Sunday, February 3, 2019
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To a Leftist on Our Need for the ELECTORAL CCOLLEGE Thank you for at last making an honest ATTEMPT to address the points raised in a simple...
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Statue of Paul Revere Boston Common Old State House, Boston Massachusetts About Miss Shaw Kenawe Since far too many... -
The DemoPerverts Seem Delighted at Anything and Everything that Spells Disaster for the United States of America Is It An...
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
ReplyDeleteEnwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
I appreciate this, apparent, softening of his usual hard-edged dismissal of the vaue of faith.
DeleteHERE he is at least partially right. It has been my contention for several decades that in essence we ARE what we THINK or CHOOSE to
BELIEVE.
... And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: - Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU."
~ Luke 17:20-21 - KJV
Marxism is a secular dream of perfection. Every peasant has one. It is a simpleton's dream.
ReplyDeleteAS I came over Windy Gap
DeleteThey threw a halfpenny into my cap,
For I am running to Paradise;
And all that I need do is to wish
And somebody puts his hand in the dish
To throw me a bit of salted fish:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
My brother Mourteen is worn out
With skelping his big brawling lout,
And I am running to Paradise;
A poor life do what he can,
And though he keep a dog and a gun,
A serving maid and a serving man:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
Poor men have grown to be rich men,
And rich men grown to be poor again,
And I am running to Paradise;
And many a darling wit’s grown dull
That tossed a bare heel when at school,
Now it has filled an old sock full:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
The wind is old and still at play
While I must hurry upon my way,
For I am running to Paradise;
Yet never have I lit on a friend
To take my fancy like the wind
That nobody can buy or bind:
And there the king is but as the beggar
-William Butler Yeats, "Running to Paradise"
I share your condemnation of the "Strident, Quasi-Hysterical Manner" employed by ideological shills on all sides. It has reduced political discourse to noise pollution.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent description of the gosip-bench, comic-book-style imbecility we get from TV "News" every day.
DeleteThank you.
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ReplyDeleteYour remark shows no evidence that you listened to anything Mr. Ferguson had to say.
DeleteSorry, Steve, but we require our guests to post ON-TOPIC, unless they have something of TRAORDINARY INtEREST to share –– such as a bona fide announcement that poor, old RBG has in FACT passed on. Or that a BOMB was exploded INSIDE the Oval Office destroying most of the historic place, but thankfully harming no one inide the building. You know –– StUFF LIKETHAT.
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DeleteAgree your assessment Franco, Problem is no one cares anymore. Not the ones who need to. The rest of us are already in the choir.
ReplyDeleteIf that be true, Kid, the very BEST thing we could hope to do with the rest of our lives woud be to KEEP ON SINGING –– even as the bastards pump us full of lead –– or light the fire laid at our feet while we are strapped helpless to a post in THEIR benighted Public Square.
DeleteThere ae LOTS of things worse than what-we-think-of-as DEATH.
Succumbing to the EVILS of TYRANNY and POVERTY engendered by DESPOTISM is high on that list.
Yes. i AM saying "BETTER DEAD THAN RED"
KEEP ON SINGING even as you take your very last breath.
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ReplyDeleteThere is an evil hypocrite
Delete___ who dogs my every move
I 'd love to rid myself him
___ by giving him a shove
From atop a tall skyscraper
___ of jagged rocky cliff
But all that's left to me to do
___ is think and act "as if."
If ill will were material
___ as knife blades or hot lead
I can assure the multitudes
___ this bastard would be dead!
That magnificence of Yeats' stately verse is as chillingly thrilling as ever, but I thank God I still have it in me to RESIST succumbing to his fearful cynicism and apparent lack of faith
ReplyDeleteGod IS the ultimate GOOD.
He MUST be, or life is not worth living.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” - Herbert Spencer
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