Sunday mornings, for me, is a time I take to read, to relax, to worship, and to watch informative panel discussions on the TV regarding how the world is and how we are doing.
The subjects that interest me are Religious, Economic, Political etc. These little intellectual pursuits are all conveniently packaged into this particular time.
The TV shows include Meet the Press NBC (Tim Russert-now- Tom Brokaw), Face the Nation CBS (Bob Schiffer) Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace) and This Week ABC (George Stephanopolis) Once in a while I'll linger a bit long and watch a little bit of some sports program. I like the one's Bryant Gumball hosts the most!
Today I noticed that the shows I like are all spread out till past 4:00PM or on top of one another on competing stations at the same time stuffed in between these extravagant Sports Events.
There are sport shows for Republicans that include Skiing, Auto Racing and Golf. Republicans like sports that reward the individual.
The sports for the Democrats include Baseball, Football, Basketball. Democrats tend to like sports that have a real strong leader and a loyal following of team players. You know Quarterbacks Pitchers Centers the like.
A notable exception to this generalized interest was the poster child for Democratic-Socialistic team play Adolf Hitler.
"Ad" was absolutely committed to Track and Field sports held in the state sponsored stadium in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics.
A simple footrace against another is clearly the celebration of the individual. Many of my left wing leaning friends and relatives like to think Hitler is a Republican type. I personnally think and history should show that he was hoping for victories among his Teutonic individuals to prove the legitimacy of his "master race".
Now look how we have been distracted from the very provocative title of this article by the discussion of sports. It is no big wonder why our stadiums and race tracks across this great country are subsidized by the Federal Government as they were back in Roman times.
Imagine the distraction! The Coliseum virtually teaming with simulated Army and Navy conflicts or individual gladiators competing to the death. The "opiate of the people". It still works!
Anyway John McCain's friend Colin Powell went on the record this morning in front of Sports, God, and everybody to reveal he was voting for Barack Obama for President!.
John McCain had been suffering a growing visceral pain in the gut over the last few months wondering if his friend of 2 1/2 decades and compatriot in the military Colin Powell would help him win the office.
Today it all got blown out on the TV screen. A virtual explosion of pent up crap came out on the "Meet The Press"show hosted by Tom Brokaw.
Powell said he thought both guys could make a great President, but he had noticed over the last two years of the campain race that John McCain had been making too many quick calls and was unwilling to change his mind after reviewing the play.
Powell noted that Barrack Obama demonstrates a more calm and comprehensive decision making discipline. So in the end he felt that the rookie was a quick study and had the judgement needed to be our next President.
Apparently John McCain's decision to have Governor Palin be his cheerleader and running mate was all the more Colin Powell could stomach. And so out came the "Colin blow"
So for me I hope next week I can watch my programs without all the sports shows in my way.
I hope and pray that his fellow, Barrack Obama, really can play the game we need played across the United Sates and through out the entire world.
Because from the cheap seats in the the nose bleed section where I sit it sure looks like he is the going to be our next President and head play caller.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
YELLOWSTONE BANKS RECOVER RAPIDLY
Wolves in Yellowstone National Park have turned out to be the Rainbow Trouts best friend!
While the Government was paying out bounty on dead wolves all over the park and surrounding areas the Elk were eating all the easy to get aspen trees along the banks of the Yellowstone, the Gibbon, and the Firehole rivers to mention a few.
The aspen provide the much needed shade for the Trout to prosper.
Now the wolves are back and have retaken the area near the river banks. The aspen regrow and the shaded river returns to good habitat for the trout.
Get it Folks? The symbolism that is!
Here think of this then.
Hand outs to Bears.
Cars would drive by with little free handouts to the bears.
Two generations went by and they were so habituated they could not make it on their own.
Get it folks? The symbolism that is!
The Government used to put out every little fire and managed and regulated every little thing they could in the Nations first National Park.
The forest finally had had enough and went into a fire rage that lasted almost two years.
Burnt pretty much everything down.
Get it folks? The symbolism that is!
Please recognize that the the two guys we are considering for the Presidents job both want to run a bigger more invasive government.
Consider possible unintended consequences.
Things need to succeed while others need to fail.
There are dangers in messing with the natural order of things.
Handouts rob both sides in the transition of the dignity to be whole.
A lot of little failures keep a system strong. Big overbuilt failures are an abomination to all.
