"God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails." - St. Augustine
Mitch
deeteroderdas@primal.net
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“Fides et ratio.” – “Faith and reason.”
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)
Notes (20)
Every day is a blessing. Coming home from my fiat job and doing things around our homestead to make it a Citadel. Since Saturday, we've:
Bottled beer (Scottish Cream Ale)
Dehydrated apples and cayenne peppers (not together!)
Canned chicken meat from Costco
Topped off the batteries in all the things
Thank you, Lord!
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
– P.J. O'Rourke
"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. 
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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