THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1669 Mauritius Vogt, German composer, geographer, cartographer, musician, historian and a member of the Cistercian Order, born in Königshofen, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Markneukirchen

1671 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), born in Fermo, Marche, Papal States. Sonata X, and Sonata IV in C minor

1685 John Gay, English poet and dramatist (The Beggar’s Opera).

1789 Horace Vernet, French painter of battles and Orientalist subjects.

1801 Frédéric Bastiat, French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French liberal school.

1930 Thomas Sowell, American economist, social theorist, political commentator, and writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. On this day in space! June 30, 1908: Tunguska meteor explodes over Siberia

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)

Picture: hoover.org