Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Some Things Never Change

"Soldier's Joy," about being wounded in the Civil War. That was a dreadful war; the first war with accurate rifles in the hands of most soldiers, the first war with repeaters, automatic weapons, indirect fire with spotters and the last war with largely medieval medical techniques (although with the first stirrings of modernity).

The only saving grace was that we learned about the folly of marching into massed rifle fire a half-century before the Europeans did. They could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives if they had learned the lessons from what to them was some colonial war of no note.



(H/T to the Alternate Brain)

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