This day in History - A great man was born

Ok I'm going to take a break from my series on flight to do a quick post on one of my favorite statesmen and politicians of all time. The reason that I am doing this today is because he was born on this day in 1874. Although as far as I know he was not a Christian, God certainly used him to protect his people. This man led his people through five and a half long years of war. This man was a courageous and fiery orator. This man was a very keen and witty politician. This man was Winston Churchill. In the late 1930s when Adolf Hitler was taking Europe for himself one country at a time, Winston Churchill was one of the few politicians in England, or the world for that matter, who realized just how bad Hitler was. At the time almost nobody would listen to him and he was a social and political outcast, but eventually he was proven right and was made Prime Minister. He also proved to be an excellent military leader. His ability to lead came mostly from his ability to inspire people to follow him by his speaches. Here are some of my favorite quotes from him, first political quotes and then wit.
(P.S. Sorry if this doesn't sound very well written, I usually kinda ramble on without much of a logical pattern)

Political/Inspirational:

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Wit:

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.


These are just a few of my many favorite Churchill quotes, here is a link with a whole bunch more:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/winston_churchill.html

Oh and of course I should put some pictures on.

Flight 5 - Eagles (Cont.)

Alright before I leave eagles there is one more post I have to do. I found this picture of an F-15 on the internet and I couldn't figure out which way it was flying; is it flying towards the camera or away from it?
Look at it and see if you can figure it out.














P.S. I did eventually figure it out. If you can't figure it out try using the pictures below.

Flight 4 - Eagles (Cont.)

Ok now I'm moving on too mechanical flight. I'll start on the same subject that I left living flight on: Eagles. Specifically the F-15 Eagle. There is also a bomber version of this plane called the Strike Eagle, but this post will be dedicated to the fighter version. This plane boasts a record which no other fighter in history can claim: it has never been shot down.
Here are some pictures:

Flight 3 - Eagles

As some of you may have noticed the only bird included in both of the last two posts was the eagle, specifically the bald eagle. I did this intentionally because I planned to dedicate this post to this bird alone. So here you are. Enjoy!

Flight 2 - Living flight (cont.)

I decided one post on living flight wasn't enough, so here is another one:

Flight 1 - Living Flight

To those of you who still read this, I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long. I've been pretty busy with school and stuff so I haven't had much time. I have liked the idea of flight, both the living and mechanical kind, since I was young so I decided to do a series of posts on it. The first post will be dedicated to the living kind of flight.

Paying :(

Hey everybody, sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy with school and such. While I was doing school the other day I came across this paragraph from the story of Moby Dick and I thought it was funny (although slightly irreverent) so I thought I would share it with you.

Ishmael is giving his reasons why he is going to sea as a sailor instead of a passenger.

" Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, -what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!"