Just yesterday, I was thinking again of a quote I'd blogged a couple months ago: "People soon get tired of things that aren’t boring, but not of what is boring."
I think that was because Meade sent me this quote from Aldous Huxley: "Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
It makes me think of the idea that in China, the curse is "May you live in interesting times." Here's the Wikipedia article on the subject:
Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse," the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced.... The nearest related Chinese expression is 寧為太平犬，莫做亂離人; nìng wéi tàipíng quǎn, mò zuò luàn lí rén; which is usually translated as "Better to be a dog in a peaceful time, than to be a human in a chaotic (warring) period."...
The basic premise of the curse may also be found in a quote by the German philosopher Hegel: “World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are empty pages in her.”...
Research by philologist Garson O'Toole shows a probable origin in the mind of Austen Chamberlain's father Joseph Chamberlain dating around the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, O'Toole cites the following statement Joseph made during a speech in 1898: “I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. (Hear, hear.) I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety. (Hear, hear.) [emphasis added]”
From this it is likely that the Chamberlain family may have inadvertently transmitted a folk etymology by expanding Joseph Chamberlain's use of the concept to refer to some Chinese curse.
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There is plenty of news, just not any that doesn't reflect badly on progressive elements
Anti-Trump protesters in London harassed and assaulted Trump supporters
The British left are certainly trying to keep it un-boring for Trump Supporters.
Not sure if this is interesting, but it's cringe inducing. Here's a video of Mike Huckabee jamming with Korn's guitarist Brian "Head" Welch.
The idea of living in interesting times mentioned twice just this morning;
Joe Kernan on CNBC in relation to the Fed cutting rates and markets reacting positively to signs of slower economic growth...
In his newsletter Bjorn Lomborg discussing how the world is in better shape than ever.
When I first heard it, “May you live in interesting times” was described as a Jewish curse.
I find these interesting times, not least because I have so much freedom and leisure to study other interesting times.
Narr
Caught a glimpse of some Red Banners among the UK protesters. How quaint!
@Nonapod:
Not sure if this is interesting, but it's cringe inducing. Here's a video of Mike Huckabee jamming with Korn's guitarist Brian "Head" Welch.
Ha. That actually wasn't as bad as I imagined. I kind of like Mike Huckabee as a personality, just not as a politician.
Cair settled in order to avoid disclosure of its patent fraud, much like the splc
Chinese curse.
The "May you live in times of war and famine and bad hair" curse? Or that deeply catty excuse for a curse that everyone's thinking of?
Here's a video of Mike Huckabee jamming with Korn's guitarist Brian "Head" Welch.
Here's an article about the former Speaker of the House turned pot salesman. (HT Sailer)
One non-boring thing: it looks like the initial reporting on the Dutch teenager allegedly killed via euthanasia may have been wrong. Global Media Misreporst Dutch Teen Author's Death
My goal is to live right on the edge of boredom.
I had the distinct memory that I first saw the curse in Noble House, but I couldn't confirm this in a quick and dirty Google search, so probably a false memory.
I seem to remember the last time you commented on a boring morning some terrible event occurred by noon.
Never trust an internet puppy:
Internet puppy scams on the rise, warns Better Business Bureau
Boredom should be thrill inducing- I have heard that people can die from it.
HoodlumDoodlum,
That is interesting- puts the story in a different light, doesn't it?
When I first heard it, “May you live in interesting times” was described as a Jewish curse.
May you have all the money in the world, and may it still not be enough to pay your medical bills. Now that's a Jewish curse.
it looks like the initial reporting on the Dutch teenager allegedly killed via euthanasia may have been wrong.
It doesn't seem to explain how she actually died. It claims she stoped eating and drinking. At first it seems like she went out like Karen Carpenter, basically starving herself to death. But it's more likely that if she stopped drinking that she would've died of dehydration.
did Trump break the law again today? Just for taking in oxygen?
Huck needs to shoot his tailor. Or at least go to a different rack at Penney's.
HoodlumDoodlum:
"Global Media Misreports Dutch Teen Author's Death"
The outrage machine is a hungry one. We can't really expect the media to stop and establish key facts.
However she died, I am sorry she was convinced her life could never again be worth living. I'm sorry for the cruelties that were done to her, and I'm sorry the men who did it are probably alive, well, and untroubled by conscience.
