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. . . see "SPORTS" for related links If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. --Erma Bombeck (19271996) American humorist. "Donahue" television talk show [22 May 1986]. Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of aggressions without going to jail for it. --Heywood Hale Broun (19182001) American sportswriter and sports commentator. [Son of Heywood Broun.] _Tumultuous Merriment_ [1979] - In November 1940, Cornell was cruising through a second year at the top of college football, undefeated in 18 straight games. When the Big Red went to New Hampshire to play hapless Dartmouth, it was hardly expected to be a contest. But the game, played in snow flurries on a slushy field, proved to be a shocker. Going into the last minute of the game, Dartmouth was up, 3-0. Cornell finally put together a drive to the goal line and on the final play of the game scored the winning touchdown. There was just one problem: Referee Red Friesell had lost track of how many snaps Cornell had taken inside the 10-yard line. The touchdown was scored on a fifth down. Dartmouth protested, but the game was over. Cornell could have adopted the modern moral standard that anything the ref allows is allowed. Instead, when the game films showed conclusively that Cornell had won on an extra, illegal snap, the players, coach, athletic director and university president agreed to forfeit the game and did so graciously. Coach Carl Snavely sent a telegram to Hanover, N.H., saying that Cornell 'without reservation concede[s] the victory to Dartmouth with hearty congratulations to you and a gallant Dartmouth team.' Dartmouth wired back that it accepted the victory and saluted its 'honorable and honored opponent.' As Arthur Daley wrote in the New York Times that week: 'Cornell had the sportsmanship to yield a success it felt it had not rightfully earned.' --Eric Felten "Playing Fair, Even When Umpires Are Blind" _The Wall Street Journal_ [27 November 2009] - No, but I was only there nine years. --former Dallas Cowboy running back Walt Garrison, on whether he had ever seen Coach Tom Landry smile. Sometime, Rock, when the team's up against it, when things are going wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then Rock, but I'll know about it, and I'll be happy. --George Gipp (18951920) American football player. Whispered remark to his coach Knute Rockne as he lay dying from a viral throat infection two weeks after being named to the All-American team, December 1920. In Red [Walter] Smith "One for the Gipper," _New York Times_ [21 January 1981]. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. --attributed to John Heisman (18691936) American football player and college football coach. Gentlemen, you are now going out to play football against Harvard. Never again in your life will you do anything so important. --T.A.D. [Thomas Albert Dwight] Jones (18871957) Yale football coach. 24 November 1923, quoted in Tim Cohane _The Yale Football Story_ [1951]. - Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. --Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. In James Michener's _Sports in America_ [1976]. There are three important things in life: family, religion, and the Green Bay Packers. --Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. In Tom Dowling _Coach: A Season with Lombardi_ [1970]. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is! --Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. Quoted in "Esquire" [November 1962]. & note: Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. --Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. In Jerry Kramer _Instant Replay_ [1968]. - Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields. --Archie Manning (1949 ) American professional football player. - Well, we didn't block. And we made up for it by not tackling. --John McKay (19232001) American football coach. (During the 1976 season when his team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 0-14.) We can't stop a pass or a run, otherwise we're in great shape. --John McKay (19232001) American football coach. (During the 1976 season when his team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 0-14.) Another John McKay gem as told by Steve Spurrier: Washington Redskins coach Steve Spurrier was a member of the last winless NFL team, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "I remember a speech our coach, John McKay, was giving us at one point in the season," he told the New Yorker, "He was emphasizing that games are lost in the trenches by failing to block and tackle on the front lines. And as he was talking he noticed a lineman asleep in the back. He called his name, woke him up and asked him 'Where are most games lost?' And the lineman says 'Right here in Tampa, sir.'" After a tough loss, the coach of American football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, John McKay, was asked what he thought of the execution of his team. He said it would be "a good idea". http://www.superbowl.com/insider/story/6101081 - - People have started asking me if we've got any talent on this team. Well, I tell them, if we start winning games we'll have talent. But since we're getting beat to death, no, we don't. --Joe Namath (1943 ) American football player. In Rick Telander _Joe Namath and the Other Guys_ [1976]. JOURNALIST: 'Hey Joe [Namath],' How did you do in Basket Weaving at [the University of] Alabama?' NAMATH: 'I flunked out, I switched to something easier--journalism.' - ^ Before the kickoff, few people would have considered the football game scheduled for Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, 1958, terribly significant. Football fans were more excited about the college bowl games coming up on New Year's Day than about the championship game being played by a bunch of professionals. The National Football League, after all, was still regarded as a pale imitation of the college game, and the last NFL matchup of the season was a distinctly down-menu item in the minds of most sports fans. ...[B]orn that day was the pro league's first superstar: Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas. The scene is vividly recaptured by Tom Callahan in his biography of the quarterback, "Johnny U." In the last two minutes of the game, with the Colts trailing 17-14, Unitas completed four passes -- three in a row to the future Hall of Fame receiver Raymond Berry, for a total of 62 yards. He had moved his team from its own 14-yard line to the Giants' 13. With seven seconds remaining, Colts kicker Steve Myhra put the ball through the uprights to tie the score, 17-17, pushing the game into sudden death. The drive to put the Colts in field-goal range was agonizingly dramatic, but Unitas looked like the coolest man in America. No sign of nerves. No showboating. There was a kind of sublime, icy confidence in the way he managed the Colts' advance. It was utterly professional -- and effective. In the overtime, Unitas led the Colts on an 80-yard drive -- including a white-knuckle third-and-14 completion to Berry -- before handing the ball to running back Alan Ameche for a one-yard plunge into the end zone and victory. This was decades before the celebrating star of a football game would pause onfield to make a paid announcement that his next stop was Disney World; Unitas turned down $500 to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" so that he could travel back to Baltimore with his teammates. The Unitas story is pure blue-collar America, out of a vanished time, an era when athletes really did play -- trite though the phrase may be -- for the love of the game. Unitas was a ninth-round draft pick out of the University of Louisville, chosen by his hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. But the Steelers cut him in 1955 before his first season even started. Unitas was working in construction and playing semi-pro ball on weekends for the Bloomfield Rams in Pittsburgh -- for $15 a game -- when, according to legend, a fan wrote a letter about him to the Colts that led to a tryout with the club. Joining the team in 1956, Unitas got his chance when Baltimore's starting quarterback, George Shaw, was injured in mid-season. In "Johnny U," Mr. Callahan brings alive the days when professional athletes were not multimillionaire mini-conglomerates -- and when, despite their relative lack of gold-plated symbols of success, they were held in higher esteem than the preening, trash-talking prima donnas we know today. Unitas, together with the Colts he played for, embodied values that are as dated as the black high-top football shoes that were his trademark. Mr. Callahan captures this quality as successfully as he does Unitas's artistry in the two-minute drill. As we learn in "Johnny U," when the quarterback's teammate Alan Ameche and his wife bought their first house for $8,000, it was former construction worker Unitas who laid the floor. --Geoffrey Norman "Blue-Collar Colossus," reviewing Tom Callahan's _Johnny U_ in _The Wall Street Journal_ [28 December 2006] ^ - Back in the late 60s when Margaret and I had been in Austin for just a week my boss took us out to dinner at a restaurant called "The Barn." Coming from NY, we didn't realize the popularity of college football in Texas and halfway through our meal word came that Texas has scored a touchdown. I think _everyone_ in that restaurant immediately got to their feet and with forefingers and pinkies extended to the ceiling started singing "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." It was a joyous moment; one we'll never forget. kap, posts to USENET group alt.fiftyplus.friends - For when the Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks--not that you won or lost-- But how you played the game. --Grantland Rice (18801954) American sports writer. "Alumnus Football" [1941] We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is--don't lose. --Knute Rockne (18881931) Norwegian-born American coach who built Notre Dame into a football powerhouse. In Jerry Brondfield _Knute_ [1976]. Football is good for the country. Every American has that feeling inside him that he'd like to hit somebody. He can't do it in this kind of society. But he comes out to the ball- park and he's almost in the game. It keeps him from going soft. It's the fans' way of fighting for the country. --Tom Roussel, football player, quoted in Tom Dowling _Coach: A Season with Lombardi_ [1970]. Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. --Vin Scully (1927 ) American sportscaster. In Wayne Stewart & Roger Kahn _The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations_ [2007]. - [. . . ] College players legally could, and frequently did, "hack, throttle, butt, trip, tackle below the hips or strike an opponent with a closed fist three times" before being sent from the field, according to a report of the Harvard faculty's athletic committee in 1884. "In all the games observed, the manifestation of gentlemanly spirit was lacking," the committee concluded. So-called momentum plays, such as the flying wedge, pitted an entire team's concentrated strength against one or two defensive players. Most players wore unpadded jerseys and shorts. Long hair was all that shielded their heads until the "head harness" appeared in the 1900s. With only three officials at most games -- one neutral and the other two representing the competing teams -- many fouls went unseen and unpunished. [. . . ] --in the Wall Street Journal [1 December 2004] ----- gridiron (noun) 1. Grating: a structure consisting of parallel bars 2. Sports football field: a field marked with parallel white lines, on which football is played 3. Sports football: the game of football (informal)  . . see: "OPPRESSION" see: "POWER" see: "STRENGTH" see: "VIOLENCE" see "WAR & PEACE" for other related links Neither philosophy, nor religion, nor morality, nor wisdom, nor interest will ever govern nations or parties against their vanity, their pride, their resentment or revenge, or their avarice or ambition. Nothing but force and power and strength can restrain them. --John Adams (17351826) First VP and second President of the United States. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson [9 October 1787]. He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. --Samuel Butler (16121680) English poet and satirist. "Hudibras" [1663], pt. III [1678], canto III, l. 547 There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. --Everett McKinley Dirksen (18961959) American congressman and senator. Referring to the Civil Rights Bill in a 1964 speech in the U.S. Senate. A leader's fundamental choice is whether to approve the use of force. If he decides to do so, his only vindication is to succeed. His doubts provide no justification for failure; restraint in execution is a boon to the other side; there are no awards for those who lose with moderation. Once the decision to use force has been made, the President has no choice to but to pursue it with total determination and to convey the same spirit to all those implementing it. Nations must not take military enterprises or major diplomatic initiatives that they are not willing to see through. --Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923 ) German-born American diplomat. _White House Years_, Ch. 23 [1979] Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. In Wallace Foster _A Patriotic Primer for the Little Citizen_, p. 48 [1898]. Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. In Earnie Larsen _Believing in Myself_, p. 18 [1991]. Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _Paradise Lost_ [1667], Bk. I Do you know what amazes me more than anything else the impotence of force to organize anything. There are only two powers in the world the spirit and the sword; and in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. --H. Beam Piper (19041964) American science-fiction author. "A Slave Is A Slave" [1962] There is . . . but one response possible from us: force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. In an address in Baltimore, Maryland on the first anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I [6 April 1918]. ----- countervail [kown-tur-VAYL], transitive verb: 1. To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to counteract. 2. To compensate for; to offset; to furnish or serve as an equivalent to. 3. To exert force against an opposing, often bad, influence or power. juggernaut (noun) 1. crushing force: a force that is relentlessly destructive, crushing, and insensitive 2. U.K. huge truck: a very large long truck for transporting goods in bulk ;void(0)) FOREIGN AID . . see "POLITICS" for related links Foreign aid is a system of taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. --attributed to Lord Bauer (19152002) Hungarian-born British economist. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Inaugural Address [20 January 1961]. - Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. --George C. (Catlett) Marshall (18801959) American general and statesman. Speaking at Harvard University [5 June 1947]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 877. Cohan & Major add: This speech launched the so-called Marshall Plan of aid to Europe. It was designed to rescue western Europe from communist subversion, although the aid was also offered to the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. Stalin saved Washington much embarrassment by returning a point-blank refusal and by ordering the East European regimes to follow suit. The governments of western Europe gratefully accepted. The Marshall Plan & see It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief. --Ernest Bevin (18811951) British trade unionist and statesman. On the Marshall Plan [1 April 1949]; in Alan Bullock _Ernest Bevin_ [1983] p. 405. & see: The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. _Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope_ [1955] - The best gift to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. . . . Nothing becomes truly "one's own" except on the basis of some genuine effort or sacrifice . . . . The gift of material goods makes people dependent, but the gift of knowledge makes them free. --E.F. Schumacher (19111977) German-born British economist. Referring to aid to people in poor countries _Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered_ [1973]. TOPICAL "U.S. Is the World's Nanny" October 23, 2006 Letter to the Editor _The Wall Street Journal_ I'm wafting this idea upon the air in the hope that someone will read it, and maybe even think about it: Our root defense problem is not expenditures, it is that we've allowed ourselves to become the world's policeman and nanny. As the operetta says, the policeman's lot, and the nanny's, is not a happy one. We've inadvertently, over generations of good works, created a global dependency. Like spoiled children, our dependent "allies" envy and despise our strength and success, even while demanding more and more of us. It's past time for some "tough love." We'll be the least affected by future wars and oppression, so maybe we should just quit helping for a while, until our dependents stop shouting insults at us and humbly beg for our help. Don Vanderveldej Gig Harbor, Wash. . . see "POLITICS" for related links Wherever the standard of freedom and independence ... shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But [America] does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. --Secretary of State John Quincy Adams [4 July 1821], in Walter LaFeber (ed.) _John Quincy Adams and Continental Empire_ [1965]. The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. --Otto von Bismarck (18151898) Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia 18621890. He unified Germany with a series of successful wars and became the first Chancellor 18711890 of the German Empire. Speech to the Prussian Diet [30 September 1862]. Those who find America an especially violent and oppressive country ("Amerika") have apparently never read the history of England or France, Germany or Russia, Indonesia or Burundi, Turkey or Uganda. --Eugene D. Genovese (1930 ) American historian. Peace, commerce, & honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Inaugural Address [4 March 180I], in Saul K. Padover _Jefferson_ [1942] p.293. - It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.' And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: 'We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!' --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. _School History_ "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016)" [1911] Coauthored with C. Fletcher. - - The Chinese are a great and vital people who should not remain isolated from the international community. . . . It is certainly in our interest of peace and stability in Asia and the world, that we take what steps we can toward improved practical relations with Peking. --Richard Nixon (19131994) American Republican statesman, President [19691974]. First foreign policy report to Congress [February 1970]. Nations live or die by the way they respond to the particular challenges they face. Those challenges may be internal or external; they may be faced by a nation alone or in concert with other nations; they may come gradually or suddenly. There is no immutable law of nature that says only the unjust will be afflicted, or that the just will prevail. While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might. The time when a nation most craves ease may be the moment when it can least afford to let down its guard. The moment when it most wishes it could address its domestic needs may be the moment when it most urgently has to confront an external threat. The nation that survives is the one that rises to meet that moment: that has the wisdom to recognize the threat and the will to turn it back, and that does so before it is too late.... The naοve notion that we can preserve freedom by exuding goodwill is not only silly, but dangerous. The more adherents it wins, the more it tempts the aggressor. --Richard Nixon (19131994) American Republican statesman, President [19691974]. _The Real War_ [1980] If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. --Richard Nixon (19131994) American Republican statesman, President [19691974]. Announcing a major United States offensive into Cambodia. - Americans hate foreign policy. Americans hate foreign policy because Americans hate foreigners. Americans hate foreigners because Americans _are_ foreigners. [...] Being foreigners ourselves, we Americans know what foreigners are up to with their foreign policy their venomous convents, lying alliances, greedy agreements, and trick-or-treaties. America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags. A fundamental American question is "What's the big idea?" --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. _Peace Kills_ [2005] We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are perpetual and eternal and those interests it is our duty to follow. --Lord Palmerston [Henry John Temple] (17841865) British politician. Like the sorry tapping of Neville Chamberlain's umbrella on the cobblestones of Munich. