tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20534413307511777812012-01-25T08:02:04.642-08:00DailyKenn.comnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2053441330751177781.post-46430970385988125542009-06-28T16:44:00.001-07:002010-08-19T20:41:00.599-07:00After a thousand years of wars, England and Scotland remained divided.<br />After a few years of free trade, the nations were united as Great Britain.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Republic: Government representing the people.<br />Bureaucracy: People representing the government.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Too often our moral compasses point to ourselves.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Video cameras make excellent Big Foot repellent. They also chase away ghosts, demons and reduce UFOs to fuzzy little blimps.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I've never been betrayed by a friend. I've only been betrayed by those believed to be friends.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Beware of the friend who "sticketh closer than a brother." He may have his hand in your pocket. <em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If you hate black-on-white racism as much as white-on-black racism you will be labeled a "white supremacist." <em>— Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Compare it to a toothache. We feel the pain and complain about it, but never stop to consider the 99.99 percent of our body that DOESN'T hurt. When someone hurts us we take note of the pain and complain, never minding the 99.99 percent of friends who are faithful and loyal.<br />—<em> Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Do you believe that because you are a libertarian?<br /><br />Or are you a libertarian because you believe that?<br /><br />[Exchange "libertarian" with whatever label you wear on your lapel.]<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Behavior betrays belief.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Behavior betrays belief.<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Socialist sing-along: "This land is your land; this land is my land . . ."<br /><br />Capitalist sing-along: "That land is your land; this land is my land . . . "<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When church tells state what it can and cannot say, that violates separation of church and state.<br /><br />When state tells church what it can and cannot say, that violates separation of church and state. <em></em><br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To understand the evil of slavery, imagine yourself the slave.<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Phony religion is like counterfeit money: It's fake even if you believe it's real.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />History has a way of depleting itself. [Regarding revisionism.]<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Talking loudly doesn't allow one to dismiss truth. Rather, it causes one to miss truth.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Government controlled health care is not about health care. It's about government control.<br />— <em>Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Religion retrofits reality<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Was America founded as a Christian nation? That's debatable<br />Was America Christian as it was founded? That's undeniable.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />KENN'S LAW of compounded gov't tweaking -- An often over-looked natural law of physics as applied to government policy states: "Each tweak made by the federal government to improve, alter or other change a given policy of necessity results in compounded flaws as the tweaks, themselves, are inherently rife with errancy and, therefore, in turn require manifold tweaking."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The only thing worse than losing is winning by default.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Test before you invest.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Democrat tax plan: Rob Peter to pay Paul.<br />Republican tax plan: Rob Paul to pay Peter.<br />Libertarian tax plan: No more robbing and paying.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Under Obama-care we won't have to look after our elderly parents. They'll be dead.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />After 50 years living at the North Pole, it finally occurred to me why I never saw Santa Claus: He doesn't exist.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Presidents preside. Dictators dictate. Seems to me we have a dictator in the White House.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />A Christian living in the power of the Holy Spirit is like a circus dog walking on its hind legs. It's only for show. And once the show is over, the pretence of the performance comes to an end.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Nothing turns a Christian's angelic glow into a demonic disposition than hearing and believing gossip.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We Shall Overcome was the anthem of MLK's civil rights movement. Few black kids have overcome peer pressure that forces them to failure. Too few blacks have overcome ebonics or ebonomics. Few have overcome their support for the Democratic Party. Too few have overcome anti-white hatred.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I don't know what's worse: The ruckus my grandkids make when they storm into the house, or the quiet after they leave.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />A liberal calling himself a progressive is like a stick in the mud calling itself a jet airplane.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The only way to limit the extent of government corruption is to limit the extent of government.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We empower government to tell us what we must not put in our bodies, then wonder why the government is empowered to tell us what we must put in our bodies. To empower government to tell me I must not inhale nicotine is to empower government to tell me I must have a flu shot — or a Verichip — injection.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Capitalism: Some people get one hundred dollars; some people get one dollar. Socialism: Everyone gets a penny.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Western multiculturalists opening their borders to Muslims is like the Three Pigs opening the door to the wolf. In the end there will be no diversity; no multiculturalism — only wolves.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Life observation: What appears unsociable may be social-unable.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The most effective means to achieve genuine justice and equality is through individual rights — not group rights.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Every economy is production based. That's the supply of supply-side economics.