Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share. 

- Jonathan Turley on California pushing a retroactive tax on billionaires even if they moved out of state.

- How NBA legend Michael Jordan is blowing up NACAR's monopoly. Excellent backstory to an important case.

- Wait - is this true or satire?

- Rand Paul's proposal to improve healthcare and lower costs.

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- Back to School. Good parenting and investment advice.

- From the archives: Ryan Holiday's 38 rules for reading.

- Rand Paul goes after former CDC head for lack of science when it comes to vaccines. He's not wrong.

- Jonathan Turley - Antigone 2.0: Liberals denounce and destroy memorials for Charlie Kirk. When people show you who they are - believe them!

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- It's Time to Acknowledge Reality and End the War in Ukraine. He makes a good case.

- NPR delenda est!

- A message from Senator Rand Paul

- California high speed rail delenda est!

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- Rand Paul's 2024 Festivus Report. Sure DOGE is paying attention.

- Did Biden's DoJ consult with the victims families before issuing his commutation of sentences?

- Reminder Ralph Houk was a badass. The Major passed away in 2010.

- Interesting: first demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet wires. Last minute Christmas shopping in the future may be very very different.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

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More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- We waste so much tax money. Shouldn't any waste DOGE eliminates come right out of the budget and national debt?

- Matt Stoller on Matt Gaetz as an anti-monopolist and anti-big business. Interesting reading.

- This is water by David Foster Wallace. Something that should be reviewed from time to time.

- Oprah tries to justify the $1 million fee paid by the Harris-Walz campaign. Yeah right.

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- More than half of young voters won't pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change. Not what the young care most about.

- DoJ launches investigation into UnitedHealth.

- Interesting - RFK jr. endorses Rand Paul for Republican Senate Leader.

- US Judge in Texas rules Congress passed $1.7 trillion 2022 budget unconstitutionally. Pandora's box? Exery State AG just given a green light.

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- A little LOTR humor.

- Analysis true!

- I hope this is true!

- Truth

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell

"We should never forget the Constitution wasn't written to restrain citizen's behavior, it was written to restrain the government's behavior." - Rand Paul

"If you want new ideas, read old books." - Shane Parrish

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Rand Paul is right on Ukraine. Agree with this viewpoint 100%.

- The Daily Coach on the 7 factors of top performers.

- Interesting Clemson-LSU story

- The secret purchase agreement between South Africa and Pfizer has been released. It was a made-up marketing ploy all along.

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- Interesting backstory to the Gruden vs NFL (and Goodell) lawsuit.

- How to be an animal: an antidote to our self-expatriation from nature. (HT Harvey Morrel)

- Have to admit - Rand Paul was right about Christopher Wray and the FBI

- Meet the psychedelic boom's first responders (HT Tim Ferriss) 

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- You'd think this would be something Taco Bell would offer

- Morgan Housel on a Few Ways the World Works

- The complete beginner's guide to Autonomous Agents. Long but interesting read.

- I support Rand Paul's amendment to protect firefighters.

Rand Paul vs Moderna CEO

 

Rand Paul is a hero!

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- Programming vs Demon Summoning 

- Michael Shellenberger also testified in Congress alongside Matt Taibbi. Michael deserves our thanks for his yeoman's work protecting our First Amendment rights.

- Rand Paul's criticism of Anthony Fauci was right all along. We owe Dr. Paul our thanks too.

- Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, invests $180 million on a life longevity startup. Billionaires in the past gave us universities and libraries. Today's billionaires want to give us longer and healthier lives (except Bill Gates - he wants us to eat bugs).

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- Rand Paul is a hero.

- Nuclear waste (and nuclear power) is nothing to fear. Nicely done.

-  Andrew Huberman's 10-step approach for designing a training program.

- Sorry Mike that number is already taken in Boston

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- I really hope Rand Paul nails Anthony Fauci's hide to his wall.

- Charting the rise and fall of String Theory. It was always too good to be true (and too esoteric to be disproved).

- Abraham Lincoln on living with loss.

- First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself

There're Coming for Fauci

Not just Elon Musk and Twitter going after Anthony Fauci.

Rand Paul will be going after him in the Senate, "Fauci's resignation should not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He must be required to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the Wuhan lab leak. His policies destroyed lives." 

And in Congress a bi-partisan group of lawmakers are demanding answers about taxpayer funded torturing of dogs he approved. The man tortured puppies.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Do you know who is the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world? The US Government." - Senator Rand Paul

"Courage is in far shorter supply than genius." - Peter Thiel

"Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save you less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it." - Naval Ravikant

 "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men." - Thomas Carlyle

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More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- VDH: Orwell and the Woke

- Blue Origin Under Fire. Interesting but if Blue Origin was disregarding safety wouldn't they be launching rockets more frequently instead of moving at the snails pace (compared to SpaceX) that they've been operating under? (HT Meanderthal)

- Matt Taibbi: The News is America's New Religion, and We're in a Religious War. Very true!

- I'm ready to vote for Rand Paul for President right now (or at least support the idea of making him the Surgeon General right away!)