Green Arrow (08-19-2015)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Green Arrow (08-19-2015),PolWatch (08-19-2015)
Yeap...Capt O used to be very quiet & shy before he was a mod.
Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
Captain Obvious (08-19-2015),Green Arrow (08-19-2015)
Cigar (08-19-2015),silvereyes (04-22-2016)
He's a recovering mod....in a 12-step program
Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
Captain Obvious (08-19-2015)
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. ― Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Captain Obvious (08-19-2015)