“The author argues that these early edits reveal the Founders balancing the roles of reason and faith in defining American rights. The final sentence declares that all men are created equal and possess unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Isaacson presents this sentence as one of the defining statements of the American founding.”
Televsion was new. A lot of disagreements ended in fist fights. Knives and Glocks now.
Written in 2019 :
” Wednesday night was a big night later at the Ritters. Gillette’s Cavalcade of Sports (Boxing on TV). Remember the big parrot carrying the round numbers? Walt, the old man was a big burly, funny guy. And sober he was a treat. Sober didn’t happen with a lot of mill workers, but on Wednesday night we watched the fights. Walt pulled for whoever the white guy was. For me, Kid Gavilan, Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Louis, and Rocky Marciano, were gods.
No duels, but certain words had meaning : ” Say that to my face” .
Did Obama just call Trump OUT?
Have they crated that death cage off the front lawn?
AMERICAN STRUGGLE- Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
( by Jon Meacham ) 2026.
This is great American history, quite thorough. I must say the last commentary (“THE PATH TO AMERICAN AUTHORITARIANISM: WHAT COMES AFTER DEMOCRATIC BREAKDOWN” ) BY Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way ) is quite frightening 1. In its summary of the present and 2. In its vision of the looming future.
At one point, a fighter took the mic and made a nasty joke about Michelle Obama while standing in front of the house she once lived in with her husband, daughters and mother.
Even for a president with a lifelong penchant for P.T. Barnum-esque gambits, this one was in a league of its own. (NEW YORK TIMES )
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Raylan Givens: Sometimes, we have to make deals with lowlifes because we have our sights set on life forms even somehow lower on the ladder of lowlife than they. (JUSTIFIED )
You fasten the triggers For the others to fire Then you set back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion As young people’s blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud
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Mama, put my guns in the ground I can’t shoot them anymore
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“…if God is on our side
He will stop the next war.”
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Quotes from Bob Dylan
War: “If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.” (With God on our Side) “And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.” (License to Kill) “Alright – where do you want this killing done?” (Highway 61) “Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?” (Masters of War) “Things are breaking up out there, High water everywhere!” (High Water) “Let’s disconnect the cables, over turn the tables. The place just don’t make sense to me nor more.” (Senor) “And I’ll tell it, and think it, and speak it and breath it.” (Hard Rain)
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I’m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well
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May you have a strong foundation, When the winds of changes shift
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“Bury the rag deep in your face, for now is the time for your tears.” (Hattie Carol)
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Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you Mister Jones.
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”Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.—
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“There’s a big gaping hole in my chest where my heart was, and a hole in the sky where God used to be. My American dream fell apart at the seams. You tell me what it means. You tell me what it means.” Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson
The Little Green Book of Tennis 