JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Gotta give some credit to #OldSchoolVets [I’m biased].

oops–another “issue”.

“We are all ‘connected’, only some are more #connected than others.  See Animal Farm by George Orwell.”*

“Throw out the old code.”

“Seventy times seven.”

“Money can blind people–it’s horrible.”

“We talkin’ politics?”

“Wouldn’t you?”

“What, Super PAC the planet?”

“John has the financiers, Hillary the refugees and Donald the climbers.”

“Climbers–yuppies?”

“They don’t call them yuppies anymore; it’s not politically correct.”

*Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell [some people are more equal than others].

You had to say it: “Local product from Riverside.” @Dodgers @SportsNetLA @BrettAnderson35 #CharlieSteiner calls it.

“Has anyone seen the bridge?” #TheCrunge by #LedZeppelin. @pontifex The way back from psychic mayhem against each other.  The #bridgeoftrust  can lead us to a loving home.

Influence: Rich Capparela on the radio sharing with his listeners he has two daughters and will not abandon them to big bad wolves, but nurture their development.  #WomensLiberation requires self-sufficiency or as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “self-reliance,” an American ideal.

Essay on Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

compilation copyright, August 20, 2015 John Rubens

A Nicholas Cage or a Ronny Cammareri from Moonstruck, A Film by Norman Jewison (1987), Joc is not.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his Essay on Self-Reliance, Part II, “the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.”

John Rubens, 08/20/2015

Using disparaging remarks may help individuals, nations and communities police themselves. A unification theory @BrianKUSC @UN_Spokesperson

@UN_Spokesperson See #Visions by Michio Kaku: We need a common purpose and selfish purpose [see Ben Franklin]. Not everyone buys the President Obama “best shot” doctrine [see also, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal].

I’ve often thought of that. I didn’t know others did too [and I thought I was so intellectual].

John Matthew Rubens added,

I should have known I was in the wrong profession when one of the associate #lawyer‘s at the firm said, “You’re an #artist John [hint hint].”

All is fair in love and war, until you throw women into the arena. #WaronWomen #pc #womensliberation @realDonaldTrump #doublestandard Gloria Allred, U.S. Army Rangers, #Socialization #conditioning #plasticity #effectiveness #adaptability #cohesiveness unit participation: One Bread, One Body, One Lord of All.