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Showing posts with label Larry Arnn. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

It's Just a Good Start Thing

Dear America,

happy 
new 
year
baby

just taking a few baby steps this morning...now nearly afternoon... as this girl ever so slowly resurfaces.......re-entering the blogosphere for the very first time in 2019; so here's our first quote to accompany us:  "Everyday is great -- it's a day extra."  [Jake LaMotta, boxer]

it's also the Day After the president's Oval Office address.  ooh rah 
must say -- he sounded a wee bit more mature  in this new year, if I'm not mistaken.  teehee

Talking about reaching maturity, whether individually or collectively, this girl is feeling sorta nostalgic on this rather bright and sunny Southern California day; so, on a whim,  a hit on the Day After, above, will link you to my very first blog! This being blog #974... from the serious to nonsensical, suffice it to say, this girl has covered a lot of ground over the last decade; just sayin'.

But oh to God be the Glory that I have lasted this long.  Day in and Day out, altogether it makes 2019 something of a celebratory year.  Traditionally, when referring to years of marriage, the anniversary is marked with gifts of tin or aluminum -- recognizing the resiliency and steadfastness required to make it thus far. So, to put this in perspective -- if this blog keeps producing 'til July 23rd -- I will have surpassed my marital devotion by a whole six months.   Now there's a new years resolution to write home about, eh?

So, on that note, and without any further dilly dilly or dally, let me link you to a wonderful breakdown of the president's Oval Office debut (you do know it was his first Oval Office address....right?)  This comes from my favorite group of patriots, @The Patriot Post; and it comes with a whole lot of common sense coming from Mark Alexander, himself, founder of The Patriot Post:


ALEXANDER'S COLUMN
The Humanitarian and Security Crisis on Our Border
A full analysis of Donald Trump's Oval Office address, as well as the Demo rebuttal


and if you have time, read Mark Thiessen's account, via Fox News: "Trump started the shutdown but Democrats are about to own it"


I do want to talk about the AOC, bouncing off a post from Leslie Marshall...but it will have to wait for it's own day.  It will need all of a day, and maybe then some; what a hoot. happy   new     year   to    me.

Maybe the world needs to be reminded about the way the real world works, and more important, how sometimes it doesn't -- as in, leading us into world wars, and other things that are not good.  For more on that, and giving you a third good read on the first day back in 2019:  READ THIS from IMPRIMIS -- Do We Need a Country Anymore?  by Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College.


THIS is what I like to call, just a good start.

happy new year
happy first blog #1
happy first Oval Office address
happy reading
happy United States of America
happy 2019 in every way
happy first day back blog #974

the end.

Make it a Good Day, G

Monday, January 13, 2014

It's an Ode to Kickin' It with What We've Got Thing

Dear America,


happy monday.

it was Whitney Houston who once said something to the effect of ...

'God gave me a voice
to sing
and when you have that
 what other gimmick
 do you need to have.'

Enough said.

And that is what it's all about today.

It is truly fascinating to me how we all find 'our thing.'

Is it by accident, by luck, by perseverance, by hard work, by the gift of the Almighty through the balance of time, toil and ultimately, transcendence?

The ability to succeed in life --  given whatever it is we have to work with, no matter how grand or damned our beginning -- is a constant challenge to humanity; while leading this charge is what's known and widely assumed to be a gift or a curse, that thing called free will.

Sometimes things just don't go in our favor...
take for example the last couple of weeks in the NFL.

The Cincinnati Bengals -- who didn't lose a single game in the regular season -- lost to the San Diego Chargers in the first round of playoffs.   Oh they could have lost a game or two along the way...but nooooooooooo, oh snap...they lost the one game that, for all intents and purposes,  was for all the marbles.  Season over.  See you next year when you can try it again.

Now let's take a look at the Manning family.  Dad played football and then dad raised two boys to play football.  All quarterbacks,  All stellar careers.  Playing as if all the stars aligned and became one with the football.  Eat.  Sleep.  Hike.

[And speaking of which, I know what you're thinking given my so-cal roots...but you should also know me by now -- it's a happy day when Peyton wins, right kissy?...GO DENVER!]

The thing is, we do our best with what we're given and must quickly get over it with what we're not.

There it is, the key to life. 
Boom. 
And just like that...
So unexpected...
Out of nowhere...
how does she do it?

It's what I do...

But take for instance what just happened to me right now -- as I was just settling in to write my little heart out and in my head, lamenting how the holidays have kicked my hardworking, industrious little butt to the curb...

Ring-y ding-y went the phone -- and making a little extra money was on the other line.

Cha-ching.
Backspace.
Change of plans.
Old G thing has a new play on the day. 
And suddenly, life is like a box of chocolates again.

It's okay; it's not time to hit the panic button yet, the Head Coach is staying; a couple hail Mary's from now and this girl will be back.  [But can I just say before I go that I can't believe I ever rooted for Chris Christie. ugh.  totally disgusted with myself for that miscalculation.  You wanna talk about gimmicks....]


Need something to read in my absence?  GO to Hillsdale, the Imprimis from December, A Rebirth of Liberty and Learning, by Larry Arnn, President.

