Morning Mistress
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"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible--magic to make the sanest man go mad."- Homer
When Jesus is lifted up in his Church, his presence is the Church's power—the shout of a king is in the midst of her. "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me."-Charles H. Spurgeon
The lights on the house, LEDs, they're like icicles. (Feel like I rode 20 miles on my bicycle!) Solar lights circle the palm tree's circumference (Oh, yeah! Like I have a rhyme for circumference!) The wreath on the front door is covered in bells Decorations are done! Joyeux Noël!
Imagine the outrage if an animal shelter dismembered puppies the moment they were born? Crushed their skulls, Severed their spinal cords with surgical scissors? Placed newborn pups on a shelf, without food, or water waiting for them to die?-Mike B
If only babies had the rights of puppies!
Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that Thanksgiving could mark the beginning of a bleak winter, warning that the pandemic could worsen throughout the holidays and encouraging Americans to “be careful” as Christmas approaches...
Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.- Bo Derek
Some hae meat and cannae eat. Some nae meat but want it. We hae meat and we can eat and sae the Lord be thankit.- Robert Burns (Some have meat and cannot eat. Some no meat but want it. We have meat and we can eat and so the Lord be thanked.)
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.- Thomas Jefferson
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”- George Orwell
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
IMHO, one of the reasons our beloved pets have shorter lives than we do, is to teach us about our own mortality, and to put us in mind of that which is eternal, and cannot be lost. The grief, however, is real. You have my sympathy for your loss.-Mike B, to a grieving pet owner
We who believe there are serious questions about the 2020 presidential election and who want to support litigation to force recounts in states where immense Biden majorities, against all laws of statistics, materialized magically out of thin air on Election Night must keep this in our hearts day and night—ignore the mockery from the mainstream media. We are not only fighting for Donald Trump; we are not only fighting for the Republican Party. We are fighting for the “most wonderful document ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man,” the Constitution of the United States of America, as William Gladstone put it. Even more important, we are fighting for our country. And ultimately, we are fighting for the survival of the freedom of mankind. Yes, it’s that important.- Ben Stein
We are a third-world state now with malleable laws, an inert Constitution, voting that cannot be certified beyond a reasonable doubt within a reasonable time, with a media that massages rather than reports the news, and pollsters who seek to modulate rather than reflect likely voting.-Victor Davis Hanson
We who believe there are serious questions about the 2020 presidential election and who want to support litigation to force recounts in states where immense Biden majorities, against all laws of statistics, materialized magically out of thin air on Election Night must keep this in our hearts day and night—ignore the mockery from the mainstream media. We are not only fighting for Donald Trump; we are not only fighting for the Republican Party. We are fighting for the “most wonderful document ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man,” the Constitution of the United States of America, as William Gladstone put it. Even more important, we are fighting for our country. And ultimately, we are fighting for the survival of the freedom of mankind. Yes, it’s that important.-Ben Stein
Being a Republican in Los Angeles is like being nominated the most attractive man on your cell block.-Judah Friedman
Notice, there are no post-election riots because the media have declared Biden the next president, and Biden declares himself president. So, most of the looters, arsonists, rioters were, in fact, pro-Biden voters. BLM founders said that their immediate goal was to defeat President Trump. Notice, too, that Trump supporters and Republicans are not looting, starting fires, or committing other acts of violence.-Mark Levin
If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake. You must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Walk worthy of your high calling and dignity.-Charles H. Spurgeon
I understand the psychology of it, but I suspect the attire these young men wore to court is not their usual attire.-Mike B, on seeing a sharply dressed young gang member, convicted of murder
Isn't it a shame that apparently the only way to get gang members to dress suitably for a job interview is their hope to influence a judge and jury for leniency?
Here's the thing: the reason there's a thing called @FiveThirtyEight is because 538 was the margin in FL when the Republican SCOTUS reversed the 2000 election during a recount, making Dubya the president. That's the kind of margin where races can flip. That's not what's up now.- Joy Reid
“This site is named after the number of electors in the Electoral College . . . equal to 100 members of the US Senate, plus the 435 members of the US House, plus three more for the District of Columbia.”- Nate Silver
In the United States, we have so many doctors, so many hospitals and clinics, so many MRI machines, etc. This imposes real constraints on the provision of health care. If my doctor works 40 hours a week, does my right to health care mean that a judge can order him to work extra hours to accommodate my rights? For free? If I have a right to health care, how can a clinic or a physician charge me for exercising my right? If doctors and hospitals have rights of their own — for example, property rights in their labor and facilities — how is it that my rights supersede those rights?- Kevin D. Williamson
Declaring a right in a scarce good such as health care is intellectually void, because moral declarations about rights do not change material facts. If you have five children and three apples and then declare that every child has a right to an apple of his own, then you have five children and three apples and some meaningless posturing — i.e., nothing in reality has changed, and you have added only rhetoric instead of adding apples.-Kevin D. Williamson
"We take Georgia, and then we change America!"- Chuck Schumer Those of us who do NOT want our country to change may have some say in that, Chuckles!
No, Cupcake, freaking out about Donald Trump on Twitter is not the same as setting up a covert communication network in Nazi-occupied France — we have no such figures, although we have no shortage of people who would like to be thought of as the modern equivalents, functional or moral, of Resistance agents. It is hard not to laugh at them, even if they mean well.- Kevin D. Williamson
The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty.-Charles H. Spurgeon
Hi dear, I'm Jessica Vail, from the United States,please i wish to have a communication with you. I wait for your answer. Jessica Vail.She sure sounds like a girl from the States! Whaddayathink? Should I drop her a line??
Gavin Newsom is like a Cargo Cultist, trying to appease the big aluminum birds in the sky to bring him relief from "Climate Change", instead of managing state land to minimize dead brush and trees, and oversee the power companies to modernize ancient equipment.-Mike B