The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. ~ Bruce Lee
I never lose... either I win or I learn - The Upside of Failure When
we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change
ourselves. ~ Viktor Frankl
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ James Madison: Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788
Drama helps us dream about who we want to be, but comedy helps us live with who we are - Journey Gunderson
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us ~ Gloria Steinem
Start with what is right rather than what is
acceptable. ~ Franz Kafka
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the
truest sentence that you know ~ Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do are in harmony ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~
Amelia Earhart
One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world. ~ Malala Yousafzai
"I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but
I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass." ~ Louisiana
Sen. John Kennedy
Never hate your enemies - it affects your judgement. ~ Michael Corleone
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abrahamo Lincolni
"Everybody has a plan until they
get punched in the mouth." ~ Mike Tyson
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~ Alexander Hamilton
"The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest
Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on
public assistance." ~ Cicero, 55 BC . . .
So, we've learned absolutely “NOTHING” over the past 2,071 years!
"Every day is a new
opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind
and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and
that’s the way baseball is." ~Bob Feller
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of
the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared."~ Buddha
"The way to get started is to
quit talking and begin doing." ~ Walt Disney
“When you can’t make them see the
light, make them feel the heat.” ~ Ronald Reagan
"The hallmark of a mediocre
mind is someone who keeps refighting the last war. ” ~ Tucker Carlson"
Doubt is the father of invention." Ambrose Bierce
"We are fast approaching the stage of the
ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it
pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of
the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
~ Ayn Rand
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up."
~ Thomas A. Edison
"One cannot and must not try to erase
the past merely because it does not fit the present."
~ Golda Meir
"Try not to become a man of
success, but rather try to become a man of value." ~ Albert Einstein
"His 'I's' are too close together" to describe a narcissist:
"As in I did this and I did that..." - Jerry Runyan
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” –
Oscar Wilde
"Beauty fades, but stupid is forever." - Judge Judy
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that
counts.” – Winston Churchill
“There are three types of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics.” ~ British
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
"You know, it's such an honor for you to meet
me" - Mort Crim
"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying
attention." ~ Diane Sawyer
"Liberty must at all hazards be
supported." ~ John Adams
“Do the right thing. It will gratify
some people and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain
"Socialism is a philosophy of
failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery" ~ Winston Churchill
From one Democrat to all the rest of the Democrats: "Free men do not need
guardians." President Woodrow Wilson (D).
"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of Principle,
stand like a rock."
"If we do not get back to Honesty, Integrity, Truthfulness in government,
a great respect for our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, we are all
lost."
"I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an
army of sheep, if they are led by a lion." ~ Thomas Jefferson
“An insincere and evil friend is
more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an
evil friend will wound your mind.” ~ Buddha
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any
man I know.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.”Winston Churchill
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of
our friends.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do or do not, there is no ‘try’.” - Yoda
"People have a historical memory that goes back to breakfast." ~
Benjamin Netanyahu:
"When choosing between two
evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." ~ Mae
West
Some days, it's just not worth
chewing through the restraints. ~ Emo
Phillips
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves
largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always
votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,
always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest
civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this
sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great
courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to
selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From
dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
Book Reviews Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation's Rivers by Arthur Maas:
Here's a quote from Harold Ickes in the Foreword: "One way to describe
the Corps of the Army Engineers would be to say that it is the most
powerful and pervasive lobby in Washington. The aristocrats who
constitute it are our highest ruling class. They are not only the
political elite of the army, they are the perfect flowers of bureaucracy.
At least, this is the reflection that their mirrors disclose to them.
Within the fields that they have elected to occupy, they are the law--and
therefore above the law...It is to be doubted whether any Federal agency
in the history of this country has so wantonly wasted money on worthless
projects as has the Corps of Army Engineers...No more lawless or
irresponsible Federal group than the Corps of Army Engineers has ever
attempted to operate in the United States either outside of or within the
law."
Dams and Other Disasters: A Century of the Army Corps of
Engineers in Civil Works by Arthur E. Morgan: Here's a quote from the
dust jacket: "The Army Corps of Engineers is generally known as a guardian
of the public interest and facilitator of scientific progress. This
carefully nurtured image has been the result of classification of documents
relating to Corps failures and the selective re-writing of Corps history.
In Dams and Other Disasters, Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee
Valley Authority, explodes the self-publicized image of the Army Corps and
reveals the full report of its century-long record of scientific
inadequacy and environmental neglect."
Fun
and Games Department
WHY I CARRY A GUN. I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to prevent being killed. I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place. I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world. I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government. I
don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have
to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared. I
don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun
because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a
sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy. I
don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men
know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love. I
don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun
because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate. I don’t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police
do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime
after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an ass-whoopin’.
