OceansOfThought @ February 27, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Respect of Language and Culture
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. -Abraham Lincoln So while driving to work today, a radio station DJ wanted to find out who sang a song he liked. Long story short, it turned out the song was a mix of 3 languages,(french, spanish and an african language) which is […]
OceansOfThought @ February 27, 2008 # Comments Off on On Gun Control and Rocket Launchers
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. -Abraham Lincoln The USA today had an interesting front page article on guns and gun control today. Basically the supreme court had decided to review DC’s very, ultra strict gun laws. Until now, the Supreme court had declined the vast majority […]
OceansOfThought @ February 22, 2008 # 4 Comments
“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” -Abraham Lincoln Hypocrisy does not mean you can’t sell your soul. How many […]
OceansOfThought @ February 20, 2008 # Comments Off on On What a Difference the Truth Makes
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.- Abraham Lincoln I learned this week that being upfront, especially in a relationship doesn’t truly get heard, and often has to be repeated. When I […]
OceansOfThought @ February 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being a More than Number
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. -Abraham Lincoln A friend of mine happened upon me while I was reading an article on IPv6 and asked what it entailed. I went on to explain that the present internet was running out of numbers (with network address translation I can’t see how, but let’s take […]
OceansOfThought @ February 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Desperation of Valentine’s Day
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln It is true: men lead lives of quite desperation. That desperation is pain. We want lives of fulfillment, but we are wracked with guilt over past experience, saddled with baggage of lost […]
OceansOfThought @ February 5, 2008 # One Comment
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln What defines a superpower? What says, after much speculation that America’s power is fading and that we are done for? Is it the Summer 07 housing crisis that has led to […]
OceansOfThought @ February 2, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being Humane to Animals
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right….” Abraham Lincoln Humane. We call ourselves that, but there is nothing sometimes human in what we do and treat animals. This article is not about PETA, nor will i wax poetic about how […]