Sunday, 09 September 2007

  • Haha.

    Man I love Mark Steyn.
    (talking about low birthrates) "...Much of a society's self-image assumes a certain amount of youthful energy: Hollywood movies are full of young people. Sports teams are full of young people. Google gets invented by young people. If you have, as Spain's heading towards, an inverted family tree of four grandparents with one grandchild, you're not exactly going to be on the cutting edge of the zeitgeist."

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Monday, 27 August 2007

  • 20 Points...

    ...to the first person to correctly identify the author of this quote. (without looking it up, naturally.)

    True, it is a fixed idea with the French that the Rhine is their property, but to this arrogant demand the only reply worthy of the German nation is Arndt's: "Give back Alsace and Lorraine". For I am of the opinion, perhaps in contrast to many whose standpoint I share in other respects, that the reconquest of the German-speaking left bank of the Rhine is a matter of national honour, and that the Germanisation of a disloyal Holland and of Belgium is a political necessity for us. Shall we let the German nationality be completely suppressed in these countries, while the Slavs are rising ever more powerfully in the East?

    Edit: It was Friedrich Engles, Karl Marx's good buddy & Co-author.  Sounds a lot like Hitler, doesn't it.?

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Thursday, 09 August 2007

  • New Brighton Parade

    New Brighton had a parade today.  They went right past Fountain (where I relocated to on Sunday).















  • Quote of the Day - August 9th, 2007 a.d.

    It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt