This choked me up when I first heard it, andtwentythirty years later, it still does.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Hell,, There aren't even any phone booths anymore.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
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It's all about Freedom
Something to cheer you up:
Pfizer Macht Frei!
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One of the saddest songs I've ever heard that always chokes me up is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
~ George Washington
"Does anyone know,
Where the love of God goes,
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
Oh yeah...
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That's Spider...man...err...woman...err...something.Something to cheer you up:
Nope. Danke's new girlfriend.
I was in the Army when I first heard that song, Called home immediately.
As it ended up, my brother was not on that boat.. He was on the one racing it.(but pulled in to safe harbor)
My dad told me that Captain should have lost his license long before.
I grew up on an Island that was a refueling dock for them. (Dad Worked the Dock)
http://www.limeisland.com/timeline.htm
Last edited by pcosmar; 11-26-2011 at 09:48 AM.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
That's fascinating! Sounds like an amazing place full of scenery and history. Glad your brother was not on the boat!
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
~ George Washington
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Read more....http://news.yahoo.com/ap-40-years-ag...163115341.htmlAP WAS THERE: 40 years ago, Edmund Fitzgerald sinks
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of ships since European explorers began navigating the waters in the 1600s, but few have captured the public's imagination as has the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior.
Much of that attention is owed to Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which memorialized the ship and its crew members, whose bodies remain with the sunken vessel.
"Lake Superior seldom coughs up her victims unless they're wearing life jackets. As of this time, we have no reason to believe the men of the Fitzgerald had time to get into life jackets," Capt. Charles A. Millradt, commander of the Soo Coast Guard Station, said at the time.
Nothing so tragic has occurred on the Great Lakes since.
Forty years after the Fitzgerald sank to its chilly resting place, AP is making a version of the story available with photos.
I'm sure the crew of the El Faro was thinking the same thing.
RIP
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Pfizer Macht Frei!
Openly Straight Man, Danke, Awarded Top Rated Influencer. Community Standards Enforcer.
Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
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― George Orwell, 1984
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