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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. ~ Terry Pratchett

Grrrsday

 

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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question:  Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

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"Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress'..."

I will do no harm or injustice to them...Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. 

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me. ~ Hippocrates

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photo from Atlantic magazine

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. ~ Adam Serwer

Kill Me Now

 The most obvious shortcoming of a cruise ship is that you have nowhere else to go.

It becomes even more obvious when the carol singers in the lounge get started on their fourth iteration of Felice Navidad.

Napoleon Was Right

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."

November is Native American Heritage Month

 

cartoon by Bill Mauldin

Happy Columbus Day

 

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photo from Getty Images

I must counsel you, my dear, to remember that patience is one of the highest virtues a woman can possess, and self-control is another. ~ Bessie Dill

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The prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. ~ Hungarian proverb

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A Republic - if you can keep it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity. ~ William Butler Yeats

Over the Bounding Main

 

Leaving this morning, and if I'm smart I'll stay off the news sites for fourteen days.

Yankees Go Home

We're leaving on a Scandinavian cruise in three weeks.  I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to it. 

That Fucking Asshole

"President Trump will not attend the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania last week, instead sending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Dover AFB, while he remains in Florida.

...Trump will not travel back for the transfer and remain at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, where he is playing golf and will later hold a political fundraising dinner."  

EDITED TO ADD:  The President of Lithuania came out to stand in salute as the cortege passed through the streets of Vilnius.  The President of the United States played golf.

Grrrsday

 

"On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance.  The Heard and McDonald Islands, known for their populations of penguins and seabirds, can only be reached by sea.

Trump announced the countries now subject to tariffs in a Wednesday press conference, using a poster as a prop.  Additional countries - including the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are, incidentally, not countries - were listed on sheets of paper distributed to reprters.

One of the sheets claims that the Heard and McDonald Islands currently charge a "Tariff to the U.S.A." of 10 percent, clarifying in tiny letters that this includes "currency manipulation and trade barriers."  In return the sheet says that the US will charge "Discounted reciprocal tariffs" on the islands at a rate of 10 percent."

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Oh, what tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. ~ Walter Scott.

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More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose.  ~ Eric Hobsbawm