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
Now, wouldn’t this be a good time for one of the Princes to show up in uniform, Corporal in tow.
YGTBSM.
Hearts of rotting oak.
So it’s company policy, eh? I’d love to be the hotel across the street — I’d make the company policy of my competition known far and wide. I’m talking billboards, radio ads, notes to all the travel agents. Heck, I might even buy ads for them in the major media:
“Welcome to the Parsimonious Arse, where company policy says we don’t serve those who serve us.”
One vote we all have is when we spend coin of the realm, and that vote happens daily rather than every four or six years.
– Max
I have a feeling I’ll be flamed for this but in the interests of balance;
“Refused accom as hotel had a “treat with caution” policy following multiple incidents with soldiers from the local barracks staying there. Regardless of the individuals circumstances, it was allegedly poor behaviour on the part of members of the British Army that caused the policy to be imposed in the first place. ”
Not that it is an excuse in this case, I’ll be damned if I take some desk clerks side over a serviceman home from active duty.
Saw this a few days ago. And, yes, I know why there is the prohibition on service members.
But I wonder. . .would they even have tried this if it was found that blacks/Hispanics/muslims/etc. were found to cause more damage than the general population??
I mean, this IS the country that won’t show puppies in their ads or allow eating during Ramadan, for fear of offending tender sensibilities.
Flat,
Heard that.
Oh yeah on the Kipling. Plaster saints they ain’t, and yep, those uniforms are starvation cheap, judging by what I’ve read of ammo and other shortages.
I write as one whose copy of Kipling’s works is so old that it actually has the Swastika on the cover. (printed in nineteen twenty-something)