Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
— Seneca The Younger
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Alan Scott on An Ancient Horror Awakened: “For years I kept a spreadsheet in Microsoft works 4.0 from my first WIN 95 computer circa 1997. I am…” Apr 3, 23:33
jonolan on Hyena Harris: “Yep. Sadly though for the US, the hyena is a better breed of beast than Harris.” Apr 1, 05:29
John Downing on Hyena Harris: “What a striking resemblance, and unfortunately, about the same octave as well.” Mar 31, 19:24
jonolan on Biden – Biden – Biden: “I wish I had too. I shamelessly stole it from a headline that came out around Groundhog's Day.” Mar 15, 07:33
Alan Scott on Biden – Biden – Biden: “" Punxsutawney Joe " I wish I had thought of that.” Mar 14, 18:45
Framing and context are very important when setting up a narrative. Just ask CNN, the most distrusted name in “News.” They’re experts at this particular propaganda technique.
Hard to believe, but Abraham Lincoln, often called the Great Emancipator, is now apparently being targeted by some portion of the feral thugs of the #BlackLivesMatter cells. OK, not that hard to believe. He was, after all, allegedly White and, therefore, racist insofar as that sort are concerned.
Sick, twisted, deranged, but not something any American can really be surprised by anymore.
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