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Memorial Day ~ May 29, 2006 |
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Do we reenact the Civil War to honor our ancestors... Or do our ancestors caution us through reenaction? Remember.
If you are able,
Save a place for them
Inside of you. And
save one backward glance
When you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say that you loved them,
Though you may not have always.
Take what they have left,
And what they have taught you
With their dying
And keep it your own.
And in a time
When men decide and feel safe
To call war insane,
Take one moment to embrace
Those gentle heroes
You left behind.
Written by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell, helicopter pilot;
1 January 1970, Dak To, Vietnam; KIA on March 24, 1970
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Our garden ~ May 28, 2006 |
Well, I remember working in the yard one Sunday, and a preacher came by saying,
"You shouldn't be laboring on Sunday." And I replied, "But gardening makes me think of Adam in the Garden of Eden." Here's our backyard from the "google" map satellite. It's the red-roofed house
that has the circular garden and two umbrellas:  Here's our backyard from the west wall looking east:  |
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Stand up! ~ May 18, 2006 |
"You have no civil liberties if you are dead," said Senator Pat Roberts--again--on May 18. I shall paraphrase the NRA: "You shall pry my civil rights from my cold, dead hands." I shall now quote Patrick Henry (a Founding Father if ever there was one): "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" One last quote: "...with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Who protected us on that fateful morning five years ago? Neither the president, nor his fawning, obsequious Congress,
nor his bedroom-intruding Judiciary, nor his vaunted military, nor his communication-monitoring, super-secret security
agencies could. Only the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 over Shanksville, Pennsylvania demonstrated "the right
stuff" that day. And they didn't even have security clearances. |
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I admit it: I was wrong ~ May 16, 2006 |
Here's the correction: a dodecahedronis a twelve-sided solid with each plane having five edges; it is the icosahedron that has twenty sides with each plane having three edges. Now, what I hate is when people assuming I'm trying to be an asshole when I'm simply ignorant of the facts. I'm more than willing to admit an error. |
Juxtaposition of words and pictures... ~ May 14, 2006 |
The alien visitor stood at the doorway to his strange craft and told the
assembled crowd, "...the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated.
There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act
irresponsibly. ...For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to ...preserve the peace. ...we have given
them absolute power over us. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. ...if you threaten to extend your
violence, ...(you) will be reduced to a burned-out cinder."
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The wheels on the truck... ~ May 10, 2006 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. said... ~ May 8, 2006 |
Sunday evening catblogging... ~ May 7, 2006 |
Linking to an animated gif... ~ May 5, 2006 |
Can a rogue bull elephant... ~ May 1, 2006  ...ever really be on your side...? |
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