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
Sounds really, really good to me! More like that.
I’d rather send our nuanced Attorney General, Eric Holder, in there to do the job with just one bullet. Less collateral damage that way. And if Eric doesn’t get back out?
The company’s out-reach program is showing positive results.
Reminds me of a few good quotes from ” The Peacemaker” starring George Clooney & Nicole Kidman – Clooney played Col. Thomas Devoe, a rather salty & impulsive warrior.
[Devoe phones Kodoroff, who is driving a truck loaded with stolen nuclear warheads]
Devoe: You watched CNN during Desert Storm. You remember all those television shots from the nose cone of the GBU missiles slammin’ into those trucks? Remember that picture? How it kept gettin’ closer and bigger on the screen… You’d just about see the faces of those drivers and then… Zap! The picture went dead, we didn’t get to see what happened next. Well guess what, Alek? You will.
Never fear, our ever helpful ACLU has just launched a massive FOIA court suit seeking–don’t laugh–the Constitutional justification that allows such drone attacks to take place. Also to include names of all in Command structure, etc. Wonderful. Just lovely, don’t you think? True patriots just trying to improve our nation one law-suit at a time…
Oh, Miranda missiles…