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
Snake:
I’m beginning that “Snackeater”‘s nic is obscene. I like yours better. Tasts like chicken and not fish. Best.
…so it’s better to snack on snake you say?
Snackeater (snak’ ee ter), n., former Snake Eater, in this case, Army Ranger (2d Bn), who, due to advancing years, eats more cheesepuffs than snakes (to which his fourth point of contact attests). But still a Snake Eater at heart.
Flit,
Re: “bias is where you find it.”
Your last about bias reminds me of that old Cheech and Chong schick about dog $#it. Looks like it, smells like it, feels like it, and tastes like it. But as the good progressive/liberal sez ” Good thing we didn’t step in it”.
Best,
GEO6
Aaahhh all is revealed…the clouds part… God’s in his heaven…All’s right with the world…a brother Dog/snake eater has arrived to hopefully assist we stalwart few, we band of brothers, we handsome rakes … in the thankless and never ending task of educating these myopic Naval Air Gomers on how the real ( read Grunt) world works… and as a bonus have some laughs in the process…a good group all around… Welcomen! Best
Season’s Greetings, Snake. That’s a Merry Christmas to you secularist weenies out there. You know who you are.
geo6, Merry Christmas to you…fellow DAT-Man. Best