August 26, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time."
– Herbert Bayard Swope
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Monday, August 26, 2013
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
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August 25, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
– Leo Tolstoy
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
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August 24, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
– Henry Van Dyke
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Friday, August 23, 2013
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August 23, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
– Leon Wieseltier
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And they keep telling me this ain't so. Our Founding Fathers did not intend this when they wrote the 2nd.
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
–Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787
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August 23, 2013
THE FOUNDATION
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." --John Adams
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Putting Higher Cost in Higher Education
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It's back-to-school time and that means thinking about education policy. Student loan debt is now more than $1.2 trillion, most of which is federal loans, while job opportunities for graduates are not exactly abundant. Prospective students are therefore beginning to consider alternatives, such as online schooling. Barack Obama even highlighted this good idea in his education proposal on Thursday.
Unfortunately, the largest part of Obama's new plan to make "college more affordable, tackle rising costs, and improve value for students and their families" involves more government regulation and interference. The president proposed creating a college rating system, wherein the federal government would evaluate colleges and universities on graduation rates and affordability, as well as on leftist goals like student income-level and race quotas. The feds run a $1 trillion annual deficit and they're going to evaluate colleges on affordability?
Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation explains, "[A] monopoly government scorecard would inevitably reflect what bureaucrats -- rather than parents, students, and local policymakers -- determine is or is not important in education. For another, existing institutions that are comfortable within the cocoon of protectionist accreditation would lobby hard, and no doubt effectively, for output measures that define success in their own terms."
Naturally, the federal government would tie monetary aid to its own rating system, which would lead to (more) political favoritism and a lobbying nightmare. As for that money, Obama described higher education as "an economic imperative," while Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) added, "There is no reason why a young person should have to pay for college." Federal aid is the primary driver of skyrocketing college tuition rates as it is -- wait until it's a "right." Instead of the top-down government solution, the correct path is to gear education toward real acquisition of knowledge and skills through the free market.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Flipboard – My new way of organizing information for me
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Over the years I’ve tried several ways of organizing my information and Flipboard has given me the best way yet. And, on top of that, I can share with like minded people. Double bonus! If you click on the image to the right it will take you to my Magazine Rack.
I’ve been using Flipboard for over a year now, ever since they released the Droid App. It does a great job of connecting to most, if not all of your social networks and gives a great magazine feel to all of them. Recently, they introduced Magazines and I started curating my interests a couple of months ago via the editor. And at this point I bet you are wondering what interests me.
Read more at: http://blueskiesunlimited.blogspot.com/2013/08/flipboard-my-new-way-of-organizing.html
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August 22, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams
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Decoding the Left's 'Tolerance and Diversity' Agenda
Eroding Liberty by Undermining Faith and Family
By Mark Alexander · August 22, 2013
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" --Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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August 21, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
– Anna Quindlen
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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August 20, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
– George Sheehan
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And some people wonder why I am against the government acting outside of our laws - those laws that us common citizens defined for our government.
"A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right."
–Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
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Monday, August 19, 2013
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August 19, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
– Andy Warhol
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
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August 17, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
– Victoria Holt
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August 18, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
– Steve Jobs
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Friday, August 16, 2013
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August 16, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning."
– Gail Godwin
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
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August 15, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."
– Erich Fromm
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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August 14, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
– Anatole France
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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August 13, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
– James Bryant Conant
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"There is not in the whole science of politics a more solid or a more important maxim than this -- that of all governments, those are the best, which, by the natural effect of their constitutions, are frequently renewed or drawn back to their first principles."
--James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
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Monday, August 12, 2013
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August 12, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
– Winston Churchill
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
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August 11, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
– Warren Buffett
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Friday, August 9, 2013
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August 09, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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"It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country."
--Noah Webster, On Education of Youth in America, 1790
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
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August 08, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
– John Updike
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"To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts, in writing; To improve, by reading, his morals and faculties; To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either; To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor, and judgment; And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed."
--Thomas Jefferson, Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia, 1818
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
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Seahawks, tomorrow night, Buffalo Wild Wings in Longmont, CO. Put your #12 on!
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August 07, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
– Peter Ustinov
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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August 06, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Theodore Seuss Giesel
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Monday, August 5, 2013
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I have recently turned to FlipBoard as the way to keep all those great articles and other wonders found on the internet in a magazine form. Feel free to take a look, subscribe, comment (here of course) or completely rip apart my magazines.
https://flipboard.com/profile/kbarrows
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August 05, 2013 - Quote of the Day
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
– St. Francis de Sales
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Seems we have been adopted by a cat who's owner has moved away. She is a beautiful cat. We already have 2 cats and a dog and are not sure if we will adopt her back. What would you do?
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Friday, August 2, 2013
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My 8' x 8' gourd bed. It has really taken off this year! I think I need to make a larger trellis for this bed. And the zucchini in the bottom left was supposed to be Winter Squash. That's what I get for using seeds 1, 2 or even 3 years old. :)
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August 02, 2013 - Quote of the Day"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."– Eleanor Roosevelt
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"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened."--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representationshttp://patriotpost.us/fqd/19384
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
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August 01, 2013 - Quote of the Day"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."– Will Rogers
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"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any."--James Madison, Federalist No. 14, 1787http://patriotpost.us/fqd/19371
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