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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. — Theodore Roosevelt
This article Update: Partisan Gaps Expand Most on Government Power, Climate is about the political divide that has widened during the past 20 years. A very interesting article that describes one of the markers pointing to the disintegration of the United States Empire. Well worth a read.
A meme laugh for today.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Sir Douglas Bader and I couldn’t let it pass without this story about the RAF hero. He was giving a talk at an upmarket girls school about his time as a pilot in the Second World War.
“So there were two of the f***ers behind me, three f***ers to my right, another f***er on the left; he told the audience.”
The headmistress interjected: “Ladies, the Fokker was a German aircraft.”
Sir Douglas replied: “That may be, madam, but these f***ers were in Messerschmitts.”
Another one – it is twofer day.
The biggest joke on mankind is that computers have started asking humans to prove that they are not robots.