GNR, Chopin, Mozart, Muddy Waters, etc, etc, etc...

its all crap.......but it's something to do...

Casablanca

The Book Thief

Go raibh maith agat - Gaelic for "May you have a thousand good things."


"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."
-- Saul David Alinsky


There is no solution that will please everyone. Why are we pretending there is?



"Always do what you are afraid to do."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
-- Confucius


"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."
-- Oscar Wilde


"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
-- Aesop---- This is a foolish philosophy that lead to WWII

"Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."
-- Rodan of Alexandria

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
-- Betty Bender


"There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear."
-- Napolean Bonaparte

John Kennedy, Jan 20, 1961:

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

John McCain at Annapolis, April 2, 2008:

We are the heirs and caretakers of freedom; a blessing preserved with the blood of heroes down through the ages. One cannot go to Arlington Cemetery and see name upon name, grave upon grave, row upon row, without being deeply moved by the sacrifice made by those young men and women.

And those of us who live in this time, who are the beneficiaries of their sacrifice, dare not forget what they did and why they did it, lest we lose our own love of liberty.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Captain America