"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
 temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
      -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
         Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
 striking at the root."
      -- Henry D. Thoreau

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
 do nothing."
      -- Edmund Burke

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
      -- George Santayana

"You cannot legislate evil into non-existance."
      -- Unknown

"The underlying principal is this: claims that lack evidence and
 run contrary to experience must be meet with skepticism."
      -- Ryan Shaffer

"Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for!"
      -- Will Rogers

"Libertarians focus narrowly on the injustices found in the
concentration of power in governments, but they fail to recognize
that same injustice in the wealthy and elite who have just as much
coercive (political) power. The libertarian ethos of protecting
person, property and liberty against force makes them blind to the
injustices that arise from manipulations which aren't technically
physical force, but just as coercive and just as unethical."
      -- Evan Dagger

"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided
by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason."
    -- Theodore Dreiser

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
    -- Eric Hoffer

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the
night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
    -- George Orwell on a BBC broadcast, April 4, 1942 


For some reason, many people get confused with the grammar and structure
of the Second Amendment's wording.  They have said that the first part
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
state . . ." restricts the second part, so that only the militia has
the "right to keep and bear arms."

Try this one.  "A well-educated people, being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall
not be infringed."  Now, ask them if this means that only well-educated
people could keep and read books, or does it mean that everyone can
have books as a means to produce a well-educated people.

    -- Tom Gresham


Debrief...

- What happened?
- What went right?
- What wend wrong?
- What happened?

    -- From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5hDwZa7-0
       (A Stealth Pilot's Secrets of Success)