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
I’ve already told my husband, who takes over the TV on weekends for football watching, not only of pro games, but also of selected college games, that this Saturday is sacred to my watching the Army-Navy game. He looked at me with wide eyes and said, “but that’s a really good game and I would be watching it anyway.”
Whatever.
Marianne
Geez, Marianne…don’t be handing over evidence of “that’s just the way they are” for us guys to toss back as a contraian nature of the feminine type.
Dangerous, indeed, ’round these parts.
Yeah, and BEAT ARMY!
I haven’t checked the schedules yet, but there’s another game I’ll need to be watching… maybe there won’t be a conflict.
Go Navy & ROLL TIDE!!
I’m conflicted. Of course I want to say “Go ARMY, Beat navy.
But the only West Point has ever done for me was send me Second Lieutenants, and I’m not sure I can forgive them for that…
Brad…I’m right there with you. Based on the 2LTs that they keep sending to MacGyver’s company (that I keep having to break in because they get tasked to “help” the FRG), I’m tempted to root for Navy on this one.
Brad/HF6: where’s the love in this time of peril?!?! we need all parties acting in concert!
MissBirdlegs: evidently you must be mistaken, for there CAN NOT ever be a conflict. simply not allowed. wouldn’t be right. unseemly.
you may all now simonize your watches: as of now, there are 02days 21hr 02min until Army delivers the drubbing to those scurvy squids that they so richly deserve!
Been wearing the Army uniform for over 30 years and have yet to ever get excited about this particular game. ‘Course having been commissioned RA coming out of ROTC at a State University may have something to do with my lack of interest. Another up side of that was all the benefits w/o having to be institutionalized for four years… .
Lex,
This very short story author… by any chance did Mr. C mention that he was an F-4 guy in the old days?
Beat Army!
Go, you BLUE and GOLD!
BEAT Army!!!
Something in that story reminded me of the long ago rebuttal to the USAF statement about the F16 being the (then) spiritual successor to the F4. It was nicely crafted and put the lawn dart bunch nicely in their place. Too bad I’ve lost my original text of it. Anyone else remember it?
“Blackshoe stuff” is what makes “brownshoes” possible.
Remember Navy has a secret weapon in this game, Marines.
Go Navy
Big Foot Tom,
When they first came out the question was “How do you get hold of an F-16″
Buy two acres of land and wait…
For Sonarsenior. I’ve got around 3k hours in A4′s but the author of that short story was an F4 bubba.
Bill C, welcome to LORC. We keep growing and growing.
xairboss
LORC ? Can the flight surgeon make it go away?
Bill C- Yow! Had not heard that one. After a full career in the USN (AVCM) F11′s, A6′s, A7′s, and the last GMU, I retired and had my second career in the USAF. (Equivalent of NAESU-AFETS) Worked 111′s, EF’s, and 16′s. 16′s are still my least favorite collections of spare parts flying in close formation.
Bill C, I’m affraid that even the flight surgeon can’t fix this affliction – Lex’s Occasional Readers Club. Welcome aboard.
Bill C.,
Thanks. I am engaged to the daughter of an F-4 guy who would go by Bill C. He was Rug to his Bedeviler squadron mates.
btw: time now is 02d 01h 36m until.
..Beat Navy.
E Yat, I’m glad you ‘splained that. I must have missed it the first bout, best I could find was summat to do with the ‘Lord of Our Righteous Church’, which somehow didn’t scratch the itch.
Geo6, I’m with you… for me, and I would wager for the rest of the world it’s just such a Ho Hum event… Best
Lex, guess we’ll just have to update that dictionary you are using.
geo and snake eater,
I guess I never understood your sentiment (I’ve heard it from others, too). I realize you didn’t go to WP, but you certainly have more in common with those players than 99% of other athletes. I know if there was a team made up of ROTC cadets from random schools, I would root like heck for them over any other team of ATHLETE-students from football factory U.