First there's "Judge," Tom Head, the Lubbock County, Texas commissioner preparing us for Civil War if President Obama is re-elected:
“He's
going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and
what is going to happen when that happens? I'm thinking the
worst: Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just
talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord,
take up arms and get rid of the guy. Now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public
decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in
Lubbock County. OK? So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel
carrier and say, 'You're not coming in here.' And
the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said, 'You gonna back me?' He said,
'Yeah, I'll back you.' "
Then there's Gilbert Flores, the one Democrat on the Lubbock County commission, which, strangely, is called the Lubbock County Commissioner's Court. Delightfully he said of Head: "He's a six-pack short of a full case of beer, if you know what I mean."
Yes, Gilbert, we know what you mean. He's a head case.
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One more thing
And one more thing:
Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum
You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.
(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).
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