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In honor of our 16th President and in light of our current state of division, I present The Gettysburg Address, given on November 19th, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. […]
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Serious yard work satisfies the soul. You sweat, you exercise, you work with the dirt, and you connect with the Earth in a fundamental way. We have a house in southern Riverside county with a sizable lot. This is the high desert, roughly 3,400 feet in altitude, and arid. Prior owners planted a bunch of […]
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We are on the topic of numbers: This post describes how one creates an astro-image like the one below. This will be a bit of a dry post. Let’s start start with the finished product, an image I took of Messier 81 in the constellation of Ursa Major, also known as Bode’s Galaxy. Preview Open
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During the election season, Ruth Bader Ginsburg clearly declared her position on the the election, having made multiple public statements about how she opposes Donald Trump as president. Samples: http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2016/jul/13/what-ruth-bader-ginsburg-said-about-donald-trump/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/us/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-no-fan-of-donald-trump-critiques-latest-term.html?_r=0 http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/politics/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-donald-trump-faker/ I only link Democrat-leaning sites. She must recuse herself publicly before any case relating to the election reaches the Supreme Court. Please reference […]
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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. They Are Going to Try to Steal the Election

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Jill Stein has managed to raise $4.5 million to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. How someone who received ~1.5% of the vote has standing to do this I don’t know. But this means only one thing. The Clinton machine is working on stealing the election.

Any recount effort is a clear path to fraud. I imagine Democratic operatives generating thousands of ballots that will be “found” as part of the recount in each state. We will be back into the craziness of the 2000 election with uncertainty and chaos reigning. Call me paranoid, but I can see nothing good in the clear attempt to sow uncertainty and open the door to massive fraud.

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So there have been many stories abut how there is no “proof” that flossing is a good idea. The Government even removed the recommendation for flossing since there were no “studies” that backed up its use. This is a classic example of how the institutional truth, or in this case, the lack there of, leads […]
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Taking a step back from the headlines, I came across a Bible passage from the Hebrew Scriptures that highlights the risks of too strong a government. In a scene that most likely took place in the early ninth century BC and that is recorded in the first Book of Samuel, the elders of Israel ask […]
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Much has been written about declining birth rates and the accompanying issues of the difficulty dealing with either an economy or an aging population when there aren’t enough children. David Goldman (PJ Media’s Spengler) wrote a book about this in relation to the future of the European and Islamic nations. The book is How Civilizations Die. […]
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Mrs. Clavius and I just returned from a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, with four outstanding soloists. The performance was outstanding. I would collapse into superlatives if I just started writing about […]
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Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. When Facebook Reveals that Your High School Friends Have Lost their Minds

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Facebook is mostly a way for me to stay in touch with people with whom I wouldn’t make the effort, otherwise. I don’t filter by political or social criteria. (How would I sort my high school friends?) So I just see whatever they’re eager to show everyone. Today, I saw a post that revealed the twisted inner workings of the progressive mind–and it sure put this high school acquaintance in a new mental category:

 

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Ebola is a scary disease. The mortality rate of the Black Plague was 30-70%. Smallpox at about 30%. Who knows on the latter about those who have no prior exposure to the disease and hence no resistance. Ebola has per the WHO, an average mortality rate of 50%. Preview Open
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I was intrigued by the discussion of an extremely bloody Shakespeare play, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus on a recent Richochet podcast. Amazon had it for free, so I downloaded it. I was not an English major, I was a history major, so I struggled as I powered through the iambic pentameter to figure out what […]
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I just bought a sink stopper for a bathroom vanity sink. Believe it or not, it came with instructions. If you can’t see the picture the instructions are: Before turning water on insert dropper into drain. Turn on water and stopper should create a water tight seal. Pull stopper up to drain water. For a […]
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Since I and my fetching Mrs. Clavius are attending the event tomorrow, including the VIP Reception, I thought it would be appropriate to understand how to swan. Since all us VIPs will be swanning around like we are at a Georgetown party. Google’s default definition is not favorable: Preview Open
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In Mass this morning (St. Monica’s Catholic Church) I was struck by the applicability of the first reading (1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22) to our current problems with big government. The Israelites, having been beaten by the Philistines, are asking Samuel to appoint them a King. All the other nations have Kings, so the Israelites want […]
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I just got a call from the NRSC and their whole pitch was take back the Senate so we won’t have an immigration bill like this. I was stunned, although it makes sense since most of the caucus voted against the bill. The call came just after a call from Marco Rubio’s committee. Ironic, isn’t […]
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<I lost the post when I posted from my iPad using Chrome. A bug?> I just received a call from the Republican Party of Minnesota. After the nice woman thanked me for my previous support, she asked me “Did you know that Al Franken is up for reelection?” Preview Open
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Over the last week I have, like many here, been experiencing some big up and downs from the election results. I’ve also read how we failed completely, how conservatism is dead, how demographics will crush the right. But now I am seeing more commentary like this: All this Over 407,000 Votes? Preview Open
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