bq. “Life can be a do-it-yourself project, or life can be built by your Father in Heaven. The choice is yours to make freely. Personally, I rely on the Carpenter of the cosmos to step in when I forget to ‘measure twice, cut once.'” –your humble host
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“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” –Thomas Jefferson
“Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young people, and I will tell you what the character of the next generation will be.” –Edmund Burke
There is some hope from young people out there. I’m privileged to know one.
(I suppose what’s also sad is that I’ll be 33 in December and apparently no longer see myself as a “young person.”)
“I will not read it, I will not buy it, I will not subsidize Hillary Clinton’s retirement… Obviously this is a fictional version of what happened in the White House for eight years.” –Sen. Jim Bunning (R.-Ky.), on Hillary Clinton’s new book, June 11, 2003
Here, here!
Now, if anyone wishes to buy the book for me, I would be happy to review it…
“Following someone’s blog is like doing a TiVo season pass for a person.” —Rael Dornfest
“I’m getting more famouser by the day.” –Avril Lavigne
“I quit flying five years ago. Personally, I don’t want to die with tourists.” –Billy Bob Thornton
As reported in the 5 May 2003 issue of Us Weekly.
“The London Guardian found documents showing Paris fed intelligence to Baghdad before the war. Iraq got diplomatic secrets and military guidance from France. Who else could have taught the Iraqis how to lose their entire country in two weeks?” —Argus Hamilton
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” –Winston Churchill
“This flag…the symbol of the hopes of man. This cloth of dreams for freedom, justice and opportunity. Its stars like beacons guiding us through shoals of adversity. Its red stripes like wounds of struggle.
“The good in it cannot be had for nothing…like any garden, it must be tended…like any loved one it must be held. Hold high this flag and keep its promise bright, for in it lies the best of hope for all of us.” –Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey creator
(Thanks, Carrie.)
“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace.” –Thomas Jefferson