I’ve been a serious reader, mostly nonfiction, all my life, but I never saw this adage before. I like it, and thanks for passing it along.
I just searched on the phrase and discovered that it's a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fancy that!
Posted on 02/10/2017 5:22:10 PM PST by HarleyLady27
There’s an old adage that says, ‘If you’re going to shoot at the King, you’d better not miss.’
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I’ve been a serious reader, mostly nonfiction, all my life, but I never saw this adage before. I like it, and thanks for passing it along. In fact, if you don’t mind I think I’ll use for my tag line.
"If you strike at the king, you must kill him."
It’s from Nicolo Macchiavelli.
“If you strike at the king, you must kill him.”
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Thanks for letting me know that. I read ‘The Prince’ and some other works by Nicolo while in college, but that was 55 years ago, and nowadays I’m lucky if I can remember my way to the bathroom!
Well said! And then... The media will finally pay attention when they can say “Trump ignores courts request”. But the damage has been done and there is no way to get the toothpaste back in the tube.
I wonder how much this has to do re our new AG, Jeff Sessions. The 9 th Circus court does not want AG Sessions investigating their criminal behavior the past 4-5 decades.
The following is probably another example of the impact and fear Sessions will bring to the liberals in and out of DC.
Amazon, the internet retail giant, disclosed in a filing Thursday that it “processed and delivered” a variety of consumer products to unidentified groups and individuals outside Iran but controlled or owned by the Iranian government, a Bloomberg report said.
Amazon said the goods sold included a range of products, from pet food to software. Amazon, in a regulatory filing, warned that review could result in “penalties,” the report said.
The company reportedly said the orders took place for about four years and may have violated U.S. sanctions. The company reportedly alerted the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security about the dealings, and is cooperating with the review.
Bezos may be learning to tend to business instead of try to $crew President Trump and his customers.
Bezos should sell his ownership in the Compost, and get back to doing the right things with Amazon!
“Some first year law students should be available.”
No Ivy league, Georgetown,Cal Bezerkely or Stanford law students, please.
I looked up the Ninth District Court records, they are way, way behind...why did this go front and center so fast???
I think this was a Sessions Trump duo from the beginning and now the ninth circus is trying to cover their butts, to late for that now...lol...
Good hearing from you, missed you the last couple of days!!!
^5
I have been here.
We finally got some days without rain, so my wife and I went out shopping yesterday to help the new Trump economy.
Today will be a lot of walking, outside honey do this, and my own Rube Goldberg list of what to do outside.
Oh good...I love good weather, we haven’t had any for a while, but looks like the ‘inversion’ in this valley is gone for a while...
‘Honey Do’s’ are the best days...;0)
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I’ve been a serious reader, mostly nonfiction, all my life, but I never saw this adage before. I like it, and thanks for passing it along.
I just searched on the phrase and discovered that it's a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fancy that!
A full panel was a given as the last step before SCOTUS, but that they should make it on their own motion is comical. Stop us before we rule again. Please.
Our fathers warned of judicial tyranny, which we have been living under. For example, a federal judge recently ordered this to a civil litigant:
“You are a fool, a fool, a fool, a fool to screw with a federal judge, and if you don’t understand that, I can make you understand it … I have the full force of the Navy, Army, Marines and Navy behind me. . . My orders are enforceable by large fines, imprisonment, and death”
The problem is that they have no plan for the campaign actually being fought. The Republicans have been fighting and slowly inch by inch losing the battle of the Potomac in a battle of attrition, where the Democrats grow stronger with every administrative bureaucrat added to the payroll, every international crony capitalist appeased, and every ne'er do well, added to the welfare roles, legally here or not.
But Trump disengaged marched rapidly around their weak right flank (secured by some fat old drunken RINOs) and has a clear field for hundreds of miles.
We know where he is going, but they don't and they don't know how to fight when he gets there. So all they can do is scream, come back and fight like a pu$$y like all of the other Republicans.
They only have desperation - no strategy at all.
Under budget...ahead of schedule...and unpredictable.
I love that!!!
So a Ninth Circuit Court Judge walks into a bar and the Bartender says.........
Trump playing chess again while the Left is playing checkers tiddlywinks Russian roulette.
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