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I used to live within walking distance of a lake in a fairly large city. The lake is edged with schools, churches, parks, and a walking path. At the lake, I saw geese and ducks, and I met birds that were new to me, like banded coots. Occasionally I would see a pelican or a heron, just hanging out in the lake in my neighborhood. The lake was like a... - http://thakker.tumblr.com/post...
“No democracy has been nearer the fire and survived than was Britain in that long winter [of 1940]. And one reason for survival was that the nation did not betray the things in which it believed. After Italy entered the war, one of the few murder cases to reach the Law Lords on appeal was decided. An Italian citizen, long resident in Britain, had... - http://thakker.tumblr.com/post...
![“No democracy has been nearer the fire and survived than was Britain in that long winter [of 1940]. And one reason for survival was that the nation did not betray the things in which it believed. After Italy entered the war, one of the few murder cases to reach the Law Lords on appeal was decided. An Italian citizen, long resident in Britain, had been convicted by the lower courts of killing a British seaman in Soho. The high court reversed the verdict, set the Italian free, and in the pubs, and in Parliament, on the buses, and in newspaper offices this was regarded as the normal functioning of British justice.
At a time when German bombers were coming through in the daylight over London, when the Germans were expected on the beaches the first foggy morning, the House of Commons, which might have been destroyed with all its members by one well-placed enemy bomb, devoted two days to discussing the conditions under which enemy aliens were being held on the Isle of Man. For the House of Commons was determined that, though the Island fell, there would be nothing resembling concentration camps in Britain, and the rights under law of enemy aliens would not be abused. That is what the British collectively believed,” - Edward R. Murrow, in the foreword to the second edition of “This I Believe,” published in 1952. — AS.
(via The Atlantic)](http://3.media.tumblr.com/XHdW87hxepb0bakcLH3srkpyo1_75sq.jpg "“No democracy has been nearer the fire and survived than was Britain in that long winter [of 1940]. And one reason for survival was that the nation did not betray the things in which it believed. After Italy entered the war, one of the few murder cases to reach the Law Lords on appeal was decided. An Italian citizen, long resident in Britain, had been convicted by the lower courts of killing a British seaman in Soho. The high court reversed the verdict, set the Italian free, and in the pubs, and in Parliament, on the buses, and in newspaper offices this was regarded as the normal functioning of British justice.
At a time when German bombers were coming through in the daylight over London, when the Germans were expected on the beaches the first foggy morning, the House of Commons, which might have been destroyed with all its members by one well-placed enemy bomb, devoted two days to discussing the conditions under which enemy aliens were being held on the Isle of Man. For the House of Commons was determined that, though the Island fell, there would be nothing resembling concentration camps in Britain, and the rights under law of enemy aliens would not be abused. That is what the British collectively believed,” - Edward R. Murrow, in the foreword to the second edition of “This I Believe,” published in 1952. — AS.
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OK, let me see if I’ve got this right. Since Barack Obama has taken the presidential oath of office we have witnessed: a) Hezbollah lose a shoo-in election in Lebanon, b) Pakistan begin serious efforts to control the Taliban and al Qaeda elements inside its borders, c) Netanyahu of Israel mumble support about a two state solution and rethink... - http://thakker.tumblr.com/post...
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television. - http://thakker.tumblr.com/post...
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