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Saxman: Quadfecta – The Challenge of Our Time

The First Amendment, and an American population accustomed to the right to speak, is the best defense left against the Censorship-Industrial Complex. If the latter can knock over our first and most important constitutional guarantee, these groups will have no serious opponent left anywhere.

If there’s anything the Twitter Files show, it’s that we’re in danger of losing this most precious right, without which all other democratic rights are impossible.

Oddball in "Kelly's Heroes" - 9GAG [8]

Okay, Crapgame.

I will be more “righteous and hopeful” – because I usually am anyway.

*Warning* – Being “righteous and hopeful” requires much harder work than one would think.

Arthur Brooks recalling St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae [9] from 1265 on what will “enduringly bring authentic happiness.”

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I have these Four v. Four on a Post-It Note on my desk.

The Four that people chase which lead in the wrong direction:

  1. Money
  2. Power
  3. Pleasure
  4. Honor or Fame

The Four that truly bring enduring happiness:

  1. Faith
  2. Family
  3. Friendship
  4. Work that does two things – earn your success and serve others.

758 years ago and St. Thomas Aquinas cracked the code. But did we follow it?

Those Four we will need to confront the Quadfecta.

But I might add a fifth – intellectual honesty.

Easter toasts will go out to Taibbi, Jon Stewart, and Bill Maher for keeping it real.

Here’s Jon Stewart a year ago on Stephen Colbert:

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Thanks also to Bill Maher for keeping it real every week:

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Your On Hold Videos of the Day courtesy of the Allman Brothers – Duane and Greg

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General Assembly Retirement Tracker:

Retirement Tracker – years of service

Senator Dick Saslaw – 48

Senator Janet Howell – 32

Senator Tommy Norment – 32

Senator John Edwards – 28

Senator Lynwood Lewis – 20

Senator Jennifer McClellan – 18

Senator Jill Vogel – 16

Senator John Bell – 8

Delegate Ken Plum – 44

Delegate Kathy Byron – 26

Delegate Rob Bell – 22

Delegate James Edmunds – 14

Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn – 14

Delegate Margaret Ransone – 14

Delegate Roxann Robinson – 13

Delegate Glenn Davis – 10

Delegate Kathleen Murphy – 9

Delegate Mike Mullin  – 8

Delegate Jeff Bourne – 7

Delegate Dawn Adams – 6

Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler – 6

Delegate Wendy Gooditis – 6

Delegate John Avoli – 4

Delegate Tim Anderson – 2

Still to come – 9 more legislators via involuntary retirement and 78 years of service.

Total 33 legislators and 485 years of service.

Minimum.

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