MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The entire GOP being a vapid, seducible, corrupt, callous, greedy bunch of unfaithful morons is what greased the wheels. The other side being differently sold and bought is a different flavor of crap sandwich.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> In Esquire Yoffe wrote that “… genius and gentility don’t always share the same chromosome.” That writer is ignorant of the truth. The truth is that very few people want to take responsibility for their ideals, attitudes, and behaviors
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The measure of a person is not what they've done in their past, but how, why, and what they're going about doing lately. A person can be measured by their ideals, attitudes, and behaviors. So, yeah, the unrepentant don't dese
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Schekman, who calls Mullis’s Nobel a “complete fluke,” compares him to the man in the White House. “He’s the molecular biology equivalent of Donald Trump in terms of his personal behavior,” he says. Priceless. The key to that ahole&#x2
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
What has been kept in the shadows will be brought into the light. Vampires fear the light of truth for good and proper reasons.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Not all heros wear capes. I love those guys. "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" --RATM That is, IMO, the most important album of the 20th Century.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
FLICK is my ever-childish font-dependent fav.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It is literally the filling of the soul's heart with God's holy light (Nur), attached magnetically to the Word of Faith in its center. The lights come with our every repetition of whichever Holy Name we repeat (in whichever langua
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Only after one completes the enlightenment of the soul's heart, thereby being granted a glimpse of our Creator's "Face" and becoming as the 5th Beatitude states: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall se
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> In my view, our purest purpose is to be happy and help others achieve happiness. Good things drive that. There is nothing in life and/or religion that is above that purpose. It IS the purpose, the ONLY purpose, or the person c
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The only way to actually become good is to ask the universe (and its Creator) to help us become better, in stages. It leaves us alone until we do that, no matter how good or ill we choose to be. To actually change into a better person, whos
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, they make public statements demonstrating their "quality", no?
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, I guess my message has permeated the commentariat. Nothing makes the stupid angrier than someone explaining stupidity. "Ooooohhh!" --Yosemite Sam
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You feed it every day, don't you? ;-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
When someone's head is up their a_s, one shouldn't listen to their opinion of how the world smells. And believe me when I say that Vivek and ElMusk are out of their frickin minds. Of course, that isn't putting a dent in their
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
To sing well, one must first know when they're not singing well, so "singing every day" is not the key, singing better over time is the key, or the practice is not worth anything, except, perhaps, for volume :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Superlative achievement in anything -- engineering, art, sport, and even living a joyous life -- all require one most important pair of characteristics: humble seeking of excellence via hard graft. We first need to set high standards for
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Rock on, my brother! I really like your github page blurb; good luck to you, my friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I like what Bob Newhart said about country music, and thank you very little for the new word :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, I'm not gonna just stand there! Besides, I only have to outrun you.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That, and running away from lions and hyenas and those worst killers of Africa: the hippopotamuses. Speaking of butts, as avid watchers of nature documentaries, the all-time funniest thing we saw in one was a hippo standing with its rear to
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
which help us run on top of the dinosaur bones that are so old they have petrified over the millions upon millions of years they have lain there. It's a mystery! ;-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Nice article, but let's not just skid past the subtle nominative determinism of the first peer commenter, evolutionary biologist and animal behaviorist, Mallory Wiper, who just had to take a swipe at the first comment. Of course, she m
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I love those guys. These are the types of people who should be leading the world, for science is the best way to organize our enormous world technological society, especially when one has an open-minded, gentle heart, as these two utterly b
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> But I also take umbrage with the Linux community's idea that you are personally supposed to endure suffering to build character or for the greater good. I gladly take the pain of freedom in lieu of suffering under penny-squeezers.
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I use black electrical tape for those ever-more-common nuisances.
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> We've made our choice about what we think is a fruitful way to describe the results Some people describe the lies liars construct as "alternative facts", while others call them "their opinions". I prefer to cal
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Yeah, well, Zeppelin were exceptional in perhaps all ways. Robert Plant was an unknown just singing around with perhaps the greatest fricking drummer of all-time (at least legendary, for sure). And Plant is also just incredible. John Paul
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A person/group has their entire life to make their first album, but usually only a year or two to make their next one. Being able to conjure creativity on-demand and/or under deadline -- self-imposed or not -- seems to be the exce
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
My life is not fiction, but one of us is playing the fool. I've got great respect for both Larry David's work and life. "I could give a fuck." --Larry David in answer to the question as to whether republicans will stop

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