Cost of Arms

Every gun made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money, alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete highway.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.

Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a Cross of Iron.

Dwight David Eisenhower

“Common sense is the Collection of Prejudices acquired by age 18.”

Albert Einstein

Coincidence is the word we use

when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.

Emma Bull in Bone Dance

Men never cling to their dreams with such Tenacity

as at the moment when they are losing Faith in them,

and know it,

but do not dare to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner
American Economist

“Be Wiser than other people, if you can,

But do not tell them so.”

Lord Chesterfield

Daddy’s Exception:

“ … unless there is a Reason to do Otherwise.”

Robert Jorrie

Any biological function,
no matter how Poorly it may be now Understood,

exists because at some time in the Past
it had Survival Value.

 

relayed to me by Dr. Bill Hauser,
The Obscure South Texas Philosopher,
November 15th, 1991

relayed to me by Dr. Bill Hauser, The Obscure South Texas Philosopher, November 15th, 1991

 

 

So far as I can tell,

there are only 3 reasons for taking a long driving vacation:

1. It gives you the opportunity to talk with your companion about the myriad of things you normally never get to talk about in Daily Life,

2. It permits you access to places you just cannot reach except by car

… eg like places not near an airport and way out in the “boondocks,” and

3. It kills time, (which can be desirable under some circumstances, too).

Other than that, you just spend all your precious vacation time in the car driving, endlessly.

Additional thoughts:

By the time you total the gasoline, motel bills you wouldn’t have had if you’d flown and 3 meals a day,

you “save” practically nothing by driving … and perhaps even spend more money by driving!

Robert Jorrie
May 25, 1990

Robert Jorrie, May 25, 1990

The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play;
Among the lowing of the herds.
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.

 

The foolish fears of what may happen,
I cast them all away,
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the new-mown hay;
Among the husking of the corn
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are born,
Out in the fields with God.

 

Elizabeth Barett Browning

 

is to Show You

What Needs Attention.

Bob Sawtelle