Quote of the Day!

[tombogan03884]

Cheney did not try to steal 1/3 of the continent either. 

[PegLeg45]

OK, guys...since this IS a gun forum, how 'bout this'un:

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing what’s for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb willing to contest the majority decision.”

Once attributed to Ben Franklin, but later found to not be so....but whom ever said it, I like it.

[fightingquaker13]

The quote is, from Franklin:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

My personal favorite though, is from Douglas Adams, from "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish":

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."
Douglas Adams, in So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish (1984) Ch. 36

[PegLeg45]

The quote is, from Franklin:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
 

He may have, but many don't think so now because they say they can't find it in any original writings..... but what the heck, it still sounds good.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

    * Widely attributed to Franklin on the internet, sometimes without the second sentence. It is not found in any of his known writings, and the word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in english literature until the 1820s, decades after his death. The phrasing itself has a very modern tone and the second sentence especially might not even be as old as the internet. Some of these observations are made in response to a query at Google Answers.
      The earliest known similar statements are:
          o A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
                + Gary Strand, Usenet group sci.environment, 23 April 1990. [6]
          o Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
                + Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992:[7]
          o Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
                + James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), ISBN 0312123337, p. 333
                + Also cited as by Bovard in the Sacramento Bee (1994)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/barry_popik/lunches_with_wolves_the_fake_ben_franklin_quote_on_democracy.html

[McGyver]

Fred Thompson writes:

 "The head of the Federal Communications Commission said that its new rules regulating the internet were necessary to "protect consumers".

Why do I get the feeling that this is going to do for the internet what the TSA did for airline travel?"

[Sponsor]

[MikeBjerum]

I know this isn't a hunting forum, but -

"I'm gonna fear God, love my neighbor, and hunt ducks.  Then I'll let the chips fall where they may."

                           Phil Robertson - The Duck Commander

[McGyver]

I'm gonna miss his show! Hopefully he's gearing up for a 2012 campaign run, but I will miss his colorful quotes and ideas from the radio show!

 https://www.fredthompsonshow.com/b/Fred-on-the-End-of-the-Fred-Thompson-Radio-Show/245493038738599047.html

[PegLeg45]

I'm gonna miss his show! Hopefully he's gearing up for a 2012 campaign run, but I will miss his colorful quotes and ideas from the radio show!

 https://www.fredthompsonshow.com/b/Fred-on-the-End-of-the-Fred-Thompson-Radio-Show/245493038738599047.html

+1

So, one more from Fred:
"A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States say they hope to be able to clone a Wooly Mammoth within the next 6 years.
Folks, I'm thinking the same thing you are. I'm gonna need a bigger grill."~Fred Thompson

[JC5123]

The U.S. Department of Transportation will be laying off 2/3 of it's workforce in the coming year. Apparently the Japanese have invented a shovel that will hold itself up.   Unknown.

[McGyver]

Gotta keep it goin'.

Uncle Fred says:

"The World Bank says that food prices are at "dangerous levels" because developed nations are turning corn into ethanol.

Ya know, we wouldn't have this problem if they put it in mason jars instead of gas tanks."

ROFLMAO!