And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
I hope that person lives a long and productive life....but they likely won't acting like that.
I don't know I look back on the stupid shit I did and wonder why in God's name I'm still breathing......then a guy like Charlie Kirk can't even make it another month to 32..........
It makes absolutely no sense.
I guess when you finally gain a modicum of wisdom the only thing you can truly gather from the past is gratefulness for the present..,, and maybe every now and then a little hope for the future.
Could be one of those trick shots creating the impression the person is high up but they're actually not.
ReplyDeleteI've known several people with absolutely no fear of heights and they're safer at height than I am on the ground.
ReplyDeleteI’ve worked comm towers at 200’ with no problems, but I can’t watch someone else do it. Stomach does flip flops.
DeleteDepends on how you define "live". Thirty or forty years of adventures vs eighty years of bland the choice is ours.
ReplyDeleteI don't know I look back on the stupid shit I did and wonder why in God's name I'm still breathing......then a guy like Charlie Kirk can't even make it another month to 32..........
ReplyDeleteIt makes absolutely no sense.
I guess when you finally gain a modicum of wisdom the only thing you can truly gather from the past is gratefulness for the present..,,
and maybe every now and then a little hope for the future.
good summation of kinda like it is
DeleteBack when we were that age, we were immortal.
ReplyDeleteThe people who built it were carrying wrenches and grabbing beams hanging from cranes. Not my line of work, but I'm glad we have them!
ReplyDeleteIs there a parallell bridge for traffic in the other direction? Or does this bridge have two decks, for the same purpose?
ReplyDeleteIt has two decks, San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
DeleteImage is an optical illusion, the person is not that high up, photo taken from Yerba Buena Island overlooking Bay Bridge, SF.
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