Tag: humility

A Curious Incuriosity 2

July 26, 2022July 19, 2022

by NITZAKHON

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Rudyard Kipling Before I … Read more

Sununu’s Latest Circuit Court Pick is Not All That Interested in Government Transparency

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

by Skip

A Democrat from Bedford, Shaughnessy, is being boosted by NH Governor Chris Sununu for the Circuit Court. Who knows what the heck is going on in Baby Huey’s head.

God creating Adam Sistine Chapel Fine Art America

Notable Quote – No, we’re “not all that” as some think they are

September 24, 2021

by Skip

“So the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent and omniscient, is the same as the lesson of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom we must bow down.”

Galileo in contemplation Unsplash photo-1593240637899-5fc06c754c2b

The Left Has No Humility

September 10, 2021

by Skip

“Our default assumption should instead be that people who make choices different from what we make or would have made must have their reasons, even if we do not know what they are.” …

A Curious Incuriosity

March 14, 2023August 29, 2021

by NITZAKHON

I’ve discussed the impenetrability of most on the Left to new information on my old blog in a series coining (I think) the term Teflon Intellects. Alas, that blog is gone for reasons not to be discussed here.

Statists Really Do Believe That They Are the Golden Ones From Whom All Blessings Flow

March 8, 2021

by Skip

Statists really do believe that they are the Golden Ones from whom all blessings flow (wonder how many will get THAT reference!). Bernie, AOC, and the other ~~Democrat~~ Socialists who believe that Govt does have such powers just can’t conceive of the terror that Reagan brought up with those words.

Sununu - don't need no stinkin constitution

Notable Quote – Calling Gov. Sununu! Calling Gov. Sununu

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

by Skip

Humility not required, it seems: … I have never met an advocate of government intervention who did not admit, inadvertently, his own capacity for commissariat functions. He always has a plan, to which others must submit, and his certainty that the plan will produce the contemplated results does not permit him to brook criticism. Always … Read more

Not so fast….

September 26, 2018June 22, 2010

I received an email yesterday from the Republican Party of New Hampshire. I am registered Republican, and have subscribed to the NH GOP’s mailing list.

The opening paragraph goes like this:

"Our Republican leadership team did a great job in setting the table for the November Elections. We recruited more candidates for state office than the opposition party for the first time in 4 years, and our candidates are really good candidates!"

While it is true that more Republican candidates filed than Democrats (and that we have "really good" candidates), I feel a little unsettled by the notion that the GOP seems to be taking much of the "recruiting" credit.

From my vantage point, it looks like the majority of candidates filed on their own accord, not because of any GOP recruiting. In fact, I would say that a large number of the "first time" candidates are part of, or are very sympathetic with the 912, Tea Party, Libertarian, or Free State mindsets. They have simply had enough, deciding on their own, or at the request of friends, to be part of the correction.

I think it would benefit the established GOP to show a bit more humility towards this phenomenon, else feel a potential backlash of a significant part of their “membership”.

I would have started off the email with…