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To: Libloather
Two Men fell overboard from a freighter, one a conservative and the other a liberal. The Liberal said to the conservative that you can't swim your way out of the ocean, and he refused to swim.

The conservative paid the liberal no mind and began to swim based on the stars and his faith, the liberal just treaded water waiting for some one to save him.

Eventually the liberal surcummed to the power of the ocean while the conservative hit the beach in Hawaii.

Moral of the story, don't listen to libs, God put men on the earth to struggle to survive.

The moment you stop struggling, you die. There is no entitlement to life.

2 posted on 06/24/2008 11:20:10 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813
God put men on the earth to struggle to survive.

The moment you stop struggling, you die. There is no entitlement to life.

The moment you stop thinking you also die. I always advised my crew to stay put if they fell overboard while the vessel was underway. That way once they were missed and and I knew I had a man overboard I could 180 the vessel and start working a down tide grid from a direct reverse course. Hard to spot a man in the water...even at half a mile in a chop.. or a quarter mile in rough seas.

So perhaps the true moral of the story might be that you are both in the same ocean and you are both in the same trouble(Hawaii will only be where you wished you were.) so stick together and pray that the Captain knows what he is doing.

I wouldn't want an inexperienced Captain at the wheel..might as well swim, but neither would I want a seasoned Captain who was known to fall asleep at the wheel and had a tendency to run aground all the time.

In the political waters I find myself in today, I think I might stay off the deck all together without a lifejacket on.

6 posted on 06/25/2008 3:25:46 AM PDT by KDD (Bob Barr for President.)
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