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"Screw you guys, I'm going home!" - Cartman, "South Park"

Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals. - Barry Goldwater

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Free hearts, free foreheads--you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are-- One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"

Fiat justitia, pereat mundus [Justice must be done, even if the world be destroyed] - King Ferdinand I

Laissez faire, laissez passer [Liberty of action, liberty of movement] - Vincent De Gournay

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it, which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams

In the current political vocabulary, ‘need’ means wanting to get someone else’s money. ‘Greed,’ which used to mean what ‘need’ now means, has come to mean wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ means the politician’s willingness to facilitate the transfer. -Joseph Sobran

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. - Richard M. Nixon

The White House is the finest prison in the world. - Harry S. Truman

Today marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death. One has no great hopes for Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. - Jane Austen

What’s "just" has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn "belongs" to you - and why? - Walter Williams

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force. - Robert G. Ingersoll

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - Winston Churchill

We must be free or die. - William Wordsworth

Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. - John F. Kennedy

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston Churchill on the Battle of Britain

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. - John F. Kennedy

I'm planning my 12th trip to Scotland in September & October. Tickets are booked, hotels are booked and rental car is booked & my membership card for Historic Scotland has been polished. Itinerary: Fri Sep 29: Oslo – Aberdeen - Dundee Sat Sep 30: Dundee – Stirling Sun Oct 1: Stirling – Edinburgh Mon Oct 2: Edinburgh – North Berwick Tue Oct 3: North Berwick – Dunfermline Wed Oct 4: Dunfermline – Callander Thu Oct 5: Callander – Oban Fri Oct 6: Oban – Inverness Sat Oct 7: Inverness – Aberdeen Sun Oct 8: Aberdeen – Oslo I’m renting a car at the airport and plan on swinging by Claypotts Castle, Broughty Castle, Doune Castle, Stirling Castle, Bannockburn House, Bannockburn Battlefield, Craigmillar Castle, Hailes Castle, Dirleton Castle, Tantallon Castle, Aberdour Castle, Dunollie Castle, Glenfinnan Viaduct (of Harry Potter fame), Urquhart Castle and Culloden Battlefield. I shall once again holler with the good people of Pure Malt and the other locals assembled at The Old Rectory...

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour. - Winston Churchill on the Battle of Britain

I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be! - John Henry Mackay

The history of governments: one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labors shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these. Hence, the less government we have, the better, the fewer laws, the less confided power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace. - Milton Friedman

American Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life: Violence and committee meetings. - George Will

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. - Ronald Reagan

After our photo bonanza at Lake Panic, we started driving back towards the main road. We hadn't gone far when we had to stop because yet another herd of ellies were crossing. As with all the other ellies, not a care in the world. Tail swinging, a baby was trying to keep up with the others. He really was the cutest. We saw these birds several times, and their random behavior led us to name them the African Birdbrain. Here they're running around, making weird noises and attacking each other for no apparent reason. Random croc sleeping it off. A typical South African river landscape. This was as close as we got to a leopard. We were driving down one of the umpteen gravel roads, when we suddenly spotted this tiny orange-yellow smudge among the trees. We must have stayed for half an hour, just hoping it would DO something, and just as we were debating leaving, a herd of impalas ran past. The leopard chased after them into the jungle and we never saw if he caught one. I also have vid...

Our fourth and final day at Kruger was possibly also our best, in terms of photographic loot. We started driving along the Sabie River Road, where we saw this bird, which I believe was later diagnosed as a fisher eagle. Things perked up two minutes later, when we stopped for a long time to watch a flock of baboons cavorting, with a special guest appearance by some literally buck wild impalas. This cheeky monkey was sucking his thumb like a human child. The little ones are very cute and playful. This one had his gangsta swagger on. While this guy had a wide stance. Way to literally let it all hang out, dude. I got video of him. And another one, with a horrible case of the hemorrhoids. Watching the kids and pondering life. Video of mother grooming baby and some cray-cray impala bucks jumping around to show their fitness to attract mates. Then, things went sour quickly, with a huge quarrel over my desire not to take up too much space and time for everybody else, and a certrain someone who...

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf

We had decided in advance to take a small break from the Kruger Park and since we'd all heard about the Panorama Route, that's where we headed. The first leg of the trip was the drive up from Hazyview to Graskop. Hazyview takes its name precisely from the fact that the area is often hazy, especially in the morning. Once you get up in the very scenic hillsides above and around town the views are, if not spectacular, at least very nice. Much of the woodlands you find around Hazyview is planted. There are HUGE plantations with nuffin' but trees as far as the eye can see. The "haze" in Hazyview soon became apparent as we climbed up the hillsides. Video from the road between Hazyview and Graskop. In Graskop, we had a solid breakfast at a brilliant little restaurant called The Silver Spoon . As you can see, it was a variation on the English breakfast, with a big ole hamburger and some fries in lieu of tomato beans and mushrooms. I talked a bit to our waitress, who turne...

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C. S. Lewis

At this point in my blogging about South Africa, I would like to remind you all that I'm an idiot. This series is being written in late November, and by now my hard drive has crashed and I have managed to upload two sets of the last day's pictures instead of the third day's on Flickr. So until such time as I can salvage my hard drive, the only stuff I have about this day are my videos, which I mercifully remembered to upload to YouTube. Update: Strike that, I am a genius! I forgot that I had uploaded all 40 pics from this day to Facebook, so here are some of the best of 'em! It all started with a small family of ellies walking in the mist. It was a really, really beautiful drive that morning. Video: Then we saw a big group of hippos at the same dam where we'd spotted the solitary lion on the first day. This impala was kind enough to pose for me. After a big brunch at Skukuza, we decided to go north and east along some gravel roads. First we crossed a bridge, where w...