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Overnight Open Thread (09/07/2020)

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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

-- John Parker

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

-- Francis Bacon

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
to say that for destruction ice
is also great
and would suffice.

-- Robert Frost

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod, and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The wise and moral man
Shines like a fire on a hilltop,
Making money like the bee,
Who does not hurt the flower.

-- The Pali Canon

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Do we want our journalists to be brave? No. We want them to tell the truth, and let the facts lead them where they may. But we have neither heroes nor honest men, and that is a sad commentary on the media.

Charlie Hebdo's Courage: Such a stark contrast with American journalistic cowardice.

[...]Fourteen of the alleged accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo attack and the attack on the grocery store went on trial last Wednesday. They are accused of providing weapons and logistic support to the terrorists.

And last Tuesday, the day before the trial began, Charlie Hebdo did an extraordinary thing: it published the Mohammed cartoons again, saying they were evidence in the trial. An editorial accompanying the republication said that failing to republish the cartoons would have been an act of “journalistic or political cowardice.” Just so.

Say what you want about their politics, but that requires intestinal fortitude.
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Banjos! Who doesn't like banjos?

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She has a great voice, and it just doesn't work with this song.

Weird.

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More fun with guessing, and the pleasure of seeing people in uniform. It just doesn't happen any more, and that is sad.

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I don't care whether our politicians and celebrities were heroes, since most people who serve, serve honorably and never come near battle, but do their duty anyway. It is of great value, and it is fast disappearing.

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Here's an interesting article on "According To Hoyt," and the premise is a great one. The Great Remasking by HerbN

I’m not talking about the physical masks we are all forced to wear to get the necessities of life, although that is part of it. I am not talking about the Left letting their masks slip and show their actual view of us and their intentions, especially since we got uppity and elected Trump. I’m talking about the mask lain over all of us in the pre-Internet era.

And a bit more, but read the whole thing...it's worth it.

The Great Remasking isn't about physical masks, although it only works by making a physical mask a requirement to buy necessities. The Great Remasking is about taking away our ability to see we are not alone in our questioning the Narrative. It is about restoring the power to the media and the Left to tell us "this is the Truth and you contradict it at your peril".

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What is it about the blues that is so appealing? I'm no music scholar or theorist, but there has to be something special that attracts our ears.

Maybe because it sounds like anyone can do it? But when we listen just a bit longer...nope!

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