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Elmer S. E. Dump

Elmer S. E. Dump's Journal
Elmer S. E. Dump's Journal
January 26, 2016

The aspirations of 18-year old Ted Cruz

In 1988, high school senior Ted Cruz reflected on his life's ambitions while attending Second Baptist School in Houston, TX. Now, he is a Republican Senator running for the office of the President of the United States of America.


January 21, 2016

Herr Trump.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

When Brenner asked Trump about how he came to possess Hitler's speeches, "Trump hesitated" and then said, "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," Brenner reportedly replied.

Trump then recalled, "Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew."


<<SNIP>>

After Trump and Brenner changed topics, Trump returned to the subject and reportedly said, "If, I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."




January 11, 2016

A few of my favorite quotes.

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

January 2, 2016

Question for the group: Has Bernie or Hillary posted their 4th Q donations?

I only heard that HRH made 112m for the year, but I'm more interested in how they did head to head in the last Q.
Anyone hear anything?

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About Elmer S. E. Dump

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
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