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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 28, 2020
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 28, 2020
June 28, 2020
“A person only learns in two ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.” – Seeger
June 29, 2020
“Anger and folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their heels.” – Franklin
June 30, 2020
“The first test of a truly great person is their humility.” – Maslow
July 1, 2020
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person without trials.” – Holtz
July 2, 2020
“My best friend is a person who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” – Kopp
July 3, 2020
“The true measure of a person is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Einstein
July 4, 2020
“A wise person is superior to any insults which can be put upon them, and the best reply with unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” – Asimov
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 21, 2020
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 21, 2020
June 21, 2020
Tacenda – n. – Things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence.
June 22, 2020
Rasasvada – n. – the taste of bliss in the absence of all thoughts.
June 23, 2020
Hypermnesia – n. – the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
June 24, 2020
Mythomane – n. – a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying or exaggerating.
June 25, 2020
Hireath – n. – homesickness for a home to which you can’t return.
June 26, 2020
Felicific – adj. – causing or tending to cause happiness.
June 27, 2020
Tinselry – n. – cheap or pretentious display.
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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of June 21, 2020
Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of June 21, 2020
June 21, 2020
If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.
June 22, 2020
Necessity never made a good bargain.
June 23, 2020
Pay what you owe and you’ll know what you’re worth.
June 24, 2020
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
June 25, 2020
Great spenders are bad lenders.
June 26, 2020
If you know how to spend less than you make, you have the philosopher’s stone.
June 27, 2020
Never take a wife until you have a house to put her in.
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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 21, 2020
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 21, 2020
June 21, 2020
“A brave person is a person who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is the devil.” – Gruwell
June 22, 2020
“Courage is contagious. When a brave person take a stand, the spinds of others are often stiffened.” – Plato
June 23, 2020
“The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.” – Franklin
June 24, 2020
“Judge a person by their questions rather than their answers.” – Henry
June 25, 2020
“A person is great by deeds, not by birth.” – Nietzsche
June 26, 2020
“We would all like to vote for the best person but they are never a candidate.” – Elliot
June 27, 2020
“No person’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” – Pope
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So, Let's consider: How really deadly IS this corona virus??
So, Let’s consider: How really deadly IS this corona virus??
It is the strangest and smartest virus I’ve ever heard of.
It’s very dangerous the way it spreads.
It is so mysterious the way it lurks in schools, but then dies at Home Depot and Lowes. It can wreak havoc in churches; praying people are exceptionally vulnerable!
Although it’s Mind-boggling how it vanishes when people stand close together holding signs, destroying businesses, homes, property, monuments, etc.
Yet, standing to watch a marathon or a concert triggers its wrath.
It is sneaky. It can spread when buying clothes at Kohl’s but not at Target.
It is non-alcoholic. It can’t spread when you are buying beer.
It lives for two days on Amazon boxes, you must wait 48 hours to touch them but, it can’t survive on Dunkin Donuts coffee cups, so enjoying a hot cup of joe is safe.
Taco Bell can’t take your money directly from your hand, BUT they can take the same money directly from the cup that you put it in while paying at the drive through. Maybe it’s scared of plastic cups?
It is the most curious thing, how it lives on basketballs, baseball bats and ballet bars, but dies on WWE ropes and Walmart shopping carts.
It is spread by hair stylists, dog groomers, and dentists, but not by bank tellers, cashiers, and fast food workers.
It’s so smart. It won’t bother the first 10 people but it knows when the 11th person shows up so be careful if that’s you.
It even knows what you want vs what you need.
If you want a massage or your nails done it is very actively on the prowl and not even a mask can stop it. But If you need a plumber, it is weak, and a mask will keep it away.
It also seems to be most dangerous after 5:30pm so businesses must start to close before the virus comes out and wreaks havoc upon the populations.
Whoever heard of such a smart sneaky virus?!?
I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 14, 2020
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 14, 2020
June 14, 2020
Onism – n. – awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience.
June 15, 2020
Desuetude – n. – the state of being no longer used or practiced.
