{"id":31737,"date":"2021-12-04T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31737"},"modified":"2021-12-04T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:22:12","slug":"quote-of-the-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31737","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3399,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.powerlineblog.com\\\/archives\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/the-week-in-pictures-the-new-new-deviant-edition.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.powerlineblog.com\\\/archives\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/bidens-covid-19-winter-plan.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3401,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gutenberg.org\\\/files\\\/2701\\\/2701-h\\\/2701-h.htm#link2HCH0001&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Every Saturday morning I go to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2021\/12\/the-week-in-pictures-the-new-new-deviant-edition.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Powerline Blog to see their roundup of the week <\/a><\/strong>in pictures. Along the way I stumbled across a post by Kevin Roche on a speech given by President Biden regarding the Omicron variant. Or, as Roche put it, the Moronic Variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2021\/12\/bidens-covid-19-winter-plan.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Biden delivered the remarks setting forth his big plan to stem the panic he has helped foment over the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. Does this make sense? Are we going to develop seasonal campaigns to address each new variant of the virus? This is madness.<\/p><p>As always, the remarks stressed a theme with monomaniacal intensity. <strong>We are all voyagers on the good ship Pequod. Biden is our Captain Ahab. Covid-19 is his Moby Dick.<\/strong> The prospects are not good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Moby Dick reference is very apropos given it was first announced in November. If you have ever read<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2701\/2701-h\/2701-h.htm#link2HCH0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Melville&#8217;s book<\/a><\/strong>, you might remember this line from the very first paragraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; <strong>whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;<\/strong> whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people\u2019s hats off\u2014then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Saturday morning I go to the Powerline Blog to see their roundup of the week in pictures. 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