A lifetime of.........................

 

.........................................Kobayashi Maru:

a condition..................

 

Smith then inquired into wealth’s causes. He didn’t inquire into the causes of poverty. Smith understood that that poverty is humanity’s default mode. Nearly all people before Smith’s time — and still most people during his time — were mired in poverty. Poverty is simply the condition we suffer when wealth isn’t created. Wealth, not poverty, demands explanation because wealth, not poverty, has causes.

- Don Boudreaux, from here

How is this even possible..................?

 

....................Roger Daltry turns 82.

Happy Birthday Sweetie................

Paul McCartney and friends.............Birthday

 

February 12, 1809.....................

  

..............Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. Nor should this lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor — property is desirable — is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Happy Birthday Sweetie...........................

Paul McCartney............................Birthday

 

the "great becoming"..................

 

After wrestling with Crawford's distinction between autonomy and true individuality, Rob Firchau adds to the mix with this quote from Frank Loyd Wright:

Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred.  Freedom is from within.

-full quote here

Happy birthday Kate...............

 

On the importance........................

 

................................................of example.

Happy Birthday...........................

.................................wishes to William Shatner. 

 This classic clip, featuring some interesting role reversals, is worth 3:42 minutes of your time.

 

thanks Chris

Gone, but not forgotten........................

............................. Diana Rigg, born this day in 1938.

Happy Birthday Sweetie................................

Sir Paul delivering the Beatles "Birthday" Song

 

Samuel Johnson.............................

..........................................Born this day in 1709.

 Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

-More smart stuff here

Not sure how I missed...............................

............................. H. L. Mencken's 140th birthday.

11. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Happy Birthday, Al....................

 "Yeah Einstein was pretty smart in high school but you should have seen this other guy!"

-as cut-and-pasted from here

but not too much.....................

Rightfully...............................

.....................................................recognizing Richard Feynman.

"The man happy in his work is not the narrow specialist, nor the well-rounded man, but the man who is doing what he loves to do.  You must fall in love with some activity."

-Richard Feynman

Except ...........................

..........................without a constitutional amendment that is:

“The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” 

-Albert Gallatin

Hey Sweetie.................................

Problem solving....................