It offers a great, quick hit comparison between our Founding Fathers and today's deadbeats.  And we'll pick up on the fifty yard line when we come back...no telling which direction we will go.

Make it a Good Day, G
 

Thursday, December 20, 2012

It's a Day to Fear Not the Result Thing

Dear America,

"ambassadors of providence, 
sent to reveal to us our unknown selves"
Calvin Coolidge, 
describing great statesmen...
one day in the life
of America

so let me get this straight...America is resting it's economic future (among other things) upon two people?  John Boehner and President Obama have been carved out of the whole to decide our fate?  Two guys?   Is that like some kind of twisted perversion of two men will move you?   Welcome to fundamental transformation, the movers and shakers of the twenty-first century; we can take you anywhere you wanna go from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea [and FDIC insured, to boot].

Little old G Thing has been wanting to get to this thought for days, possibly weeks now; needless to say, we've had a few and far more important contemplations to cover.

But just two guys?  Come on...you guys can't be serious?

Here's another two guys for you:

Hugh Hewitt interviewing the president of Hillsdale College, Larry P. Arnn, the day after the re-election of  Barack Hussein Obama --  same as, Barry Soetoro, by the way  [When we put it like that, it sort of shifts one's entire image of the guy, no?].   The interview, "Time to Give Up or Time to Fight On?" is highlighted in the latest issue of Imprimis, here.

That quote of Coolidge, above, was plucked out of something Larry Arnn said.  He was making the point that our "conservative statesmen" must articulate conservative ideas -- the positions and ambitions -- better; and to that end, stop trying to go about solving our problems, and speaking of our problems, from the mindset of a bureaucrat (like the Left), but rather from a Constitutional government, operating from the law.

But just before these two guys got into this -- Larry explained something worthy of repeating word for word:


"The experts who run the modern bureaucratic state think they are architects of a perfectly rational society. They think of themselves as scientists, and of the running of government as something more like science—the science of administration—than politics. They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high. The problem is that what they are trying to do defies human nature—the human nature that led James Madison to write famously that men are not angels, and that led the Framers of the Constitution to divide government in order to limit government—and so what these experts are doing will ultimately lead to despotism.

But to speak directly to your question, Hugh, there are many indications that there’s a deep and even intensifying opposition to bureaucratic government today. People don’t like it, and they don’t trust it. They want less of it. And I don’t believe that yesterday’s election signified any change in that. Now, how to harness that opinion politically is the challenge. No one yet has been able to capitalize upon it."


Now let's take a moment to see how the bureaucrats -- and not the Law -- have changed things since November 7th.

Oh     my       goodness.  
Oh     my       goodness.
Aw no   he   di  nint... 

That probably wasn't enough time.

Just breathe, people.  

C'mon now, stay with me.

Before we all pass out, here's the entire paragraph surrounding the idea, 'men are not angels'....



"But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."



"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?"

Whether we like it or not, whether we agree with it or not, this government is a reflection of us, in all of our glory or not.

And right now, with regards to this government -- 



"They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high."



And surprise! it comes down to this -- just two guys will move you, too.

Let's go back to a little something Madison said:



"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."


Boehner is a pretender.

Obama is not only a pretender, he's an outsider.

Say what, G?  where's that coming from?
And you will simply have to go back up and read the full interview from Imprimis to pick up what this girl just laid down.

sure, it requires a little work on your part -- but get used to it people.  we have to re-load the entire household....beginning with re-wrapping every facet, dimension, ideal presented to us by our dear wonder boys of days of yore.   The House -- oh it's divided; in more ways than one.

But before we sign off this bill of lading for one more day, let me recycle another thought passed on to us like a priceless heirloom.  Larry Arnn closes with a story from another era, a time of Winston Churchill, saying:



"That same year, Churchill asked one of his assistants, John Colville, to find him the precise text of a prayer he remembered from the siege of Gibraltar. It reads:

'Fear not the result, for either thy end shall be an enviable and a majestic one, or God will preserve our reign upon the waters.'

We might follow Churchill in saying that prayer in hard times. We might cultivate the strength that it can give. 



While venturing out to find some back up of this moment in time, what do you know, I stumbled upon this:

Which is funny; this isn't at all how I pictured my day to end.  [Check this guy out...really good stuff.]

But it all fits now, doesn't it.   We started out with just two guys making a mockery of our rule of law, battling it out both behind closed doors and in front of the cameras...then we added an element of what is a conservative statesman anyway...and threw in a reflection of angels to men, just intention no. 51 in a series of  one through eight-five...and settled in upon a house divided, only leaving room for a prayer.

And after all that's been said and done today, all I really know is this -- I need to do better job at understanding my own government and my responsibility to it and pray one simple prayer:  "fear not the result, for either thy end shall be an enviable and a majestic one, or God will preserve our reign upon the waters."   

it's hard to believe the people's power has been usurped by a couple of blow-ks to decide our fate [say that with a limey accent, will ya].

thankfully, there are only two ways for this to go.

Make it a Good Day, G