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As We Go Marching First Edition

Posted by hank, Sun Aug 17 22:45:00 UTC 2008

I ordered a first edition (1944 Doubleday) of John T. Flynn’s As We Go Marching, which is an interesting book I’m half-way through. I found a curious letter inside from one Andrew W. Wilson…

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Thomas Jefferson Bookmarks!

Posted by hank, Sun Jun 29 19:36:00 UTC 2008

Here’s some nice bookmarks to remind you of the beliefs of the great Thomas Jefferson:

Update!

An interesting turn of events - it seems you really can’t trust quote sites! See here

Originally, I had this quote:

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

This, apparently, is a false quote. I apologize. The new quote:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

was given by Matt Platte - thanks!

Pure democracy is a distribution of responsibility though, with none but a crowd (the largest crowd, in fact) holding the noose after a hanging. This is why we have representatives, because blaming the majority for wronging someone is dangerous in a democracy.

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Another new blog name

Posted by hardwarehank, Sat Aug 26 15:08:26 UTC 2006

Well, I got rid of Relentless Pineapple and went for something a little more code related. So I came up with this:

"Score"*4 && 7.years.ago
Liberty.conceive(Nation.new) if Man.create == Man.create

The awesome part is you could actually run this in Ruby! :O

irb(main):001:0> require 'active_support'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> "Score"*4 && 7.years.ago
=> Thu Aug 26 21:12:10 AKDT 1999

Yes, I know the date isn’t right, but it’s the thought that counts :D. It references this great statement:

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

This is from the Gettysburg Address, of course.

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