An Epicurean Epigram
When you are young, think about the good times that lie ahead. Do not fear the future. We can control some things, but we cannot control everything. Try not to fret about things you cannot control.
Archive of entries posted by Robert Hanrott
Attack on Christians, again!
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who introduced Jack Abramoff to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, warns a “propaganda blitzkrieg that is eerily reminiscent of how effectively the Goebbels propaganda machine softened up the German people for what was to come”. He talks of a “persecuted majority” (!). Whereupon he launches a propaganda blitzkrieg that is eerily …
An attack on religion?
No less than three of our personal friends have told us that religion is under sustained attack by atheists and liberals, presumably because the rational among us have been fighting back against the intrusion of religion into politics and many other aspects of life in the United States. As a case in point the following …
Most people don’t want empires
An opinion poll taken in 1947, just before India and Pakistan became independent, found that three quarters of the British public did not know the difference between a dominion and a colony, and half could not name a single possession. One man even nominated Lincolnshire as a possible colony……….This public indifference to the intricacies of …
On a lighter note……
“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and to be merry: for that should abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun”. Ecclesiastes Chapter 8, verse 15