Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds it is both beautiful and useful. But when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. If, then, this is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and like wise men who value freedom use our utmost care to support liberty, the only bulwark against lawless power, which in all ages has sacrificed to its wild lust and boundless ambition the blood of the best men that ever lived.…
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I need this:
That’s right, a bespoke Keith Hernandez in 1986 lego man. Geektastic!
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My blog has been dead since March 17th, through no fault of my own. The company who I’ve been hosting pickabar.com with for a few years, Web Strike Solutions, was purchased by easyCGI. The email notifications I received from Web Strike assured me that the transition would be seamless and that they would be manually testing every site to make sure that it was up and running. I’ve been in IT long enough to worry, but I figured I’d cross my fingers and see how things went.…
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I live in Brooklyn and I play in a band. That’s not really unique. It’s not even unique in my building. In Brooklyn, 43% of the population has a band or makes beats or sings piano jazz or plays mariachi music on the train. Ok, I made that number up, but the point stands. There are a whole lot of bands in Brooklyn.
Let’s imagine that we are able to get every musician in Brooklyn to meet in a single large room.…
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<h1> Victims of Drug Wars </h1> <p> </a><a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20victims%20of%20drug%20wars.mp3"> </a> </p> <p> Children bear the scars<br /> deep in their hearts,<br /> it’s the way of war<br /> families ripped apart. </p> <p> Another young boy<br /> raised by (a) single mom,<br /> families destroyed<br /> worse than those by bombs. </p> <p> � � � Victims of Drug Wars </p> <p> The saddest part of all<br /> is that it makes no sense,<br /> There’s no magic in walls<br /> there’s leaks in every fence.…
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