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While the Government was paying out bounty on dead wolves all over the park and surrounding areas the Elk were eating all the easy to get aspen trees along the banks of the Yellowstone, the Gibbon, and the Firehole rivers to mention a few.
The aspen provide the much needed shade for the Trout to prosper.
Now the wolves are back and have retaken the area near the river banks. The aspen regrow and the shaded river returns to good habitat for the trout.
Get it Folks? The symbolism that is!
Here think of this then.
Hand outs to Bears.
Cars would drive by with little free handouts to the bears.
Two generations went by and they were so habituated they could not make it on their own.
Get it folks? The symbolism that is!
The Government used to put out every little fire and managed and regulated every little thing they could in the Nations first National Park.
The forest finally had had enough and went into a fire rage that lasted almost two years.
Burnt pretty much everything down.
Get it folks? The symbolism that is!
Please recognize that the the two guys we are considering for the Presidents job both want to run a bigger more invasive government.
Consider possible unintended consequences.
Things need to succeed while others need to fail.
There are dangers in messing with the natural order of things.
Handouts rob both sides in the transition of the dignity to be whole.
A lot of little failures keep a system strong. Big overbuilt failures are an abomination to all.
This weeks message is brought to you by "HOT DOG TRAVELLER"
Stay in touch for more information on this very fine product.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
"METOLIUS”
"METOLIUS”
IN INDIAN MEANS “WHITE ROTTING FISH”
PRETTY NAME FOR A NOT SO PRETTY IMAGE.
EARLY ON, THE RIVER HAD MIGRATORY FISH THAT SPAWNED THEN DIED ALONG ITS BANKS. INDIANS OCCUPIED THE AREA DURING THIS TIME TO GATHER THE BOUNTY.
A BUNCH OF GUYS DOWN RIVER AT THE PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY DECIDED IN A MEETING THAT NOBODY MUCH NEEDED OCEAN GOING FISH ABOVE THIS DAM THEY WANTED TO BUILD, AND SURELY NOBODY NEEDED ANYMORE GULLY WASHERS DOWN STREAM. BESIDES THE CITY FOLKS IN PORTLAND NEEDED "POWER".
NO ONE ACTUALLY ASKED THE INDIANS IF THEY COULD GET ALONG WITHOUT THE BIG OCEAN GOING CHINOOKS. THE INDIANS DID'NT EVEN LEARN ABOUT THE MEETING WHERE THE BIG DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE TILL SOMETIME LATER.
SHERMAN COUNTY FARMERS USED TO COME UP TO THE RIVER AND TRADE TINWARE AND KNIVES AND OTHER THINGS FOR SMOKED SALMON.
THEY WOULD THEN SELL OR TRADE THE INDIANS NATURE CANDY TO OTHERS THAT LIVED DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR FARM TOOLS AND SUCH.
THE FARMERS UP THERE DID'NT HEAR ABOUT THE BIG MEETING EITHER CAUSE
THEY WERE BUSY EATING SMOKED SALMON AND FARMING, AND THEIR WATER CAME FROM A DIFFERENT RIVER ANYWAY.
“LAND LOCKED” SOCKEYE SALMON, INDIANS CALL “KOKANEE”, STILL COME UP AND DISCARD THEMSELVES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER ABOUT SEPTEMBER. SO LIFE GOES ON KINDA LIKE IT DID BACK THEN.
PINE TREES OF THE METOLIUS RIVER VALLEY SAVE ALL THE EVENTS, THOUGHTS, AND CONVERSATIONS THAT OCCUR THERE. THEY ARE THEN RELEASED THROUGH THE BREEZE TO THE CAREFUL LISTENER.
HERE'S ONE OF UM
WHITEY GETS HIS OWN
LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
I’VE FISHED WITH HIM MANY TIMES.
HE IS THE GRAND OLD MAN HERE. HE KNOWS THE RIVER WELL.
HIS GRANDFATHER BROUGHT HIM HERE TO FISH WHEN HE WAS
VERY YOUNG. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A SHERMAN COUNTY FARMER WHO CONDUCTED COMMERCE WITH THE INDIANS IN EARLY FALL AFTER THE HARVEST. WHEN I LOOK AT WHITEYS HIGH CHEEKBONES AND WISE DEEP SET EYES I SOMETIMES WONDER ABOUT ALL THAT GRANDPA WAS ENGAGED IN.
