Who has 'associated' me without my consent? I am in San Francisco - it's a long way to Michigan.
And a beautiful day here as well,I should add. The rains have stopped for a while and we have a clear, cloudless sky, and a temperature of 64 deg. F. The hills have turned to their winter green and the air is fresh in the bright sunlight -- beautiful !
George, I just evacuated the area before the rains came. Get yourself out while you still can. Or forever be governed by liberal 'tards like Feinstein and Boxer.
Thank God for Arnold! RIP Tookie.
Well, I don't mind Diane Feinstein at all. Got to know her a bit back when she was Mayor. Barbara Boxer, on the other hand, is living proof that short people should be shot. Arnold is a blessing!
What part of Michigan? I started out there. Once, long ago, I came in 12th in what was then a rather well-known Au Sable River endurance Canoe race.
West Michigan. No way I'd live on the other side.
Feinstein is a gun grabber. But you live in San Francisco, so, do you care?
Good question, di
I see Mr DeLay is finished...what a shame.
My comment on the piece, which I think is excellent, is that it highlights the moral depths to which we have sunk.
No-one disputes that horrible things happen in war, but when the war is artificially created and supported by lies, the culprits should be exposed, dishonoured and reviled.
cjhsa wrote:The more the liberals and terrorists squirm, worldwide, the better the job W must be doing.
Go get 'em W.
Uh, Yeah, don't you mean "send everyone elses kids over to get 'em, you big brave he-man W?"
Where's Osama, btw? Anyone seen him? He's the one that started all this.
What about that Zarquawi guy? George got him yet?
Squinney, somehow I don't think their absence is voluntary.
Your first sentence could be applied to any sitting wartime president, and thus is nothing more than baiting.
cjhsa wrote:West Michigan. No way I'd live on the other side.
Feinstein is a gun grabber. But you live in San Francisco, so, do you care?
speaking of unecessary baiting...
How so? Feinstein is a gun grabber, I have it in writing, directly from her office. She's quite proud of it.
And San Francisco just voted to disarm their law abiding citizens. Like that is going to help reduce illegal gun trafficing.
So, I don't see it as baiting. The citizens of the city have put themselves out as big chunks of juicy bait for the criminal element that shares their metropolis.
With cjhsa, it's all about the guns.
Well, it certainly has been a focus of mine.
"AGGRESSIVE FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT IS THE NOBLEST SPORT THE WORLD AFFORDS."
The above quote attributed to Rumsfeld by blatham. The only perhaps inappropriate word in the above quote is the word, "sport," which of course was substituted for a more accurate word, such as "endeavor," "goal," or "objective." Of course, "sport" livens up the statement and tends to deliver the point by causing the reader to ponder the meaning of it perhaps more thoroughly. That was the intent.
I personally think that to "fight for right" is a more noble sport than standing for nothing or worse, fighting for wrong.
As dangerous as King George III?
okie wrote:"AGGRESSIVE FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT IS THE NOBLEST SPORT THE WORLD AFFORDS."
The above quote attributed to Rumsfeld by blatham. The only perhaps inappropriate word in the above quote is the word, "sport," which of course was substituted for a more accurate word, such as "endeavor," "goal," or "objective." Of course, "sport" livens up the statement and tends to deliver the point by causing the reader to ponder the meaning of it perhaps more thoroughly. That was the intent.
I personally think that to "fight for right" is a more noble sport than standing for nothing or worse, fighting for wrong.
If only Mr Rumsfeld had a person such as you to explain the intent or meaning of some of his other statements, I'm sure fewer misunderstandings would occur.
One of these days there will be a list of Rumsfeld quotations.
That will be the comic relief for war mongers and peaceniks alike.
Battle (or sport)
You cannot wash away blood with more blood.
A truely smart bomb would refuse to explode.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordian.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when the best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, and Germany didn't want to fight in the war?
War does not determine who is right, only who is left. --Bertrand Russell
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! --Albert Einstein
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. --Bertrand Russell
We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. --Ambrose Redmoon
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. --Paul Rodriguez
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. --A. Whitney Brown
We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight or if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms." --Elayne Boosler
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. --George Carlin
Spread love and understanding...but don't be afraid to bloody your knuckles doing it. --Alex Ross
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom. --Pesach Seder
Fight, and the world fights with you.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. --Martin Luther King Jr.
The object is NOT to die for your country! It is to make the other fools die for theirs! --General Patton
It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word.
We have them right where they want us. --James T. Kirk
Nuclear war would certainly set back cable. --Ted Turner
Who he kills dies. --Jeffrey Archer
I will kill you! And I will keep on killing you until you die from it!
Kill him, kill him alot! --Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It ain't over till it's over. --Yogi Berra
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. --Isaac Asimov
There was a war. Many were killed. Some, seriously. -cj
Enough already
Enough already with everyone giving Rumsfeld credit for the statement:
"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
The author of the statement was President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
It was found in Roosevelt's papers in his state papers as Governor and President, 1899-1909 (vol. 15 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), p. xxxiii (1926) by Gifford Pinchot and published in his book "Roosevelt as President."
Pinchot commented, "There are few sayings of his that hold for me so much of him as this."
BBB
Nobody said Rumsfeld originated it.
He chose it for a slogan/ motto. That's the point.
This is comic justice. So Rumsfeld's saying was made by the liberals hero, Teddy Roosevelt, the guy that started all the national parks, the guy the environmentalists worship! Thats a good one. I love it. If Teddy made it up, he must have believed it, so don't try to figure out how Rumsfeld is the only one at fault. It was Rumsfeld's motto is your reasoning. If you originate it, you have no blame or credit I guess is that the reasoning? What a joke!
