The PapaGolf Chronicles: Visiting the White House

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Visiting the White House

I didn't bother to call ahead - didn't think anyone would mind.

4 comments:

Brandon said...: You are now "on the list". Congratulations.; May 9, 2009 11:20:00 AM EDT
Jeff said...: Dave if you throttle back and deploy half flaps can the F16's stay with you or do they have to take turns lining you up for a shot? Great photo by the way. This is one occasion where I don't want to be there with you.; May 9, 2009 4:50:00 PM EDT
Gimli™ said...: This post has been removed by the author.; May 19, 2009 10:13:00 AM EDT
Gimli™ said...: Fake and shopped :P; May 19, 2009 10:15:00 AM EDT

- John Adams

If the meaning of words can be changed to suit political convenience, then discussions become an exercise in futility.

- Thomas Sowell

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others.

— Ernest Hemingway

A politician with good rhetorical skills can create a new Garden of Eden in people's minds, though only in their minds. However, that is sufficient, if that vision or illusion can be kept alive until election day, and its failure to materialize afterwards can be explained away by the obstruction of villains.

— Thomas Sowell

The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, and social. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the esteem of our peers. For most people, wanting to know the truth about the world is way, way down the list. Scientific objectivity is a freakish, unnatural, and unpopular mode of thought, restricted to small cliques whom the generality of citizens regard with dislike and mistrust. There is probably a sizable segment in any population that believes scientists should be rounded up and killed.

— John Derbyshire

I’ll run my hand gently over the wing of a small airplane and say to him, “This plane can teach you more things and give you more gifts than I ever could. It won’t get you a better job, a faster car, or a bigger house. But if you treat it with respect and keep your eyes open, it may remind you of some things you used to know — that life is in the moment, joy matters more than money, the world is a beautiful place, and that dreams really, truly are possible.” And then, because airplanes speak in a language beyond words, I’ll take him up in the evening summer sky and let the airplane show him what I mean.

— Lane Wallace

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires.

— Robert Heinlein

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

— Benjamin Franklin

A sense of logic underlies a sense of humor.

— Thomas Sowell

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Visiting the White House

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- John Adams

- Thomas Sowell

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others.

— Ernest Hemingway

— John Derbyshire

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

— Robert Heinlein

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

— Benjamin Franklin

A sense of logic underlies a sense of humor.

— Thomas Sowell

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

— William Morris

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Visiting the White House

4 comments:

Post a Comment

Visit My RV-12 Build Site

Visit Co-Pilot Egg's Girls With Wings page

My Bucket List

Quotes

- John Adams

- Thomas Sowell

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others.

— Ernest Hemingway

— John Derbyshire

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

— Robert Heinlein

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

— Benjamin Franklin

A sense of logic underlies a sense of humor.

— Thomas Sowell

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

— William Morris

And once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return.

— Leonardo DaVinci (obligatory)

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