Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
[We will soon see if the Senate is interested in protecting Democracy or whether party continues to be more important than country. What we saw last month was a President promote civil insurrection to destabilize the Congress while it was performing its Constitutionally mandated duty of confirming a democratically held (and fair) election, simply because he (and his insurrectionist supports) lost the election. The President did this in front of the cameras and there is no denying his culpability. He spent almost a year promoting the line that the election would be unfair and, in fact, “stolen” if he lost. He then spent two months after the election calling on his supporters to come to Washington to “protest” to Congress about them approving the legitimate results of the election. On the day (6 January 2021), he called on his followers to halt the proceedings in Congress and he promised to walk to Congress with them in protest. Of course, being a coward, he did no such thing. He retreated to the White House, where he could be protected from the immediate results of his induced riot. | |
The former President should be tried and convicted of violation of his oath of office and then the Senate should vote to remove the privileges of his former Office – primarily retirement pay and the ability to run for future public office. That is what should happen. I have very little faith it will. The simple truth is Republicans seek a return to power in an off-year (non-Presidential) election next year (November 2022), and they don’t want to jeopardize that election protecting the Constitution or the Country by punishing a faithless (IMHO a traitorous) former President. | |
We’ll see if there are any “Profiles In Courage” in the Republican Party, but my money is on this leopard not changing its spots. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Senate Perfidy |
2019 | Contributing To Congress |
Yellow Signs Of Spring | |
2018 | But Take Heart |
Poetic Marker | |
2017 | The Few, The Many, The Most |
2016 | To My Brother |
2015 | For Junior |
A Roman Rome | |
2014 | Hmmm |
2013 | What’s A Motto With You? |
2012 | Worthy Companions |
2011 | Bourne Again |
Which Ten Are You In? | |
Posts Tagged ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’
Not Here, Not Again
Posted in History, Leadership, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DefendTheConstitution, #Impeach45, #ProtectDemocracy, American Politics, Eleanor Roosevelt, History, Political Leadership, Profiles In Courage, Quotes on February 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow: Will Republicans Choose Democracy Or Tyranny?
Posted in History, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DonTheCon, American Democracy, Choices, Congress, Edmund Burke, Eleanor Roosevelt, Electoral College, Evil, Personal Responsibility, Philosophy, President, President Donald Trump, President Theodore Roosevelt, President-Elect Biden, Quotes, Teddy Roosevelt, Voter Fraud on January 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. | |
— Edmund Burke | |
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. | |
— Republican President Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt | |
[Tomorrow, Congress (both House and Senate) will meet in joint session to “officially” count votes from the electoral college and declare the winner of the 2020 Presidential election. The “winner” of the election was former Vice-President Joe Biden. The loser of the election was the current President: Donald Trump. Biden won the election by over 7 million voters nationwide and surpassed the 270 electoral college votes required to become President. The losing President (Trump) and his political party (the Republicans) are claiming there was voter fraud and election “irregularities” – but, only in the swing states where the President lost the election and only on the votes for the Presidency (not for Republicans who kept their offices while the President did not). There is NO evidence to support claims of either significant voter fraud or irregularity in ANY state. The Republicans are lying to the American public and to the voters they represent in the hopes of furthering their own political careers. The American public has voted. Trump LOST by a significant margin. It is well past time to accept reality and turn to solving the outstanding problems facing our country. Tomorrow we will see which “representatives” (Congressmen and Senators) in our government believe in “democracy” and which are willing to sacrifice our country’s principles for the sake of an incompetent businessman / politician / con-artist. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | On Killing Foreign Generals… |
2019 | Patient Understanding |
2018 | I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Form |
2017 | Fashionista |
2016 | A Faulty Model Of God |
2015 | Non Sequitur |
2014 | No Flags League |
I Ain’t Who Am | |
2013 | Spoiling For Fame? |
2012 | How Many? |
2011 | Too Tired To Chat Much |
2010 | I Must Be Crazy!! |
Waiting For 20 January 2021
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Confidence, Courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Horror, Philosophy, Quotes, Strength on November 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You MUST do the thing that you think you cannot do. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | #Corrupt45 Fails Another Great Test |
2018 | Where The Economy Is Headed Thanks To #IncompetentDonald |
2017 | Time For More Research, Too |
2016 | Original Thoughts |
2015 | If They’re Good Enough |
2014 | Three… |
2013 | Uncle Joe’s Song |
Live, Then, As If… | |
2012 | Still Trying |
2011 | Not Deserving |
Remember Your Obligation
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Individuality, Obligtions, Philosophy, Quotes, Remembering, Rights on August 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | If One Is Lucky Enough |
Basic Training (In Films) | |
2018 | Being President Doesn’t Make You Presidential |
Day 27: 4 Weeks / 55lbs | |
2017 | I’m Seeing It, Too |
2016 | Personal Decisions |
2015 | Verbal Fluency |
2014 | Familiar |
2013 | Unbending |
2012 | Simple Sayings |
2011 | Wupped Again? |
2010 | 3 and 1… |
Musical Notes… | |
Doubt Tries… | |
Northwest Passages – Evening Two | |
