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Thread: ‘Alice’s Restaurant’: A Thanksgiving favorite and reminder of government stupidity

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    My number was 23.

    That war and all subsequent ones was such a waste and ruination of so many fine young men
    Plato once said, “Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools, because they have to say something.”

    "Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." "Men willingly believe what they wish to believe."
    Julius Caesar

    There's no natural calamity that government can't make worse.
    Bill Bonner

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    Default I prefer non-commie songs

    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Groucho View Post
    I just dated myself with the CB thing. Yeah, I also had the van with the roof vent, plush carpeting on the floor and walls, bed, captains chairs, California mirrors with the CB antennas on each mirror, and trippingly good sound system. Those were some fine days back then. Of course, that was before we had kids. Oh how the money disappeared when Thing 1 and Thing 2 came along. Irish twins, they were.
    Mine had a chrome chain steering wheel and mag wheels too. Kenwood system (I replaced the eight track with a new fangled cassette system), four captains chairs and a booth/ bed. Metal flake brown....a beauty. And I wasn't married yet. Oh the times we had.....
    But what weapons can you use to dispossess someone who will not accept anything except Holy Scripture interpreted according to his own rules?...Where Lutheranism reigns, learning dies. They seek only two things: good pay and a wife. The gospel offers them the rest — that is, the power of living as they please.

    I understand now how Arius and Tertullian and Wickliff were driven into schism by malicious clergy and wicked monks.

    (Erasmus regarding Luther and the church, 1527, 1529)

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