Government can do only one thing: It can break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See?" If not for the government you couldn't "walk."
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Its settled I'm moving to New Hampshire
Art. 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
B&W of Isaac
B&W of the kids Originally uploaded by edblakeman We are putting together a black and white collage of the kids and this is one of the favs of Isaac
Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind.
Adams' address as Secretary of State to the U.S. House of Representatives. (1821-07-04) * And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. * America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal...
Saw this on a woodworking forum.
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
We finally have our office back
The office had turned into a storage room after we moved the computer to the kitchen/living area. Boxes from storage, hunting gear, camera gear, old motherboards,you name it. You could walk through but only if you had skills, ninja skills. Pete and I have been wanting to do several podcast. First an audio and then a video podcast. Well now we have our space we just have to find the time.
Arches
Arches Originally uploaded by edblakeman I love night shots. There fun to shoot and great when they turn out just the way you want them to.