The Beierly’s Web Site | |
Too Frightening For Too Many
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Freedom, Fright, Growing Up, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Requirements, Responsibility on August 2, 2020| 4 Comments »
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Just One |
2018 | And Not Be Just Vain, Greedy And Dumb |
Day 6: Tickin’ Badly | |
2017 | The Soul Of Victory |
2016 | Getting Furrowed? |
2015 | Pretty Good So Far |
2014 | Still Learning? |
There Ain’t No Thing Like Me, ‘Cept Me! | |
2013 | Little Lives |
2012 | Evolution |
2011 | Excellence At Performance = 10,000 Hours |
2009 | A Brief Poem… |
Crater Lake Trip with James | |
Me Too
Posted in Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Friendship, Philosophy, Quotes on July 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | No Regrets |
2018 | In Times Of Crisis |
Genes, Desire And Luck | |
2017 | The Voice Of Experience |
2016 | Who And When |
2015 | Change Process |
2014 | What Is Still Possible |
2013 | Strength Is There |
2012 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
2011 | Celebrating Values |
2010 | Is it just me, or is it suddenly dark around here? |
Dance! | |
In Need Of Concerted Action
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Human Rights, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on April 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Anything / Everything |
2018 | Touching A Nerve |
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors | |
I Have Realities In My Past | |
2017 | Did I See You In Chapter 13? |
2016 | As I Recall |
2015 | Less And More Irritation |
2014 | That Marvelous Feeling |
2013 | Exceptional |
2012 | A Wild And Crazy Believer |
2011 | A Lack Of Scarcity |
The Joy Of Prevention | |
Always
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Life, Philosophy, Quotes on March 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | #45 Is More Of A Piddle Than A Puddle |
2018 | Found Out |
A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership | |
2017 | Still Waiting… |
2016 | Same Old, Same Old |
2015 | Shout! |
2014 | I Hear Voices |
2013 | Ethics And Standards |
2012 | Swing Higher |
2011 | Convicted For Life |
Love And Charity
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Absolutes, Charity, Eleanor Roosevelt, Good And Bad, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on February 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Tomorrow Is Valentine’s Day |
Inverted U Curve | |
2018 | Still More Prejudice |
A Well Trod Path Of Hopes, Expectations And Surprise | |
2017 | …And With It Civilization |
2016 | Just Like My Mother |
2015 | All Omissions Are Mine |
2014 | Precise Order |
2013 | Uh, No. Not Really… |
Deep Regions | |
2012 | A Pre-Valentine’s Day Message |
2011 | Easy Like Sunday Morning |
May I Have A Little More, Please… | |
2010 | Valleys and Peaks |
How #45’s Father Raised Him For Incompetence
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #45 - The Loser, #IncompetentDonald, An Easy Life, Eleanor Roosevelt, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Raising Incompetent Children on November 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Describing #45 – “The Loser” – As A Successful Businessman |
Raking – #PresidentIdiot Proposes Full Employment For California | |
2017 | Federal Deficit, National Debt And Tax Cuts For The 1% |
2016 | Picky, Picky, Picky |
2015 | Another Limitation On Religion |
2014 | Enduring |
2013 | Tell Me More… |
2012 | Passing… |
2011 | Fake It ‘Til You Make It |
Making Friends
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Quotes, tagged Caring, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Quotes on August 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Sea Worthy |
2016 | Rising Integration |
2015 | No Worries |
2014 | Devouring The Present |
2013 | But So Far… |
Twice Moved | |
2012 | Just Like Bubbles |
2011 | Caring and Driving |
Achieve Greatly | |
2010 | Unwise To Trust |
Attitude | |
If The Mind Is Not Tired | |
Irrationally Crazy | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review | |
Ahnu – Gesundheit! | |
2009 | As for me… |
Health Care Reform Now!! | |
Happy BD, Bec!
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Faith Family and Friends, Happy Birthday Rebecca, Philosophy, Quotes on September 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Hi Princess, | |
Here’s a quote for your birthday: | |
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
Happy Birthday! | |
We love you always, | |
Mum and Dad | |
XXX |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | BD Quotes |
2015 | Princess |
2014 | Optional |
2013 | Happy Birthday, Rebecca |
2012 | Be Not Old |
2012 National League Western Division Champions!!! | |
2011 | What Kind Of Work Do You Do? |
2010 | Another Loser… And Come November |
Fear Instead Of Convictions
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Memorial Day – 2017, Philosophy, Quotes on May 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
My greatest fear has always been that I would be afraid – afraid physically or mentally or morally and allow myself to be influenced by fear instead of by my honest convictions. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Memorial Day – 2016 |
2015 | A Handful Of Reviews |
And You Can Quote Me | |
2014 | Get Wisdom |
2013 | Enjoying The View? |
2012 | Adam’s Rib |
2011 | I’m Sure I Remember That… |
Memorial Day, 2011 | |
What #AmnestyDon Is Really Afraid Of
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged #AmnestyDon, Donald "The Chicken-Hawk" Trump, Eleanor Roosevelt, On Freedom, On Responsibility, Politics, Quotes on October 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | What Are You Doing? |
2014 | The Ideal Man |
2013 | Daring Ripples |
2012 | Evermore |
2011 | Unpredictable Opportunity |
2010 | Giants Fall In Game 2 (1 to 6) – Leave PA With 1-1 Split !! |
But, It’s Such A Simple Mistake
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, On Knowledge, On Life, On Wisdom, Quotes on August 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Crawl Towards The Light |
2014 | Sweet Songs |
2013 | The Wife Of An Ordinary Man |
2012 | Three Words |
2011 | Know Anyone Like This? |
2010 | Apoplexy?? |
When Breaking Up Is Hard To Do… | |
Sibling Awareness | |