7 years of solitary confinement at Rikers for Manafort?
what will Hillary get? She said no one is above the law
I suppose they'll tell us next that the one about the ideogram for "trouble" being two women under one roof is apocryphal as well. Killjoys.
Yes it is. Refreshingly so.
The news is nicely boring this morning, isn't it?
The President is out of the country.
It's interesting that the quote you used includes this phrase: "Austen Chamberlain's father Joseph Chamberlain", as if we should know who Austen or Joseph Chamberlain are. Of course, we know Austen's half-brother - Neville - who was a leader in most interesting times. Why did this Wikipedia editor use Austen instead of Neville?
Following the footnotes, a source of the Wikipedia article expands on Austen (a diplomat and statesman in his own right) as a source of the quote as we know it, and his father Joseph as Austen's inspiration for it. The answer to the question "what is the source?", being filtered through multiple researchers and editors, has it's own history.
The news is deeply boring!
Neville Chamberlain: preferred boring, quiet times and worked as hard as he could to ensure his times stayed as boring as possible.
Winston Churchill: preferred exciting, adventurous times, and when times got interesting worked as hard as he could to get back to the uninteresting times.
It appears she killed herself by starving herself to death, and her DNR order included not forcing her to eat.
From the story: "it is not considered physician-assisted suicide when a medical team does not provide treatment to comply with a patient's right to refuse treatment."
So in the Netherlands, a child can kill herself in front of a physician and parents and forbid then from stopping you. Good to know.
I'm getting away for a few days next week -- traveling! -- and I hope it's a boring trip.
Nothing sounds better to me than just lying on the beach with my Kindle. My brother and his wife will be joining me and he's already suggested a list of sights because they think vacations should be chock-full of "fun".
I'm the elder, though. I shall prevail.
Yet the Chinese took the curse so seriously they aborted millions of babies rather than let them be born
in interesting times.
According to the NBA, I'm the governor of my car, not the owner.
Because slaves once picked cotton, cotton is now out-lawed.
Boring?!?!? Didn’t you hear about Trumps tails disaster?!?!
“I have travelled widely in the Concorde” - Jackie Onassis
OK, I just made that up, but she should have said it!
So in the Netherlands, a child can kill herself in front of a physician and parents and forbid then from stopping you. Good to know.
It's a pretty complicated case of someone with profound depression resistant to pretty much every form of treatment. The alternative of putting someone in hard restraints and forcibly inserting an NG tube is a pretty horrifying scenario as well. Very sad case no matter how you look at it.
The Yorkshire police asking a bunch of lesbians at a pride parade seems like a non boring story. Instapundit has a link.
(More effort than the Yorkshire police put into stopping the mass child rape at Rotherham. )
No more Heineken! Down with Gouda cheese!
Narr
Boycott Rembrandt!
I haven't heard anyone call Trump Hitler this month.
Boring?!?!? Didn’t you hear about Trumps tails disaster?!?!
Yeah, Chuck filled me in on the details.
I haven't heard anyone call Trump Hitler this month.
Maybe Chuck is on vacation?
I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. (Hear, hear.) I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety.
The anxiety being felt is the elite being driven out of power.
Everyone else is happy about it. It gives us a sense of joy and happiness that this is closer to ending peacefully and happy than ever.
Sorry buwaya.
I say this because events in Britain could not have been better over the Presidential visit. Britain is committed to being out of the EU and there looks to be the beginning of an actual free-trade agreement between our countries.
Not some crony trade bullshit a Clinton or a Bush or an Obama or a May or a Cameron would come up with. Actual free trade.
It looks like the globalist left is determined to start a war somewhere though. Probably Iran. Obama, Feinstein and other globalist henchmen are counseling Iran right now and coordinating their efforts to fight Trump.
Collusion is one way to describe that sort of thing. I prefer traitorous.
Look at that:
It took me about 10 mins to check with the reporter who wrote the original Dutch story.
Noa Pothoven asked for euthanasia and was refused (cont.)
This story was just an Impeach Trump fake news click bait link for big government conservatives that want to have police in everyone's personal lives.
That cowardly Parkland shooting cop Scott Peterson has been charged with 11 counts....seven of them felonies....for being a pussy. I find that interesting.
IIRC, Joseph Chamberlain was the leading anti-free trade politician in late Victorian UK.
It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom.
Maugham said wasting time is the greatest luxury because time is priceless.
I always preferred the gypsy's curse myself:
Que se encuentra un cono a su media.
H/t Harry crews
I found mine 46 years ago.
John Henry
Curious George said...
That cowardly Parkland shooting cop Scott Peterson has been charged with 11 counts....seven of them felonies....for being a pussy. I find that interesting.
The guy deserves to hang.
But most of these will be thrown out.
Courts already found that police and fire fighters have no duty to help. I believe they let someone drown in San Francisco.
This story has some interesting crossovers to recent topics here(8 years ago): Almeda police, firefighters watch as man drowns.
Inga chuck,
I've seen other comments about solitary for Manafort and wonder why the fuss?
I don't want to go to prison but if I had to I think I woul prefer a private room to being locked in a cage with some 300# tatted up psycho who only likes me for my asshole.
John Henry
Noa Pothoven starved herself to death in front of her family. She was refused euthanasia. I'm really confused. This story is nearly as outrageous as the fake news.
Maybe they were concerned about copy-cat suicides.....I dunno!!
Medida not media. There should be a tilde to but I don't know how to do one on my phone.
John Henry
So POTUS spews nonsense about Irish border wall to Irish PM. On to golf.
Boring days brings Dunbar in Catch 22 to mind. Call it life extension, not boring.
We are 2.5 years into DJT's peace through strength. And the rogue CIA has failed to assassinate him. So there is no war, and the prosperity results in Atlanta's motto: The people are too busy to hate.
I remember the 1960 election, when JFK's motto was that the country needed to get on the move again. The criticism of Eisenhower, hence Nixon, was taken seriously that peace and prosperity were too boring. JFK won, and as soon as JFK was assassinated Viet Nam erupted and all boredom of peace and prosperity was lost.
The Noa Pothoven story, as disturbing as it is, makes me think about the nature of child sexual abuse (and, really, I'd rather not). I did a quick search and found that she'd been a victim three times; starting at age 11. It appears that she had a supportive family.
I've read the Grand Jury report that was published last year from PA regarding the abuse allegations against Catholic priests. It seems that many/most of the victims were abused multiple times.
Thanks to Jerry Sandusky, I understand the perverse concept of "grooming". But, I have to wonder if some people are wired to be more susceptible to those efforts. The fact that the victims have significant psychological difficulties throughout their lives makes me wonder if at least some of the damage preceded their eventual abuse.
I am Catholic and attended Catholic schools. I knew a number of kids that were altar boys and the stories I heard were about them poaching the communion wine. (Not that anyone would brag about a sexual advance from a priest.)
“I have travelled widely in the Concorde” - Jackie Onassis
OK, I just made that up, but she should have said it!
No it's fine. Did you not hear the New Rule? You are allowed to use quotation marks around fake statements as long you pretend you meant it as satire when confronted.
What could possibly go wrong? :)
@John Henry
Yes, given the choice between going insane or daily anal rape, solitary seems like the way to go-
And further, it's better to be liked for being an asshole than for having an asshole. It's unique-- hell, everyone has an asshole. We have lots of friends.
readering said...
So POTUS spews nonsense about Irish border wall to Irish PM. On to golf.
So I read a comment like this and you make it clear you don't think for yourself at all.
So I am curious. Exactly which democrat policy do you support? Here is a list:
1. Immigration policy.
2. Higher taxes.
3. More regulations.
4. Importing things from countries who have tariffs on our goods.
5. Post-birth abortion.
6. Spying on the Trump campaign with help foreign intelligence agencies.
I am honestly curious what you people are thinking. I haven't seen a single policy position you people admit to hold for years.
Don't you know Achilles? Leftists are a bundle of neurons, that fire in response to the appropriate stimuli delivered by licensed stimulators, like Soros and Steyer and other approved sources.
Ideas ? Are you kidding ?
The last time Althouse said the news was boring, Notre Dame burned down . . .
BTW- had a dream all the commenters got together on a weathered deck on the northern New England coast for lunch. Most, if not all were friendly, some gave their real names (not us and we felt bad) -some doctors, couple of nurses, etc, and one kind of smart-assy "Steve Vai" character. Woke up laughing at the name "Claremont Abbey".
Yo Claremont-- get a haircut!
It looks like Trump went on with Piers Morgan in a 30 minute interview.
It is being taken down wherever I look.
I know Ann hates to be prodded but this is a prod. I have to go to work. But I want to see that interview and be able to discuss it here.
