The trouble with doing something right the first time, is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I know this post is kind of random and out of the blue, but I was listening to someone on the radio making some ignorant statements and I had some thoughts I wanted out of my head…

I understand that some countries don’t like the US. I also understand that this is almost universally true when it comes to countries that lack freedom (Iran, N. Korea, China, the former USSR, etc).

But how can it ever come as a surprise to anyone when the US decides to take action? Let’s face it, you know if you’re a friend or a foe of the US LONG before anything happens.

46 years ago President Kennedy said:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of freedom.”

Am I supposed to believe the world thinks we changed our minds?
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“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

- Thomas Jefferson

During a presidential debate with Al Gore in 2000 Bush said the following:

“If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem.”

Now here is a quote from the incredibly one-sided Paul Sperry over at AntiWar.com:

The day after the presidential debate, in an interview with NBC’s Tim Russert, candidate Bush stressed that a “big difference” between him and Gore was “on the nation-building concept.”

“If he means using troops all around the world to serve as social workers, or policeman, or, you know, school-walk crossing guards, I’m not for that,” Bush clucked. “And I don’t think America is for that either. I think America wants judicious use of our military.”

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Everyone is born an original, but most die copies.

- Abraham Lincoln

A while back I wrote about one of the most inspiring stories I’ve ever heard about, the father and son team of Richard Hoyt and Richard Hoyt Jr. Well, in the June 2007 issue of Men’s Health magazine Richard Jr. published a huge father’s day letter to his dad. I figured it would be appropriate to share given that we’re only a week away.

You have to realize that it takes an extraordinary effort for him to communicate in this manner, so the length and eloquence of the message are moving.
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

– Samuel Crothers

Most of the following list of insults from famous people came from Joe-ks.com and I thought they were funny enough to warrant publishing.

I’ll also be posting a few other oldies but goodies soon. Enjoy!

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

- Clarence Darrow

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”

- Groucho Marx

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

- Mark Twain

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Could it be that people have always thought that the “youth of today” are different than each of us was as a child?

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

I got the following e-mail passed to me the other day, and though I don’t usually condone the propagation of false information, this is just too funny not to share…

T. Bubba Bechtol, a part time City Councilman from Midland, TX, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the terrorist prisoners.

His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience. “If by hooking up an Terrorist prisoner’s scrotum to a car’s battery cables will save one American GI’s life, then I have just two things to say”:
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