The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.


Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant'.


The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.

my favorite quote to Redd. "If you fall out of that tree I'll break your legs"

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

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THANKSGIVING MENUS AND TIPS

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"As the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for present weakness.

"The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities. Such was the fate of the bankers. They were fair game for Congressional committees, courts, the press and comedians."

-John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929. First published in 1954

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THANKSGIVING MENUS AND TIPS

A GREAT PLACE TO SHOP

"I have ever considered the constitutional mode of election ultimately by the Legislature voting by States as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit and give us a pope and antipope."

Thomas Jefferson, 1823

Jefferson's opposition to the Electoral College

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

~~ Walt Whitman

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"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)

Special thanks to foundit66

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins

Some "timely" quotes from Lincoln as we ponder the election

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Most of us recognize the fact that today's challengers love America. Their vision for our future may vary but they love this great nation...

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins

“Whether it’s George W. Bush or Barack Obama, this baton works the same way.”--A D.C. policeman last night trying to corral the unruly and excited Obama revelers in the streets last night.

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future"....JFK

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins