Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Hoping the New Year brings you and yours joy and peace.
Thanks, Seawitch – the same to you and yours.
Echoing seawitch with hopes the New Year brings you peace, hope and joy.
Didn’t see any fancy slide show for Navy… but recycling is always good …you could point to October’s All Hands ‘Navy – Any Day’ issue.
~ Warm New Year Regards to you and yours.
http://www.news.navy.mil/media/allhands/acrobat/ah200510.pdf
To better days, Sir!
While 2005 wasn’t an all bad year for me, I will be glad to see it go for the sake of people around me.
So for you Lex, I say to 2005 – get going and don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
All the best wishes from New England for a better 2006 – filled with peace, prosperity and recovery.
again with the football game? kinda unseemly to be bringing that one up still…
you are correct, it was a year we are best done with.
Best wishes for the new one, and we’ll have at it again next Dec 2nd, (right after we mop up the Irish)…
http://www.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/army/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/06fbsked