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Always an exercise in humility that leaves listeners wondering whether I really wrote any of my books
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On my way to the studio!
Tonight, Catholic author and editor-in-chief of @OrbisBooks, @RobertEllsberg joins the @BustedHalo show to talk with @FatherDaveDwyer about the path to holiness. #tunein
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A man fell off the top of a 30-story building. As he passed the 10th story he was heard to say, “So far, so good!”
All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning.
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The master held a feast to celebrate both his own birthday and the passing of the Crown Prosecutor. When no one came he told his servant to find anyone on the highway and compel them to come in. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The master, a "baby Christian," did not claim to be a perfect man, nor an avid student of the Bible. "But I try to live by the words of the Good Book: 'If anyone hits you, hit them back a thousand times harder.' And I just hope that is pleasing to God." #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In 1945, in midst of the bombing of Tokyo and Japanese cities, Sec of War Stimson persuaded Truman to remove Kyoto--seat of Japanese culture--from the targets for the A-bomb. He had read about Kyoto in a magazine and felt that would be going "too far." Nagasaki took its place.
....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
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In 1944, as German army faced Allied advances, Hitler ordered that Paris should only be abandoned as a "field of ruins." Explosive charges were installed in all the city's great monuments, but the commanding officer refused to carry out the order.
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Pentagon officials hasten to scrub “blow up the world” from the menu of possible options for securing peace. @MSNBC @NewYorkTimes11
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In Ionesco’s absurdist play “Rhinoceros” a man watches as gradually everyone in his town is transformed into a Rhinoceros. At first there are protests, but gradually everyone yields to the new reality and sees that there is, after all, nothing wrong with being a Rhinoceros.
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There was a time when certain tweets and utterances caused dismay. How unprecedented! How unpresidential! Yet gradually we watch as the GOP, govt agencies, courts, military, media, even Christianity take on the features of the Rhinoceros. Is it too late?
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For some reason current events have me remembering the old recurring SNL bit on “Toonces the Driving Cat,” that always ended with the cat driving off a cliff and his owners saying “What made us think that Toonces could drive?”
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“War is sweet to those who have not tried it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”—Pindar
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“Go and search diligently for the child. When you have found him, bring me word, that I too may go and do him homage.” (Matthew 2:8)
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Takeaway from the Feast of the Epiphany: If, after following a star that leads you to the Prince of Peace in the exact last place you would expect, present your gifts and go on to be witnesses to Peace— but above all things, DON’T TELL HEROD.
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Before presidents set down their big thoughts in tweets.
Crazy stuff presidents say: 4/25/72 tape of Oval Office conversation between Nixon and Kissinger.
NIXON: I still think we ought to take the dikes out now, will that drown people?
HK: About 200K people.
NIXON: No, no, no...I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that Henry?
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