'Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.'
-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
'Secrecy is the badge of fraud'
-- Sir John Chadwick (b. 1941), British judge
'Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.'
-- Lord Acton (1834-1902), English historian
'The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.'
--Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), American statesman
'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.'
--John Milton (1608-74), English poet
'All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'Information is the currency of democracy.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts
as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'No government ought to be without censors; and where the
press is free no one ever will.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
'Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of
the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.'
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-26), 3rd U.S. President
My approach to Pillow Rock on the Gauley River...
That was one helluva ride.
I'd like to meet:
A few clickable thumbnails of the young Master Logan.
This Photo Album is a link to my son's photobucket account. Click the image and enjoy what you find.
Music:
"...armed only with a boom box and his legendary voice."
"Perry Ferrell "...began dancing and singing," said an associate; "I wasn't sure what would happen, but then everyone joined in. Everyone was dancing. Even the Arab retrievers joined in. It was Christians, Muslims, and Jews all dancing together. Arabs, Africans, Americans, and Europeans - all."
Movies:
Please do yourself, your children, and your nieghbor a favor by watching these films.
Hopefully, they will change our lives.
Books:
I have recently become a student of Poetry.
I am currently studying the works of...
-Hughes
-Keats
-Yeats
-Frost
-Dickinson
-Plath
Novelists
Stephen King
--The Dark Tower Series
--The Stand
--The Shining
--The Talisman
--Twenty+ other titles
Anne Rice
--The Vampire Cronicles
John Grishom
--A Time to Kill
--The Rainmaker
--The Street Lawyer
Charles Dickens
--A Tale of Two Cities
--A Christmas Carol
Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Works
--The Tell Tale Heart
--The Raven
--Masque of the Red Death
Mario Puzo
--The Godfather Triology
--Omerta
--The Sicilian
Micheal Romky
--I, Vampire
Robert McCammon
--Swan Song
Caleb Carr
--The Alienist
--The Angel of Darkness
--Killing Time
Heroes:
My Dad........i know, kinda cheesy.......but he's a marine and his transition into adulthood came after i was born. he had A LOT of opportunity to do the wrong things and instead, he chose to serve his country and raise his family. for that, I will be eternally grateful.
The Old Man, Lil John, and Vanessa
And of course...
PRIME
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