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30 Days of the Founding Fathers – Day 25

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. — George Washington

 

My Take – Can’t really add much to this.  Washington pretty much gets to the point.  If the goblins of the world know that you have the tools and determination to defend yourself, they will tend to let you live in peace.

by daddybear71 on June 28, 2012  •  Permalink
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Today’s Earworm

 

I need something with a lot of synth and drums.

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News Roundup

  • From the “Silver and Gold” Department – Amateur treasure hunters in England recently found a horde of 30,000 to 50,000 gold and silver coins that date to the period of the Roman invasion.  Archaeologists have been able to keep the location of the trove a secret, and continue to excavate it in hopes of learning something new about late Iron-Age Celtic society.  Which reminds me.  I need to bury a few more jars of pennies in the field behind my house.  I do it to mess with 23rd century archaeologists.  I would love to read the papers about the ceremonial burial of copper coins, tin foil, and bottle caps in 21st century Kentucky.
  • From the “Sinking Ship” Department – A senior official in the Democrat Party has advised some of his brethren who are running for election in close races to not come to the party convention in Charlotte this summer.  He maintains it’s to keep them fighting in their districts.  My take is that if they’re locked in a tight race, they don’t want to get splashed with any of what’s going to be flying at the convention.  Let’s be honest, if you were in a tight race, would you want to have a picture of you fawning over Barack Obama shown to your constituents?
  • From the “No Donut” Department – A police officer in Florida was fired for sending text messages that warned a friend that he was about to get raided by the local SWAT team.  The friend, who was suspected of being a pimp and is confirmed to be an FBI informant, surrendered later without the drama of a kicked in door and a dead puppy.  I think the officer should be given a medal. He may have saved this valuable informant’s life by causing the SWAT raid to not happen.  The professional door-kicking, window smashing, grenade throwing operators of Plantation Florida just might have snapped after all of their high-speed, low-drag training paid off in the chance to actually take their M-4’s and balaclavas out of the trunk.  In other news, Officer Fife has been given not one, but two .38 Special’s to put in his breast pocket, and criminals throughout the greater Plantation area have reported trouble sleeping due the fear that this engenders.
  • From the “Stirring the Pot” Department – Kraft Food’s Oreo cookies are in the center of a crap-storm after an advertisement that seemed to promote gay rights was published.  Some people who oppose the message of the advertisement have pitched a fit, and are pledging to never buy Oreo’s again, boycott Kraft products in general, and to not slow down their car if they see an Oreo delivery man crossing the street.  I have seen no reports of grandmothers stroking out, heads of little children exploding, or showers of fire and brimstone over the Oreo factories, so I’m guessing this is all a tempest in a teapot.  Can’t we all just agree that the cookie part of an Oreo is wonderful, while the filling is too sweet and greasy to be fed to barnyard animals?
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Photo of the Day

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These are my people.

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30 Days of the Founding Fathers – Day 24

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. — Thomas Jefferson

My Take :

 

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Thoughts on the Day

  • If, while watching the human interest stories on the morning news, the following goes through your mind:  “If you are not going to die, then shut the heck up.  If you are going to die, then please get on with it and let the rest of us enjoy the rest of our lives”, then you can assume it’s going to be one of those days.
  • Giving me a ration of crap because I prefer to make my own coffee rather than drink the free coffee in the break room 15 minutes before you come ask me for a favor shows that you are the biggest optimist in the world, or maybe you’re just thick.  The jury is still out on that one, but it doesn’t look good.
  • Dear software engineers – If you put your software on a given operating system, please take the time to put your bloody programs in the standard places for things such as your latest doodad.  If you do not, you doom me to spending hours searching through multiple directories looking for a @#$!@!@ 25 line script that is used to turn your 1@#$!@# !@#$!2 !@$#!!234!@@$#!1@@!$!@#$! program on and off.
  • Also, the next time you fail to update your documentation for seven revisions of your software, thereby foiling my attempt to not spend hours looking for the aforementioned !@#$!@!@# script, I am going to find you and beat you to death with the leg bone of a Maltese whistling pony.
  • To the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, I hereby pledge that I will make it my life’s work to destroy your political careers and leave you destitute and friendless in Tibet.  Exactly what were you drinking when you decided to shove all of the traffic that normally gets on two of the three major highways in downtown Louisville onto my route home so that you could spend tax money moving broken concrete from one side of a bridge to another?  I sincerely hope your grandmothers were stuck in traffic with me this evening.
  • Tonight I got through the hardware store in record time, bought only what I had on my list, and escaped after spending only $21.  That’s some kind of personal record.
  • To the young man in the lumber department who caught the 17 2×4’s that I pulled down on myself before they cascaded down on my head and shoulders, thank you.  May your life contain all of the good things that would have otherwise happened to your co-worker who stacked the lumber like that.
  • Someday I will come home, pop open a beer, and sit down to watch televised sports to my hearts content.  Until that day happens, I will have to make do with opening a beer, leaving it in the kitchen, taking care of bath time, and watching Winnie the Pooh before remembering I opened a beer an hour ago.
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30 Days of the Founding Fathers – Day 23

