I have never, in all my life, had such a presentiment of fear, not just for the US, but the entire world! God help us all, we truly need it with such negative forces in powerful places. This country, once respected, has become a joke of the world, and that is the least of our problems.
In 1966 Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel said of the Conservative movement, "A fanatical neo-fascist political cult in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear, who are recklessly determined to either control our party, or destroy it."
"To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.” ~ Confucius
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundance of the poor. ~Voltair
I often hug my beloved tree, Metasequoia glyptostroboides...or as my friend TidalCindy calls it, deutscher Name, Chinesisches Rotholz. alternative Bezeichnungen, Urweltmammutbaum. Familie, Zypressengewächse (Cupressaceae). Gattung, Metasequoia.
I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God. ~Tao Te Ching, as translated by J. Legge