Light reading......
Light reading......
I know we all like good books. I always keep reading materials stacked by my bed to cure insomnia. The following book is quite comforting. I am showing the table of contents so you can see if it might be up your alley. I find these kinds of books at thrift stores for a buck or less, and enjoy them a great deal.
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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I won't ask how it ends
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Adolph Hitler – 1933
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Nice, one of my favorite subjects.
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This.^^desdem12 wrote:Nice, one of my favorite subjects.
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Might have to get me a fine book like that.
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I would never do that to a book, no, what ever gave you the idea that I would? My books are all real books, I wouldn't cu......hey, don't touch that one!
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I'd pay up to $1.50 for a book like that.
I'd pay up to $1.50 for a book like that.
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I love library sales and flea market book piles were I can load up for as little as ten for a buck on the books. Problem is when I buy 30 or more large hardcover books and only then remember than I am a mile from the car across a packed flea market.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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You need to find a nice red Radio Flyer wagon to tote your stuff.Junk Yard Dog wrote:I love library sales and flea market book piles were I can load up for as little as ten for a buck on the books. Problem is when I buy 30 or more large hardcover books and only then remember than I am a mile from the car across a packed flea market.
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My problem is that by the time I find the books I am already hauling a cart full of guns, Victrolas, and Victrola records ( they are heavy) food, Model T parts and so on.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Just make sure your book doesn't end up in a garage sale. I know a guy whose wife sold his old wooden chest in a garage sale for 15.00 once. She never looked inside it. It was where he had placed a ton of music cd's worth alot of money.
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OR, Maybe she did
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JYD, what you need is a assistant commonly refered to as to as a "Bearer" or a "beastie". You know the guy that follows behind you and does all the crap work you don't want to.
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
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"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
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OK, now I have to figure out; am I my wife's beastie or bearer?Ironnewt wrote:JYD, what you need is a assistant commonly refered to as to as a "Bearer" or a "beastie". You know the guy that follows behind you and does all the crap work you don't want to.
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Well when I think of Bearers I visualize a gun on a Safari with an "Assistant" handing him the extra rifle, carrying the trophy and usually getting PAID!!!SA1911a1 wrote:OK, now I have to figure out; am I my wife's beastie or bearer?Ironnewt wrote:JYD, what you need is a assistant commonly refered to as to as a "Bearer" or a "beastie". You know the guy that follows behind you and does all the crap work you don't want to.
Now a Beastie on the other hand is kinda like "Gunga Din" Cleaning latrines, digging trenches, generally getting all the crap work details. In my house I'm the Beastie.
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
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"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
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I got two of them, but they are easily distracted, I turn around and one of them is stuffing his face over at the food section, and the other is buying fake lotto tickets and plastic dog poop.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt