Quote of the Day.....July!

[4dogknight]

Chele615 posted

Posted by Chele615
This is totally random...but Yankee Doodle is actually Thomas Ditson who was from my hometown. To celebrate that, my town's annual homecoming weekend is "Yankee Doodle Weekend" and there is also an elementary school named after him. Interesting tidbit of information...at least to me

For those that are interested here's a site that gives you a lot of information on the Yankee Doodle Weekend.

I would like to remind everyone that tarring and feathering was not just reserved for the colonials. This 'treatment' was often employed by the colonials on Tories. (See "Oliver Wiswell" by Kenneth Roberts.) For further information on Tar and Feather see here

4dk

[Mathman]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.

[DJStuCrew]

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson

[4dogknight]

July 12th

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
-- Ronald Reagan

4dk

[DJStuCrew]

Love the Reagan quote. Reminds me of this one:

"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress ... But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

[show 42]

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Franklin P. Jones

[4dogknight]

July 14th - Bastille Day

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."
-- Noam Chomsky

The Fall of the Bastille – July 14, 1789

What follows is a Paris newspaper account of the fall of the Bastille.

Did Marie Antoinette really say "let them eat cake"?

4dk

[DJStuCrew]

“What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?” – Ayn Rand (from “Anthem,” 1937)

[show 42]

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)

[4dogknight]

July 16th

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
-- Dave Barry

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[4dogknight]

July 17th

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
-- Walt Disney

DISNEYLAND OPENS:
July 17, 1955

4dk

[4dogknight]

July 18th

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave Barry

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[DJStuCrew]

“DUCT TAPE is like the FORCE. It has a DARK side and a LIGHT side and it holds the UNIVERSE together.” - Unknown

[show 42]

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

[4dogknight]

July 19th

I'm a middle age white guy, which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment, not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom.
-- Dave Barry

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