Awesome Political Quotes

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
— John Adams

2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
— Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to payoff with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
— Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)

11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
— Ronald Reagan(1986)

12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!
— P.J. O’Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
— Voltaire(1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!
— Pericles (430B.C.)

16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain(1866)

17. Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.
–Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save Congress.
— Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
— Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
— Thomas Jefferson

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
–Aesop

Will Power…

OK… I’ve decided to never hit the snooze button again. I’ve hit the snooze button once or twice. If you hit it everyday you’re only getting what 9 minute sleep increments. I think that makes you more tired than just getting up to start with. If you do that every day your wasting about 1 hour per week, or 52 hours per year. You would have lost over 2 (24 hour) days of your life that you could have been celebrating!

That brings me into the next question … how much sleep do we actually need per night? I know 8 hours is good but can we do it on 7 and operate OK. If so we just got an extra 365 hours per year of life! That’s 15.2 days of life per year extra! Hmm… maybe I’m must extremely tired and that is my exhaustion talking… i’m delirious.

Last Words

Butch Cassidy: Hey, wait a minute.

Sundance Kid: What?

Butch Cassidy: You didn’t see Lefors out there, did you?

Sundance Kid: Lefors? No.

Butch Cassidy: Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.

Beer Run…

My sons and I passed this guy crossing a busy road on his riding lawn mower. My oldest said, “dang that is sort of a stupid thing to do”. I said, “yea, but he’s a drunk and is going to get some beer, probably has already had a couple DUI’s”. They of course laughed and said yea right Dad. I said, I bet you money that’s what he’s doing… well here is the proof boys. He has 2 twelve packs of the cheapest beer the store sells. He covered it with a blanked to disguise it. LOL

I guess I do know a drunk when I see one! I’m NOT knocking this, it’s a HELL of a lot better that driving a car to the store to restock. Ride away buddy… stay safe!

Elzey Security

My little pocket Derringer. I’ve carried this legally all over the state.  My thought is I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6… it really makes a lot of sense to carry one. I have a concealed weapons permit, self defense has gotten bigger!

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

— Thomas Jefferson 

eBay?

I sold these motorcycle foot-pegs to this guy on eBay.When he got the box he said one of the brackets is broken? Now I’m unsure of what to do. He said I could just give him back 50% of the money or he can mail the pegs back and I can refund 100% of the money. What I’m wondering, is the peg really broken or is he just trying to scam me out of 50% of the money? My gut says he’s an honest person and to refund his money but there are so many cheats out there I really don’t know anymore. I guess the right thing to do is give in and refund his money and forget about it. If he is cheating me I hope someone steals them of his fucking bike. Oh well… life goes on!

Those are some pretty tough foot pegs

Society as a whole

Why is it when someone gets into a motorcycle accident everyone is quick to say, I told you riding a motorcycle so dangerous, or something to that extent. Or they want to tell you about someone they knew who had an accident or was killed? I think there is a time and place for all that but when you’re laying in the hospital that is NOT the place.  If by chance one day I die on my bike everyone will know I died with a big smile on my face!

“It’s better to burn out ,than fade away”

Rock On and Ride Safe!

My 21 tips for Photography…

  1. You can’t please everyone!
  2. Learn Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO first. Stay on Manual. Shoot Raw. Shoot everyday. Study your results (including what shutter speed, ISO and aperture settings you used for your favorite shots).
  3. Practice until using the various settings becomes an automatic skill and then relax into the ‘art’ of photography. Lighting is your friend and your enemy, stay on its good side at all times.
  4. Composition is everything. Study the master painters (Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, etc) for inspiration in composition. Start to see things as a painter
  5. Don’t be afraid of taking bad pictures. Have fun experimenting!
  6. Hit us over the head with your subject. Make it obvious what we are supposed to be seeing. Remove the clutter.
  7. Fill the frame, as space is always exaggerated in a photograph.
  8. Change your perspective – Get Low, Get High, and Shoot at Angles…what haven’t you seen before?
  9. A 50mm f/1.8 lens will change your life, Spend time with it. Remember instead of a zoom lens, get closer!
  10. Take your camera with you. Everywhere. “Almost” all the time.
  11. Just because the vintage effect looks “nice,” doesn’t mean you have to use it on Every – Single – Picture.
  12. Take a picture everyday, challenge yourself. Read your manual! Learn your camera settings and how to use them.
  13. They are not all keepers, and just as a hammer doesn’t build an amazing house a camera doesn’t take an amazing photo. They are tools, think outside the box.
  14. You can’t fix everything in Photoshop. Pay attention to the background.
  15. Do not show people the bad stuff. Shoot 300, Show 1.
  16. Shoot black and white for a month, and then Sepia for a month.
  17. When you see action, turn around. Meaning, watch the people who are watching an event happen.
  18. Find the light, but don’t be afraid of shadows.
  19. Tell a story when you press the shutter…A picture says a 1,000 words.
  20. Get inspiration from other photographers work but never copy. Make your photos a reflection of what’s in your heart.
  21. Anytime you feel that your equipment is inadequate, it just means you need to master the basics better. The master photographers from 50 – 100 years ago didn’t have anything as fancy as you are holding in your hands, so claiming inadequate equipment isn’t a good excuse. Work on your skills.