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A new Webpage was needed to accomidate subjects that are out of place on the other webpages on this site so this page was created as a place to insert articles that don't exactly align with the subject matter of the other webpages.

As the name of this page implies, anything goes.

                        A Smart Penguin

Russia Donates Monument
to Honor Those Lost in 9/11
Click here to watch a powerful and moving Power Point Presidention of the construction of a 100ft monument honoring those who died in 9/11.

Pearl Harbor Attack 07 December 1941

Click here to watch the Power Point Presentation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

                Chinook Helocopter Seal Recovery

$200 Million Yacht

Ever wonder what a $200,000,000 Yacht looks like?
  Click here.  All I can say is... it must be nice!

 

Timeless Wisdom

 

1.  In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
 

2.  If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.   -- Mark Twain
 

3.  Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.   -- Mark Twain
 

4.  I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
 

5.  A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw.
 

6.  A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
 

7.  Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.   -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
 

8.  Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at  Georgetown   University
 

9.  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.   -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
 

10.  Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
 

11.  Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
 

12.  I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
 

13.  If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke
 

14.  In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
 

15.  Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!    -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
 

16.  No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
 

17.  Talk is cheap . . . except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous
 

18.  The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan 

19.  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
 

20.  The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.   -- Mark Twain
 

21.  The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.   -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
 

22.  There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain
 

23.  What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
 

24.  A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.   -- Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Join the Navy and Party!
 

The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (i.e. fresh water distillers!) .

However, let it be noted that according to her ship's log, "On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S.
Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum.

Then she headed for the
Azores , arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.

On 18 November, she set sail for
England. In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard each.

By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless,
although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of
Clyde in
Scotland. Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of
single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.

The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in
Boston on 20 February, 1799, with no cannon shot,! no food , no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and 38,600 gallons of water.


GO NAVY!!!

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