“Courts already found that police and fire fighters have no duty to help. I believe they let someone drown in San Francisco.”
But that is under tort law, and this is under criminal law. The similarity is that both require a duty. Here we have the schools operating in loco parentis. School attendance is not voluntary, but rather mandatory under truancy laws. As in loco parentis, the school district essentially stepped into the shoes of the parents of the kids. Thus, if a parent would be criminally liable for child neglect if they failed to respond when they knew that someone was shooting at their minor child, then so should the school district, and in Broward County, FL, their choice of how to satisfy this duty to protect minor children is through armed sheriff’s deputies working as school resource officers. That was Deputy Peterson’s primary job there - to protect the safety of the minor children in the school acting in loco parentis.
Not saying that theory will ultimately succeed, but rather that it is plausible. The alternative is for the state (via the school district and county law enforcement) to demand, at gun point that you turn your kids over to them to be educated, then promise to protect the kids they forcibly took from the parents through their school resource officer program, but then, when something happens to the kids they were supposedly responsible for that they could have prevented, they say “we were just kidding - we have no responsibility to protect the children that we forcibly take from you every day”.
and as soon as JFK was assassinated Viet Nam erupted
Viet Nam dated back to Eisenhower.
Chuck: "It's obvious that Trump uses the Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, and not the Titleist Pro V1 as he falsely claimed. Yet another lie to add to the thousands he's told."
I can't help but notice you refuse to link to any video supporting your "obvious" allegation.
Why is that? Because it doesn't exist?
(yes, boredom and I have never met)
Mueller's Sinking Reputation
Achilles and Michael K. You do you.
I think Scot Peterson, "the Coward of Broward," believed he was following the department's established procedure. He might be charged with atrocious judgment in the public mind, but the criminal charges against him I consider to be pure ass-covering bullshit by a thoroughly corrupt municipal bureaucracy.
Why do they transfer Manafort to Riker's Island? Pure vindictiveness for him not giving in, or do they still hope to get something, anything, from him?
So the Taoiseach tells Trump the Irish do not want a wall on the border with Ulster. Well neither do the Brits, so the decision on this is entirely up to the Irish.
Perhaps "deeply" boring:
Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon colonies
Eisenhower had a few "advisers" in Viet Nam, but was absolutely against getting "involved in a land war on the Asian mainland."
Funny how news reverberating from POTUS Sunday church visit. He is didn't say hardly anything but still managed to f things up.
Pure vindictiveness for him not giving in, or do they still hope to get something, anything, from him?
Cyrus Vance Jr, establishing a new Pantheon of vindictive assholes. This is all to evade a possible Trump pardon.
He is didn't say hardly anything but still managed to f things up.
You mean the pussy minister apologizing? Typical of the vindictive left.
Funny how you don't link to anything to support said reverberation.
I bet John Dean will reference Golf-Gate.
No. I mean White House telling Minister it was to pray for Trump while reporting to press it was to pray for shooting victims.
Is this Dean's legit twitter?
. . . Then Falwell tweets something nasty about the minister, and unlike you, deletes it.
Does readering provide any comment worth reading ?
Still looking Time to quit,
Trump Pulls Plug on Fetal Tissue Research by Federal Scientists
Progress.
Unexpectedly, Trump's Threats of Tariffs Against Mexico Spurs Mexico to Start Cracking Down on Illegal Migrants
Emigration reform.
“I bet John Dean will reference Golf-Gate”
Don’t forget tails-gate!
readering said...
Achilles and Michael K. You do you.
Sure. I am a curious person. That is me.
Do you believe in anything at all?
Do you think about anything you do?
Is about anything other than power over us? I see nothing intelligent in any of your posts. You appear to be an empty shell parroting garbage spewed by your masters without a single critical thought.
For example:
readering said...
Funny how news reverberating from POTUS Sunday church visit. He is didn't say hardly anything but still managed to f things up.
What are you for?
Does readering provide any comment worth reading ?
Well, we just learned that he's gay. So i suppose that's something.
Straight Pride Parade in August?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/very-good-chance-straight-pride-flag-will-fly-over-boston-city-hall-parade-organizer-says/
Nicely boring news. And of course the invasion across the southern border is not even news, though it now includes Africans. All boring, viewed from the comfort of Madison, WI.
Not that there's anything wrong with it . . . .