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is racist to declare that only white people can be racists.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If the federal government doesn't mind imposing its will on foreign governments, we should not be surprised that it imposes its will on American states.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Innovation trumps education. Our nation sparked the world's industrial and technology revolutions — not because Americans were educated — but because they were free.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Unnecessary laws make criminals necessary .<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Life observation: If you're not one of the guys; you're one of the bad guys.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There is no quality in socialism's equality.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Barack Obama is a believer in his own cult. He is a disciple, minister and evangelist for socialism.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Universal free trade will lead to global prosperity, but not parity. Universal socialism will lead to global parity, but not prosperity.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />All food is processed food. Harvesting is a process. Peeling apples is a process. Pickling cucumbers is a process. Baking a cake is process.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We tinker with sugarcane, wheat, cocoa, butter and cow's milk; synthesize them in a mixing bowl to create a made-made synthetic product unknown in nature: Chocolate cake.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It's a one way street: Objectivity may steer us toward critical analysis, but crticical analysis will seldom lead us to objectivity.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What foxholes are to atheists, sinking ships are to feminists.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I find there are two kinds of women in the workplace: Those with intelligence and those with glass ceilings.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Do we believe what we see? Or see what we believe?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Difference between God and government:<br />God helps those who help themselves. Government helps those who won't help themselves.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Cultural classes have always been a root of cultural clashes.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Critical people are like those who sing off key: They display no talent, but attract a lot of attention.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Negative criticism is like picking a pimple on a pretty face: It only makes matters worse.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If parents raised their kids the way government schools raise their kids . . . they'd lose their kids. And visitation rights.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We tend to like people who are like us and dislike people who are dislike us.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Hate hate.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />One hundred years from today, who will historians say did the most damage to America? Osama bin Ladin or Barack Obama?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Real racism is evil: Competence, not color, should be the criteria.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If most blacks were conservatives and whites leftists, the socialists would all be wearing white, pointy hats.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Affirmative action has nothing to do with racial equality. It's a means to an end — and the end it means is socialism.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Social justice" is a palatable term for "socialism."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I fear the day when liberals honestly say, "I love America." That will be day when only the memory of our nation will be lovely.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The question is not, "Is it a bull or bear market?" The question is, "are you long or short."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Every market is a bull market, depending on whether you are long or short.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Reason often conflicts with reality. Therefore, I don't care to be reasonable. I prefer to be realitistic.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Unfortunately the liberals have confused the American psyche. Most believe that black racism is social justice and that real social justice is white racism.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I'd rather vote for the best of three candidates than the lesser of two evils.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The difference between liberals and conservatives can be summed up thusly: Conservatives believe we should all be equal at the starting line. Liberals believe we should all be equal at the finish line.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Prohibition begets proliferation.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When a drug dealer has a dispute with a competitor, he doesn't file a lawsuit, he fires a hand gun.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />How to drive liberals crazy: Ask if they know the carbon footprint of illegal "immigration."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Is is. <em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is not wrong to defend the right to be wrong.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The right to say it doesn't make it right to say it.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Libertarians are different from libertines.<br />Libertarians believe you have a right to be stupid.<br />Libertines believe you should actually be stupid.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I'm 1/16 Native American. If Native Americans are paid reparations, will I put in a dollar and get back 6.25 cents?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen </em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Government is no longer for the people because government is no longer by the people.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Liberal Democrats will continue wasting taxpayers' money as long as taxpayers continue wasting votes on Liberal Democrats.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There are three legitimate entitlements: The right to life, the right to liberty and the right to pursue happiness.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Six million Jews minus six million guns equal one Hitler.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When liberty is exchanged for security both are lost.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Liberty is the right to be stupid, the privilege to be responsible and the freedom to make the choice.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If it’s an inalienable right, why do you need a license?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We already have a Patriot Act. It’s called The Bill of Rights.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Cuba has a one-man, one-vote democracy. Fidel Castro is the one man who gets the one vote.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Oddly, some appeal to government for moral solutions. It will never happen. A turn to the left won't take you to the right.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Government may be called upon to be a referee. It must never be the coach. It must never be a player.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Blacks would be offended — and rightly so — if the term "ebonomics" were used in place of "welfare". Blacks should also be offended that "ebonics" is used in place of bad English.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The graft, vice, murder, etc. that accompanied the sale of alcohol ended — not by giving government more authority — but by giving Americans more liberty. [In response to the sneak-a-peek provision of the Patriot Act.]<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I avoid perennial arguments of flat tax vs graduated tax and property tax vs sales tax. The critical issue is not how we are taxed but how much we are taxed.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen</em><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Why do they call them "controlled substances?"When a substance is outlawed, it's placed outside the law where it cannot be regulated; it cannot be controlled. Alcohol is a controlled substance. Aspirin is a controlled substance. Atenol is a controlled substance. So I offer a new term to the American lexicon to describe outlawed narcotics: Uncontrolled substances.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Caught red-handed." Has it occurred to anyone that that phrase is patently racist? It implies that red-skinned people are thieves. [There are alternative explanations.]<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Welfare has become a career option rather than a last resort and an ensnaring web rather than a safety net.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To regain the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we must be willing to fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Limited regulation breeds respect for the law. Excessive regulation breeds contempt.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The problem with the Republican Party is that it keeps splitting the Libertarian Party vote.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Democrats believe more money will solves problems. Many Republicans believe more regulstion will solve problems. I believe Democrats and Republicans waste money creating laws and create laws to waste money. And that’s the problem.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The difference between most Republicans and Democrats can be summarized in three words: Dumb and dumber.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Al Capone was notorious for manipulating people by giving them stolen money. Liberal Democrats are notorious for manipulating people by giving them “entitlements”. Both are thieves. Would it not have been better if they simply hadn’t stolen the money?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Good government reflects god," her e-mail said. "Be mindful to captitalize the 'g' when referring to our national diety," I replied. "It should 'Government,' not 'government.'"<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The price of liberty is the absence of security and the price of security is the absence of liberty. For where there is security, liberty is wanting. Where there is liberty, security is wanting.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When by virtue of its character society forbids itself from doing harm to others, the laws prohibiting that harm are rendered useless. It is character, then, that is the foundation of liberty.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The waitress asked, "Would like decaf or regular coffee?" I replied, "I'd like a diet Coke." She smiled. "You didn't answer my question." In debate, an accurate answer may require not answering the actual question.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />They say the cure for cancer will be found in a rain forest. And I believe them. First, they'll bulldoze the forest. Then they’ll build a research center. And there the cure for cancer will be discovered.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Most are familiar with the phrase from the Declaration of Independence that reads, "that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." But few are familiar with the phrase that follows: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted..." Government exists to secure our rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing more; nothing less!<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Failure in government schools is perennially epidemic. But it will never be blamed on academia's people, policies or procedures. Rather, they will say, "If only we had more money..."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What communism promised, capitalism delivered.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Ultimately, every economy is labor based. When no one works, nothing is produced. When nothing is produced, nothing can be bought or sold.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What good is universal health care insurance if there is no universal health care?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />In Canada, the availability of health care is decreased in direct proportion to the increase in free health care insurance. Ultimately, the Canadians will become like the Cubans. In Cuba everyone has free health care insurance but no one has health care.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Welfare does not stagnate an otherwise healthy economy; it reverses it.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To empower government to take away one's beer can is to empower government to take away one's Bible. And to empower government to take away one's Bible is to empower government to take away one's beer can.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Has it never occurred to the advocates of zero population growth that the industrial, information and technology explosions coincided with the population explosion?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is a futile act for the government to move people from the slums to housing projects. They simply turn the housing projects into slums. Why? Because there is no change in their personal character. For this same reason it is a futile act for the government to move drug abusers from their lairs to the prisons. They simply turn the prisons into drug houses.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Are you a tax protestor?<br /><br />If the government were to take 35 percent of your income, would your protest?