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By James Madison

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Born March 16, 1751. Have written a few pamphlets and parts of documents, most of a Constitution and a few bills of rights. Attended College of New Jersey. Practiced some law. Enjoyed living in Washington, DC where my wife threw some great parties, advised and negotiated large land purchase, and farmed occasionally. You might say I am an Anglophobe, and you would be right. That whole aristocracy, monarchy thing is rather counter productive.

| June 24, 2019 (39 Minutes Ago)

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First, my family did not benefit from owning slaves (at least not for the past millennia or so). Living in the South, they were early members of the Resistance Movement against John C. Calhoun. They cleared land, farmed and built everything themselves. They missed out on the economic bonanza. (Full Disclosure: They used mules. […]

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By Vince Guerra

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Vince Guerra

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Vince Guerra is a member of Ricochet.

| June 24, 2019 (6 Hours Ago)

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The scene is one of the most iconic in film history. The Battle of Atlanta near the middle of Gone With The Wind depicts the carnage of war. As Scarlett O’Hara searches for Dr. Meade among several wounded and dying Confederate soldiers, the camera pulls back to reveal dozens more, then hundreds of bodies, 1,600 […]

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By James Gawron

| June 23, 2019

Claire Berlinski‏Verified account @ClaireBerlinski More

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By SkipSul

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The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow, if I can. Still Round the corner there may wait Some new road or secret gate And though oft I've passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the moon, East of the Sun

| June 23, 2019

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Whan that aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of march hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licourOf which vertu engendred is the flour;Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethTendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the ram his halve cours yronne,And smale foweles maken melodye,That […]

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By Paddy S

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Paddy S

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Paddy S is a member of Ricochet.

| June 23, 2019

7 COMMENTS

In 1939 Britain initiated war against a eugenics obsessed state in Europe with the purpose of stopping its disgusting rise and destroying it as a world and European power. Britain lost its Empire as a result, but it could rightly take pride in having stood alone against Nazi Germany for the Second World War (albeit […]

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A Letter to the Ravelry Community

By She

Thatcher

She

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"She can milk She brews good ale She can sew She can knit She can wash and scour She can spin She hath many nameless virtues . . ." She is a recovering IT professional living on a farm in Southwestern Pennsylvania with a numerous sheep, goats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and a long-suffering husband.

| June 23, 2019

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Ravelry is an online knitting and crochet community, a tremendous resource of knowledge and expertise, and the go-to place for its millions of members all over the world for both selling and buying, online knitting, and crochet patterns. It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that politics, when they infect the site, list heavily to port.

But Ravelry has just put itself at the very top of my [expletive] list. I know several members here also belong to Ravelry, and I’d like your help in getting the word out (if you agree with me). Members can contact the site here. I’ve also sent an email to info – at – ravelry – dot – com, which is an address I’ve used in the past, although I can’t be sure it’s still live. Given my Ravelry user name (which has been the same for years), I’m not expecting a chummy response. Still, I have shelves full of knitting books, a huge stash of yarn, and lots of other things to do. I expect I’ll survive.

By Randy Webster

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Randy Webster

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BA History, Davidson College. Law degree University of Tennessee. Thought there were too many lawyers even then, and it's been almost 40 years. Been in construction all the rest of my life. C

| June 23, 2019

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By Dr. Bastiat

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Dr. Bastiat

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I grew up on a hog farm in Ohio. I practice concierge medicine in Hilton Head, SC. I'm a bleeding heart conservative - I hate statism because it is heartless - it suppresses the potential of its subjects, it focuses on equal distribution of misery rather than maximizing potential for joy, and it tends to make liars and thieves of nearly everyone. I'm much more of an ideological conservative than a political Republican. I find the heterogeneity of the right stimulating, and the homoge… [more]

| June 23, 2019

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GrannyDude had an outstanding comment on another thread which read, “I should think that when the government is in charge of healthcare, there are strong incentives to discourage any “extra” medical attention, because it will raise expectations in the client class. The National Health in Britain didn’t want to pony up for little Alfie because […]

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By Vectorman

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Vectorman is a member of Ricochet.

| June 23, 2019

3 COMMENTS

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we […]

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By Henry Castaigne

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Henry Castaigne

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Born near Seattle. I spent a lot of my life living in China. Currently I am obesses with Nietzsche because I cannot find purpose in my life.

| June 23, 2019

4 COMMENTS

Hidden Figures is an alright movie about black women working for NASA in Virginia during segregation. The movie hits the usual beats about racism being bad and woman being empowered in the usually overly sentimental and unrealistic ways that Hollywood has become so fond of. More

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By Richard Fulmer

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Richard Fulmer

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Mechanical Engineer turned computer jockey. My hobby is economics.

| June 23, 2019

8 COMMENTS

Global life expectancy is rising, creating a growing and unjust age deficit between young and old. Children – the category of people between the ages of zero and twelve – is seeing no age improvement even as the eldest get older still. Despite the shocking unfairness of the situation, no one is doing anything about […]

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Bullitt: The Car Chase

By tigerlily

| June 23, 2019

What was the greatest car chase scene of all time? I don’t really know; but, if I had to pick one – I’d pick the chase scene from the 1968 movie Bullitt. There were car chase scenes in the movies long before Bullitt (lots of ’em), and there have been even more car chase scenes in the movies since Bullitt. But, Bullitt is a dividing line — car chase scenes after were and still are measured against the Bullitt chase scene. That full scene (a little over ten minutes in length) is below. I should note that when I started to put this post together it took a while to find the complete scene (at least in a form that could be pasted here on Ricochet), which was a little surprising.