I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.  — John Adams

 

My Take – The payoff for all of the blood, sweat, and treasure that has been expended to defend the Republic is that our children sleep secure at night, that they have hope to do better than we do if they only work hard, and that no person can claim primacy over another before the law.  It can be hard to see above the hard work and pain, but when we exercise our rights and defend the revolution, we are giving our children the world their ancestors provided us.

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Quote of the Day

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [“I am a Roman citizen”]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!” — President John F. Kennedy, 26 June, 1962.

Heute bin Ich auch Berliner.  Wann Mann sagt das er Freiheit liebt, dann ist er Berliner.  Wann jemand will in Friede leben, dann ist er Berliner.  Wenn wir fur Freiheit und Friede arbeiten, dann mussen wir immer sagen “Wir alle sind Berliner”.

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News Roundup

  • From the “Workplace Safety” Department – A force-on-force security exercise at a U.S. nuclear plant has been postponed after one of the security guards involved reported being light-headed from the gases created by blank ammunition.  Gee, I guess I’ve been lucky.  All these years of having blanks, Simunition, and training grenades used against me and the last thing going through my mind was “Hey, I feel a little woozy”.  Usually it’s either “Get the !@#$!@# out of the way!” or “Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!”.  One wonders whether the guards in question would request a MSDS from anyone actually attacking their plant with live ammunition. “Warning, use of this product can lead to bleeding, tissue damage, broken bones, and possibly death.”
  • From the “Interesting” Department – Food scientists in Brazil have announced that they have come up with a recipe for gluten-free pasta using banana flour.  They claim that their product has significantly less fat in it than regular pasta and contains more protein.  Here’s hoping this comes to market.  I don’t follow a gluten-free diet, but I know several people who do, and their fare can be a bit unappealing.  Of course, this begs the question – If the pasta is made with bananas, how does it taste with chocolate syrup and nuts?  Probably the same as just about everything else – delicious.
  • From the “Beachcombing” Department – Debris from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami continue to wash up on the west coast of North America.  Experts estimate that it will continue to be a problem for several years, and states are beginning to look to the federal government for help in cleaning up the mess.  This is one of the times I agree that a federal response is necessary.  This is going to be a big mess along a large section of our coast, and it could possibly be an ecological problem if invasive species get a toehold on the continent.  Plus, what are Oregon, Washington, and California going to do with the millions of Pokemon balls, karaoke machines, and marital aids shaped like mushrooms that are expected to come ashore in the coming months?
  • From the “Modest Proposal” Department – A woman in South Carolina recently testified about getting the bill for the cleaning of her son’s blood off of a roadway after he was killed by an illegal alien who was driving drunk.  The woman is suing the driver, who has been sent to prison, but expects to get nothing from her.  I have an idea:  Why not make the managers of the Immigrations and Customs agency personally responsible for any damages caused by illegal immigrants?  I bet you’d see a tall, nasty, sharp, pointy fence built paco tiempo, and the problem of illegal aliens in the country would dry up just as quickly if the head of ICE knew that he could be out millions for not doing his job.
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Thought for the Day

When your spouse is working from home, sexual harassment is actually not such a bad thing.

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