THE FARMERS KEPT A BASE CAMP OVER AT THE LAKE. NO ROAD HAD BEEN LAID FOR WAGONS TO RUN ON YET, SO THEY WALKED IN TO THE RIVER LEAVING THEIR WAGONS BACK AT CAMP.
IT WAS EASILY WORTH THE TEN-MILE HIKE, JUST FOR SITES.
THERE WERE PLENTY OF OCEAN GOING FISH IN THE STREAMS IN THOSE DAYS.
“FREE” IS'NT WHATS “FREE AND EASY”
SPOILERS UNITE, DIVY UP THE SCRAPS, AND CALL IT A GOOD DAY?
I FOUND WHITEY FISHING DOWN AT THE LOWER END OF THE DOLLY HOLE ONE DAY WITH A WHOLE BALL OF BIRD FEATHERS TIED ON HIS HOOK. I LOOKED IN HIS TACKLE BOX AND HE HAD ABOUT TEN MORE BRIGHTLY COLORED GIANT FLIES IN THERE.
HE CLAIMED HE WAS CASTING “ARTIFICIAL BIRDS NOT FLIES”.
TO CATCH A BIG DOLLY VARDEN ONE NEEDS A MIGHTY BIG BAIT.
THINK ABOUT IT NOW:
SO HERE WHITEY WAS IN ONE OF THOSE TIMES.
THE POWER BOYS, FROM DOWN RIVER, STRETCHED AN ELECTRICAL LINE FROM THE ROAD ACROSS THE RIVER AND OVER TO A PUMP AT THE NEWLY BUILT WIZARD FALLS FISH HATCHERY. WHITEY HAD SPOOKED A FLOCK OF COOTS INTO FLIGHT AND ONE OF THEM HIT THE WIRE AND WAS STUNNED AND FELL TO THE WATER. NOTHING IN THAT TIME WAS ACCUSTOMED TO THE OBSTACLE YET.
TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. SO THE SAGES WOULD SAY.
I ASKED HIM HOW MANY FISH HE HAD BEEN FOOLED WITH THE MOCK UP.
TO MY SURPRISE HE CLAIMED NONE. NO FISH!
NOT A BITE------------------EVER-------------------FOR FIFTY YEARS!
A TESTAMENT TO THE WISDOM AND TENACITY OF THE FISHERMAN.
WHITEY WAS A PRACTICING CATCH AND RELEASE MAN WAY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE EVER THOUGHT OF IT.
NOPE; HE NEVER EVEN GOT A CHANCE RISE TO THE BIG FEATHERED FOOLERY!
IT'S THE ULTIMATE IN “EARLY RELEASE”.
"SOMETIMES THEY WAG THEIR TAIL TO YOU AS THEY SWIM AWAY".
“WHEN YOU RELEASE A FISH ----- THE JOY OF LIFE RETURNS TO YOU”
AS FOR ME, I SIT BY THE TIMELESS RIVER TRYING DESPERATELY TO SEE IT MOVE.
OCCASIONALLY, I’LL PUT A FISH AWAY IF I DON’T THINK IT WILL LIVE, OR IF THERE ARE FOOLS BACK AT CAMP WHO THINK I’M NOT REALLY FISHING IF I DON’T EVER BRING ONE OF THE DUMB THINGS HOME.
MEN ARE IDIOTS AND ARE PROGRESSIVELY MORE SO THE FURTHER THEY ARE FOUND FROM THE VALLEY OF THE
METOLIUS RIVER.
IN INDIAN MEANS “WHITE ROTTING FISH”
PRETTY NAME FOR A NOT SO PRETTY IMAGE.
EARLY ON, THE RIVER HAD MIGRATORY FISH THAT SPAWNED THEN DIED ALONG ITS BANKS. INDIANS OCCUPIED THE AREA DURING THIS TIME TO GATHER THE BOUNTY.
A BUNCH OF GUYS DOWN RIVER AT THE PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY DECIDED IN A MEETING THAT NOBODY MUCH NEEDED OCEAN GOING FISH ABOVE THIS DAM THEY WANTED TO BUILD, AND SURELY NOBODY NEEDED ANYMORE GULLY WASHERS DOWN STREAM. BESIDES THE CITY FOLKS IN PORTLAND NEEDED "POWER".
NO ONE ACTUALLY ASKED THE INDIANS IF THEY COULD GET ALONG WITHOUT THE BIG OCEAN GOING CHINOOKS. THE INDIANS DID'NT EVEN LEARN ABOUT THE MEETING WHERE THE BIG DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE TILL SOMETIME LATER.
SHERMAN COUNTY FARMERS USED TO COME UP TO THE RIVER AND TRADE TINWARE AND KNIVES AND OTHER THINGS FOR SMOKED SALMON.
THEY WOULD THEN SELL OR TRADE THE INDIANS NATURE CANDY TO OTHERS THAT LIVED DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR FARM TOOLS AND SUCH.
THE FARMERS UP THERE DID'NT HEAR ABOUT THE BIG MEETING EITHER CAUSE
THEY WERE BUSY EATING SMOKED SALMON AND FARMING, AND THEIR WATER CAME FROM A DIFFERENT RIVER ANYWAY.
“LAND LOCKED” SOCKEYE SALMON, INDIANS CALL “KOKANEE”, STILL COME UP AND DISCARD THEMSELVES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER ABOUT SEPTEMBER. SO LIFE GOES ON KINDA LIKE IT DID BACK THEN.
PINE TREES OF THE METOLIUS RIVER VALLEY SAVE ALL THE EVENTS, THOUGHTS, AND CONVERSATIONS THAT OCCUR THERE. THEY ARE THEN RELEASED THROUGH THE BREEZE TO THE CAREFUL LISTENER.
HERE'S ONE OF UM
WHITEY GETS HIS OWN
LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
I’VE FISHED WITH HIM MANY TIMES.
HE IS THE GRAND OLD MAN HERE. HE KNOWS THE RIVER WELL.
HIS GRANDFATHER BROUGHT HIM HERE TO FISH WHEN HE WAS
VERY YOUNG. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A SHERMAN COUNTY FARMER WHO CONDUCTED COMMERCE WITH THE INDIANS IN EARLY FALL AFTER THE HARVEST. WHEN I LOOK AT WHITEYS HIGH CHEEKBONES AND WISE DEEP SET EYES I SOMETIMES WONDER ABOUT ALL THAT GRANDPA WAS ENGAGED IN.
THE FARMERS KEPT A BASE CAMP OVER AT THE LAKE. NO ROAD HAD BEEN LAID FOR WAGONS TO RUN ON YET, SO THEY WALKED IN TO THE RIVER LEAVING THEIR WAGONS BACK AT CAMP.
IT WAS EASILY WORTH THE TEN-MILE HIKE, JUST FOR SITES.
THERE WERE PLENTY OF OCEAN GOING FISH IN THE STREAMS IN THOSE DAYS.
IT WAS REAL EASY THEN TO TELL THAT LIFE HERE HAS MAGIC IN IT.
HERE YOU ARE ALLOWED A MOMENT TO REST AND GAIN AGAIN ALL THAT YOU NEED FOR BODY AND SOUL.
TIME IS THE RIVER. THEY LIVED IN A GREAT LANDSCAPE THAT STOOD PERFECTLY STILL.
TIME MOVED IN AND OUT AND ALL AROUND THEM TILL THE FUTURE FINALLY RAN THEM OVER.
WHITEY SAYS WHEN IT’S STORMING AT THE COAST THE SEAGULLS ARE DRIVEN INLAND BY THE WIND. I DON’T BELIEVE THAT--THEY ARE WONDERFUL FLIERS.
HERE YOU ARE ALLOWED A MOMENT TO REST AND GAIN AGAIN ALL THAT YOU NEED FOR BODY AND SOUL.
TIME IS THE RIVER. THEY LIVED IN A GREAT LANDSCAPE THAT STOOD PERFECTLY STILL.
TIME MOVED IN AND OUT AND ALL AROUND THEM TILL THE FUTURE FINALLY RAN THEM OVER.
WHITEY SAYS WHEN IT’S STORMING AT THE COAST THE SEAGULLS ARE DRIVEN INLAND BY THE WIND. I DON’T BELIEVE THAT--THEY ARE WONDERFUL FLIERS.
I AM QUITE CERTAIN IF THEY STAYED AND WORKED THE AREA WHERE THEY BELONG THEY WOULD DO JUST FINE.
THEY COME FOR THE EASY PICKINGS!
