When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability
and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm,
miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
Tweet of the Day
Your payment is due #MyLeastFavorite4Words— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
National Review is becoming its own parody (with a few exceptions). The once NeverTrump conservative magazine has become his apologist.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
NR published an indignant response to a piece critical of Trump's culinary preferences, including ordering $54 steaks well done, ketchup.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
Who cares if Trump has chefs make him meat loaf with his late mother's recipe? So Trump's a boring eater. This is a teetotaler selling vodka— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
Trump warns that he'll never forget who didn't endorse him. I doubt Trump can even pronounce or spell my French-Canadian surname.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
My tickets to the Venus and Mars Rock Show #InMySuitcaseToMars— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2017
This is Soft Rock America. Remembering Chuck Berry: https://t.co/Wzxpiww1wS— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2017
Most Americans believe in the free market, not in more government mismanagement of health care. pic.twitter.com/P0NP8sCXQ4— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2017
It's a Bunch of Little Cuts, But a Giant Leap For Americans
We Need More Open Immigration
Facebook Corner
(Pro-Life Libertarians). “You’re Pro-Birth, Not Pro-Life. If you were pro-life, you’d want children fed, clothed, educated, and housed.”
http://thekingsrights.com/pro-abortion-fallacies-youre-pro-birth-not-pro-life/
Taxation is not charity; it is theft. If I respond to my neighbor's need when he's down on his luck. that's virtuous. When a government agent classifies my neighbor as needy and takes money to give him, not out of his own pocket but mine at gunpoint, that doesn't make me virtuous; it makes me a victim. (And don't forget: the government bureaucracy always takes its own cut first, so only a nominal amount of my money ever gets to my neighbor's wallet, while 100% of my own gift does.)
The real hypocrite, of course, is the one who justifies government intervention on behalf of born life but argues against protection of preborn life.
We Did a Similar Thing on Religious Retreats
While I was a UH graduate student in the 1980's, the Catholic Newman Association on campus used to have one retreat weekend in the East Texas woods a few weeks into every semester At the end of our first retreat I attended, we participated in an exercise of hanging white poster boards on our backs with other retreat participants writing positive personal feedback. I still have that first one (my first nephew was also born on the opening night of the retreat. The first retreat was magical; I can still remember one of the Dominican priests playing the flute walking down the path. It's where I first met Tim, then an accounting PhD student, later professor at the University of San Diego. (Tim was/is one of my "progressive" friends, more then ready to pay higher fast food prices for workers to have higher wages. I haven't heard from him in a while, particularly when I've transitioned to a more libertarian perspective. I came very close to joining him on faculty; I had a campus visit to USD, but they didn't make an offer around the end of my academic career.)
Well, If It's Not, It's Close
I have to admit it's one of my personal all-time favorites. I've fantasized performing a duet where an attractive female Navy officer and I are signaling distress from passing ships.
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
Peter Cetera (with Amy Grant), "The Next Time I Fall". Cetera's second straight #1 and the song who introduced me to Amy Grant, then the most prominent Christian music artist. I would later buy her Collection and get blown away by "El Shaddai", "My Father's Eyes", "Thy Word",