<br />What about 70 percent of your income?<br />90 percent?<br />100 percent?<br />Ultimately, everyone is a tax protestor.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />For trade to be free, trade must be fair.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Slaves are those who work for another against their will. When I hire workers for $10 per hour, I am forced to send $3.50 of their pay to their slave master. Against their will, the employees are forced to give 35% of their work to the federal government. The Chinese government charges less for their slave labor. Consequently, American corporations are using Chinese slave labor rather than American slave labor.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />An animal rights activist decides to protest by throwing red paint on a person wearing animal skin clothing. He spies two people. One is a thin, middle-aged woman wearing a fur coat. The other is a burly Hell’s Angel wearing a leather jacket. Who will the activist choose?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Libertarians actively fight to conserve the Bill of Rights. Are they not, then, the true conservatives?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Libertarians believe that everyone should have the right to be stupid. Authoritarians wish to reserve that right for themselves then force it upon the rest of us.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To deny one the choice to do wrong is to deny one the choice to do right.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />How to drive liberals crazy: Ask them, "What the carbon footprint of illegal immigration?"<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Look at any one of the countless thousands of photographs of black American slaves. Apparent is their poverty, their sorrow and their lack of weapons.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Mothers entrust their young children to the care of a government preschools. They must then go to work to earn wages to pay taxes to subsidize government childcare. Would it not be wiser for mothers to simply keep their tax dollars? <em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If someone shoots you dead, it matters greatly to the government if the act was intentional or accidental. To you, it matters not. Dead is dead. If our nation’s demise is due to intentional conspiracy or to natural drift away from the founder’s ideals, it matters not. Dead is dead.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"You can't put that in the landfill," he said.<br />“Why not?” I asked.<br />“It’s plastic,” he explained. “It’s not biodegradable.”<br />“But plastic is made of petroleum,” I protested. “And that comes from the ground. I’m just putting it back.”<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />284 years lapsed from the discovery of America in 1492 until the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. 228 years have lapsed between the signing of the Declaration of Independence and today. Though often viewed as the beginning point of the American phenomenon, the American Revolution was, to date, a mid-point in our nation’s lifespan.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There is an often overlook difference between the founders of America and the likes of Hitler and Stalin. While the dictators openly boasted that their governments were strong enough to last for centuries, the founders of America frequently warned that our liberty was fragile and, if not protected with all diligence, would quickly and easily be lost.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Justice, alone, is an inadequate reason for government to punish evildoers. Primarily, government should punish those who hurt others as a dire warning to those who would follow their examples.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Civil government has two functions: The first is to punish bad guys as a warning and the second is to reward good guys with liberty.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Socialism promises hope and delivers poverty. Capitalism promises nothing and delivers opportunity.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Bill Clinton advises us to all pay our fair share of taxes. I ignored his advice and sent the IRS a check anyway.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />A parent in Indianapolis focebily restrained their toddler for over four hours. The child was bound at the waste in a small chair and, aside from a sippy-cup, was left unattended, his fever-pitched screaming ignored. Authorities refused to prosecute the parents because the abuse was considered "justified." The child was in an automobile's car seat while the family drove to Nashville, Tenn.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is quintessential liberal hypocrisy. If they truly believe higher taxes will benefit society, why do they not simply donate additional funds to the government?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Investing" is a term politicians use for wasting tax dollars.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If all were to heed the advice of Bill Clinton, “Pay your fair share to the IRS,” the government would be broke.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Bible advises me to pray for those in authority. And I do. But no matter how hard I pray, they keep getting reelected.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Though a monopoly, the United States Postal Service is one government agency that could remotely be considered libertarian in that it is funded by user fees rather than taxes.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is not the role of government to compel you to do what you would not. Nor should government compel you not to do what you would. Only when you infringe on the rights, person or property of others should government intervene.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Having invested only $200,000 in Social Security, she retired a pauper, Had her money been privately invested, she would have retired a millionaire. Social Security makes paupers of millionaires.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We will be a nation of private individuals or we will be a nation of government slaves.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Every new law enacted takes space once occupied by liberty.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If legalizing narcotics reduced abuse of narcotics, reduced associated crime, encouraged addicts to get help . . . would you be for legalization?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We call them "lawmakers" not "lawtakers."<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />No war is civil. [In response to reports that civil war is imminent in Iraq]<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Imagine a teachers' union so powerful that instructors could not be held accountable for failure. Would teacher performance be enhanced or inhibitied? Unfortunately, there is such a union. — Kenn Gividen If you can't be trusted to govern yourself, then others can't be trusted to govern themselves. Can others, then, be trusted to govern you?<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If all plant seed in the garden, there will be plenty. If all take seed from the garden, there will be nothing. Free enterprise puts seed in the garden. Taxation takes it out.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Some wars are just. No wars are good.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Bill of Rights was designed to be a chain by which Americans bind government. It was never intended to be a chain by which government binds Americans.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Bill of Rights was designed to keep Americans free by restricting government. It was never intended that government be free to restrict Americans.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The framers of the Bill of Rights got it right the first time.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The best way to insure poverty is to subsidize it with tax dollars.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />That religious expression constitutes an endorsement and an endorsement constitutes a religious establishment is faulty logic.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Want to witness the spirit of small business? Visit eBay.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />China will never invade America, lest we shut down their Walmarts. America will never invade China lest Walmart lose its best supplier.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The road to peace is not paved so much with good ideals as with good deals.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The cardinal rule of world peace: Never invade your best customer and never bomb your supplier.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />More Americans fear the IRS than fear al Qaeda.<br /><em>— Kenn Gividen<br /></em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Want to avoid racial discrimination? Invest in securities. The stock doesn’t even know you own it. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If Hillary Clinton is the architect, the Republicans are the builders. They have done what Bill Clinton could never do. They have turned America into Hillary's Village. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Question: When George W. Bush and his "compassionate conservative" congress dramatically increased the size of government, did they make you angry? Answer: No, they made me a Libertarian. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The contest between Republicans and Democrats is driven by this ideal: Whose buddies will get the lucrative government contracts? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Patriots were those whose love for their country was made evident by their hatred for excessive government. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Government education is nothing more than a very expensive entitlement program. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When government regulates the price a manufacturer can charge for medicine, the manufacturer will stop making the medicine. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What do you call a business that operates like the federal government? Organized crime. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There’s really nothing wrong with government. It’s the idiots that run it. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If the majority were always right, Democrats would never win elections. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Depression, dysfunction and dejection in adults are frequently lifetime scars formed by forced socialization in government schools. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />As parents have the right to choose medical professionals for their children, they should also have the right to choose educational professionals for their children. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If the Libertarian Party won’t take a stand for restoring the Bill of Rights, who will? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To discriminate in favor of a particular class of people is to discriminate against those not included. To require that some must be included is to require that others must not be included. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What if they held an election and no one showed up? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Gridlock, they say, prevents government from working. And that’s bad? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Ask not what your country can do for you, lest you create a welfare state.Nor ask what you can do for your country, lest you create a slave state. Ask what you can do for yourself. And that will create a free state. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When government is free to act upon its own will, you will not. When you are free to act upon your own will, the government will not. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Communism is a simple plan: Everything is owned by the government for the supposed benefit of society. Government education is a simple plan: Everything is owned by the government for the supposed benefit of society. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Legalizing medical marijuana could result in graft and abuse. The same is true of Prozac. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The right to happiness mandates government entitlements. The right to pursue happiness mandates the absence of government entitlements. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Liberals believe you have the right to happiness. Libertarians believe you have the right to pursue happiness. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Someday there will be one, universal currency. It will require a central bank. There will be a chairman of that bank. And that person will control the world. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Do I believe in a flat income tax? Absolutely. And zero is a nice flat number. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />In the 1950s health care was available to nearly all, health insurance was dirt cheap and physicians routinely made house calls. Then government stepped in and fixed it. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Though civilization has been around for, perhaps, ten thousand years, it wasn't until 1776 that we finally got it right. And now we've blown it. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The electronic check I sent on the internet today replaced a paper check that replaced cash that replaced the gold standard that doesn't exist. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I no longer pay bills with paper dollars or checks, but with electronic currents. Imagine the forward thinking person who first called it "currency!" — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Help me with my grammar. Shall I write, "The United States is singular" or shall I write, "The United States are plural"? [Paraphrased from another source.] — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When asked in debate what I would do for hispanic immigrants, my answer was straightforward. "I will give you the same opportunity afforded my immigrant ancestors: Get government out of your way." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I don't look upon them as immigrants. I see them as my ancestors. To despise hard-working immigrants is to despise one's own heritage. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The immigration problem can be easily resolved: End welfare and entitlements. Then, the only immigrants who will come to America will be those who wish to contribute their labor to our economy. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Politicians who refuse to enforce immigration laws are no better than illegal aliens who ignore immigration laws: Both should be sent home. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Government is too big, too invasive and too expensive. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />LIBERTARIAN-CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS ▲ Most libertarians can be lumped into one of three broad categories: Christian libertarians who are intolerant of agnositic libertarians, agnostic libertarians who are intolerant of Christian libertarians, and libertarians who are intolerant of none but intolerance itself. I belong in the third category. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When government takes our rights, it is taking that which was endowed by the Creator. It is rendering to Caesar that which is God's. It is a violation of separation of church and state. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />“I have no religious belief” is a religious belief. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Attempting to purge religious thought from politics is an invitation to tyranny. Attempting to purge non-religious thought from politics is an invitation to tyranny. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Inclusion, not exclusion, is the solution to tyranny. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Secularists who take comfort in the sanity of Ayn Rand should also consider the insanity of Joseph Stalin. There has never been a secularist state that was anything other than authoritarian. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Robespierre, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Pol Pot were all secularists. They had this one thing in common with Islamic terrorsts — not to mention Protestants and Catholics who took to burning each other at the stake: They were all exclusionists. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />While attending the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention, I noted each overweight male who passed by. I also noted each who was not overweight. The score? Of the hundred that I counted, 80% were obviously overweight; 20% were not. If homosexuality were as prevalent in the SBC as gluttony, it would be considered a liberal denomination. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Christian conservatives confuse regulation with righteousness. Righteousness — not regulation — exalts a nation. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />American currency reads, "In God We Trust." We trust government for welfare, education and social security. Government is the god in which we trust. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Righteousness comes from the heart; it a matter of one's free will. Regulated behavior, then, cannot be righteous behavior. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Egyptians believed Pharaoh was a god. The Greeks believed Alexander the Great was a god. The Romans worshipped Caesar as a god. Americans depend on government as their god. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I never met a member of the Moral Majority who was moral by government mandate. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There is economic welfare. Government attempts to provide economic solutions to problems rooted in personal character. It always fails. There is moral welfare. Government attempts to provide moral solutions to a problems rooted in personal character. It always fails. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Banning religious expression and calling it "religious liberty" is like murdering women and calling it "feminism." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />RIGHT TO LIFE THOUGHTS ▲ The Declaration of Independence guarantees the right to life and the right liberty. To be consistent, we must defend both. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />An abortion is a procedure in which a pregnancy is aborted. In a c-section procedure, the pregnancy is aborted for the purpose of saving the baby’s life. Should we, then, cease calling procedures that end the baby’s life “abortions” and properly call them “baby killings”? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Libertarian Party is the only national party that categorically denounces tax-funded abortions. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Destroy the rainforest," they say, "and you may unwittingly destroy the unknown herb that contains the mysterious secret that cures cancer." "Destroy children in abortion clinics," I would add, "and you may unwittingly destroy the scientist who unlocks the mystery." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I recently saw a car that sported a bumper sticker reading, "I Vote Pro-Life." The car also donned a sticker touting a Republican candidate. Considering the GOP supports tax-funded abortions, I concluded the driver to be either ignorant or hypocritical. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ▲ Is is. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Over the hill: When you no longer dream about what you can become, but what you could have become. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Sense is seldom common. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Ignoring truth is worse than ignorance. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The greatest fools are those who believe they cannot be fooled. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When life pitches fast hard balls, don't duck. Swing. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Kindness is contingent upon context. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Form follows function: Watching where people walk, then constructing the sidewalks. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When to you their wisdom is that of fools, to them your wisdom is that of fools. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Hear vs Heed:<br />Hear everyone. Heed only the wise and prudent.<br /><br />— Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Can a cynic be cynical of cynicism? Or a skeptic skeptical of skepticism? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The right thing to do is to do the right thing. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />My brain has a mind of its own. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Always think for yourself, but not always of yourself. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Be a friend to all; a fool of none. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We often say we are saving time or taking time. But time can't be saved and it can't be taken. No one can save an hour today and spend it tomorrow. It takes itself at the rate of sixty seconds per minute; sixty minutes per hour. We use it or we lose it. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It may be true that only five percent of the things we worry about ever occur. But it's that five percent that I worry about. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Gossip is good when your words are positive. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Past, present and future:<br />• Today is five years ago from five years from today. • If tomorrow is today's future, then today is tomorrow's past. You can change the past by changing the present.<br /><br />— Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Some ask questions to get answers. Some ask to get arguments. Answer the former and ignore the latter. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I don't know what's more disturbing; the ruckus caused as grandchildren invade our home or the silence after they leave. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Don't open your mouth if it makes your brain disappear. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I've often wondered why feminists prefer "person" rather than "man." "Person" is simply a contaction of "per" and "son" and means "for every son." It is as utterly masculine as the word "man." It is the antithesis of the proposed word, "perdaughter." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If intolerance is wrong, must one tolerate intolerance? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Pragmatism usually lies somewhere between idealism and realism. To wholly embrace idealism is to fail to function in the real world. To wholly deny idealism is to fail the opportunity to improve upon reality. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Bill Cosby Show, Leave it To Beaver and other sitcoms all share this common denominator: These television families never watch television. Vicariously, they live our lives as we watch. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It’s common sense to believe that for common good we must meet on common ground. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Zora Neale Hurston once noted that "nothing is destructible; things merely change forms." If that be true, then the material matter that comprises your body is eternal. It has always existed. It always will exist. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We are composed of eternal matter that, for a whisper of time, is so arranged as to yield life. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />You are 14 billion years old. You body is composed of a complex arrangement of atoms that were formed 14 billion years ago. That they are so arranged as to allow you life for a brief moment in time between the creation event and eternity is cause to wonder. Matter is never destroyed, it simply changes form. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I never could understand why anyone would want to hurt anyone. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It is an inigma that humans, called the highest form of animals, are the only creatures that inflict pain for the explicit purpose of pleasure. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The pyramid on the dollar, they say, is the secret symbol of the Illuminati. I've often wondered why they would place their symbol on the widest circulated piece of paper on earth if they wanted it to be a secret. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />One may believe the world is flat or the world is round. One may believe there is a God or there are no gods. Believing the world is round does not make it so, nor does believing make it flat. Believing in God does not necessitate his existance, nor does believing negate his reality. Is is what is is, regardless of what we believe. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Every silver lining has a cloud. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Be slow to rebuke young people for their lack of wisdom. Their naivete breeds spunk. If most of us knew then what we know now, we would have known better than to try in the first place. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The greater the darkness, the brighter the star. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Could it be that the annoying obnoxiousness of adolescents is nature's means to encourage parents to kick them out of the house? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We name places to remind future generations who change the names to remind future generations. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS: RELIGION ▲ I'd rather be a disbeliever than a misbeliever, rather confide in truth than console in myth; rather skeptical than cynical. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Occasionally, someone will ask about my religion. My response is, “I’m an Isist.” Is is not what I think, believe it to be or even could be. Is just is. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />We credit to gods what we cannot know or understand. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />It's not a matter of mental religious programming. It's a question of the right program. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Religious mental programming provides an explanation for religious traditions. Persons from India, for example, will be Hindus, not by virtue of rational evaluation, but because of programming. Persons born in Indiana will not be Hindus, but Christians, if exposed to Christian programming. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Giving away money," the televangelist said, "will release God's financial blessings upon those who face financial difficulties." He closed his program by citing his ministry's financial straits. But rather than giving away money to release God's financial blessings, he asked for contributions. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"A proud look" is listed as the thing God's hates the most. It's ironic that God would hate so many clergymen. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I find it peculiar that Christians call themsevles "believers" as if to presume that non-Christians have no faith. In fact, everyone is a believer. It's simply a question of what one believes. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If find it peculiar that atheists call themselves "free thinkers" as if to presume that non-atheists have no freedom of thought. In fact, everyone is free to think. It's simply a matter of how their thoughts are directed. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS: ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM ▲ On the one hand scularists complain that, if given the chance, theists would return our country to the colonial days of Puritanical control; a time when government was dominated by rigid religious dogma. They rue the prospect of returning to the Victorian era, swear that slave owners were religious folk, and burn the Salem witch trials in our national conscience at every opportunity. They blame the religious-relic types for keeping abortion illegal 'til Roe v. Wade and assure us that sufferagettes were secularists standing against a tradition of religious woman-haters. Robert Ingersoll was a voice crying in the wilderness of 19th-century religious darkness. The Scopes Monkey trial, they say, was a turning point in American history. On the other hand they insist that our nation was founded by secularists and has no religious heritage. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What can be more silly than a bunch of Christians trying to prove true that which is not? A bunch of atheists trying to disprove that which is not. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />When secularism is the only voice allowed in the public square, the square will no longer be public. When religion is the only voice allowed in the public square, the square will no longer be public. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Some of the best Christians I know are atheists. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Thoughts on abnegation: At the core of every theist is a denial of faith, revealed by the theist’s behavior. And at the core of every atheist is an obsession to deny that which is professed to be non-existent. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name." Felix Adler, founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876 One hundred years later communists governments had proven humanity's inhumanity to be even more sever under atheism. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />My study of atheism reveals it to be one of a thousand philosophical disciplines oblivious to its own nescience, embracing intolerance of variant views and steeped in arrogance. In short, atheism embraces all the narcisstic stigma that typifies religion. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The term "agnostic" simply means "I don't know." And that causes me to wonder: Who is the greatest agnostic? The one who knows he doesn't know? Or the one who doesn't know he doesn't know? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Atheists frequently cite the inhumanity of religions but seldom acknowledge religious benevolence. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Christian organizations are known for their charity. Atheist organizations are known for their opposition to Christians. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The lack of charitable endeavors among atheists does not disprove their disbelief in theism. It merely proves their disbelief in charity. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I see nothing in the arrogrant behavior of atheists that would compel me to become an atheist. I see it in the arrogant behavior of theists. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Never confuse humanism with humanitarianism. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Imagine a man who locks himself in a cage and there lives out his years. He considers himself to be free because his confinement is that of his own will. Imagine those who lock themselves in a defined and unwavering mindset. They proudly adopt the moniker, "free thinkers," because their mental bondage is that of choice. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Faith without evidence is presumption. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS: CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION ▲ Either creationism is religion masquerading as science, or evolution is atheism masquerading as science. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Did God create humans to concoct the theory of evolution? Or did evolution produce humans to concoct the theory of God? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Those who possess older textbooks still “know” that Neandertal is our ancestor. Those with text books published after 1997 will “know” that DNA testing proved conclusively that Neandertal is unrelated to homo sapiens. It seems the only things evolving are the textbooks themselves. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />BUSINESS THOUGHTS ▲ Sometimes the problem is a bad market. More often it's bad marketing. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Before you sign it, they call it an "simple agreement." After you sign it it's a "binding contract." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The greatest risk is to risk nothing. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />A business that has no debt cannot fail. At it’s worse it will break even. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />John earns ten dollars per hour. Bob earns ten dollars per hour.<br />John bought ten gizmos imported from China for one dollar each. Bob bought one gizmo made in America for ten dollars.<br /><br />John earns ten times more than Bob.<br /><br /><br />— Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I recently met a pre-teenage girl who is a financial genius. In 2002 she earned $68 billion more than Enron and all she did was baby sit part time. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Some worry that they are not smart enough to succeed in business. My answer? "You just need to be smart enough to hire people who are smart enough." — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />To be opposed to business monopolies is to be pro-business. To be opposed to union monopolies is to be pro-union. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Want a high yeild on a small investment? Say something kind about someone behind their back without their knowledge. The word will spread and the return is phenomenal. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />There's more to invest than money. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Professional jealousy" is a misnomer. If it's jealousy, it's not professional. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />If you invest one third of your life in bed, it makes sense to invest in a good bed. If you invest one half of your life wearing shoes, it makes sense to invest in good shoes. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />I bought a brand-new mini-van for $25,000 and drove it for 150,000 miles. A "smart" friend bought an identical but used mini-van for $12,500 and drove it for 75,000 miles. Who got the better deal? — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />A penny saved is a penny that earns. — Kenn Gividen<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Money is an unfaithful friend. 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