"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
– P.J. O'Rourke
Mitch
deeteroderdas@primal.net
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Follower of Christ.
Husband to Lana, Father to Stephen and Mariah.
Peaceful, not harmless.
Voluntarist in training.
Fermenter of many things.
Retired U.S. Air Force NCO.
Linux enthusiast.
Ham radio operator (WB5UZG)
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- Captain James Cook
"Our (U.S.) Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
– John Adams
Blackberry wine from 2023. It's aight. I was just getting started. 
Today in History
On October 29, 1929, a massive stock sell-off was part of a series of economic events that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies." - John Adams
"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." - J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
Today in History
On October 23, 1981, the U.S. national debt hit $1 trillion for the first time.
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go." Napoleon Bonaparte
Canning chicken breasts from the freezer to make room for new. 
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” – Thomas Jefferson
"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity." - Robert E. Lee
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth.
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hands, and that is was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone that can never repay you." - John Bunyan
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person."
- Albert Einstein