What is Film Noir?

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BOOKS
Colt M16 - The Black Rifle
Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson
AR15: A Practical Guide
Sixguns, by Elmer Keith
Glock: The New Wave in Combat Handguns
Textbook of Automatic Pistols, by RK Wilson

ABOUT George: I have an MS in BS. Enjoy movies, books, and history. Age 54, live in Atlanta metro area. My dog is truly my best friend, a Chihuahua girl named Fifi.

Fifi LaCritte

2000 H-D Softail Springer

MY GOAL: Developing into the best writer I can be.

MOTTO: Fanaticism of any stripe makes me hurl.


"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who has given the protester the right to burn the flag." Anon.

Latest thought: The last thing I want out of an idiot filmmaker is political commentary.

GREAT MINDS SHARE THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks." Bob Dylan

If total government control equals safety, why are prisons so dangerous? unknown

Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr Seuss

"A country that tries to stimulate its economy by spending tax revenue is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself by the handle." Winston Churchill

"It's appropriate that television is considered a medium, since it's rarely well done." Ernie Kovacs

"Do not accept your dog's admiration as conclusive proof that you are wonderful." Ann Landers

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately." Thomas Paine

"God fights on the side with the best artillery." Napoleon

"The best armor is a rapid and well-directed fire." David Farragut

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn't." Ben Franklin

"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." Joseph Sobran

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." Robert A. Heinlein

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Suppose you were a congressman, and suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." Robert A. Heinlein

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

"Figures don't lie, but liars figure." my Pop

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.

"Party associations, it should be understood, are not based on law nor do they seek the common welfare; they are lawless and seek only self-interest." - Thucydides

Gun Safety Rule No. 1: Keep your booger hook off the bang switch.

"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good." Samuel Johnson

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." Mark Twain

"One of life's great tragedies is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts." Benjamin Franklin

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain

"The perfect is the enemy of the good." Voltaire

"...history teaches, with unmistakable emphasis, that appeasement begets new and bloodier war." Douglas MacArthur

"The 2nd Amendment is not about individuals resisting government tyranny? Tell that to the colonists who fought at Lexington and Concord." George

"We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin

"... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson

"Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years." Nicolo Machiavelli, The Art of War

"The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson

"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once." Justice Alex Kozinski, US 9th Circuit Court, 2003

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." Niccolo Machiavelli

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." Theodore Roosevelt

"...a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles when thousands fall..." Plutarch - Life of Alexander

"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen." Herodotus

"Article II. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

"When all else fails, read the directions." My Father

"The difficult we do right now; the impossible just takes a little longer." my Pop

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” Simon Bolivar

"What we learn from history is that we don't learn from history." Hegel

"The meek shall inherit the Earth. But not until the rest of us are done with it." Massad Ayoob

"If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor." Plutarch

"I love a dog, he does nothing for political reasons." Will Rogers

"I have plowed the seas." Simon Bolivar

"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
"Party associations, it should be understood, are not based on law nor do they seek the common welfare; they are lawless and seek only self-interest." - Thucydides

"The strong do what they will, the weak endure what they must." - Thucydides

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; ...that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." -- Thomas Jefferson

"I fear that all that we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Admiral Yamamoto

"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Ben Franklin

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

"[Lacedemonians] made it evident ... that human beings are many but men are few." Herodotus

"The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." General George S. Patton

"To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side." Thucydides

"A plan is a list of things that do not happen." "Way of the Gun"

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think one way to spell a word." Andrew Jackson

"Today we carve out our own omens." Leonidas

Igitur qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum. - Vegetius

Trying to teach a pig to sing only frustrates you and annoys the pig. Anonymous


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