26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
We lost our friendly duck "Quack" last night. We found her this a.m. in the far corner of the yard slaughtered by something in the early morning.
A Time for Choosing (1964)
A Time for Choosing (27 October 1964) This was a televised speech in support of the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater; often referred to as "The Speech" which launched Reagan's career as a politician. Reagan gave other versions of this speech throughout the country, at various points during the Goldwater campaign.
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down...
They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines.
As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers.
They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple.
In some published transcripts or quotations of this speech a variant of this statement appears immediately before the quote by Churchill below, but was not said during Reagan's televised address on (27 October 1964). Though he did make variations of the speech elsewhere it is unclear exactly when and where he may have said used these precise words:
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Later variant: For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones.
The Gettysburg Address
"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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
This I feel is what is going on to day.... maybe the cause of our current WAR is different but it is testing whether this Nation under GOD can and will last the test.
I am turning 61 tomorrow January 6, 2011 and thinking back at the past years and all the different TV shows and music that I listened to, all the Cowboys and the Western singers. I was listening to my Highwayman CD on the way home from work today and was thinking about Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Roy Rogers, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Eddy Arnold and the rest.
Thinking about TV shows like Sky King, My Friend Flicka, Rawhide, The Rifleman, Lassie, Ed Sullivan, The Wonderful World of Disney, Roy Rogers and many other Western shows. Cartoon shows we liked were Mighty Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Underdog, Tom Terrific, Foghorn Leghorn.
I remember the candies we had when I was a kid, the penny candies tootsie rolls, kits, root beer barrels, some things were to for a penny candy bars were generally a nickel each. My favorite candy bar with Walnut crush. My favorite nickel candy was walnettos.
I remember when I was a kid thinking about the new century. The year 2000 and thinking I be 50 years old at that time, it made me wonder if the year 2000 ever come now it's come and it's 11 years later, and not only do we have computers, but I have a program that I'm talking into a headset and the computers typing this all out for me how far we come and how far have good things in of our life been left behind our family, our friends and we had when we are growing up. Now they're so far away, yet I can still remember things that we did when I was a kid like going on picnics and going on vacations, to Lacrosse Wisconsin and Minnesota, catching fish and eating butter brickle ice cream.
I remember each year we would dig up about a quarter of our yard and plant the garden, so amazing, watching all the vegetables growing all the tomatoes, beats, carrots, radishes and corn.
