Roses

When pink and red entwine, their dreams to share
and climb as one, combining strength and grace,
then will the scents of roses fill the air.

The pink, its petals soft, its scent a rare
and gentle one, will take its rightful place
when pink and red entwine, their dreams to share.

No longer will the wind easily pare
the strengthened petals from the coral face;
then will the scents of roses fill the air.

The red, upon a stem that’s long and fair,
will learn humility and grow in grace
when red and pink entwine, their dreams to share.

No longer will pride outweigh the care
that ‘neath the sun, all have an equal place;
then will the scents of roses fill the air,

and each of them, with petals strong and fair,
will give and take with ease and grow in pace
when red and pink entwine, their dreams to share,
Then will the scents of roses fill the air.

Harvey Stanbrough

Venezuelan Bolivar: Toilet Paper or Money

Another triumph of socialism

J.D. Tuccille

" . . . brilliant testimony to the innovative power of the government's socialist policies: faced with a

crushing shortage of toilet paper, the Bolivarian regime has converted its own currency into butt-wipe."

Bertrand Russell quotes

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."




"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."




"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Bertrand Russell

Old Testament

Stamp me in your heart, 
Upon your limbs, 
Sear my emblem deep 
Into your skin.
For love is strong as death, 
Harsh as the grave. 
Its tongues are flames, a fierce 
And holy blaze.
Endless seas and floods, 
Torrents and rivers 
Never put out love's 
Infinite fires.

Clinton Foundation or funding the Clintons ?

The Better Business Bureau in 2013 said it failed to meet minimum standards of accountability and transparency. Mr. Schweizer notes that “at least four Clinton Foundation trustees have either been charged or convicted of financial crimes including bribery and fraud.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-clintons-get-away-with-it-1431035304

“You don’t really mean that, right?" Judge to lawyer representing IRS

It isn’t every day that judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declare themselves “shocked.” But that happened on Monday when an animated three-judge panel eviscerated the IRS and Justice Department during oral argument in a case alleging the agency delayed the tax-exempt application of a pro-Israel group due to its policy views.

In December 2009, Pennsylvania-based Z Street applied for 501(c)(3) status to pursue its pro-Israel educational mission. In July 2010, when the group called to check on what was taking so long, an IRS agent said that auditors had been instructed to give special attention to groups connected with Israel, and that they had sent some of those applications to a special IRS unit for additional review.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-irs-goes-to-court-1430953480

Mistakes were made, but not by me

Of Course Democrats Deserve the Blame for What's Happening in Baltimore It's been a one-party city for at least half a century but Obama still managed to blame Republicans David Harsanyi | May 1, 2015

“Nothing is so tenacious of life as a bad poet.”

--- Swinburne 

high time to get to sea

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.” 
― Lewis Carroll