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
Let’s hear it for depraved Calvinist [or not] Western civilization! Hooray for us!
By the way … the market is up above 9000 today, although it could drop before 4 PM Eastern.
Marianne
Soon to be followed by Thanksgiving Day, where we gather to express our appreciation to the game and corn for growing despite the settlers best efforts to plunder the environment, and to the indigenous peoples for their magnificent forbearance in tolerating the new arrivals, overlooking disease, wickedness, murder and narrow-minded religious zealotry that they exhibited.
..and soon to be f0llowed in 53 and a butt days by the stalwart sons of liberty trouncing the junior service’s squidly spawn…
Go Army, Beat Navy.
I’m very active in a large national women’s organization and we sponsor various essay contests, of which I’m sure many here know of.
In high school, we sponsor a Christopher Columbus contest, where a topic is chosen, such as this year’s, “Discuss five perils faced by Christopher Columbus’ expedition(s) and how Columbus and his crew overcame them.”
God forbid should I ever get a public high school to participate. Every Christian high school and home school organization around will send us scads of essays (well written too), but the public schools? We go through the appropriate channels, the history departments, and year after year we hear, “We don’t participate because Christopher Columbus is personally responsible for the killing of Indians and the taking of their land…”
*blink*
No kidding.
True, Bou, but it doesn’t stop the NEA from taking the day off “to celebrate,” now does it!
Work day.
Gotta make cars…(well design ‘em anyway).
Work day for me, too. People still need crowns and bridges for their mouths.
Uncle Sugar thinks it’s a great day to give a break to a humble T-44 driver. Makes me appreciate both my employer and Sr. Colon a bit more.
The wife? She opted to work through this one. . .for time and a half. So, yeah, no issues with Columbus here.
Actually, I think we need more personalized-three-day-wknd-holidays. Jesse Jackson day, anyone??
I work for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. We got the 8th off to celebrate culture day.
I’m still holding out for Lief Ericson day – being that the Vikings got here first and that good old Chris only got here because he was lost.
My wife and her Italian relatives are never amused by that theory.
Anyways, the day was spent testing people to see if they were fit to return to work.
Glenn Reynolds should be happy he doesn’t have to defend Orientalist Admiral Zheng He, and a national Zheng He holiday here.
….. That is if one can begin to believe former Royal British sub commander Gavin Menzies’s very controversial book, 1421 – The Year China Discovered America…. 70 years before Columbus.