With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
October 28, 2004 - 1:41 a.m.
A miracle occurred today, for the first time since my mother was 11 months old the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. It wasn’t a great series, it was a four game sweep but Boston winning provided all the drama you needed. If that wasn’t enough there was the sight of Curt Schilling bleeding into his sox as he dominated the Cardinal hitters. You could see he bled Bosox Red.
That was great but the rest of the day was a disappointment. My mother’s democratic club had a meeting tonight where they said they’d show Outfoxed. Last time I went to the Move On event where they said they’d show it they didn’t, they just showed clips from it. Tonight I sat through the meeting to see it then when they DVD started it wasn’t Outfoxed, it was something like Orwell turned over in His Grave. An overlong documentary lambasting the media while supplying no evidence for its claims. It is so much the left’s equivalent of the lies the right spread about Clinton. It is the kind of thing that makes me come up with arguments against positions I favor. While I was against lifting the fairness doctrine the argument against it has validity. It does infringe on the rights of free speech. The documentary said that granting corporations free speech rights was ridiculous, they weren’t people. So I guess they think it would fine to suppress the free speech of political groups, they aren’t people either. That’s what gets me mad, they don’t want to play by the same rules they insist others play by. It isn’t about freedoms and rights, it is about getting their own way. Things need to be done but they are subtle issues that need to be handled carefully. They are acting like Bush instead of like Kerry.
The best parts about the meeting were eating Dunkin’ Donuts and playing with their dog. With a room full of people it came over to me and sat on my lap during most of the film. I love playing with dogs.
I can’t remember the other thing I was disappointed at today. I know there was something that I meant to write about. Well I can say that I’m disappointed that I can’t remember the other thing.
On a happier note I got to talk to Lori today after missing her all last week. Then tonight I got to talk to Leah. They are the only friends that I talk to with any regularity. It is important to have some links to the outside world other than online.
The other day I quoted Edmond Burke and checked in my Bartlett’s Book of Familiar Quotations to make sure I quoted it accurately. Burke is the founding father of Conservative politics yet while going through his quotes I found quite a few that modern conservatives should listen to. Modern liberals too. Here are a few of them.
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue, it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience;Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
It is not what a lawyer tells me that I may do; it is what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Freedom not servitude is the cure of anarchy
All government —indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter
Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
OK enough wisdom from the eighteenth century. It is scary how timely some of those quotes are.
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