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
It would work better, of course, if the DOC could be individually timed to fit the optimum points in a woman’s cycle. Guess they missed that little point.
Central planning strikes again….
Any excuse for a day off is good.
“Honey, its our patriotic duty”…………
1 more day forward [13th] and my Birthday would have had an entirely new meaning!
That’s a Wednesday this year. Gives a WHOLE new meaning to ‘hump day’.
The sad part of this situation is that the average marriageable Russian male is an Alcoholic with little chance of reproductive success. ie. raising a child to fruition as a productive member of their society, much like the vaunted and esteemed minority cultures inhabiting the margins of American society.
I think I will look for a wife in Russia, after I get done with the Iraq imbroglio.
Scandinavian good looks,Educated, and aware of their Femininity. What’s not to like?
As we discussed a few months ago, Russia is facing a demographic melt down.
This isn’t good for anyone…
The Soviet Union used to give medals to women who had ten children. They were “Mother Heroines of the Soviet Union.
Casca, the Nazis used to do that, too. Hell, I think the French government still ceremoniously presents actuall governmental metallic money to a Frenchwoman who successfully reproduces. Maybe if she’da married a better class of guy, he could do that, without involving the State.
Oh, and what is it with you presumably productively employed people?
Here I am, an admitted slacker and retired weird person, and I therefore write my notes to y’all in the middle of the night, when I feel all comfy and relaxed, and all.
I note, though, from clues you people have dropped, that most of y’all are gainfully employed, and senior enough to work day-job hours.
Nobody seems to reply to my late-night postings, even if it’s early in the Pacific time zone.
It does seem, to me, that most of the comments posted here, are posted during working hours by people who claim to have actual jobs.
Are most of you people cheating yer employers by surfing fun stuff when you ought to be working? Like in the day time?
Hey, I actually *am* a slacker. Most of you folks claim to be gainfully, if not usefully, employed.
Get to work you! (as Matt Groening said it.
JTS-
It’s not yet dinnertime here.
JTG, On occasion I’ve attempted, with mixed success, to reply to some of your comments… but now I usually opt not too…your unique, self-contained and somewhat off-center remarks makes this difficult…but never fear old sport I read them all and they never fail to entertain or bring a smile to this old dogs face…so keep commenting. Best
“Oh, and what is it with you presumably productively employed people?”
JTG – what with the subject of this post and all, your assumption about “productively” takes on a whole new meaning…
“It does seem, to me, that most of the comments posted here, are posted during working hours by people who claim to have actual jobs.”
So um, what’s your point exactly? Work hard, play harder is what I say… ICSFTH
Hey, I get some of my best online reading done at the office. Way less destractions than at home!
WARNING … I think I will just insert an actual own cloying smiley face thingy
We have a “Reasonable Internet Use” section in our employee handbook.
I’d say this falls under that heading.
Quite a commentary on modern progress and laughably similar to our own “how to” progressives. Govt reminding folks to propagate the species…Those Orwell translations should have been released from the warehouse by now..(-*
Snake, I’ll admit to being a bit strange and/or weird. I was also right ethylised at the time I wrote that. Even Bud Light can affect one’s mind, if he drinks enough of it in a short enough span of time.
I thank you for your indulgence, sir.
Kris, and Michelle: Aarckgk! Gurl Cooties!
Jtg, I am at the moment self employed, so I can do whatever the helk I want.
TBS, this blog surfing thing, can lead to procrastination.
unkawill, I’ve been a self employed solo practioner since 1985…answerable to no higher authority or chain of command other than the law, my maker and of course the big boss… my Bride.
Heady times mostly…like walking a tightrope with-out a net… a fine line indeed exists between being self- employed and being unemployed…it truly focuses the mind…
so if I decide, during a typical day, to take a break ( I take many) put my feet up on the desk and read NR/AmSpec/TWS or whatever or comment here I can and no walled-eyed pecker-head will write me up or comment upon my slackness in an OER or Fitness Report…
to be the Master of Your Own Domain (no Sienfield jokes please ) is true narvana…a place to which I hope some here, in very different circumstances, come to experince. Best
PS, JTG, “Aarckgk! Gurl Cooties”?? all from Bud Light…simply amazing
SE, I have found that being self employed, I tend to work about twice as much as the average bear.
Not only do you have to all of the physical work, the Government mandated Admin requirements amount to a second FULL Time Job.
Uncompensated of course.
I am looking forward to my impending deployment to Iraq next Monday, 12 hour work days,instead of 15-16, 3 times the pay and pretty much the only paper work I’ll have to do is filling out my time sheet and vehicle inspection report.
unkawill
Take a break…. and go to war!
Who would’uv thunk it??
ROTFL!
My ship once spent 38 days in Subic Bay.
The transit to and slow circles at NSAR were rest.
Michelle, go read my latest entry on my blog to get a taste of what my last week has been.
Snake, maybe it was electrolyte depletion messing with my neurochemistry. The stuff *is* almost entirely water, y’know.
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P.s. There’s a reason why Texans sprinkle salt on the tops of their cans of Lone Star.
I do wonder if those boys are getting enough potassium, though.