Founders Friday, Friday, July 22, 2011 – Elbridge Gerry

Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

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Elbridge Gerry

Wacky Wednesday, Wednesday, July 20, 2011, Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (1963)

It's Wednesday, we've made it half way through the week.  It's time  to kick back and enjoy a laugh from Allen Sherman, once a very popular guy, mostly on the basis of this song.

The Early Church Fathers, Sunday, July 17, 2011 – St Cyprian

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Peter speaks there, on whom the Church was to be built, teaching and showing in the name of the Church, that although a rebellious and arrogant multitude of those who will not hear or obey may depart, yet the Church does not depart from Christ; and they are the Church who are a people united to the priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church, and that those flatter themselves in vain who creep in, not having peace with God’s priests, and think that they communicate secretly with some; while the Church which is Catholic and one, is not cut nor divided, but is indeed connected and bound together by the cement of priests who cohere with one another. (Letters 66 [A.D. 253])

Founders Friday, Friday, July 15, 2011 – James Madison

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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

James Madison

Wacky Wednesday, Wednesday, July 13, 2011

It's Wednesday, we've made it half way through the week, time to sit back and enjoy a laugh with Bob Newhart.

Miscellaneous Musings, Tuesday, July 12, 2011

This is from Mark Steyn’s column Selective Shaming on National Review On Line. It seems there’s been massive test fraud on the standard achievement tests conducted by the Atlanta Public School system. It’s a clear example of the core problem with unions of any kind; the object becomes protection of the union workers and jobs and to heck with any other goal, like actually doing the job. How long will taxpayers continue to put up with this kind of thing?

The APS [Atlanta Public Schools] Human Resources honcho Millicent Few illegally had an early report into test-tampering destroyed. So APS not only got the federal gravy but was also held up to the nation at large as a heartwarming, inspirational example of how large urban school districts can reform themselves and improve educational opportunities for their children. And its fake test scores got its leader, Beverly Hall, garlanded with the National Superintendent of the Year Award, the Administrator of the Year Award, the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Keystone Award for Leadership in Education, the Concerned Black Clergy Education Award, the American Association of School Administrators Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award, and a zillion other phony-baloney baubles with which the American edu-fraud cartel scratches its own back.


In reality, Beverly Hall’s Atlanta Public Schools system was in the child-abuse business: It violated the education of its students in order to improve its employees’ cozy sinecures. The whole rotten, stinking school system is systemically corrupt from the superintendent down. But what are the chances of APS being closed down? How many of those fraudulent non-teachers will waft on within the system until their lucrative retirements?

The Desert Fathers, Sunday, July 10, 2011 – St. Cyril of Jerusalem

O strange and inconceivable thing! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again, but our imitation was but a figure, while our salvation is in reality. Christ was actually crucified, and actually buried, and truly rose again; and all these things have been vouchsafed to us, that we, by imitation communicating in His sufferings, might gain salvation in reality. O surpassing loving-kindness! Christ received the nails in His undefiled hands and feet, and endured anguish; while to me without suffering or toil, by the fellowship of His pain He vouchsafed salvation.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, On the Christian Sacraments.