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“While unemployment for college grads is 15% according to Bloomberg, we know for a fact that the overall rate of unemployment, per economist John Williams of Shadow Stats, is actually at around 22%.” Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo15.1.html].

“With his prodigious talent, parents who loved him to bits, and a piano teacher named Marietta Clinkscales, Duke Ellington could only succeed”

"Do not imagine that love to be true must be extraordinary." Mother Teresa

“When friends called Charles Carroll ”“ the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence ”“ an “American Cicero,” it was the highest form of praise. Bradley Birzer notes this, by the way, in his very good new Carroll biography.” – ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT: Life in the late republic: The Catholic role in America

“As St. Augustine noted in City of God, Roman success was built not just on greed, pride and violence. It also flowed from the early Roman virtues of piety, austerity, courage, justice and self-mastery. For Augustine, these virtues had an unfortunate and self-defeating basis in paganism. But in their natural

Jack, Michael, and Max on the pitching mound at old Tiger Stadium. Other pics from old Tiger Stadium earlier today.

Random Good to know: “[T]he best way to survive in a falling elevator is to lie down on your back. Sitting is bad but better than standing, because buttocks are nature's safety foam. Muscle and fat are compressible: they help absorb the G forces of the impact.

“He who loves God lives the angelic life on earth, fasting and keeping vigils, praying and singing psalms and always thinking good of every man.” The Philokalia

Joe Kennedy claimed that he knew it was time to get out of stocks in 1929 when he received investing tips from a shoeshine boy." “Stage 3 of the gold rush is when the shoeshine boy tells you: Buy gold!” http://instapaper.com/z4thqln1r