Winged Wheeler

"Because I couldn't go for three."

Woody Hayes

(OSU, already up big, scored a late TD against Michigan and Hayes opted not to kick a PAT, but instead tried for the 2 point conversion. After the game the press asked him "why he went for two?")

WW

MD10PLT

My too fravorite Mark Twain quotes:

"Lawyers are people who make a living out of trying to figure out what other lawyers are trying to say".

"I don't like to commit about heaven and hell. You see, I have friends in both places".

jungle

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

"What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"
— Robert A. Heinlein

Convairator

If you need 2 yards, I'll get you 3.
If you need 10 yards, I'll get you 3.

- Leroy Hoard (cleveland browns)

The chruch is near, but the road is icey. The bar is far, but I will walk carefully.

-Proverb

TimoC

When faced with a crisis, politicians like to use the term “uncharted territory” when framing their response. This, they hope, absolves them of any consequences stemming from well-intentioned mistakes they might make along the way.

But really, there’s very little new under the sun:

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.– John Adams

2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.– Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.– Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.– Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.– George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.– G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.– James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.– Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.– P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.– Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.– Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.– Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! — P.J.. O’Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. — Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!– Pericles (430 B.C..)

16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap..except when Congress does it.– Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.– Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.– Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.– Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class….save Congress.– Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.– Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.– Gerald Ford

Droog

"Statistics are like bikinis. They can be very revealing but what they cover up is vital." -Unknown

KC135guy

When the government fears the people, there will be freedom. When the people fear the government, there will be tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

SGT Alfredson, why do you say, "on wing"? The engine in the F-16 is not on the wing. anonymous maintenance officer

contrails

Don't marry for money. Hang around the rich and marry for love.

jungle

Deckard: She's a replicant, isn't she?
Tyrell: I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
Deckard: I don't get it, Tyrell.
Tyrell: How many questions?
Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?
Deckard: [realizing Rachael believes she's human] She doesn't know.
Tyrell: She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?



Tyrell: [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan] The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Batty: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks.
Batty: What about EMS recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkalating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
Batty: Then a repressor protein; that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation, and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you, you're the prodigal son; you're quite a prize.
Batty: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraodinary things; revel in your time.
Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't put you in heaven for.

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[last lines]
Deckard: [narrating] Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special. No termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... Who does?

alarkyokie

History doesn't repeat itself,but it rhymes..
M.Twain

When faced with an unwinnable situation, minimize your losses.
And leave no record.
O.North


"You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not." Dr.Seuss(1904-1991)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A.C.C. rip
"The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke