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Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ugly Duckling, anything with Mike Patton in it and a big ecclectic mix of bits and pieces...

"If war is hell, take a better pitchfork than the devil."

"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes- between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal.
Well, fuck them. Make it personal."

"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you."

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action.

"It's all bullshit" - C. Glanville.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Of course the 1911 is an outdated weapon - it was made to win fights not avoid product liability law suits!".

"That's bad fuckin' wontok right there!"

"Even if I wished to surrender to you - and I don't - I am commanding Australians who would cut my throat if I accepted your terms."

This was the reply of Colonel C. Hore, the Imperial commander at Elands River Post, to the request of the Boer Gen. Jacobs 'Koos' del la Rey to surrender the post. Gen. del la Rey had, under a flag of truce, advised the garrison at Elands River Post that the whole area surrounding their position was under Boer control.

He offered the Australians safe conduct to the nearest British garrison.

Their alternative was destruction by his artillery. The prospects looked grim for the garrison, which had already endured a two-day bombardment of 2500 artillery shells. The 505 defenders had nearly lost all of their 1500 horses, mules and oxen as a result of the shelling, which were strewn around the post and were starting to decay. Facing a Boer commando of 2500-3000, their prospects of rescue were poor.

Although not regular soldiers the Australian Mounted Rifles and Bushmen adapted easily to the unconventional war the Boers were fighting.

A member of Gen. del la Rey's commando wrote home to say: "For the first time in the war we are fighting men who used our own tactics against us. They were Australian volunteers and though small in number we could not take their position.

They were the only troops who could scout our lines at night and kill our sentries while killing or capturing our scouts. Our men admitted that the Australians were more formidable opponents and far more dangerous than any other British troops."