "liberal" has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control. I am still puzzled why those in the United States who really believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium . . .F.A. Hayek, 1956
Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead-or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunder storm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster-Dan'l Web- ster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"
Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.
"The Devil and Daniel Webster."
I don't really care for the term "blogging"...I prefer "FReepin'"!!
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
very few people realize how the general public and the FR are brainwashed by the media bias and just regurgitate their garbage and feign innocence-insult when confronted with their agenda-game plan...sacred cows-hoaxes!
Conspiracies are impossible to prove because they are below consciousness---the denial is impenetrable...stealth coded script---all cued/knee jerk!
It's fun to get them off page...watch them shout--stutter---practice their lines...cue cards!
Yep. Here is one of the best...
I find myself looking back and appreciating Ronaldus Maximus' wisdom more and more every year.
FReegards...MUD
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