24 yrs since I had this day
now its the oldests turn
it will have to be a handshake
a hug won't do anymore
fruit salad and beans
barbecue and sunshine
games and conversation
you'll always remember
your high school graduation
Congrats Tater

70 degrees all year round with a short intense thunderstorm every night.

Do you think God gets mad when we bother him on his day off? Nice work!

I found that until I got a lawyer to handle my custody problems I didn't make any progress. I was just to emotionally invested in the situation I couldn't deal with it in a rational way. Someone not involved personally can be a great asset even if just for advice.

I heard once that if you drive the speed limit you will hit every green light!!

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects,
and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain undisturbed.
Thomas Jefferson

I guess my point is if we want to know what the founding fathers were thinking it is all there to read!!!

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison


By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison

Reflective

I'm effatised

Invented the Muppet Show and was understudy to Sam the Eagle

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison

Great poem, I related very much. Speaks to contentment.

Very precise, to the point. I agree try it not stoned,a well written poem of your own makes you high in spirit.

Very good!

Thanks all

What's that got to do with anything we're talking about here? For hand boy!





"Few Arabs organized 911, and successfully executed the 75% of their plans. At the same time a nation with countless interceptors and military and bureaucratic personnel that takes millions to account for, could not take down a single highjacked plane. You believe it?"

Yeah, eating beans is going to reduce green house gasses. Why don't we just feed livestock Peta flakes. ie. soilent green.

ahh geeez

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