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. On the foreign policy of Jimmy Carter [1980]. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with decency in industrial and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, then it need fear no interference from the United States. Brutal wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of a civilized society, may finally require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the United States cannot ignore this duty; but it remains true that our interests, and those of our southern neighbors, are in reality identical. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Letter to The Cuba Society of New York [20 May 1904], quoted in Edmund Morris, _Theodore Rex_ [2001]. - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.... The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Farewell Address [17 September 1796]. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. TOPICAL It is preferable to continue to be envied because of our success and attachment to principle, than to fall any further into the company of those governments for which cowardice is wisdom, ingratitude is Olympian serenity, and the spitefulness of the weak is moral indignation. --Lord Black of Crossharbour, "Britain has found its role to be America's principal ally" - German pundits and critics of the Bush administration may scream and shout as they might about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: But had the world continued on the course set out by them, Saddam Hussein's regime of mass murder would still be in power and democracy would still be but a distant dream to many in the Middle East for whom freedom is now a tangible goal. Certainly, the abuses at Abu Ghraib represent a moral setback for the United States. Some critics of the Iraq war have even called Abu Ghraib a moral "catastrophe." What these very critics fail to see is that their own decades-long indifference to the plight of the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, borne of a convenient mix of knee-jerk pacifism and deep-seated economic interests, represents a true moral catastrophe. European foreign ministers and leaders comfortably sipping tea and brokering multi- billion dollar business deals with dictators in expensive palaces and then criticizing the US for its dealings in the Middle East is hypocrisy of the highest degree. Above all, European indifference and inaction in the face of mass murder and genocide represent the greatest "moral catastrophe" of recent times in the democratic West. Nothing, not historic pacifism nor economic interests can justify the collective inaction on the part of Europe's elites when confronted with mass graves and genocide in Iraq, Rwanda, the Balkans or Sudan. Until Europeans come to terms with the very real consequences of their own stifling indifference and inaction, it will be difficult for Americans to take seriously the endless litany of protest, derision and criticism echoing from across the Atlantic. --Claus Christian Malzahn, "Terminator? Demokrator!", _Der Spiegel_ - President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice. Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets - suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will. On to Nato and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot - but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes. So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops - all of them non-combatant, of course - which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan. Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air. "Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.) President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun. Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride. --Gerald Warner "Barack Obama: President Pantywaist - new surrender monkey on the block" Telegraph.co.uk [10 April 2009] ----- amity [AM-uh-tee], noun: Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations. . . see: "INSIGHT" see: "PERCEPTION" see: "SEEING" see: "VISION" see "SUCCESS" for other related links The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. --George Savile, 1st Marquess Halifax (16331695) English politician and essayist. _Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections_ [1750] "Miscellaneous: Experience" May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. --Irish toast Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. --Swedish Proverb ----- prospicience (noun) [prκ-'spi-shκns] Foresight, having the ability to foresee. prospicient (adj.) prospiciently (adverb) end page | FABLE - FAME | FAILURE | FAMILIARITY - FANTASY | FARMING - FATE | FATHERS - FEELINGS | FEMINISTS - FIFTIES (THE) | FIFTY - FLAG | FLATTERY - FOLLOWERS | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 1 (A-O) | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 2 (P-Z) | FOOLISH - FORESIGHT | FOREST - FRAUDS | FREE - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT | FREEDOM | FREUD - FRIENDS | FRUGAL - FUTURE | FOOLS/FOOLISH | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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