A READY MAN

"...Yet he was only a child of time, a lonely relic of a devoured and forgotten generation. He stood, still strong, as ever unthinking; a ready man with a vast empty past and with no future, with his childlike impulses and his man's passions already dead within his tattooed breast. The men who could understand his silence were gone -- those men who knew how to exist beyond the pale of life and within sight of eternity. They had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent those men as whining over every mouthful of their food; as going about their work in fear of their lives. But in truth they had been men who knew toil, privation, violence, debauchery -- but knew not fear, and had no desire of spite in their hearts. Men hard to manage, but easy to inspire; voiceless men -- but men enough to scorn in their hearts the sentimental voices that bewailed the hardness of their fate. It was a fate unique and their own; the capacity to bear it appeared to them the privilege of the chosen! Their generation lived inarticulate and indispensable, without knowing the sweetness of affections or the refuge of a home -- and died free from the dark menace of a narrow grave..."

---JOSEPH CONRAD The Nigger of the Narcissus

CHESTNUT

O&B DEBUT 2011

BIRTHERS PROVED CORRECT BY HAAWAII OFFICIAL!

Hawaii's continued refusal to release O'Bama's Birth Certificate, even at O'Bama's supposed "SIGNED request" just PROVES it doesn't exist, or is fake, or contains damaging data.

The silly bitch in charge of such things just reiterated once more that SHE has seen the original . We don't care about what she thinks SHE's seen. WE want to see it. WE WANT THE WORLD TO SEE IT.

She says that when you requeSt a copy of your birth certificate in Hawaii, all you get is a dumb computer generated document with only minimal data on it. That may be true.

But what she DIDN'T say is that a person will be DENIED the favor of even LOOKING at their official original document. I kinda doubt that.

When I requested a copy of my son's Birth Certificate from the State of California, they sent me a photostatic copy of the original, embossed with the state seal. I think I had to pay a nominal fee to get it, which is fine.

The original document provides more information than computer generated statement documents.

WHY CAN'T WE SEE IT????? WHY, OH WHY, IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?????

AND, Why are they making such a big deal about it, by keeping it secret?

I wish somebody would break in there and look at that book and take a picture of that birth certificate, if it's even in there!!

For we were soldiers once and young.

For we were soldiers once and young.

devils

nanci pelosi just announce that 3 million old Americans would starve if the Republicans cut the budget.

That's the final piece of the puzzle that cements the following statement as being true, for us:

pelosi, and reid and their henchmen are spawn of the fallen angel followers of Satan who are pulling the stings on the pathetic puppet O'Bama.

paraking it here

Mike,I wouldn't ban him for that single post. I think he's trying to be funny, cause I'm older than most on this forum. I don't take this particular post as being mean spirited. I don't like him or his posts, but personally I don't think this particular post rises to the level of being a bannable (is that a word?) offense. But then again I don't know your rules, either. I have probably said a lot worse things about him, in the past...

So, no, I wouldn't want him banned for that. But what you guys do is up to you. I would think that there should be warnings involved before banning unless the offense was very egregious.

I appreciate your concern however. Go Gatuh!

USF SPRING GAME

ha

TR says it's 29 degrees in Huntington and 66 degrees in Palm Harbor @ 6:30 am. It will be 86 and Sunny here today. So it goes.