“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.”
Louisa May Alcott
December 2020 Countdown – December 8!
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
Apache Proverb
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December 2020 Countdown – December 7!
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December 2020 Countdown – December 6!
May love and laughter light your days,
And warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
Wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world,
With joy that long endures.
May all life’s passing seasons,
Bring the best to you and yours.
Irish Prayer
Retro Quote – Voltaire
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Word of the Week – December 5, 2020
Emulous
Adjective
Latin, mid-16th century
Seeking to emulate someone or something.
Motivated by a spirit of rivalry.
Example: My rationale is emulous of the great thinkers of the ancient world because I don’t spend much time on social media.
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Tweets of the Week – December 5, 2020
Blow was responding to this tweet by Lauren Witzke, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate:
In response, Sen. Rand Paul said this:
They were both referring to a previous declaration by Dr. Anthony Fauci that schools should remain closed.
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Most Ominous Quote of the Week – December 5, 2020
“By this time next week, we are going to be talking about 3,000 deaths a day – that’s 9/11 every single day.”
– Dr. Jonathan Reiner, cardiologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University, to CNN
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Worst Quotes of the Week – December 5, 2020
“Anybody who thinks the election went well, like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity, that guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.”
– Joe di Genova, a Trump campaign lawyer, in an interview with “The Howie Carr Show,” which was broadcast on the radio, Newsmax and online streams.
Di Genova was referring to Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whom Trump fired on November 17.
“I assume that the power of the pardon is absolute and that he should be able to pardon anybody that he wants to.”
– Sean Hannity, in his radio interview with fringe lawyer Sidney Powell, about Trump’s ability to pardon himself and “his whole family” as he walks “out the door” of the White House
“If you want to steal an election of the United States, what do you do? You go into the swing states, your Democrats, you target the urban areas where you have the largest vote count. They need to produce a massive, significant, large number of votes – therefore they have to go to large Democratic cities.”
– Gary Berntsen, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) career officer who worked on various counterterrorism deployments, to Epoch Times.
Berntsen claims that the irregularities during the November election may be part of a larger scheme. He didn’t provide supporting evidence or name any specific person or party for wrongdoing.
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