WHITEY AND I HAVE WATCHED IN HORROR WHILE THEY DIVE IN, SWOOP DOWN, ATTACK RAVAGE AND SCAVAGE THE FISH AS THEY LAY THEIR EGGS. “SEEMS LIKE JUST WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL, WHEN LIFE IS GOOD, AND PROSPERITY ABOUNDS SOME DARN FOOL GANG OF IDIOTS COME ALONG TO SPOIL IT”.
WHITEY AND I HAVE WATCHED IN HORROR WHILE THEY DIVE IN, SWOOP DOWN, ATTACK RAVAGE AND SCAVAGE THE FISH AS THEY LAY THEIR EGGS. “SEEMS LIKE JUST WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL, WHEN LIFE IS GOOD, AND PROSPERITY ABOUNDS SOME DARN FOOL GANG OF IDIOTS COME ALONG TO SPOIL IT”.
“FREE” IS'NT WHATS “FREE AND EASY”
SPOILERS UNITE, DIVY UP THE SCRAPS, AND CALL IT A GOOD DAY?
SO IT GOES!
I FOUND WHITEY FISHING DOWN AT THE LOWER END OF THE DOLLY HOLE ONE DAY WITH A WHOLE BALL OF BIRD FEATHERS TIED ON HIS HOOK. I LOOKED IN HIS TACKLE BOX AND HE HAD ABOUT TEN MORE BRIGHTLY COLORED GIANT FLIES IN THERE.
HE CLAIMED HE WAS CASTING “ARTIFICIAL BIRDS NOT FLIES”.
TO CATCH A BIG DOLLY VARDEN ONE NEEDS A MIGHTY BIG BAIT.
THINK ABOUT IT NOW:
THERE IS ALWAYS A TIME BEFORE SOMETHING IS, AND A TIME AFTER IT WAS.
BETWEEN THESE TIMES LIES A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
BETWEEN THESE TIMES LIES A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
SO HERE WHITEY WAS IN ONE OF THOSE TIMES.
THE POWER BOYS, FROM DOWN RIVER, STRETCHED AN ELECTRICAL LINE FROM THE ROAD ACROSS THE RIVER AND OVER TO A PUMP AT THE NEWLY BUILT WIZARD FALLS FISH HATCHERY. WHITEY HAD SPOOKED A FLOCK OF COOTS INTO FLIGHT AND ONE OF THEM HIT THE WIRE AND WAS STUNNED AND FELL TO THE WATER. NOTHING IN THAT TIME WAS ACCUSTOMED TO THE OBSTACLE YET.
THE POOR LITTLE COOT NEVER GOT ANOTHER SWIM BECAUSE ONE OF THOSE BIG DOLLYS JUMPED CLEAN OUT OF THE WATER AFTER HIM AND TOOK HIM UNDER LEAVING JUST FOR A MOMENT A LITTLE RIPPLE AND SOME FEATHERS ON THE SURFACE OF THE RIVERS WATER.
FISH, “FEEDING ON BIRDS”.
FISH, “FEEDING ON BIRDS”.
MORTAL ENEMIES: FISH AND BIRDS.
TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. SO THE SAGES WOULD SAY.
POWER, OVER EVERYTHING ELSE, TEMPTING TIME TO TAKE THE ADVANTAGE.
WHITEY TOLD ME EACH YEAR FOR THE LAST FIFTY HE HAD “TRIED” TO CATCH A FISH ON ONE OF THESE MONSTER HAND MADE BIRDS.
WHITEY TOLD ME EACH YEAR FOR THE LAST FIFTY HE HAD “TRIED” TO CATCH A FISH ON ONE OF THESE MONSTER HAND MADE BIRDS.
I ASKED HIM HOW MANY FISH HE HAD BEEN FOOLED WITH THE MOCK UP.
TO MY SURPRISE HE CLAIMED NONE. NO FISH!
NOT A BITE------------------EVER-------------------FOR FIFTY YEARS!
A TESTAMENT TO THE WISDOM AND TENACITY OF THE FISHERMAN.
WHITEY WAS A PRACTICING CATCH AND RELEASE MAN WAY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE EVER THOUGHT OF IT.
HE THOUGHT THE FUN OF FISHING IS TO OUTSMART THE VERY DUMBEST OF THE DUMB FISH, AND THEN LET THEM OFF EASY.
“FREE AND EASY”.
NOPE; HE NEVER EVEN GOT A CHANCE RISE TO THE BIG FEATHERED FOOLERY!
IT'S THE ULTIMATE IN “EARLY RELEASE”.
"SOMETIMES THEY WAG THEIR TAIL TO YOU AS THEY SWIM AWAY".
“WHEN YOU RELEASE A FISH ----- THE JOY OF LIFE RETURNS TO YOU”
AS FOR ME, I SIT BY THE TIMELESS RIVER TRYING DESPERATELY TO SEE IT MOVE.
I KNOW IT IS, I AM DEVOTED TO SEEING IT.
OCCASIONALLY, I’LL PUT A FISH AWAY IF I DON’T THINK IT WILL LIVE, OR IF THERE ARE FOOLS BACK AT CAMP WHO THINK I’M NOT REALLY FISHING IF I DON’T EVER BRING ONE OF THE DUMB THINGS HOME.
THE DUMBEST FISH GET EATEN FIRST!
EACH YEAR IT GETS HARDER AND HARDER TO FIND A DUMB FISH TO CATCH.
IT IS AN ASCENSION OF FISH CIVILIZATION.
FISH ARE FOR EATING, FOR GOD’S SAKE.
FISH ARE GOOD, AND HERE FOR A PURPOSE. WE CAREFULLY DISTINGUISH OURSELVES IN THIS PROCESS AS DESERVING WHEN WE CHOOSE TO CATCH AND KEEP ONE OF THESE FISH.
IN THE WHOLE OF IT ALL WE PRAY THAT WE NEVER TAKE WHAT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE GIVEN FOR THE BETTER.
MORE THAN THE HORDE, THE WORK OF THE SINGLE FISHER REMAINS THE KEY TO MOVE MANKIND.
GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE WILL THE EAT FOR A DAY.
TEACH A MAN TO FISH AND HE WILL FEED HIMSELF AND THOSE HE LOVES TO THE END OF HIS DAYS.
IT IS AN ASCENSION OF FISH CIVILIZATION.
FISH ARE FOR EATING, FOR GOD’S SAKE.
FISH ARE GOOD, AND HERE FOR A PURPOSE. WE CAREFULLY DISTINGUISH OURSELVES IN THIS PROCESS AS DESERVING WHEN WE CHOOSE TO CATCH AND KEEP ONE OF THESE FISH.
IN THE WHOLE OF IT ALL WE PRAY THAT WE NEVER TAKE WHAT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE GIVEN FOR THE BETTER.
MORE THAN THE HORDE, THE WORK OF THE SINGLE FISHER REMAINS THE KEY TO MOVE MANKIND.
GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE WILL THE EAT FOR A DAY.
TEACH A MAN TO FISH AND HE WILL FEED HIMSELF AND THOSE HE LOVES TO THE END OF HIS DAYS.
THINGS I'VE HEARD OUT THERE ALONE----- WHILE FISHING
I BELIEVE CIVILIZATION IS A VOYAGE NOT A HARBOR.
I BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF “SELF RELIANCE” AND THE JOY OF SIMPLE TOIL.
I BELIEVE USEFUL SERVICE IS THE COMMON DUTY OF MAN TO THE WORLD, THE RIVER, AND TO HIMSELF.
I BELIEVE THAT EVERY ONE AND EVERY LIVING THING IS OBLIGED BY NATURAL LAW TO BE HAPPY.
I BELIEVE NOTHING IS MORE SERIOUS THAN A SENSE OF HUMOR
AND FINALLY, I BELIEVE THIS,
I BELIEVE CIVILIZATION IS A VOYAGE NOT A HARBOR.
I BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF “SELF RELIANCE” AND THE JOY OF SIMPLE TOIL.
I BELIEVE USEFUL SERVICE IS THE COMMON DUTY OF MAN TO THE WORLD, THE RIVER, AND TO HIMSELF.
I BELIEVE THAT EVERY ONE AND EVERY LIVING THING IS OBLIGED BY NATURAL LAW TO BE HAPPY.
I BELIEVE NOTHING IS MORE SERIOUS THAN A SENSE OF HUMOR
AND FINALLY, I BELIEVE THIS,
MEN ARE IDIOTS AND ARE PROGRESSIVELY MORE SO THE FURTHER THEY ARE FOUND FROM THE VALLEY OF THE
METOLIUS RIVER.
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