Morning Mistress
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The saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns into which the living water flows; they are empty vessels into which God pours his salvation.- Charles H. Spurgeon
Liberals have spent the last 50 years chiseling "Thou Shalt Not Kill" off the fronts of courtrooms & school houses across America, replacing it with "Thou shalt not have weapons with thumbhole stocks, bayonet mounts or magazines with more than 10 rounds." How's that working out?-Mike B
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.- L. Neil Smith
Trump was tough on Russia. He:
1) Bombed Syria, Russia's main client, and unleashed the U.S. military in Syria, including against Russians
2) Armed Ukraine
3) Ended the Iran nuclear deal
4) Browbeat NATO allies to increase defense spending
5) Approved $130 billion in new defense spending
6) Added low-yield nuclear weapons to the U.S. arsenal
7) Started research and development on a new missile after Russia deployed a missile that did not comply with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
8) Shut down Russia's consulate in San Francisco and
9) Pumped more U.S. oil and gas, making the U.S. more energy independent. And on top of that, Trump kept earlier sanctions on Russia and added new ones himself.- Byron York
The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an 'equalizer.'- Edward Abbey
“This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people”- John Wycliffe, from the preface of his Bible translation
Think of the death penalty in terms of justice:
We believe in liberty, yet we routinely take away the liberty of evil doers
Taking someone's life is the ultimate evil It cannot be restored to the victim
Murderers forfeit their right to life by their own actions
Justice is served.
-Mike B
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”- Carlos Castaneda
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”- Henry David Thoreau
When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.- Jeff Cooper
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”- C.S. Lewis
“Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil’s reach than humility.”- Jonathan Edwards
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."- Abraham Lincoln
"God is important because everything newsworthy- inventors, weapons, calamities - are created by God."- John Piper, to a room full of reporters
'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.'- from a Turkish proverb
Online dating is for losers. And serial killers. But mainly just losers.- Robert Stacy McCain
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."- Charles Dickens
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."- Henry Ford
Pshorter Psaki: The only way Green energy becomes "affordable" is if every other kind of energy is made unaffordable firsts.- Mike B
Rosa Parks didn't "need" to sit at the front of the bus. The rear of the bus was going the same place. Rather, it was her "right" to sit at the front of the bus. "Need" had nothing to do with it.- Mike B
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.- Robert Heinlein
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.- Louis D. Brandeis