“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul — and never will.” ~~ Mark Twain
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Quote of the Day — Laurence J. Peter
“Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.” ~~ Laurence J. Peter, author of The Peter Principle
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Quote of the Day — Octavia Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~~ Octavia Butler
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Quote of the Day — Keith Richards
“I outlived Michael Jackson. Bet you didn’t see that coming.” ~~ Keith Richards
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My new favorite way to eat fish
When I lived in Tulsa and Mississippi I fished quite a bit. When I lived in Memphis I did not due to traveling every weekend back to St. Louis. When I moved back to St. Louis initially I also did not fish much. Working 9 hour days and commuting 1 1/2 to 2 hours each work day did not leave a lot of free time. What free time I had I chose to expend else where.
Run the tape forward and now I am retired. I have started fishing again as every day is Saturday. Since the government sees my income as only social security they chose to send me a stimulus check I did not want or need. But since they sent the money, I was going to cash it. “Well then,” I said, “Let’s spend it on something vaguely foolish.” I bought a fishing kayak made in the USA. I figured that would jump start the economy a wee bit. Owning the kayak Continue reading “My new favorite way to eat fish”
Quote of the Day — Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~~ Aristotle
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Quote of the Day — Margaret Chase Smith
“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act too impulsively without thinking.” ~~ Margaret Chase Smith
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Quote of the Day — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Finally, there is the matter of maintaining a respectable image of American life before the world! Among the qualities that the American government must exhibit is dignity. In turn the principle government spokesman must strive to display it. In war and in peace, I’ve no respect for the desk pounder, and have despised the loud and slick talker. If my own ideas and practices in this matter have sprung from weakness I do not know. But they were and are deliberate or, rather, natural to me. They are not accidental.” ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, letter to Henry Luce, August 1960
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Quote of the Day — Winston Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~~ Winston Churchill
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Quote of the Day — Jonathan Swift
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late.” ~~ Jonathan Swift
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