Quotes for Patriots Day

someone should send this to Obama.

found at http://ccm-cos.com/

On Respect.

* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

* You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.

* You cannot establish security on borrowed money.

* You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.


--William J.H. Boetcker, 1916


When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Adlai Stevenson

Back to the farm

Looks like it's time for us all to start growing our own food.

"Beware of what you eat. You are on your own", Senator Tom Harkins announces.

http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=346&z=1

Who didn't know this already? I have always maintained that locally grown food is so much more safer than stuff shipped in from who knows where. At least now they have to tell us where the fruits and veggies come from... that's a start.

I do feel for the people in big cities who don't have a farmers market to go to.