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
Mmmmmmm tasty. Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewey on the inside. And pudding for dessert!
Call Sarah, we need more bears!
Man-o-man, all those Black Bears over-running places like Penn. with bears in every ones back yard? Get out the tranq. guns and strap parachutes on ‘em, load ‘em onto a C-17/141 and parachute ‘em in. LOTs
of caves to make their home and muy crunchies for them to frolic with….A
GREAT “secret” weapon with which to terrorize terrorists!
I think if I saw a bear coming at me in a cave, I’d make pudding, too!
Reminds me of the scene in “Cryptonomicon” in which Shaftoe was about to get splattered, when the Nip machine-gunners in the cave were fortuitously, nay, deus-ex-mechanically, eaten by giant lizards.
There are those who say that the Muj ain’t sh!t…how wrong they are – at least in the case of the two who got eaten…
When hunting dangerous game it is often said that the ideal time to strike is when their attention is elsewhere, such as when eating or focused upon a potential mate.
The bear seems to have known this. The tool-using, smartest-animal-on-the-planet living in the cave? Not so much.
– Max
Doesn’t the Koran forbid Muslims from being eaten by a bear? Guess no virgins for them.
Reminds of a bummper sticker the daughter of old friends used to have:
Beware of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.