By WillowSpring

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WillowSpring

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Retired Manager/Engineer/Programmer. I specialized in embedded systems – that is, systems where it isn't obvious there is a computer. Willow Spring is the 1803 log home where we now live (Wife, 1 remaining Deerhound out of our pack of 3) The picture is of Leap (Flying Leap, officially) on the porch looking towards the Apple orchard where the deer sometimes come. Behind here is the corner of the Summer Kitchen, a separate one room building with a VERY large fireplace for cooking.

| June 23, 2019

8 COMMENTS

Well, actually, soldering on, but I thought that title would be a turn-off. And besides, solder is indeed ‘hot stuff’ According to Wikipedia, “solder is a fusible metal alloy to create a permanent bond between metal workpieces and the word comes from the latin word “solidare” meaning to make solid. Although it is used for […]

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The End of the End

By Arahant

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Arahant

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Corporate governance, process management and change management consultant, poet, alchemist, and writer.

| June 23, 2019

6 COMMENTS

“It’s the beginning of the end,” Steve said;
I knew it wasn’t. I had known for weeks
The end was on its way. We all are dead
Awaiting our moment as the days leak
Away from us. For some the time is close.
Our modern world knows the signs: hospital,
Home, hospital, home again. Higher dose
Of medication does nothing at all.
If Dad hangs on until Tuesday, I’m free
To travel for a funeral, but will he?
My plans will change, not unexpectedly.
It’s a long, hard drive to South Missouri.
The chapter ends after a good, long age.
We’re left behind to fill another page.

By She

Thatcher

She

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| June 22, 2019

16 COMMENTS

Where do I begin? Well, here’s a thought: Ricochet member @kentforrester’s recent post, “My Ten Favorite Poems,” easily won promotion to the Main Feed, broke the 100-comment mark, and is still going strong. Proof positive (as Kent himself intimated) that title, title, title on a blog or social media site doesn’t presume to fill the […]

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By iWe

Reagan

iWe

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| June 22, 2019

2 COMMENTS

We have abandoned Choice, leaving it on the field of battle, to be kidnapped and abused by the Left in pursuit of sexual libertinism. I say it is time to rejoin the battle and retrieve this precious hostage. I choose to never be a victim, in body or in mind. More

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Quote of the Day: Science

By Seawriter

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Seawriter is a former Shuttle software engineer who successfully made the transition to the oil and gas industry as a technical writer after the end of the Shuttle program. It is not the first career

| June 22, 2019

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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” – Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was a physicist. (You could tell, couldn’t you?) Yet he hits on one essential truth with this quote: the more rigorous and replicable experiments in a field of science are, the more reliable the results. With physics, mathematics provides the rigor, and if an experiment is not replicable, there better be a really good reason — some reason that when factored in makes the result replicable. Stamp collecting is Rutherfords’s shorthand for ordering and collecting, which is about all you can do absent mathematics and rigorous analysis.

By sawatdeeka

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sawatdeeka

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Hello. My Ricochet name, sawatdeeka, is a Thai greeting that women use. Men would say, "sawatdeekap." So, sawatdeeka. Here are some bio basics: -I've been a wife for half my life, and we're parents of two teenage daughters. -I work in education, mainly from home doing mostly curriculum and instruction for a small Christian school in California (title: accreditation coordinator). -I taught humanities to junior high and some high school from about '97 to '99, before I had my daughters. … [more]

| June 22, 2019

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I noticed it the first few late evenings after my move to a different town last fall. How could I not? It was a loud, wailing, siren, foreboding and impersonal. Unlike friendly chimes of a city clock, this signal made me want to look for the nearest bomb shelter. My daughters said it went off […]

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Taking Things for Granted

By Susan Quinn

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Susan Quinn

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| June 22, 2019

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Today I was reminded of how lazy I am about paying attention to life. The ordinary falls into a morass of the mundane, and I take many things for granted, even though at some level I know what a gift life is. Still, it’s so easy to trudge through a day, not noticing or enjoying those events and relationships that bless our lives. When I gave my life a bit more thought, I found I could divide my existence into two categories: the everyday and the sacred.

What everyday conditions do I take for granted?

By Paddy S

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Paddy S

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Paddy S is a member of Ricochet.

| June 22, 2019

6 COMMENTS

More priests mentioning hostile reactions (especially in the East of the country) if they walk about in their habits/collars and that it's been steadily increasing over the last year or so. Priests, your visible presence is important, even when it's not appreciated. More

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