Are you ready for the country?
Because it's time to go

Willie Nelson

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” 
And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
(Luke 23:34)

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."
(unknown source)

If Trump hadn’t survived that Butler rally then America would’ve been lost, including free speech despite Musk’s best efforts.
We really don’t realize how close we came to losing everything. By less than an inch.
God saved us.
(Paul A. Szypula)