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Journeyman

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10. Here's some advice for you from Mark Twain. . .

Reply to NewsCenter28 (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 09:52 PM

Mar 2015

"I am an old man," Twain wrote in the twilight of his career. "I am an old man and have known many troubles, most of which never happened."

Or as the King James version of Matthew 6:34 phrases it:

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

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What's to stop the GOP from refusing to accept the electoral college results in 2016? [View all] NewsCenter28 Mar 2015 OP

This is as silly as the right-wing claims that Obama isn't leaving office in 2016. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #1

No it's not NewsCenter28 Mar 2015 #2

Oh no, a 'sanction', the horror. I wonder how that would backfire on them. PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #3

a pisswd off heavily armed populace? elehhhhna Mar 2015 #4

Bush-Rubio is unlikely, unless one of them moves. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #5

UNREC brooklynite Mar 2015 #6

Actually...it's slightly less precise than that. Only slightly. Chan790 Mar 2015 #9

oh crap this happens every 4 years .. littlewolf Mar 2015 #7

I didn't realize it was conspiricy theory Saturday Lurks Often Mar 2015 #8

Here's some advice for you from Mark Twain. . . Journeyman Mar 2015 #10

What's to stop ANYTHING from happening in Washington? virgogal Mar 2015 #11

^^ This, I think is the key. As the country heads toward probable dissolution around mid-century villager Mar 2015 #12

I hate to say it but I agree with everything you stated in your post. virgogal Mar 2015 #13