Way back in 1974, when I was just twenty-two years old, my wife and I became Assistant Managers for a fairly large apartment complex in Austin, Texas. My wife’s job was to show apartments while my job was to clean and maintain the pool, maintain the lawn and landscaping and do other maintenance as required.…
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One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where just a few months earlier American soldiers had fought one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The battlefield was being dedicated as a cemetery for the soldiers who had died there and Lincoln had been asked to…
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Today is two weeks after the 2020 election polls closed and we are still waiting with baited breath to find out the results of the presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. According to the mainstream media, Joe Biden is the winner and is being referred to as the President-Elect by them, but as…
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet entitled Common Sense in which he demanded freedom from Britain. His writings electrified the American colonies and prodded other colonists to support Americas fight for freedom, and ultimately spurred passage of the Declaration of Independence. Later that same year, in December, while serving as a soldier in…
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I don’t know how many of you have ever read George Orwell’s masterpiece “1984”, but it if you haven’t, it is well worth the time and effort, and will open your eyes to what is going on in America today. Orwell selected the year “1984” by reversing the last two numbers of the year in…
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I received the following in an e-mail this morning and thought it was worth sharing. It says a lot about what is going on in America today. GASLIGHTING The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released…
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Today is Friday the 13th. For most of us, it is an event that happens once or twice a year and is heralded as a harbinger of bad luck, much the same as a black cat crossing your path, walking under a ladder, or breaking a mirror is supposed to bring bad luck. Whatever your beliefs,…
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Unless your name is Rip Van Winkle and you just woke up from a 20-year nap, or you’ve been in a coma for the past 20 years, you are probably aware of the systemic problem our voting system has with election fraud. Since the 2020 election, election fraud has reared its ugly head in every…
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Today, November 11, is Veterans Day, a day on which we Americans honor our military veterans from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces for their service to our country. It is a day to honor those men and women who died in the service of their country and to pay tribute to all living…
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The first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence is not only one of the most well know statements ever written it is also one of the most profound and important concepts ever postulated by mankind: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are…
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