[airborne]

Thanks from BSA Troop 431, Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA.

[mc5cents]

"I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie--I found that out."
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

[pa_dweller]

If

If you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 
But make allowance for their doubting too; 
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, 
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, 
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; 
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; 
If you can meet with triumph and disaster 
And treat those two imposters just the same; 
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, 
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 
And lose, and start again at your beginnings 
And never breath a word about your loss; 
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 
To serve your turn long after they are gone, 
And so hold on when there is nothing in you 
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; 
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; 
If all men count with you, but none too much; 
If you can fill the unforgiving minute 
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - 
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling 

[GOPyouth]

"huh huh huh huh" -Butthead

[JoeSixPack1]

"Pacifists are among the most immoral of men.
They make no distinction between aggression and defense.
Therefore, pacifism is one of the greatest allies an aggressor can have!"
by Patrick Henry"

[July 4th]

"When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive." - President George W. Bush

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

"...we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." The Declaration of Independence

"Better fall covered and scarred with the wounds of glory, than to surrender through expediency what is right, or to yield for the sake of expediency to what is wrong." Joseph Holt

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Alexander Pope

[E.Allen]

"You cannot conquer a free man..........the most you can do is kill him."

"Greater love hath no man than a mother cat dying to defend her kittens."

Robert A. Heinlein

[E.Allen]

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. . . . The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself -- ultimate cost for perfect value." Jean V. Debois Starship Troopers (Robert A Heinlein)