Remember

Remembering those who paid for our freedom

Rivers of Blood

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.

One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.

Enoch Powell - read the rest  

We cannot dismiss his words
Interesting comments at Gates of Vienna

8 Words the Media Made Meaningless

Meaningless Media Mindset

I will add facist.  Those who usually scream "facists" are looking in the mirror, only they are not cognizant of that fact.
Which words would you add to the list?

ht: Creative Minority Report

Today's Mood

O Fortuna

Benghazi

John Singer Sargent

The raven himself is hoarse 


That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan 


Under my battlements. Come, you spirits 


That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, 


And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full 


Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, 


Stop up th’access and passage to remorse, 


That no compunctious visitings of nature 


Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 


Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, 


And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, 


Wherever in your sightless substances 


You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, 


And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 


That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 


Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 


To cry ‘Hold, hold!’


Hillary Clinton –Lady Macbeth, “Macbeth,” Act I, scene v

ht:  sister toldjah