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bajaguy
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Mood: must be 5 O'clock somewhere in Baja
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bajarah ....we have our retirement place in Ensenada. Looked at several locations and settled on Ensenada for a variety of reasons.
You will like it, plenty of things to do like the upcoming two week Ensenada Wine Festival.
Maybe we can get together for a cold one (or two)
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fishabductor
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bajaguy...
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm........George Orwell"
Isn't this a quote by Winston Churchill?
Sorry to Hijack...but I always liked the quote
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motoged
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Wikipedia sez:
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
* Alternative: "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
* In his 1945 "Notes on Nationalism", Orwell claimed that the statement, "Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing
violence on their behalf" was a "grossly obvious" fact. "Notes on Nationalism"
* Notes: allegedly said by George Orwell although there is no evidence that Orwell ever wrote or uttered either of these versions of this idea.
They do bear some similarity to comments made in an essay that Orwell wrote on Rudyard Kipling, when quoting from one of his poems. Orwell did write,
in his essay on Kipling, that the latter's "grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can only be highly
civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." (1942)
o "Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep" - Rudyard Kipling (Tommy)
o "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I
provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it." - Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men)
* Alternative: "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -
Winston Churchill (miscellaneous quotation, no date)
Don't believe everything you think....
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bajarah
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| Quote: | Originally posted by KASHEYDOG
Really and the shootings happened 12 years ago. How many killings have there been in southern California since then ???  |
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bajarah
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hi
daughter in law is coming to visit friday asked when her sister was murderd ... was 2 years ago]
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Bajahowodd
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It's impossible for anyone, who has never encountered it, to totally comprehend the emotions associated with the loss of a loved one that is the
victim of either random or unforeseeable violence. However, if you, bajarah, seriously want advice on whether to consider Ensenada as a choice for
retirement, the simple truth is that you must keep that tragedy out of the equation. On the other hand, if that awful incident weighs heavily on you,
then clearly Ensenada is not an option for you.
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