thought for the day

[nagarifle]

Friendship is like pi**ing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth

[TwoRivers]

"You can pick your friends; and you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose."

Grant Lortie

[nagarifle]

[nagarifle]

"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
~ Attributed to Abraham Lincoln

[nagarifle]

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

[weapon247]

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

LOL

[nagarifle]

“A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.” — Melvin R. Laird

[nagarifle]

“You can only govern men by serving them.” — Victor Cousin

[nagarifle]

if you walk with the wise you will become wise.
Salomon

[nagarifle]

“The nobility of policing demands the noblest of character” — Stephen Covey

[nagarifle]

The Virginia ratifying convention met from June 2 through June 26, 1788. Edmund Pendleton, opponent of a bill of rights, weakly argued that abuse of power could be remedied by recalling the delegated powers in a convention. Patrick Henry shot back that the power to resist oppression rests upon the right to possess arms:

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.

Henry sneered,

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone...Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation...inflicted by those who had no power at all?

[gunnera4]

nagarifle,
i think i should be distressed that so many people outside america know more of american history, and the wisdom of our founders, than many americans do in these times. our schools seem not to teach our own history anymore.

(edit: corrected typo)

[nagarifle]

nagarifle,
i think i should be distressed that so many people outside america know more of american history, and the wisdom of our founders, than many americans do in these times. our sghools seem not to teach our own history anymore.

USA is not the only one, UK, etc have the same problem. Today the history is swept under the carpet, as many Government do not want its people to have the fundamental rights which the founding father approved of and implemented.

as the old saying goes, (which i just made up)' he who welds the stick controls the donkey and eats the carrot also'

[eljefe]

beware beautiful women in black satin underwear-words of wisdom from my grandfather-vet of tobruk

[nagarifle]

beware beautiful women in black satin underwear-words of wisdom from my grandfather-vet of tobruk

was this before or after your grandfather found the beautiful women in the black satin underwear?

sorry eljefe, i eat all the bread pudding