Morning Mistress
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I've been thinking that we don't need any more "common sense gun laws" so much as we need "common sense punishment for breaking gun laws".-Mike B
"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor."- Phyllis Diller
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”― Erma Bombeck
“Cambridge, Jun 17 1775. I desire to bless God for his Kind aperince [sic] in delivering me and sparing my life in the late battle fought on Bunker’s Hill. I desire to devote this spared life to his Glory and honour. In witness my hand, Francis Merrifield.”-inscription in a King James Bible carried at Bunker Hill
President Trump has made the offer to Mexico to basically go to war with the cartels, using American troops to wipe this scourge from the Earth. Which is a very refreshing change from the way Barack Obama dealt with the problem by sending automatic weapons to the cartels.-Stilton Jarlsberg
"It's about the rich paying a little more in taxes."-Juan Williams, on where Elizabeth Warren is going to get the $52 Trillion to pay for Medicare for all.
"We learn from experience that we never learn anything from experience."- George Bernard Shaw
Hillary lacks the courage of her convictions. I know all my friends hope she gets at least one more conviction!-Mike B, after Hillary Clinton bails on DC event that Tulsi Gabbard is attending
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.-Surprised by Joy
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”-C S Lewis
Tradition means giving a vote to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.- G. K. Chesterton
I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.- Booker T. Washington
"We did not fight them over there, to invite them over here"- Donald J. Trump, on accepting immigrants from terrorist nations.
A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.- Richard Henry Lee (1788)
Let us move in the common affairs of life with studied holiness, diligence, kindness, and integrity.-Charles H. Spurgeon
Calling the "impeachment inquiry" by Adam Schiff a "kangaroo court" is going to require a serious apology to kangaroos everywhere!-Mike B
"Ah, but hate speech only applies to speech that the Left hates. That's what their hate speech codes have in common with Sharia law. They protect the power of a totalitarian elite."-Daniel Greenfield
That’s what separates those of us deeply frustrated with Trump from those who have full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome. When you cannot take any satisfaction, joy, or other positive feelings in a dead ISIS leader, the end of the Islamic State, low unemployment, a booming stock market, criminal justice reform, Right to Try, or any other development in any realm of social policy, economic policy, or foreign policy, then we are no longer discussing a particular presidency but what criteria you use to see the world.-Jim Geraghty
Your lens is permanently darkened and cannot let in light, no matter how brightly it shines. The continued presence of a president you deeply dislike ruins everything for you, and that says a great deal more about you than him.
A celebrity is a person who works hard to become known then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.-Fred Allen