Thought For the Day

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Redoverfarm

What's the saying about idle minds or hands.  Never can get it straight.  I am one that has to keep busy.  Nervous energy I guess.  I can't wait for the weekends to pass to get my hands and mind going again.  One day of R & R and I am fit to be tied.

considerations

This is really fun.  I'm taking a brain break from work to reply to off topic threads. 

There are so many different personalities on this site.  Perspectives are all so different, makes it interesting. 

I work from home, so my weekends are one day of play, building the cabin and developing the property. 

The other day is driving to Sequim to take care of my mother's "honey do" list.  We get along really well and it is always nice to spend time with her, but always in the background is the cabin, calling me.....calling me......."Oooooooooo I'm not finished........ooooooo come finish me......." 

I've been accused of being "driven", oh well, I get things done.


Redoverfarm

In essence I would say that I actually love working.  I also go to my parents to visit. Well you could call it that.  Since both are near or over 80 It is a project weekend.  Yes I visit and stay busy the whole time.  I think they really enjoy seeing be working on different things that need repaired , replaced or fixed.  And truely I wouldn't have it any other way.  If it makes them happy then I am happy.

glenn kangiser

Considerations, I have friends who have an old log house in Sequim.  Clawsons.

Looks like off topics is the number 2 forum here after the general -- which is the real reason for the site, but the off topics keeps the engines running and ready to work when a problem comes for the general forum--- not to mention --expanding the gray matter.

How appropriate-- the number 2 forum. ::) d*
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glenn kangiser

Be thankful for the transgressions of your ancestors.

That may be the only reason you are here.


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Sassy



'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Heather

We had grasped the great truth that it was not rifles, not tanks, and not atom bombs that created power, nor upon them that power rested. Power depended upon public obedience, upon a willingness to submit. Therefore each individual who refused to submit to force reduced that force by one 250 millionth of its sum. ...

We weren't playing politics, we didn't compose programs for the liberation of the people, we didn't found unions. ... Our sole weapon was publicity. Not propaganda but publicity, so that no one could say afterward, "I didn't know." The rest depended on each individual's conscience. Neither did we expect victory -- there wasn't the slightest hope of achieving it. But each of us craved the right to say to our descendants: "I did all that I could. I never went against my conscience."

Vladimir Bukovsky, To Build a Castle - My Life as a Dissenter

Redoverfarm

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.

If you can't eat it or play with it,

piss on it and walk away.


Sassy

"I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do."

Kit Bonds - Dow Jones News Service
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gandalfthegrey

  "Now I will tell you the answer to my question.  It is this.  The Party seeks power, entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested soley in power. We are different from all of the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing."

George Orwell 1984

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Bad Wolf

Sassy

Harry51 sent me this - I'd read it before but worth repeating - WILD PIGS

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means."   Calvin Coolidge

There was a Chemistry  professor in a large college that  had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof  noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man  what was the matter.  The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought  it was a joke and asked for the punch  line.  The young  man said this was no joke.. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on  the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn.  When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of  the place where they are  used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn a gain and you put up another side of the fence.  They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last  side.   The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their  freedom.  They run around and around inside the fence, but they  are caught.  Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for  themselves, so they accept their  captivity.

The young man then told the professor that  is exactly  what he sees happening  to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare,  medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms -  just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government's 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you  might want to  send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help  you when the gate slams shut!

In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you - just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."

-  Thomas Jefferson

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Redoverfarm

Oh so true.  They are also responsible for the blinders that we wear.   Can't see what is on the side of the road only what is in front of us and what they want us to see.

ScottA

Wise words Sassy. Good post.

Pox Eclipse

Quote from: Sassy on June 22, 2008, 11:32:29 AMThe young man then told the professor that  is exactly  what he sees happening  to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare,  medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms -  just a little at a time.

It seems to me it was not the free corn that took away the pig's freedom, but the hidden intent by the hunter to erect a fence.  The moral of the story is beware of sneaky fence builders, not free corn.  Fence builders use all sorts of deceptions.  Wariness of free corn is no substitute for knowing your adversary. 

Just my 2 cents.


glenn kangiser

Segal's Law

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
   
   
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 "A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores."

Terry Pratchett
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mvk


Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
  C.S. Lewis

I had been looking been looking for this one for a while couldn't remember exactly how it went or who first said it. I just found it on another forum.

Mike

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I want to be the man my dog thinks I am. 

glenn kangiser

"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen."

Bob Edwards
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"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."

William Ralph Inge
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Sassy

George Washington was right when he said:

"Private property and freedom are inseparable."

Private property, after all, begins with our physical person, extends to our thoughts, proceeds as our expression, becomes our action, and results in something we create or obtain. If an agent of force denies an individual the use of property, including land, that individual is also denied the liberty necessary to advance his or her own life. When the use of one's property and one's liberty has been squelched by big government, human life has been trampled.
  by Michael Shaw of "Liberty Gardens"
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Drew

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Siddhartha Buddha

Sassy

" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. "  Dwight D Eisenhower

for complete speech go to http://hubpages.com/hub/Dwight_Eisenhower_warned_about_the_Military-Industrial_Complex_1961
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Sassy

James Madison warned: "A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have always been the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."
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Drew

"I wish there was a Strong-Tie that would keep my wallet in my pocket." - Drew