On 25/01/2014 1:25 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:
On 22/01/2014 4:57 AM, Derald wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:

Get over it.
Does "****ing into the wind" mean anything to you? ;-)

:-)) True. But we could also apply that old maxim about "good men"
how their inactivity ensures the triumph of evil.


I suppose you mean the one often attribute to Edmund Burke which usually
goes something like '.. all that is required for evil to triumph is for
good men to do nothing..." I quite like the sentiment and have used it
myself. The odd thing is I went looking for the origin of it and it
turns out that nobody can say just where and when he said it, so it
remains unattributed.

Hmmmmmm. I'm married to a hair splitter so when the Oxford Dictionary
of Quotations says of the quote that: "Attributed (in a number of forms)
To Burke, but not found in his writings.", I'd either be told (or would
say myself) that just because it's not yet been found in his writings is
not proof of anything yet.

It was used in The West Wing where they have POTUS
using it and attributing it to Burke. I suppose I will now be branded a
'lefty' for liking the show about a fictional Democratic President.
There are tougher things to bear.

I never watched it enough to know one way or another whether it was left
wing or not. US politics always seems very right wing to me.

We are a form of community here and, IMO, any disagreements should be
based on logic not just poop on the liver in an individual.

Yes. But you can see around you all the time arguments based on insult,
bias, bigotry, popular appeal, .... the list goes on... but arguments
based on facts and logic not so much.

Enough of this foolishness back to dragging hoses about.

Yes. At a breakfast get together this am a friend was saying how lucky
he is to have sold his property because "the drought is about to start".
I hope he's got that very wrong because I do not need any more dryness
round here.