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.
It is funny how every time you post some picture showing the beauty of the western civilized world is from some place in Europe. Isn't it interesting that you can't find places like this in USA?
Oh, by the way, it has been some time since people in Europe saw the USA as part of the civilized western world. You used to be but over the last 20-30 years you have slowly left the civilized world behind.
no yards to mow, but just hope there isn't a fire
ReplyDeleteNo enrichment, no spicy food, and no braying prayers in the streets needed.
ReplyDeleteMight have been once, not any longer. The lowlands are crawling with diversity now and the streets are unsafe.
ReplyDeleteExactly, I don't feel at home in my own country anymore. At times I feel like I'm in northern Africa,
DeleteAntwerp?
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Gdańsk, Poland.
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The row houses are too pretty for Philly, but the same living conditions prevail.
ReplyDeleteMu guess northern Europe. The added roof spaces are interesting.
ReplyDeleteNot with my knees,
ReplyDeleteIt is funny how every time you post some picture showing the beauty of the western civilized world is from some place in Europe.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting that you can't find places like this in USA?
Oh, by the way, it has been some time since people in Europe saw the USA as part of the civilized western world. You used to be but over the last 20-30 years you have slowly left the civilized world behind.
Actually, less civilized, when houses were colored because no one thought to number them, and folks couldn't count that high anyway.
ReplyDelete"The blue house on River Street two blocks beyond Konigstrasse" was within everyone's wheelhouse.