It's been said that a man that brings a knife to a gun fight is a fool, but when thats all you have, ya gotta work with what you have, and Thomas Autry proves that desperation can be the edge that wins the day, even against 4 to 1 odds.

Result? One goblin dead, one in critical condition, and two others sitting in the greybar motel awaiting charges.

They just picked the wrong Marine as a victim of their predation, and received a just result from their efforts. One thing that bothers me....seems that the survivors will be charged with aggravated assault and robbery...I believe that they should also face murder charges. In every jurisdiction I'm familiar with, when a death occurs as the direct result of the commision of a felony, those committing the crime are held responsible for that death.

The fact that they were armed with firearms, and in at least one instance, discharged their weapon, it becomes even more urgent that they face this larger charge. From my understanding of the facts so far, none of the miscreants were even legally allowed to possess a weapon in the first place, being underage.

They should just be thankful that Cpl. Autry had chosen not to carry a firearm himself, or they would not be having the luxury of a trial.

Cpl. Autry says he is not a hero, but I beg to differ.

"The heroes are those guys out there fighting for us every day and not getting respect," he said, referring to military personnel fighting in Iraq and elsewhere.

That [killing the attacker] wasn't admirable, it was fight or flight and I tried the flight."

No, Cpl., You did the prudent thing as a basicly unarmed citizen until you had no other choice. Attempting flight against 4 to 1 odds is not cowardice, and when you no longer had the option, you stepped up in the true tradition of the Corps and overcame the enemy.

The enemy isn't just on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, unfortunately, they also roam our own streets, and all too many citizens fear to make any effort at their own defense against these predatory animals, putting their trust in the fallacious belief that only the Police can protect them.

You stood up to the threat, and in my book, that makes you a hero.

One other point....I'm somewhat reluctant to bring up, but it's the truth as I feel it would have been.....

I'm glad that everyone involved was black, I am sure that had Cpl. Autry been white, he would have had a some press coverage painting him as an evil racist murdering a poor black girl, making what was undoubtedly a very traumatic incident for him even worse.

If that perception on my part makes me a racist, so be it. But all I can go by is past events, and it seems that every time it's a white/black situation, the white side of the equation seems to have to overcome at least a hint of presumption of guilt. I hate feeling that way, but the news as reported these days keeps reinforcing that ugly feeling.

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Who says Canucks don't have a sense of Humor?

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I cry for the country of my birth. Seems that the Moonbats have totally taken over.

Pedaphiles have banded together to form their own political party...and they just may succeed in being on the next election's slate of choices.

The goal of the new party is to reduce the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12 (with the ultimate goal of erasing any limit whatsoever), allow the private possession of child porn, legalize beastiality, and allow porn to be telecast on broadcast tv.

HOW can the Dutch people allow even the consideration of such a platform?!?!? the fact is that most Dutch DO oppose this travesty. An opinion poll published Tuesday showed that 82 percent wanted the government to do something to stop the new party, while 67 percent said promoting pedophilia should be illegal.

What really bothers me is that, if that poll is to be believed, some 18% of the people are in line with the goals of this new party, and WORSE 33% of those polled are tolerant of Pedaphilia.

That is not the Dutch people I know. We have long had a well deserved reputation of tolerance for "different" lifestyles and choices and for having a "live and let live as long as you don't harm anyone" philosophy; but NEVER in my wildest dreams would I have thought that that tolerance would extend to these depths of depravity. By it's very nature, Pedophilia and child porn harms those least able to defend themselves, and as such, should be fought with the greatest vigor possible.

But this is the only possible end result of "total acceptance of every view as valid" as is espoused by the Progressives here. NO, I don't believe that Progressives are child molesters and kiddie porn afficianados...but if you follow their "moral neutral" policies to their logical conclusion, that is what you WILL end up with. Let what is happening in Holland serve as a warning, lest we slide down the same slope.

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It's finally happened, folks. A major member of the LSM has come right out and admitted the agenda that most of the media follows, but denies.

In a commencment speech delivered to the State University of New York, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. urged "protection for his reporters and photographers "in war-torn Iraq" so they can bring back stories about a "misbegotten war" (and thus help undermine the Bush Administration's foreign policy)".

Read the speech and read between the lines, and you can have no doubt as to the agenda being espoused. Moonbats may say that he "didn't SAY to "impeach Bush", or "show the white flag in Iraq", but as a newspaper publisher, Mr. Sulzberger should be very aware that words have meaning and the subtext of the speech is clear (thats "nuance" for you in the Progressive community).

I can wholeheartedly agree with him when he says to: "Engage. Help make decisions. Vote......Knowing whatÂ’s happening in your world, your country, your neighborhood is the critical precursor to being a citizen of a democracy. Each one of you who forsakes your role in keeping our democracy alive by either inaction or, perhaps worse, by action based on ignorance, threatens all the rest of us."

My disconnect from his statement ensues when he urges those students to "read a newspaper" (presumably the NY Times) to be sure that they are informed about what is going on.

Knowing many people serving in the war zone, and comparing their version on events to what the major news outlets put out to the public, I am confident that if I relied solely on the Media, I would have a far different opinion (about the war) than I do. I believe that "the truth" probably lies somewhere in between the two versions. And what I believe to be "the truth" more than justifies our presence on the field of battle.

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While reading the comments on Misha's Memorial Day post, I came across this poem posted by MrsM of the CIA blog. It embodies the soldiers creed of Duty, Honor, and Country.

A protest raged on a courthouse lawn,
Round a makeshift stage they charged on,
Fifteen hundred or more they say,
Had come to burn a Flag that day.
A boy held up the folded Flag,
Cursed it, and called it a dirty rag.
An OLD MAN pushed through the angry crowd,
With a rusty shotgun shouldered proud.

His uniform jacket was old and tight,
He had polished each button, shiny and bright.
He crossed that stage with a soldierÂ’s grace,
Until he and the boy stood face to face.

“FREEDOM OF SPEECH”, the OLD MAN said,
“Is worth dying for, good men are dead,
So you can stand on this courthouse lawn,
And talk us down from dusk to dawn,
But before any Flag gets burned today,
This OLD MAN IS GOING TO HAVE HIS SAY!!

My father died on a foreign shore,
In a war they said would end all war.
But Tommy and I wasnÂ’t even full grown,
Before we fought in a war of our own.
And Tommy died on Iwo JimaÂ’s beach,
In the shadow of a hill he couldnÂ’t quite reach
Where five good men raised this Flag so high,
That the WHOLE WORLD COULD SEE IT FLY.

I got this bum leg that I still drag,
Fighting for this same old Flag.
Now thereÂ’s but one shot in this old gun,
So now itÂ’s time to decide which one,
Which one of you will follow our lead,
To stand and die for what you believe?
For as sure as there is a rising sun,
YouÂ’ll burn before this Flag burns, son.

Now this riot never came to pass.
The crowd got quiet and that can of gas,
Got set aside as they walked away
To talk about what they had heard this day.
And the boy who had called it a “dirty rag”,
Handed the OLD SOLDIER the folded Flag.

So the battle of the Flag this day was won
By a tired OLD SOLDIER with a rusty gun,
Who for one last time, had to show to some,
THIS FLAG MAY FADE, YET THESE COLORS DONÂ’T RUN

“It’s the Soldier”
By: Charles M. Province

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Memorial Day....one of the "overlooked" holidays. It seems these days that only those that have tasted the fire and steel of war really KNOW what this day truly means. For many these days, it seems to be just a day off; the kick-off of the Summer season, when the first picnic BBQ is fired up in the backyard with the radio blaring out the Indianapolis 500 in the background.

I regret that loss of meaning. This is supposed to be a day of reflection, a day of honoring those that died in the defense of everything we hold dear; a day to realize that freedom isn't free and that we are blessed that so many brave patriots in the past were willing to pay that ultimate price so that we may feel secure in our land.

Never forget that it was not only those men, but their families that share in that sacrifice.

Never forget that it is not only the soldier, but the Police Officer that stands between us and those that would do us harm.

Those men didn't want to pay that price, but they were willing to risk having to do so for their families, their comrads in arms, and their nation.

Marine CPL. Joshua Miles says if better than I ever could:

To all those that served, Past, Present, and Future, and pay that price with their Blood, Sweat, and Tears, I humbly thank you. May your sacrifices never be forgotten.

To those that sit here safe at home and decry that "war is never the answer"
and/or claim to "support the troops, but not the war"....may your chains lay lightly upon you, but do not claim that you are my brother; seek not to lay those chains on me.

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“Making nonviolent resistance impossible makes violent resistance inevitable.”
~J.F.K~

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JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister.
After a while he asked: "Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for
cold milk?"

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was
so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don't remember you
must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six."

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom goodnight. "I love you so much,
that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window."

BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a painkiller. She tried in
vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained
it was a childproof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with
wonder, the little girl asked: "How does it know it's me?

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. "Please don't
give me this juice again," she said, "It makes my teeth cough."

DI (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: "How much do I
cost?"

MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and
kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: "Why is he whispering in her mouth?"

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: "The man named
Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked
back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked: "What happened to the
flea?"

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled
woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for awhile and then asked, "Why
doesn't your skin fit your face?

The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget.... this particular Sunday
sermon..."Dear Lord," the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. "Without you, we are but dust."
He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter (who was listening!) Leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little
girl voice, "Mom, what is butt dust?"

H/T to Catfish

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Here's a bit of an oldie, but it's STILL a goody!

The IRS decides to audit Ralph, and summons him to the IRS office. The
IRS auditor is not surprised when Ralph shows up with his attorney.

The auditor says, "Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no
full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money
gambling. I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable."

"I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it," says Ralph. "How about a
demonstration?"

The auditor thinks for a moment and said, "Okay.
Go ahead."

Ralph says, "I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye."

The auditor thinks a moment and says, "No way!
It's a bet."
Ralph removes his glass eye and bites it.

The auditor's jaw drops. Ralph says, "Now, I'll bet you two thousand
dollars that I can bite my other eye."

The auditor can tell Ralph isn't blind, so he takes the bet.

Ralph removes his dentures and bites his good eye.

The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand,
with Ralph's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.

"Want to go double or nothing?" Ralph asks.
"I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your
desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a
drop anywhere in between."

The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and
decides there's no way this guy can manage that stunt, so he agrees
again.

Ralph stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he
strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on
other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the desk.

The auditor leaps with joy! , realizing that he has just turned a major
loss into a huge win. But Ralph's attorney moans and puts his head in
his hands.

"Are you okay?" the auditor asks.

"Not really," says the attorney. "This morning, when Ralph told me he'd
been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty thousand dollars that he
could come in here and piss all over an IRS official's desk and that
you'd be happy about it."

H/T to Catfish

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They WALKED!?!!?

I SINCERELY hope that it's just so Homeland Security can moniter their contacts!

If not, DHS is screwed up even more than I had believed...CALL Jack Bauer!

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Ever wanted to cite just one example of how the LSM is slanting it's stories about the war zones?

GO HERE for the story as it was relayed to the public by one of the esteemed members of the 4th Estate (you know, those guys that have the multi-layered system of fact-checking editors?).

As Odysseus says in the post where I learned of this piece of journalistic crap, "Bob Kerr, writing in the Providence Journal, took a story from a mother whose son asked for canned tuna and other snacks, added up 2+2 and came up with 7."

Now GO HERE and see the response to the story by the young Marine whom Mr. Kerr wrote so eloquently about as "The last thing he should have to worry about is an empty stomach.".

After CPL. Andoscia sent his response, this is how Mr. Kerr responded:

"I talked with Karen Boucher-Andoscia, Nick Andoscia's mother, about her son's appeal for food and the conditions that had prompted it. I had no reason to doubt her or her son, then or now. I also heard from Marines from all over the country who took issue with the column and assured me that Andoscia would be contacted about it. Apparently he was."

In other words, either:

A. "The story is false but the situation is true"
OR
B. "obviously the Marines leaned on this poor starving servicemember to make him recant the truth or face disciplinary/retaliatory action".

It can be forgiven that a mother worried about her son being in a combat zone can misconstrue and/or inflate the facts, but that one of the professional journalist class can write such an obviously slanted piece in direct contravention of facts easily ascertained by a RESPONSIBLE scion of the journalistic class, (much less the battallion of fact checkers supposedly guarding against such shoddy work) only leads us to the question, what ELSE are they misreporting?

And that response is what one would expect of a smug person (sitting in a safe newsroom) who obviously KNOWS better than the person he wrote about on the subject, because, after all, HE is a journalist, and Cpl. Andoscia is merely a misguided/misinformed tool of the military/industrial complex run by BushCheneyHaliburton Enterprises Inc. that has been scared to recant the truth in the face of power.

I have two nephews and several friends in the A.O.O. that I have sent "care" packages to with items that they had requested, and it WASN'T because they were starving or ill equipped, it's just that, in a war zone, sometimes the smallest things can be a "taste of home" that makes the duty just a little more bearable.

When I was stationed in Germany, under MUCH less hazerdous conditions, I used to ask my mother to send me some food items and other little things that were not availible to me incountry, just to remind me of why I was there; to safeguard the security of HOME, and all the people I cared for.

I certainly wasn't starving, and the conditions I worked under, while strenuous and often primative, were certainly not as taxing as in a live combat zone, but I can tell you that those "little tastes of home" certainly meant the world to me and other members of my platoon.

They were a reminder that we were not forgotten and that we were missed by our loved ones as much as we missed them. I can just imagine just how much more they would mean to those that are in extreme peril of their lives 24/7/365!

UPDATE: from this earlier story:

These days the most dangerous spot on the base might be one of its four mess halls. As at other U.S. installations, the food at Balad is both good and abundant, a major change from the early days of the U.S. presence here.

Dinner on the night of Friday, Jan. 27 offered entrees of baked salmon, roast turkey, grilled pork chops, fried crab bites, breaded scallops and fried rice. The smiling servers standing behind those dishes were from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

Soldiers who were still hungry could hit the two salad bars, the sandwich line or a short-order stand for a cheeseburger, hot dog or grilled cheese sandwich. There were also two soup offerings and a dessert stand near the exit with chocolate mint and vanilla ice cream, banana pudding, pumpkin pie, cherry pie and yellow cake.

For those bored with the mess halls, there are a Subway, a Pizza Hut, a Popeye's, an ersatz Starbucks called "Green Beans" that serves up triple lattes, and a 24-hour Burger King.

Yes, I realize that this base is in "The Zone", and the menu/amenities aren't as extensive in most areas, but as an admittedly limited guide, it sure doesn't seem that our guys are starving to the point where they "need to ask Iraqi families for food".....

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Dennis Prager has a well written argument that Liberalism is killing itself intellectually by replacing thought with feelings. Definitely a must read.

Next time you read an op-ed piece from the Liberal side, look for the list of buzz words that Mr. Prager postulates and see if he isn't correct in his premise.

Here are the lists:

Applied to anything Liberals are against:

Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Islamophobic
Imperialist
Bigoted
Intolerant

Applied to anything they are for:

Peace
Fairness
Tolerance
The poor
The disenfranchised
The environment

Break down the arguments in any op-ed piece and you will come to find that thought has been replaced with these buzz words; the first list being used to dismiss the others sides argument with no furthur need of rebuttal with reasoned argument, and the second list being used to buttress their contentions as being "good for:_______" without taking account of any possible negative consequences stemming from the proposed action.

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Thomas Sowell weighs in on the Illegal immigration Mexican Invader issue with his always eridite comments.

One comment that I found most interesting was:

"The real question is what we do with whatever illegal aliens we do find. Right now, there are various communities around the country where local officials have a policy of forbidding the police from reporting illegal immigrants to federal authorities."

"Why are people who are so gung ho for punishing employers so utterly silent about needing to punish government officials who openly and deliberately violate federal laws?"

Mr. Sowell is correct when he asserts that businesses can not be expected to determine whether or not employment eligibility documents are forged or not; and when the local government officials,in effect, ignore the law when they DO find such illegalities, just how much approbation can we direct towards the businesses?

EVERY elected official makes a solemn oath to uphold the laws of their jurisdiction and of the nation, when they blatently ignore this responsibility, they have become criminals themselves.

This issue is one of the greatest tests our nation has ever faced; and in my (never humble) opinion, at present we are failing miserably. The blame falls in the end on US; this is supposed to be a government OF and BY the people, we get the government WE allow, and WE have allowed this issue to progress to the point where it almost seems insurmountable. We'd better wake up and take action soon, or we will find ourselves lost in a morass that we may never emerge from.

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Wild Thing has a post that says it all.

We can't say "Thank You" enough to all those in the T.O.O., but we sure should try to.

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Husband: Oh, come on.
Wife: Leave me alone!
Husband: It won't take long.
Wife: I won't be able to sleep afterwards.
Husband: I can't sleep without it.
Wife: Why do you think of things like this in the middle of the night?
Husband: Because I'm Hot.
Wife: You get hot at the darnedest times.
Husband: If you love me I wouldn't have to beg you.
Wife: If you love me you'd be more considerate.
Husband: You don't love me anymore.
Wife: Yes I do, but let's forget it for tonight.
Husband: Please...come on

Wife: All right, I'll do it.
Husband: What's the matter? Need a flashlight?
Wife: I can't find it.
Husband: Oh, for heaven's sake, feel for it!
Wife: There! Are you satisfied?
Husband: Oh, yes.
Wife: Is it up far enough?
Husband: Oh, that's good.
Wife: Now go to bed and from now on when you want the window open, do it yourself!

H/T To Catfish

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Great bit of unintended humor at GuyK's. Folks, you just can't make up stuff like this....

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39 Things You Should Have Learned By Now

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a biscuit in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy fridge.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
25. It's not the jeans that make your bum look fat.
26. If you had to identify, in 1 word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, & never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings".
27. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
29. You should not confuse your career with your life.
30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
31. Never lick a steak knife.
32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we put the clocks back.
34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
35. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
36. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
37. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
38. Your friends love you anyway.
39. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Thanks Sis!

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I don't know why THIS isn't front page news, but is damned sure SHOULD be!

According to BC, it wasn't even above the fold in the LOCAL newsrag...

And yet the media will scream AFTER the fact about "why wasn't this detected before the act"?

People, we need to WAKE UP; we are engaged in a WAR! complacency is a luxury that we just can no longer afford.

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How far we have fallen in the quality of our leaders.

All this debate over how to treat those that have broken our laws and set themselves up in our country...all we need to do is heed these wise words from one of our greatest statemen:

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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Kim explains his simple philosophy of life in this post, and I find, yet again, another thing that makes us brothers-in-kind.

Never forget a kindness; never forgive an insult.
Kim du Toit

It's the same philosophy GuyK espouses: "Don't start no shit and there want be no shit but don't run from no shit either".

For that matter, it's the unofficial Marine Corps motto; "No better friend; NO worse enemy".

I like to think that I live by a combination of those three maxims. I may not always be as true to them as I would hope, but that is my ideal goal.

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