Madeleine McCann investigation extended as UK police given £300,000 more for probe
this would be news if true:
Linda Collins Smith, former state-Senator in Arkansas, found shot to death last night. Rumors swirling that she was working with DHS insider to expose missing $27M from DHS/Child Protective Services linked to the Clinton Foundation (unconfirmed)
The Piers Morgan interview is quite good.
I listened to it while wearing my The Boring Company hat
I'm for seeing the Republicans replace Trump as nominee next year and Democrats retaking the White House (although there are a number of declared Democratic candidates I cannot see myself voting for--I know, more negativity).
well it was policy guidance from the doe, promise program, through the fbi local office, all the way to the principles office, the Collins smith seems old news, about 20-25 years,
"It looks like the globalist left is determined to start a war somewhere though. Probably Iran. Obama, Feinstein and other globalist henchmen are counseling Iran right now and coordinating their efforts to fight Trump.
"Collusion is one way to describe that sort of thing. I prefer traitorous."
Positively positive.
"Cyrus Vance Jr, establishing a new Pantheon of vindictive assholes. This is all to evade a possible Trump pardon."
Worth rereading.
Vance is the real Sherman McCoy, his father poorly managed the Vietnam war's opening rounds, and chose to step down over the only smart thing, carter attempted desert one, curious how dsk and Weinstein followed a similar method in dispatching their accusers, the first used fmr American intelligence, the second Israeli operatives, and he sicced his minions against the Italian accuser, it took the domestic victims unit, to protect her, but manafort is an unperson, like Winston smith, even though he just held the cash for podesta and weber, who have yet to be held accountable,
Yes ted kennedy, used john tunney as a back channel to the presidium, john Kerry didn't even pretend to repeat Sandinista propaganda, like jim wright, or future us ambassador to mexico james jones,
You're with AOC!
Heshmat Alavi reveals in records from niac, the regimes now doddering front group, notified the regime when voynovich and Murkowski sandbagged john Bolton, for seeking accountability against the mullahs, this was of the same mindset as wrongway paul pillar, at the national intelligence counsel,
For a great, chilling look at Rikers, the 2016 miniseries, The Night Of.
Vance and khuzaimi, could rarely find any target among the big banks, well they knew never to punch up, except for the fund for preferred progressive causes, that they derived from the fines, khuzaimi, as you know worked along mrs strzok at the sec,
did she get the Nancy Schaefer/Klaus Eberwein treatment?
Biden, of course, had his kids buy into the Chinese state avionics company, but they aren't a competitor or an actual rival, they had john Kerry's and whitey bulger's nephew along for the ride, bain capital had sizable business in china, like the 3m deal with Huawei, so his objections can also be taken with a grain of salt,
skadden arps paid a 4 million fine, I guess to disassociate itself from greg craigs kerfluffle in the Ukraine, just like senior partner pat fitzgerald managed to disentangle Michigan state, from larry nassar, for a year and a half, it's a neat trick, specially if you do it before anyone even knows that the acts in question occurred,
Our Fuck-head Republican Senators - no doubt obeying orders from the Koch Brothers and the Chamber of Commerce -are demanding Trump "explain" the Mexican Tariffs to them in closed door session. And of course "Mittens" is now giving Trump foreign policy advise from the floor of the Senate.
These Senate Republican shit heads are in league with Chuck Schumer to prevent the immigration laws being enforced. The CoC wants Cheap labor, the Democrats want voters.
Of course, trying to get "average Republcian Voter" to understand that is like explaining calculus to a donkey.
which camp does that put me in, I know no progressives seem to raise anymore issues with nassar and with Weinstein, they are loud crickets,
Actually it's rather easy for average republicans, tea party, deplorable, one has to work to be as obtuse as romney, amash, and co,
For a powerful 2016 documentary indictment of Vance's approach to the bank crisis, see Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
Alavi, is much like inconvenient dissidents like Solzhenitsyn, that got in the way of trusting the Soviets, because they were only concerned with peace, sarc, and Reagan and thatcher were the war monger, I do admit in restrospect some of our allies on the ground like say the isi in Pakistan was not totally operating in our interests, the qataris or the turks are in that position now,
so you do realize the hypocrisy of white knight vance, in these circles, but manafort might as well live in the districts along with roger stone, and craig, podesta and co, are preferred citizens of the Capital,
A commenter at powerline has posted the full interview with Morgan/ Trump in the comments section
My bad, The video was supposed to be Trump, they must have swapped it out with a different interview.
it's up on youtube, iowan2
Trump-Morgan Interview
I can get by without avocados.
so we have the two minute hate for long periods, Weinstein, till it was realized he couldn't fall without his enablers proven complicit, probably lauer and rose will be next dropped the memory hole, since the latter just made room for gayle king, so what really matters in the big scheme of things,
"are demanding Trump "explain" the Mexican Tariffs to them in closed door session."
