This world is full of followers...it is refreshing to find a real leader, once in a while.
Anyone seen one, lately?
Tom
Anyone seen one, lately?
Tom
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Deer6
The Bounty of Sweet Dominion
Figleaf2
In the hedges and byways...
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Merry Christmas, blueridgeguy!
Love,
Kristy
P.S. Isn't it time for an update, btw?
I have traded for a mannlicher schoenauer carbine, 6.5....love it. anyone else have an opinon about this carbine?
I LOVE Tommy Dorsey's trombone solos....anybody get goosebumps from that?
Why don't we hear more of that kind of performance, I wonder?
Well, I had traded some time ago for a Swiss rifle...you know, the kind that was issued to every male, 16-60 yrs old? I heard that you could find the owner by looking under the buttplate, and voila! There was Rene Trachlin's name, and his street address in Basel, Switzerland. He was born in 1935, and was attached to a heavy Howitzer division.
At our Men's Retreat last Saturday, I shot some military surplus rounds at some steel targets, 1/2" thick. Now I know where they got the idea...[ready for this?]...
for Swiss Cheese.
tom
Oh, the Men's Retreat?
Great success....about 26 guys showed up for a friday night and saturday get together. Chipper Hartzell was our speaker, talking about becoming better men...we ate steaks friday and had a killer breakfast, after which we went out and either tossed horseshoes or shot steel targets and a running deer target.
Men are different from women in their convocations...they want to mix in some play time, it seems. We outlawed girls in cakes and harleys on the diving board, since it was a church party.
Dick Cheney would have approved, i suppose...
tom
hmmm, the last two posts should be noted to be on March 14, at nearly 2:00 p.m....but the time I see is around 10:40 something...
oh well.
tom
Jeff Cooper wrote, in Cooper's Commentaries:
Islam may indeed have its virtues, but they must be sought for carefully and objectively. Winston Churchill, “the greatest man of the 19th century and the greatest Englishman of all time,” put it thus:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
“A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green Co., 1899).
I'm passionate about God and family--thanks for turning me on to both! ;-)
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