The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
This Date in History:
January 1, 1863: Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
Or, as Trump supporters now refer to it, "Where it all went wrong..."
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“The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen – but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
Erwin Schrödinger
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it, and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980) —Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Spending a peaceful Sunday celebrating books and the importance of reading and writing. In this regard, I'm sharing a favourite passage from Sagan's Cosmos.
✨Books are indeed proof that humans work magic.✨
#Booksky
#WritingCommunity
#Booklovers
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
Well Said Lt. General Hertling......
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
"Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff."
-Carl Sagan
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"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-Carl Sagan
I had to watch that 5 times. I couldn't help myself.
"In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened."
-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
"I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden bench.
After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
― Carl Sagan
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"Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid."
-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small."
-Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience.
"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Thank you 🙂
"We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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As a new Democrat, I was thinking today that if I run for President in 2028, I’d tell voters that one of the 1st things I’d do as Prez will be to bulldoze Trump’s gross ballroom. A monstrosity that’ll destroy the character of the people’s house. I’d pledge to bulldoze that fucking ballroom on day 1.