I'm not surprised. The tariff power is reserved to the legislative branch by the US Constitution. The three different powers tend to defend their powers, although the 20th-century legislative branch has not been very good at defending Constitutional powers reserved to it.
yes and we remember fordney mccumber and smoot Hawley, I haven't seen them displaying any greater wisdom any more than alan greenspan in 99-01, and 04-06, the latter makes me think he wanted to punish the people for voting to reelect bush, powell, has not been as diligent,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/famed-sex-crimes-prosecutor-linda-fairstein-being-purged-after-netflix-program-about-central-park-five/
why would we expect otherwise:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/05/joe-biden-media-hunter-china-ukraine/
just like with his enabling the subprime gang,
'm for seeing the Republicans replace Trump as nominee next year and Democrats retaking the White House (although there are a number of declared Democratic candidates I cannot see myself voting for
How can anyone vote for a Democrat after they tried to overthrow the President?
That's not how America works.
"I'm not surprised. The tariff power is reserved to the legislative branch by the US Constitution."
The power was given the the President through legislation. Trump is using that power.
But nice try, Dummy. I love snarky moron, show themselves to be posers.
Fen how old are you?
I worked at a SoCal newspaper for 20 years that delivered great local coverage of the cities in its area, including my city, that in the 80s became a boomtown of spacious & affordable tracts, grew from 10,000 to 120,00 in 10 years, many were families out of Compton and East LA wanting to own their home and get their kids outta danger. we had 18-22% african-american, pretty high for a soCal town.
What I noticed is that News never showed that every week, Milo -- the LA bus driver that commuted in 60 miles everyday, the black dad of two engaging kids -- every Saturday, he mowed his lawn. or any of the other hard-headed black dads doing what it took. News never showed their mugs.
All we got were mugs of those that had done viciously delicious "news". black young faces that were the reason for our spike in carjacking, etc.
my heart broke regularly. so many good men never got to see their mugshot in the paper for all the good they were doing, for how hard they worked for their families, for how much they wanted the good life they knew was possible.
it hasn't gotten better.
my heart broke regularly. so many good men never got to see their mugshot in the paper for all the good they were doing, for how hard they worked for their families,
I have a story in my book about a guy I operated on and cared for for years after he was shot by the LAPD. It was an accidental shooting but it ruined his life, He was a single father raising his kid and working at a good job. I cared for him for years and even after I moved to Orange County he would come down for problems. His lawsuit finally came to trial about 1974 or 75. I testified for him. He got zero. That was long before Rodney King, a convicted felon, got millions. Jonnie's boss kept his job open for him for over a year after his injury.
@Dr. K
thank you for that. Matt 6:4
Greshams law sadly, they get more of what you spotlight.
The power was given the the President through legislation.
Yeah I am aware of the legislation. My comment noted the 20th century Legislative Branch's relative disinterest in fulfilling their Constitutional duties.
readering said...
Not that there's anything wrong with it . . . .
6/5/19, 3:41 PM
That's what they say. I wonder if you agree though, or is your pronoun trouble just random?
readering said...
Not that there's anything wrong with it . . . .
that was funny--we dont care who you are!
(well, ok, we do care, and wish only the best)
Sometimes I suspect comments landed here through Google translate.
@cf, narciso
oh that it could be turned around
Research by philologist Garson O'Toole shows a probable origin in the mind of Austen Chamberlain's father Joseph Chamberlain dating around the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
I see how the article is constructed, but it's so odd to see Austen Chamberlainn as the key point of reference. Wouldn't you normally think of Austen as the son of the considerably-more-famous Joe Chamberlain, the Liberal leader, imperialist, and sometime Colonial Secretary who brought us the Boer War? Or, you know, the brother of Neville Chamberlain, who brought us "peace in our time" and World War II?
The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity.
~Dorothy Parker (or Ellen Parr)
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