Crossing the Rubicon

So we're committed.

Crossing the Rubicon is when you start homeschooling so that you can be in Florida, in Palm Beach for the entire season.

Oh, she's asked me to start homeschooling in January.

Yeah.

This is the Roman pattern, where the failure shows in the ledgers long before it shows in the histories.

We picture this collapse as Caesar at the Rubicon, and that image arrives about 20 years too late.

By then a man's fortune and his authority were the same thing.

or close enough that Rome had stopped distinguishing between them.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org recording by greg giordano thirty more famous stories retold by james baldwin crossing the rubicon rome was the most powerful city in the world the romans had conquered all the countries on the north side of the mediterranean sea and most of those on the south side They also occupied the islands of the sea, and all that part of Asia that now belongs to Turkey.

Julius Caesar, a man of wonderful courage and energy, was sent with a large army into Gaul to conquer that country also for Rome.

Gaul was the region which we now call France.

Translated by J. D. Duff.

Book One: The Crossing of the Rubicon.

Part One.

Wars worse than civil on Emathian plains, and crime let loose we sing: how Rome's high race plunged in her vitals her victorious sword; armies akin embattled, with the force of all the shaken earth bent on the fray, and burst asunder through the common guilt a kingdom's compact.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Pharsalia by Lucan, translated by J. D. Duff.

Book one: The Crossing of the Rubicon, part two.

Now stand the troops within the captured town, Their standards planted, and the trumpet clang Rings forth in harsh alarms, giving note Of impious strife.

The Arab Spring did not fail alone, but was failed by an international order that preached democracy but preferred compliant authoritarianism.

Crossing the Rubicon.

Perhaps the most dangerous legacy of the past 25 years is the destruction of restraints.

International law is not meaningful if it applies only to adversities, and human rights cannot be universal when friends are exempt.

It's sort of our version of that here in Auckland because I think it will unlock and change quite a lot of behaviour, and that's why I want people to go and try it and experience it and cross the Rubicon themselves and sort of see the power and the potential of what it's going to do for us.

Crossing the Rubicon.

Right.

Is this an example of getting infrastructure and coordination with local government right? And have you achieved the same thing with fast-track approvals in respect of unanticipated or out-of-sequence residential housing developments?

Eric Kuhn is the former head of the Colorado River Water Conservation District.

Crossing that threshold, it's like crossing the Rubicon.

There may be no going back.

States like Arizona say they could sue their upstream neighbors at the Supreme Court if the water drops that low.

The other book...

Are you familiar with Crossing the Rubicon?

Yeah.

There are people who have doubts about that.

And like, I imagine myself going there, you know, going, checking into an NFL game and like, I don't have it.

Like, And I get that Aaron Rodgers is a professional athlete, but there's a certain point that you cross where it's like crossing the Rubicon.

You don't have it anymore.

And 43 is definitely that age.