Monthly Archives: April 2004

Yes, dear readers, we bid on a house this weekend and won!  In about a month, we will moving into a real single family home!  It has everything we need and wanted and more.  Condos are OK if that is what you are looking for, but it wasn’t for us.  We outgrew the condo about 20 minutes after we moved in.  The new place will have TRIPLE the space and no rules or assessments.  I will let you know how it goes.  I am actually looking forward to yard work.

This is something I came up with

Two Republicans
On the Economy/Labor:
Lincoln:
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Lincoln’s First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

Bush:
“It’s very important for folks to understand that when there’s more trade, there’s more commerce.”–Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

On rights/freedom:

Lincoln:
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name – liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names – liberty and tyranny.” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, “Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland” (April 18, 1864), p. 301-302.

Bush:
Well, it’s an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We’re blessed with such values in America. And I–it’s–I’m a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.”–Visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001

On War and it’s consequences:
Lincoln:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Bush:
“There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there,” Bush told reporters at the White House. “My answer is ‘bring them on’. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation.”

Enough said,

Well, we decided to put the condo up for sale.  It is time to move up to a real single family home.  Anyone want a nicely maintained condo in Des Plaines?  E-mail me at spamtrap@cyberphreak.com  Don’t remove spam from spamtrap.