Cultural Offering

"The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way."

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"It's time to return to the values of conservatism, because our ideas win elections. More freedom. Fewer laws. Lower taxes. Competition in education. An economy that succeeds without our current state of permanent war. Continued border law enforcement. Stop assuming every other country is a harboring a silent majority of people yearning to live in a democratic republic like ours."

Amen.

But don't blame yourself. They are master shape-shifters without any help.

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"The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories."

Thomas Jefferson

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"Never a DJ but that was my dream job when I was a teenager. I was too practical to pursue it."

He would have made a great one.

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Hopkinson Smith for a Sunday.

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The final days of. . .

Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe. All died on July 4th.

Monroe died nearly penniless, in part, from doing the nation's work on his own dime.

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"I'm writing to you from a country that was free too, and which signed its surrender without a single shot fired."

A Letter to America:

"And here's what no one will admit to you: it never happens through revolution. No one votes for decline. We vote for compassion, for security, for justice, for the planet. At every step, we trade a piece of freedom for a promise. And the promises are always beautiful. That's the trap."

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Music for summer. Charles Ives Symphony No. 3 - The Camp Meeting.

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In the words of the inimitable @serpentinesheldonserpentine “smoke-up hippies”.

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Best photo of the evening. Happy 60th to my wonderful wife.

Real one:

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". . .Five or more cups a day linked to the greatest benefit."

I'm gonna live forever.

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Today’s background music.

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Summer. “I came. I saw. I rented,” wrote Brahms to a friend.

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Music for July. Tchaikovsky from The Seasons - July: The Song of the Reaper.

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All the weasel words you need. . .

at Nicholas Bate.

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"It was a scene that has recurred throughout history, as establishment leaders are overtaken by the very mobs they sought to use for their own purposes"

Read on.