It is easier
to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and
to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca
Tweet of the Day
@realDonaldTrump Remember the other week you were whining about how unfairly you were being treated and didn't feel obligated? HYPOCRITE!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
@Trumpbart It's not just that, the hypocrite was threatening a third party bid back in Feb/Mar long after he signed his own pledge.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham are backing down a pledge made to support the eventual nominee before they knew voters would pick ex-Dem Trump?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
Good for Bush and Graham! They have the integrity to admit they made a mistake when a debate moderator asked for a loyalty pledge.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
Does anyone remember the pledge? It was all because Trump kept threatening to go third party. And do you remember Trump's response? Refused.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
As far as I am concerned, when Trump publicly refused to pledge, the pledge only involved the nomination among the 16 who agreed.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
It just takes chutzpah for Trump to argue moral authority over Bush and Graham when he had no such qualm about abandoning his own pledge.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton is no match to Trump in the nickname competition. "Presumptuous nominee"? Is that the best you've got? Now THAT is SAD.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
@Trumpbart What about Hannity threatening to primary Paul Ryan because Ryan won't cave into the Chosen One, Trump?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 7, 2016
Talk about nightmares. I dreamt that I was in a reeducation camp headed by Ann Coulter. Only in Donald Trump's America.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 8, 2016
The Hill writes about a potential conservative third party bid. The most interesting name raised, former senator/cancer survivor Tom Coburn.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 8, 2016
A new red state Georgia poll shows Hillary Clinton within a point of Donald Trump. It's not just that Trump loses battleground states— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 8, 2016
Child Labor: A Free Market PerspectiveAustin has always been a "progressive" anomaly in the heart of Texas.Corrupt anti-ridesharing Big Taxi interests against liberty won the day— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) May 8, 2016
A Personal Rant
Today I came within a split second of a serious auto accident with a skateboarder. I just did a Google search on skateboarder and saw at least 3 news incidents about skateboarders in critical condition. In my experience, the white skateboarder did mind-blowingly stupid things: he was riding on the right side of a private drive with (vs. against) traffic, i.e., I was approaching him from behind. He wasn't wearing a helmet and was holding a beverage; he was simply riding straight and gave no signal of awareness of me or any change of plan. I had slowed and started drifting away from him into the other lane of traffic--when all of a sudden he suddenly veered left and ran into my car's right fender. I stopped the car; he got up, dusted himself off, picked up his skateboard and yelled out that he was fine. (Apparently he was accompanied by some black guy in a car behind me. The black driver pointed out that my car was blocking traffic and back up to the side of the road. He drove around me, the young skateboarder climbed into his car, and they drove off. )
During that brief moment I was out of the car, I screamed at the kid, "What the hell were you thinking?" He said that he was aware of me and in the way; he said that he was trying to get out of my way. Here's some common sense, kid: you're 2 feet from the side of the road: you stay straight, stop and/or get off the roadway. You NEVER, EVER cut across a roadway without checking traffic and/or making your intentions known to approaching drivers: that is suicidal. (It's bad enough skateboarding on any road unless it's deserted. This road is shared by 3 apartment complexes and people constantly drive in and out.) He's lucky if he got out of this with a scratch or two and losing the rest of his drink. Me, I'm in worse shape; my first reaction was what if he had been seriously hurt. I was not at fault--literally nothing I could have done to evade his irrational, reckless behavior; thank God I had excellent reflexes and control over my car.
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