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
So sad. But not surprising. Just goes to show that
an inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning will not be blessed in the end
Illinois began their state lottery 1986. Within four years, they established a special credit counseling agency for lottery winners because so many of the “winners” were ending up bankrupt. At one time , a study indicated that the poorest 10% of the population bought 47% of all the lottery tickets.
I take it this will not be the preferred method for our host to get the new Aviat Husky so it’s back to working on “The Book”!
Was he pronounced missing on or about the 15th of March? Just wunnerin.
Really sad to read about this. Selling one’s soul for a mess of pottage. The horror of something like this would fill me for the rest of my life.
Hmm. The language on the boyfriend’s Facebook page appears to be Albanian. Although I don’t speak Albanian, when I fed Google some phrases from his Facebook page, it coughed up a list of sq.* servers; and “sq” is the two-letter ISO language code for Albanian. The orthography of his Facebook text closely resembles that of the Albanian sq.websites.
Pure speculation: The boyfriend, on whose property the body was found, might be connected to Albanian organized crime, and/or to Islamic terrorist groups. More probably, the boyfriend is merely another garden-variety specimen of lowlife scum, like the “girlfriend”.
Just a poor soul that hit the jackpot and unprepared for all the “friends” coming out of the woodwork when he’s buying. Sad. As for the parasites that prey on others, Hell exists for a reason.
Woman charged. Story from today’s Ft. Lauderdale based Sun Sentinal newspaper
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-dead-lottery-winner,0,1330810.story