Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831)
Happy Birthday, sir!
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
The Top Three Myths About Immigration
Mister Excitement sorta explodes some myths....
As my friend Neil pointed out to me elsewhere, Mister E doesn't explode the last one at all -- in fact he admits immigration suppresses wages, just diverts the argument from there saying it suppresses wages in the two extremes, while most homegrown Americans are in the middle.
As my friend Neil pointed out to me elsewhere, Mister E doesn't explode the last one at all -- in fact he admits immigration suppresses wages, just diverts the argument from there saying it suppresses wages in the two extremes, while most homegrown Americans are in the middle.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
KIRBY KRACKLE "Ring Capacity" (Green Lantern Song) Official Music Video
In brightest day!
In blackest night!
This video is all right!
In blackest night!
This video is all right!
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman!
Freedom
IT is not only true that most people entirely misunderstand Freedom, but I sometimes think I have not yet met one person who rightly understands it. The whole Universe is absolute Law. Freedom only opens entire activity and license under the law. To the degraded or undevelopt—and even to too many others—the thought of freedom is a thought of escaping from law—which, of course, is impossible. More precious than all worldly riches is Freedom—freedom from the painful constipation and poor narrowness of ecclesiasticism—freedom in manners, habiliments, furniture, from the silliness and tyranny of local fashions—entire freedom from party rings and mere conventions in Politics—and better than all, a general freedom of One’s-Self from the tyrannic domination of vices, habits, appetites, under which nearly every man of us, (often the greatest brawler for freedom,) is enslaved. Can we attain such enfranchisement—the true Democracy, and the height of it? While we are from birth to death the subjects of irresistible law, enclosing every movement and minute, we yet escape, by a paradox, into true free will. Strange as it may seem, we only attain to freedom by a knowledge of, and implicit obedience to, Law. Great—unspeakably great—is the Will! the free Soul of man! At its greatest, understanding and obeying the laws, it can then, and then only, maintain true liberty. For there is to the highest, that law as absolute as any—more absolute than any—the Law of Liberty. The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws, namely, the fusion and combination of the conscious will, or partial individual law, with those universal, eternal, unconscious ones, which run through all Time, pervade history, prove immortality, give moral purpose to the entire objective world, and the last dignity to human life.
Walt Whitman
Freedom
IT is not only true that most people entirely misunderstand Freedom, but I sometimes think I have not yet met one person who rightly understands it. The whole Universe is absolute Law. Freedom only opens entire activity and license under the law. To the degraded or undevelopt—and even to too many others—the thought of freedom is a thought of escaping from law—which, of course, is impossible. More precious than all worldly riches is Freedom—freedom from the painful constipation and poor narrowness of ecclesiasticism—freedom in manners, habiliments, furniture, from the silliness and tyranny of local fashions—entire freedom from party rings and mere conventions in Politics—and better than all, a general freedom of One’s-Self from the tyrannic domination of vices, habits, appetites, under which nearly every man of us, (often the greatest brawler for freedom,) is enslaved. Can we attain such enfranchisement—the true Democracy, and the height of it? While we are from birth to death the subjects of irresistible law, enclosing every movement and minute, we yet escape, by a paradox, into true free will. Strange as it may seem, we only attain to freedom by a knowledge of, and implicit obedience to, Law. Great—unspeakably great—is the Will! the free Soul of man! At its greatest, understanding and obeying the laws, it can then, and then only, maintain true liberty. For there is to the highest, that law as absolute as any—more absolute than any—the Law of Liberty. The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws, namely, the fusion and combination of the conscious will, or partial individual law, with those universal, eternal, unconscious ones, which run through all Time, pervade history, prove immortality, give moral purpose to the entire objective world, and the last dignity to human life.
Walt Whitman
Monday, May 30, 2011
DecorationDay/Memorial Day
Interesting article about its origin here.
For the wiki entry, go here.
Taps
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Speaking of A-Holes...
Our fathers and mothers fought, died and bled for THIS?
One of the nice side benefits of David Brin's "Transparent Society." The All-Seeing Eye is on THE MAN as well as us.
One of the nice side benefits of David Brin's "Transparent Society." The All-Seeing Eye is on THE MAN as well as us.
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