With all the media coverage of the vicious terrorist attack on Israel, it’s weird that no one seems to mention religion as the proximate cause of this atrocity.
For a moment, imagine a scenario in which none of the players in the Middle East believed they were supported by a god, and that any conceivable mistreatment of others was justified accordingly.
No, there are several investment scams in the U.S. offered by companies who claim this to be the future of transportation.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? No pilot’s license required!
All that’s required to enter this fraudulent enterprise is a graphic artist and an audience of people too stupid to understand that our society really doesn’t want smashed up planes and bodies raining out of the sky like hail stones.
I’ve mentioned my fondness for A Word a Day, presented by the noted linguist Anu Garg. Not only is it good for the vocabulary, it includes a “thought for the day” which is generally quite interesting.
Here’s today’s from -Ivo Andric, novelist, Nobel laureate (9 Oct 1892-1975)
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
I thought this was particularly meaningful, given the range of hostilities present around the world.
Anywhere there is a buck to be made, regardless of how morally debased one has to be in order to participate in it, there will be people stooping to it.
Some sell heroin; others traffic little kids into sexual slavery.
Does it come as a surprise that this guy profits off the fear of our nation’s most ignorant people?
Carl Sagan left us in 1996.
If this is what he thought while he was still on this planet, it’s hard to imagine the pity and contempt with which he would regard this nation in its current mentally defective condition.
I ran into a plumber just now, who, when the subject of environmental sustainability came up, explained that his pet peeve is our society’s lack of concern about the use of potable water for applications in which “gray water” would do just fine. Examples include flushing toilets and lawn irrigation.
From Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States (1877-1881):
Silver and gold are “God’s Money?”
Think about that for a second. God prefers precious metals, and uses them in all His financial transactions?
In particular, does He need us to have and use money of any kind?
Seems to be be a great number of asinine assumptions here.
Could this be, oh, I don’t know, a LIE??
I wonder if this is a ploy to dissuade civil litigation against him for defamation. His baseless claims that election workers rigged the voting in 2020 would be worth tens of millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.
Along with Trump himself, he’s one of the scummiest people ever to have walked the Earth.
2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire (near London), England:
I remember a while ago speaking to an auditor whilst on a hike, and they were saying how to preserve their reputation for impartiality, and guard against any perception of bias, or coming under influence, they would refuse anything beyond basic water, tea, and coffee (instant not Costa) whilst carrying out their work. For them, receiving so much as a cookie or a company biro (ballpoint pen) open the door to reputational risk. If only senior politicians and judges would abide by similar ethical standards, the world would be a very different place!
Yes. What we have here in the States is an embarrassing mess.
FWIW, I still don’t understand why we need special rules to govern the conduct of our justices. We already have laws against corruption and bribery that apply to every U.S. citizen.
