The World From Above: The Beauty Of Aerial Photography @ Smashing Magazine
The problem with the net for most people my age is Who do you chat with when all your old friends are dead; and What can you find to chat about with anyone younger ? For the first you need belief in some hereafter and a good medium and for the second a lot more knowledge about what is now called music, promiscuous sex and binge drinking – none of which oldies know about because we only lived so long by avoiding such. - VIA:[Cole Henley]: Why I love my Granddad
Legend says that, at the very moment of solstice, it is not only the sun that stops. If you are in a silent place, with a quiet mind and a stilled heart, you can hear the earth catch her breath and pause, as she waits for the sun to turn and move, beginning his ageless journey toward the spring.
"Democrat Joe Biden told CNN that he got a promise from Barack Obama that he would be in on âevery critical decision.â That shows two fools. Biden for believing it and Obama for putting a heartbeat from the presidency someone that gullible." -- Don Surber
"Apathy is the great enemy of self-rule. Indeed, it is absolutely antithetical to it. Apathy allows all sorts of grotesqueries to rise to power—which explains vermin like Barney Frank and Harry Reid. Only an apathetic people would allow such men to ride herd over them. It reveals a disinterest in public affairs that no Republic can survive."
Posted by Vanderleun at December 21, 2008 11:02 PM
The Strata-Sphere is limp.
Posted by: james wilson at December 22, 2008 6:09 AMYeah, I agree with AJ, some of us, knocked the Republicans for real and imagined shortcomings, without having a viable substitute plan. They didn't consider that the other side, would have a solution they would propose by megaphone; throw the baby out with the bathwater. They will come to rue the consequences of their. . . They went after Bush on spending, the Iraq occupation, New Orlean's inability to be a shining city on a hill after Katrina, they were part of the lynch mob against McCain, who couldn't settle on a challenger. Who I am kidding, they already in part in the process of starting to pick apart at
Sarah,whatever the left hasn't already done,Some of the concerns I exposed in that "Code of the West" thread, have in part come true; they burned
down her church, while people were inside!
Sadly despite the facts she's exceeded all their expectations, and fought the fights they were unwilling to take up; they'll find her wanting.
I forget when you introduced this line, Gerald, but it's quite prophetic or pathetic. I can't decide which.
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