Cartoon – Spring Time
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – I Hardly Knew You (By Gary Beck)
I hardly Knew You We remember a lost President, assassinated, promises unfulfilled, who dazzled the nation with youthful vigor almost unAmerican glamour, and many reminisce of what could have been, forgetting the best and brightest sent abroad in the Peace Corps, instead of working at home to cure national ills, forgetting how close he came to incinerating the world, […]
Read morePoem – CERTIFIED (By John Stanizzi)
CERTIFIED WorldNetDailyExclusive — http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/292717/ “A Tale of Two Birth Certificates” That Obama’s birth certificate lists a registrar that appears remarkably like a forger’s signature joke on the word “ukulele” is not the only peculiarity observed in comparing the president’s record with other long-form Hawaiian birth certificates that have been fully authenticated. Toto, I’ve a feeling […]
Read moreAlbert Einstein Quote – The World Is A Dangerous Place
“The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein
Read moreDavid Kadlec Quote – Isolation Is Critical To War
“It is isolation that is critical to war. You can’t be abusive when you realize your connectedness.” – David Kadlec
Read moreBritish Woman Skis Unaided Across Antarctica
A British woman has become the first person to ski across Antarctica without the help of kites, machines, or dogs. Felicity Aston, 34, completed the 1,084-mile journey in 59 days, battling through the frozen wastes in temperatures as low as -22 and dragging 187 pounds of supplies behind her on a sled. She overcame crushing loneliness by listening to Agatha Christie […]
Read moreChris Burden Quote – In The Eye Of The Beholder
“‘Limits’ is a relative term. Like beauty, it is often in the eye of the beholder.” – Chris Burden
Read moreTheodore Roosevelt Quote – Dare Mighty Things
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Read moreWhat it means to be a brother
The birth order of brothers, says George Howe Colt, is just one of the things that cause them to be so different. History is full of brothers so different that it seems impossible they could have the same parents. A brief sampling through the ages might include the Arouets (Armand was a sanctimonious, evangelical Catholic; his younger brother Frangois-Marie, […]
Read moreWarren Buffett Quote – Human Characteristic
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett
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