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i don't think he'd be suprised at all at the intensity of partisanship today either, and would have prefered it to the greater extremes that prompted his visit to gettysburg in the first place

i think he'd be mighty suprised it was the democrats to get the first black man into the white house

cool quote from one of abe's letters to a friend: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the (Civil) war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

"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 battlefield 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." How'd the old boy w/ the tall-hat reckon things today ya figure?

sheeeeit, didn't know there were 50 pitches in the whole joint

wille not paying his taxes again?

i actually attended thomas jefferson's socialist experiment - bill and fairy (as we fondly call W&M) was jefferson's alma mater, and you'll note his lack of faith in it as expressed by building his own school. pretty much just need a pulse to get into william n' mary

appears to be unable to stop sharting golf-balls neither

and your's

nero never stopped fiddl'n

not that they have to maintain such a dismal track record - the enduring lesson of history is that both parties are cock-sucking whores eager for power - here's to hoping the republicans try to reclaim reasonableness in the not so distant future

anybody know who he was on the board here?

so now i have no excuse - just tell me what to wear

fuck that, make me yer plus-1 fir next year!

much like watching a ward-full of retards trying to hump a door-knob i reckon

day time temps above freezing - doubt there's much out there

it cries out to be grid-bolted

duck tape at least

i like that i'm daised to my haul bag

gawd i miss that shirt...

We are the Google. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

I just finished the Atkinson trilogy this summer. I thought the books got better as they progressed. Army at Last Light was especially good. I loved hearing about Hemingway and his band of mercenaries kicking about Europe during the invasion partying in Paris and getting in on the Nazi killing action. read the first part years ago gone by n' the words i learnt still ring out - kee-rist, that motherfucker's faster than most to lay a twenty-five cent word in yer lap! - mien - philippic - debouch - bumptious - bilious - crepuscular - bon mot

11/11 - day 63 - lapz #41-42 - douglas adams accomplishment unlocked! a righteous sleep-in on a tuesday provided by veterans everywhere, and for that we thank you wicked windy but dry n' dandy, so out the door at nine i went - a rocking good time on the outbound, the devil eager to the door of the east-wind, the helm all a-lee oft n' on - billcoe n' jeffie-t billowing blasphemies n' good-tidings at your blameless n' guilt-fre author a trifle nervous i was - awful blustery - blowdowns everywhere - our humble corner platform on the near edge of blown-out after the big tree bastioning it's edge done burst in the big breeze - shoes on- hat on - 4 layers thick my tortured soul, my cap ahoo in the big wind n' ballyoo felt The Fear on that first climb - questioning meself even - why the phuck am i here afterall? kenny n' adam on the other end - beers n' books for a good bit after - a guilt trip on my consciene then too - another lap even - good times n' gesticulations at the furies beyond the furthest borders - the long road home into the wonder of the western sun - trees down n' forest bracken all about - veterans day verily observed i vouch say

the marines involvement in the wars of the barbary pirates ("the shores of tripoli" - our first undeclared war, unless you want to be a stickler on the xyz affair) predated their use in mexico ("the halls of montezuma") by several decades, thus the implied chronology in the initial verse is...like...wrong. i did say this was nerd-level shit, no?

whilst yer on the verge of solving the former, contemplate the later - to what is the third line referring in the following? "We have fought in ev'ry clime and place Where we could take a gun; In the snow of far-off Northern lands And in sunny tropic scenes"