JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, re-quoted by @GideonRose in the current issue of @ForeignAffairs JAN/FEB 2019, 10, 21. caveat #TimMeierSJ said not to be “self-reliant” Sunday evening. @jesuitnews ambivalence

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Yes, I have contempt. It was either that or self-loathing. I decided I wasn’t that bad, THEY’RE ‘bad’–and not in the #MichaelJackson sense. #Machiavelli

#LegalBeat Dear #trms @maddow @MSNBC & @ChrisCuomo: Nice going last night. 120 days. That my decision on Flynn’s confinement. Saw Ali Velshi’s show with Stephanie Ruhle. Thanks for covering the sentencing. Really angry last night until I took a melatonin at 6 am. #legalbraintune

American Ideals at their penultimate rarification [sic]*. The best is yet to come if we are seeking the promised land, the kingdom of God, the pursuit of happiness with a grounding in righteousness.

*eye above pyramid> seeking perfection as humans, communion, thresholds, synapse.

After all, we are writing about politics and political parties, conflicts of laws and parties. Constituencies.

Dear @GideonRose Your work, like your entire publication @ForeignAffairs is very easy to read both in typeset and editing. Wonderful pieces in the current issue by your hand. #VestedInterests Dems donate, like stock market, invested in party platform @MadMoneyOnCNBC Don’t do that

John Rubens@raftofwater·46sRule of Law Smartphones: $1995.00. Be your own lawyer! Shove your phone in their face and tell them you’re software can beat their software! Speculative Fiction #suspendedlawyersassc. #reformReformREFORM!1John Rubens@raftofwatercorrection: “you’re” should read: “your”2:34 PM · Dec 17, 2018 · Twitter LiteView Tweet activityAdd another Tweet

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Rule of Law Smart Phones Only $1995.00. Be your own lawyer! Shove your phone in their face and say with confidence, my software can beat your software. #suspendedattorneysassc. #reformReformREFORM!

I have a huge ego and can’t seem to dump it, but what I can do for myself and others is when I come to the waystation where I cogitate “fuck ’em” in my heart, substitute Jesus’ words, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”

Choice: Die every day for Him or be reasonable like Hensel Herrig, Executive Chef, “I don’t want to be Jesus Christ, they crucified him.”

“Do you feel lucky, punk?”–Dirty Harry as played by Clint Eastwood

Re: double jeopardy 

Jail the Jailers too? No, then they’ll come after YOU!

Steven Curtis Chapman

“Run Away”

Strolling past temptation avenue,
You hear so many voices calling you;
Maybe you’ll step in and take a quick look around.
Try to walk through it,
And you’re gonna fall down.

[Chorus]
You’ve gotta run away,
Turn around and run the other way;
Don’t even look in the direction
of a thought you should not entertain.
You’ve gotta run away,
It’s a prison that is calling your name;
You just can’t win if you play,
So run away.

There comes a time when you must stand and fight,
When the darkness tries to overcome the light;
But sin that is dressed up in the color of gray,
Is only defeated
When we run away.

[Chorus]

Don’t put yourself in that position
Where sin can make it’s proposition;
And if you find that you have fallen,
You gotta get up, get ready to run
Next time sin comes calling, calling.

[Chorus]

Steven Curtis Chapman

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Love will take you where you don’t expect. The light from my face that you perceive is what I was before you read me.

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