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
Lex,
It’s always funny to me how those who argue the strongest for “Choice” seem to be also in the forefront to deny it to those who disagree with their views.
In other words, what they are arguing in support of is allowing THEM to make our CHOICES for us. Sort of like the way PBS and the other old media “inform” os of the news….. What THEY feel is important. Gag.
Respects,
WFB – “I would rather be governed by the first two-thousand names in the Boston
telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard.”
Nice pithy close there Lex.
Geez, what will the Times’ nomenklatura do for work as they are inevitably displaced by bloggers like Yon and Roggio?
Hold signs that say “Will Whine for Latte”?
This arrogance Lex points out is far from just in the media of newspapers, television, books, or movies. This arrogance is rooted deeply in our education systems now, so much so that very little American history is taught as fact, just the “mean, old, bad white males did bad things” meme is deriguer there.
It is the arrogance of elitism. Where it was by blood in the past with royalty and peerage, now it’s with anti-Americanism and education. The higher your education and the more anti-American you are, the more arrogant.
We’re infested with people who haven’t a clue about life in general who insist that their world view is the correct and only one. “How dare you disagree with my superiority, you lowly ignorant paeon? Don’t you know who I am?”
I like it when someone tries to pull this non-arguement with me, because I have the chops to be their equal when they think I’m a back-country hick who’s never traveled or seen “the world.” I’ve seen more and done more than they’ve read about. Of course, what I’ve done is beneath them, but I know whereof I speak and they know I can challenge them with authority. They hate that and resort to namecalling.
Most people around here are fairly civil in discussion; we’re rural enough that the truly obnoxious wouldn’t dream of even thinking about us.