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

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"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,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
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, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Learning an Old Lesson

From the 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence:
15. Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.
It is a lesson that our army seems to be slowly learning, at least in Iraq.

3 comments:

Karen Zipdrive said...

Keyword: slowly.
I'm glad to see the Iraqis starting to fend for themselves.
Now if only the Afghanis and Pakistannies can do the same.
Obama has managed to alienate his base while failing to please his distractors with his escalation of the Afghan war.
The Nobel Peace Prize people should ask him to return the award and give it to someone who wages peace.

Lockwood said...

I hadn't read the 27 articles before... very interesting. I'm betting no one in the previous administration had either.

Comrade Misfit said...

Probably a safe bet that nobody in Chimpy's shop had read "the Seven Pillars of Wisdom", for that matter.