Here’s your Fourth of July weekend All-American quote:
“A hot dog at the ball game beats roast beef at The Ritz.” – Humphrey Bogart
What do you got?
Here’s your Fourth of July weekend All-American quote:
“A hot dog at the ball game beats roast beef at The Ritz.” – Humphrey Bogart
What do you got?
“No man who works for someone else is ever paid too much.” –Babe Ruth
Nice.
fox news hosts, perhaps?
Most of Congress works for us, and since so many of them get rich while in office, they may be paid too much.
Many (most?) CEOs of publicly traded companies get large salaries plus huge bonuses. Bond traders and brokers?
Carly Fiorina was definitely paid too much when employed by HP.
‘Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’
“Those who respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.”–Mark Twain.
Just as it’s always been…just as it’s always been.
AG
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton
As the workers who make hot dogs say at the store, “Get this brand. I know what’s in those; I work there.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
– Albert Camus
Spoken of a tragic and heroic conflict that ended 152 years ago yesterday.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
I volunteered in 5th grade to memorize that speach get on stage and present it to my classmates parents. It was what i would define as traumatic. My mom hated me for being so stupid. I’m a 63YO now and not a bit smarter. This in my world is bravery.I want to thank all of you for educating me.I would love to name each of you individually but with that ego aside we need community.
For Booman:I hear you say you are right about this and that and it seems to be a deal with you. Please do not worry about beeing right. Just continue to be honest and true.Yes I love bees 2
“No When To Hold’em, When To Fold’em”
Optimism- “To balance our budget in 1933 or 1934 or 1935 would have been a crime against the American people. To do so we should have had to levy a capital tax which would have been confiscatory, or we should have had to set our face against human suffering with callous indifference. When Americans suffered, we refused to pass by on the other side. Humanity came first. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cynicism- “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
Brats, beer, and kielbasa on tour in Wisconsin are better than both of those options. Happy 4th Tribbers and Ponders.
If I had a signature line I would change it to this.
Good idea. Might have to appropriate it.
ah yes, the ever-familiar cry of the oppressed elite …
How is it that they never die off and never change? Must be the descendents of the gene pool that once upon a time rejected cooking, flints, and later the wheel. Good thing for them that the progressives were willing to share once their new tech proved valuable or they would have died off.
many have lived their entire lives taking for granted that their prejudices are privileges. it must be pretty jarring to wake up one day to be told that those privileges have been both declared illegal and immoral.
because it means not just that they are in the wrong today — it means that they have been wrong their entire lives.
“When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross.”
— Unknown (commonly attributed to Sinclair Lewis).
Denounce the government, Embrace the flag. – Wendell Berry