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[JuntaJoe]

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

[JuntaJoe]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling,
which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made
and kept so by the exertion of better men than himself.

[JuntaJoe]

Success is commemorated. Failure is merely remembered.

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Before digging, know if you wish dirt or a hole.

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Whatever you do, just keep moving.

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We enter the world with pain, blood, and screams. Too often we leave in the same manner.

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Freedom is a verb.

[JuntaJoe]

Sounds like my memories.

Maybe I should have bought a camera back then.....


Look at this photograph
Everytime I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red
And what the hell is on Joey's head

And this is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
I never knew we'd ever went without
The second floor is hard for sneaking out

And this is where I went to school
Most of the time had better things to do
Criminal record says I broke in twice
I must have done it half a dozen times

I wonder if It's too late
Should i go back and try to graduate
Life's better now then it was back then
If I was them I wouldn't let me in

Oh oh oh
Oh god I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Remember the old arcade
Blew every dollar that we ever made
The cops hated us hangin' out
They say somebody went and burned it down

We used to listen to the radio
And sing along with every song we know
We said someday we'd find out how if feels
To sing to more than just the steering wheel

Kim's the first girl I kissed
I was so nervous that I nearly missed
She's had a couple of kids since then
I haven't seen her since god knows when

Oh oh oh
Oh god I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

I miss that town
I miss the faces
You can't erase
You can't replace it
I miss it now
I can't believe it

So hard to stay
Too hard to leave it

If I could I relive those days
I know the one thing that would never change

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Look at this photograph
Everytime I do it makes me laugh
Everytime I do it makes me.........

[JuntaJoe]

When you have come to the edge of all you know and are about to drop off into the abyss of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen.

That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly.

[JuntaJoe]

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

[JuntaJoe]

Dreamline

He's got a road map of Jupiter
A radar fix on the stars
All along the highway
She's got a liquid-crystal compass
A picture book of the rivers
Under the Sahara

They travel in the time of the prophets
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and heroes, and the restless part of everyone
We're only at home when we're on the run
On the run

He's got a star map of Hollywood
A list of cheap motels
All along the freeway
She's got a sister out in Vegas
The promise of a decent job
Far away from her hometown

They travel on the road to redemption
A highway out of yesterday -- that tomorrow will bring
Like lovers and heroes, birds in the last days of spring
We're only at home when we're on the wing
On the wing

When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time

Time is a gypsy caravan
Steals away in the night
To leave you stranded in Dreamland
Distance is a long-range filter
Memory a flickering light
Left behind in the heartland

We travel in the dark of the new moon
A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Like lovers and heroes, lonely as the eagle's cry
We're only at home when we're on the fly
On the fly

When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time

We travel on the road to adventure
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and heroes, and the restless part of everyone
We're only at home when we're on the run
On the run...

[JuntaJoe]

Self Pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

[JuntaJoe]

Regret is a waste of perfectly good booze.


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Life is not a practice run.

[JuntaJoe]

Procrastination is like masturbation, its feels good, but your only screwing yourself in the end.

[JuntaJoe]

Remember, when you pull the fuse Mister Satchel Charge is no longer your friend.

[JuntaJoe]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein


The shortest stories......

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
- Ernest Hemingway

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Longed for him. Got him. crap.
- Margaret Atwood

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

“I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.”
- Howard Chaykin

Easy. Just touch the match to......
- Ursula K. Le Guin

God to Earth: “Cry more, noobs!”
- Marc Laidlaw

Metrosexuals notwithstanding, quiche still lacks something.
- David Brin

It’s behind you! Hurry before it......
- Rockne S. O’Bannon

Time traveler's thought: "What's the password?"
- Steven Meretzky

Dorothy: "Screw it, I'll stay here."
- Steven Meretzky

[JuntaJoe]

I don't play well with others.

Seems that others have a problem with losing.

[JuntaJoe]

There are builders, defenders, and destroyers.

Everyone else is just a camp follower.

[JuntaJoe]

Give me a child to teach with abacus and chalk, and I shall give you a scholar.
None but knowledge will be his master.

Give me a child to mold with scripture and incense, and I shall give you a priest.
For him divinity alone is worthy.

Give me a child to train with sword and shield, and I shall give you a warrior.
His obedience will be a strong as his courage.


But give me a child to form completely as I see fit, with dagger and lies, with the blood of strangers upon his hand, and I shall give you a slave who will ask not for food nor wealth nor glory nor mercy, and will remain steadfastly at your side throughout all his life.

For nothing forges loyalty like guilt and complicit bloodshed.

[JuntaJoe]

You find yourself capable of strange things when you run out of choices.

D. L. Edelman

[JuntaJoe]

"When young men seek to be like you, when lazy men resent you, when powerful men look over their shoulder at you, when cowardly men plot behind your back, when corrupt men wish you were gone and evil men want you dead. Only then will you have done your share."
-Phil Messina



Do people hate you? Good! That means you stood up for something.

[JuntaJoe]

‘‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.’’

— Patrick Henry


‘‘The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.’’

— James Madison, Federalist, No. 46.

[JuntaJoe]

Luck is like government. We can't get along without it, but only a fool relies on it. - David Weber

[JuntaJoe]

I'm not an old man. I'm a young man something happened to.