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Clarence Thomas tells graduates to simply be good citizens
Washington Examiner ^ | May 16,2016 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 05/16/2016 5:25:03 AM PDT by Biggirl

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1 posted on 05/16/2016 5:25:03 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Clarence Thomas had a beautiful message for young people. One key takeaway is to cultivate your garden. High ambition to “change the world” is maybe noble, but you should focus instead on achieving something locally. Care about your neighbors and that virtue will ripple up to the nation as a whole.


2 posted on 05/16/2016 5:32:29 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: poconopundit

“Everyone wants to change the world. Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” P.J. O’Rourke


3 posted on 05/16/2016 5:37:03 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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To: Biggirl

I get the Hillsdale news letter. One of the few, if any, colleges that would invite Thomas and not burn the college to the ground in protest upon his arrival.

My daughter just graduated from college. The speaker said, “diversity”, “tolerance” and “giving back” quite a bit.

To this idiot, getting your degree wasn’t about personal success or accomplishment. It was about sharing and global obligation. Doing well financially without realizing your obligation to others wouldn’t be right.


4 posted on 05/16/2016 5:43:27 AM PDT by albie
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To: Biggirl

His is a very nice message, but we’ve got communists, socialists, Marxists,and assorted fellow travelers eating away at our nation every day. These busy beavers get paid by hundreds of “foundations” to do their evil work. Meanwhile, the good folk go to work and raise families meeting their societal obligations, all the while asking “What happened to our nation? Where did it go?”


5 posted on 05/16/2016 5:43:30 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: albie

At my son’s graduation from the University of Colorado a couple years ago, the business school commencement speaker was outstanding — a full-on cheerleading speech about the wonders of capitalism and freedom. It was wonderful.


6 posted on 05/16/2016 5:46:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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“giving back”

That phrase annoys me to no end. “Give back”? To whom? We already give back to our churches, parents, and friends.

What they mean is “give” to the losers who won’t make any effort to go through college and become contributing members of society. And that’s taken care of when we “give back” to the government — and it’s called taxes.

Anyhow, that phrase bugs the hell out of me.


7 posted on 05/16/2016 5:48:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: poconopundit

I remember hearing an interesting sermon based on John 21, where Jesus appeared to the disciples as they were fishing.

One moral of this: if in doubt GO TO WORK. It’s fine to seek the divine, etc, but unless and until you are directly instructed to to otherwise, get your butt up Monday morning and get about your business, be productive, be doing what your are supposed to be doing; if the Lord wants to get your attention to give you other instructions He is perfectly capable of doing so!


8 posted on 05/16/2016 5:57:45 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

....But the same “good folks” are NOW saying “enough” by their growing support of Donald J. Trump.


9 posted on 05/16/2016 5:59:06 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: poconopundit

“Care about your neighbors and that virtue will ripple up to the nation as a whole.”

Money quote of the day!


10 posted on 05/16/2016 6:03:08 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Biggirl

A much needed simple message to today’s graduates.

I hope it well received by other college and university graduates too.


11 posted on 05/16/2016 6:10:10 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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Great! Nice to see that message in the Bible. I like your message a lot, RedStateRocker.


12 posted on 05/16/2016 6:28:20 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Excellent. Helping Mom.


13 posted on 05/16/2016 6:30:11 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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... Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan.

A very non-description of a very iconic college. Hillsdale, which I do support with endowing a scholarship, is famous for rejecting all government aid and thus immune from government mandates! It is a liberal arts college in the classic sense of liberal as open to all viewpoints. Its Imprimis Newsletter is a free publication and I expect to read Justice Thomas' remarks in a future edition.

14 posted on 05/16/2016 6:59:42 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: albie

At little Miss Lurkin’s graduation a few years back the speaker was a foreign woman who kept telling the kids to have piss in their hats.

I found it odd. But later learned it was supposed to be peace in their hearts.


15 posted on 05/16/2016 7:05:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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a foreign woman who kept telling the kids to have piss in their hats.

If you have that, urine trouble.

But later learned it was supposed to be peace in their hearts.

The nice thing about commencement speeches is that 99% of them are eminently forgettable, and the students forget them almost instantly.

16 posted on 05/16/2016 7:15:03 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Giving back is a wonderful thing that, like every other positive and noble concept, is being co opted and run into the ground by the progressives left wing agenda.

Giving back is typically done by successful people at the end of their careers and revolves around mentoring younger people who aspire to succeed by passing down and transferring the know how and wisdom yo the next generation

The left uses the concept of “ giving back” to support their agenda and recruit talented people to support-obsession their agenda and feel good about themselves by engaging in well intentioned, politically correct but essentially irrelevant and ineffective projects that constitute noble gestures that do little to solve world problems.

Its kind of like the Russian Czar era Potemkin villages applied to charity

17 posted on 05/16/2016 7:38:31 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraere)
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The left uses the concept of “ giving back” to support their agenda and recruit talented people to support-obsession their agenda and feel good about themselves by engaging in well intentioned, politically correct but essentially irrelevant and ineffective projects that constitute noble gestures that do little to solve world problems.

They are the secular version of the "Pharisees."

18 posted on 05/16/2016 7:39:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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All that is old is new again
19 posted on 05/16/2016 7:40:47 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraere)
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To: Biggirl
>>be good citizens

On my honor, I will do my best 
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; 
To help other people at all times; 
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

 

Compass, Broken; 1 each

Once upon a time this was a useful instrument for pointing the direction a boy should go. 

Today, not so much - as the needle has fallen off and

rendered the tool into a directionally errant piece of plastic memorabilia.



20 posted on 05/16/2016 8:30:05 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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