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Big lies aren't new. About seventy years ago, Hitler created several, and FDR created several others. The USSR was based on big lies, and NATO was based, in part, on another set of big lies. Fortunately, the U.S.A had a few leaders in the sixty years who were fundamentally honest. Eisenhower told us to beware the military industrial complex, and he was ignored. He was one of the very few fundamentally honest ones, but we have had some leaders who were partly honest but greatly misled, Johnson for ...

There was something about this that just sruck me.

From The Agony and the Ecstasy by Iring Stone

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that has never existed before.

The height of my life
And the world falls into pieces
An old demon from the ashes arises
Drowning me in bloodstained water

A knot in the stomach
I rip and tear
At my own flesh
To rid of it

A blank stare etched upon a blank face
Scars echo a 6 year weight
Hung from my neck
A noose of wire

I bear the brand of a coward
This coward will dance with feet dangling

Norman Music Festival. Amazing. If all of you were from Norman, I would leave it at that. Unfortunately I think the majority of you missed out. But that is ok, because I am here to fill you in!!!

Norman Music Festival is/was a free all day musical event (obviously) on 12 different stages all along Main Street. That is the boring part.

Any fans of OF MONTREAL?!?!?! No?! Yes?! No doubt there are. Well they performed on the Main stage on Main (ha!). They performed so......aah, ...

So today i went on my first proper cycle.
About seven minutes cycle from my house is the north dublin cycle track that goes from clontarf to sutton (by howth) with only a little break at St Annes and Dollymount.
The first couple of Pics were taken from the cycle track.
Looking North at Howth


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