June 16, 2020
Verbose – adj. – excessive use of words that may cause annoyance; expressing or containing more words than actually required.
June 17, 2020
Beamish – adj. – a person who is optimistic, and chearful. Bright and smiling.
June 18, 2020
Koyaanisqatsi – n. – nature out of balance; a way of life so unbalanced that you need a new way.
June 19, 2020
Irascible – adj. – having a hot temper adn easily angered.
June 20, 2020
Cavil – v. – to raise irritating and trivial objections; to find fault with unnecessarily.
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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of June 14, 2020
Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of June 14, 2020
June 14, 2020
A flatterer never seems absurd – the flattered always take his word.
June 15, 2020
For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
June 16, 2020
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
June 17, 2020
Spare and have is better than spend and need.
June 18, 2020
Be aware of little expenses…a small leak will sink a big ship.
June 19, 2020
Idleness is the greatest prodigality.
June 20, 2020
Creditors have much better memories than debtors.
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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 14, 2020
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of June 14, 2020
June 14, 2020
“A person doesn’t plant a tree for themselves, they plant it for posterity.” – DuBois
June 15, 2020
“The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.” – Franklin
June 16, 2020
“The superior person is modest in their speech, but exceeds in their actions.” – Everett
June 17, 2020
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.” – Rangel
June 18, 2020
“A proud person counts their newspaper clippings, a humble person thier blessings.” – Baileyy
June 19, 2020
“If a person neglects education, they walk lame to the end of their life.” – Motsepe
June 20, 2020
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed person is king.” – Stefanik
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So, Let's consider: America Needs You, Harry Truman…
So, Let’s consider: America Needs You, Harry Truman…
So I’m once again reading about a weekend in Chicago and a record number of murders and high crime in that once great city and the old Chicago group song “America Needs You, Harry Truman” just pops into the mind. If you need a refresh, here’s the youtube link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6z0nz03JI).
This may open up a ton of outraged comments by some. Many who will argue how “wrong” this post is. My suggestion, save your time and effort! You’re not changing the reality of what we are living by trying to somehow justify this insanity!
Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist because we are becoming the Twilight Zone, at warp speed and it would appear with all the help of the socialist media.
We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! And, a lot more!
If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many AMERICANS are in America.
Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good…and the socialists want them now to just mail in their votes!
It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
If was cool for Obama to spend MILLION$ to interfere with Israel’s elections, but don’t let any Republicans think about it or the socialist press goes nuts.
Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote…and some would like to go even younger…probably to swing the liberal minds of kids before they get their first doses of reality and discover that “liberalism” is a fallacy when it comes to reality.
People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves. And totally forget the bigger pictures of slavery…things like the Barbary Slaves (N.Africa raiding S.Europe), Irish slaves, etc….
Men are being allowed to compete in women’s sports, just because of what they think they “identify” as?? Now, just how really fair is that and what happened to the concept of a “level playing field”??? Oh, the liberals and socialists just ignore that…not to mention the idiots in the judicial system.
Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous. Provided that it’s liberal speech.
People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. And forget about the total stupidity of degree choices of many who chose degrees that have next to no demand in the real world market, then try to blame the government for not being able to find real work… It’s called thinking and planning – but then, that’s a concept that’s being discouraged by current liberal agendas.
Immigrants with tuberculosis, polio and any other infectious disease are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. And if you come here illegally we’re supposed to pay for all your healthcare, housing, education, food, etc… Really? Ever try doing that in China? Mexico?
Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome. Not to mention harbored and protected by some mindless “sanctuary city” scheme, while they continue to murder and raise other mayhem…unchecked…
$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. Frankly people, if you don’t have secure borders, you don’t have a country! WTFU!
If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free. Not to mention all the other goodies you get… And then there’s that BS “catch and release”… Can it get any more stupid than that? Well, they’re trying every day!
People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President. Frankly, I have no issues with a female president. But please, give us a Maggy Thatcher…and not a drunk Pelosi…
We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan for us…it just amazes me how people that think they would be our leaders just refuse to learn from the mistakes of other countries! Like many leaders in the past have observed, socialism WILL fail – you eventually run out of
other people’s money to spend!
Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now. The concept of taking responsibility or just being held responsible for your actions is not being taught in what’s being pawned off as the current education system. And, if you don’t manage yourself, someone else will.
Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights. Face it, we’ve long ago become a society where the victim is the one punished. The liberal system won’t let you protect your property, you’re supposed to call the police…who arrive long after the criminal has left and the damage is done…
And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”?! And, how many really understand that “racist” started back with Trotsky in the times of the Russian revolution when he didn’t have anything concrete to blame people with? Can’t think of a concrete argument to use against anyone? Hell, call them “racist” and see what happens…
Depending on who’s statistics you want to believe, over 60,000 die every year from the common flu virus, but let a novel one come in and the world goes nuts!
And, people that have been desensitized by watching too move evening TV think that all the world’s problems can be solved in the span of 60 minutes, including 22 minutes of mind numbing ads? Really? Uh, people, when you’re hit with a totally new pathogen/disease, it can take months to years to get it all sorted out…and if you believe story lines with idiots like House solving a major crisis in one show, well, you’re just a special kind of stupid!
I think it was Franklin that once said, “If you would give up freedom for security, you deserve neither freedom nor security…”. Yet, just look what’s happened in the last couple of months! Geezuz! How much have we just given up and how fast for what?
When I look at the mortality rates of millions of people dying every year from disease and abortion and then watch the liberal media go nuts over a virus, I just don’t understand.
And to top it off, it would appear that the lives of good people murdered on an average weekend don’t seem to matter, but let a man with multiple major felony convictions get stoned off his ass, resist arrest and unfortunately die at the hands of arresting officers and the socialist media goes nuts! And he gets a funeral the likes of that for a deity! Just where are our priorities? Why don’t ALL LIVES MATTER? Whatever happened to “We hold these rights to be self evident that….” ????
Our country and it’s would be leaders have lost all civility, values, morals and dignity. Our congressional leadership would as eagerly kowtow to the latest politically correctism as they would drink a glass of scotch. Nobody has any strength of character any more…nor any backbone. Our would be
leaders are to busy fighting the “other party” to deal with the fight FOR AMERICA. This has to stop. I’m seriously concerned that if we were to get invaded as a country that some of the so called “leaders” in congress would help the invaders lead their charge!
I believe it was long ago and respected journalist, Edwin R. Murrow, that once said “News is facts minus opinion”. Given that equation, we’ve not seen any real serious “news” from contemporary news outlets for a very long time. The evening “That’s the way it is…” has been long supplanted with “That’s
the way we want it to be and the way we want you to think…”… And unfortunately too many people are buying that crap. Alas, for many, mainstream news media has well deservedly lost all credibility. It wasn’t that long ago when you heard “good night, Chet…” and you had a fairly decent comfort level that
you had just seen 30 minutes of what was really happening, not what someone was filtering and editing to make you think.
Harry, won’t you please come home?
I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 7, 2020
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of June 7, 2020
June 7, 2020
Cellfish – adj. – people who just focus on their phones while they’re hanging out with you.
June 8, 2020
Tinselry – n. – cheap and pretentious display.
June 9, 2020
Eutony – n. – the pleasantness of a word’s sound.
June 10, 2020
Pierian – adj. – of or related to poetry or poetic inspiration.
June 11, 2020
Vivacious – ajd. – attractive, enthusiastic and lively.
June 12, 2020
Insipience – n. – lack of wisdom; foolishness
June 13, 2020
Sycophant – n. a self seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
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About Me
Don Rima
Don Rima is an Information Systems consultant with over 30 years experience in Information Systems. His roles of responsibility have included programming, systems management and IT department management. He's also a technical editor and writer, does regular product reviews, is a very good cook, gardener and avid reader and writer. His sports interest include: the Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Orioles, Clemson Tigers and Chelsea Football teams. The articles on this site are written to be correct, informative, laconic, provoke progressive thought, informative and sometimes make you laugh. They're not designed to be the writing of just another politically correct drone.