"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins who went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were wise and five of them were foolish. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. At midnight a cry was made, Go out to meet the bridegroom. All those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps, but the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil for our lamps have gone out.
Note: Republished from September 2, 2010
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." — Thomas Paine, c. 1774
IT S NO SECRET THAT OUR PRESIDENT WANTS TO "REMAKE" AMERICA (Barack Hussein Obama). This is the final column for now in a series based on a book review of "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time" by John M. Shanahan — who also created the "Hooked on Phonics" program. I meant to mention that in the previous columns, because that alone would make Shanahan a hero in my book. If this country had taken the money it spent on Midnight Basketball and bought Hooked on Phonics tapes for public schools, we wouldn t have so much illiteracy (or illiterate athletes).
A friend of mine would like to see more of my thoughts (thanks) ,
"My dad is something else, I thought." – Claudia Williams, "Ted Williams, My Father," HarperCollins 2014
TED WILLIAMS WAS 53 when Claudia was born. She writes:
"FROM THE BEGINNING of my life, I knew Ted Williams as my father first and as a fisherman second . . I only vaguely knew he had played baseball . .
Originally published on November 30, 2015
[MANY YEARS FROM NOW, to coin a phrase, people will still be talking about these awful times – not so much awful for the weather (acts of God) but for the awful acts of men: mass shootings and children beheaded, kidnappings and sex slavery, executions and torture, and then, besides that, WAR. Now imagine you re in the year 2525 – after the "Big Gulp" and the big changes.]
Much of the "modern" Jefferson image was formed over 200 years ago by his political enemies. For example, the offspring-by-Sally Hemings rumor was started for the 1800 election campaign. Guides at Monticello still spread that old gossip. DNA never actually nailed an individual – only someone from the Jefferson family, such his brother or a nephew who had access to the slave quarters.