Eh? — Neptunus Lex

By lex, on August 15th, 2008

The City of Coronado is notoriously sensitive to siren song of naval aviation. So much so that many retired pooh-bahs have the noise complaint hotline on their speed dial. S-3s got to live and play there over the years because their high bypass fan engines frankly don’t make much noise, and what noise they do make can be easily mistaken for a vacuum cleaner. Likewise helicopters don’t make much noise, so long as they’re not clattering over your stucco tiles – and the local course rules ensure that those stationed at North Island won’t.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

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