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.
No kidding!
ReplyDeleteYe be A' trampling on the tartan?
ReplyDeleteglad it's not my wife's clan... they are particularly sensitive.
DeleteIs that the original "Girl with a Pearl Earring".
ReplyDeleteNo, that is a copy. I have the original hanging in my double wide.
DeleteLeft, Right, Left chanting up the stairs.
ReplyDeleteFunf Landings - quite rare.
ReplyDeleteOnly seen in residences valued at +$5mil.
This don't look like the La Brea Tar Pits.
ReplyDeleteI knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
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We all know who you are Bugs. Might as well post it
Deletehe speld alba-coy-kee rong
DeleteUp north of Santa Fe we used to call it Albu-turkey. SF we called Sani-Flush. Too many left turns be'n take in both those places now-a-days.
DeleteI wonder if a true Scotsman would bristle at someone walking on his family plaid.
ReplyDeletePlaid is a garment, John, like a cloak. That is a tartan.
DeleteIs that the Royal Stewart tartan?
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Not my first , second or third choice of stair or covering.
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