IFR — Neptunus Lex

By lex, on April 20th, 2010

I have a confession to make to you, gentle reader. I enjoyed the challenge of hurling 20 tons of titanium ribbed graphite epoxy upon the moving deck of 100,000 tons of cold, pitching steel. I loved me the opportunity to wrestle and wrangle with opposing air forces numbering from one to many through the footless halls of air. I even took a kind of perverse pleasure into going into bad guy country and busting up their gear as they reached and probed to bring me down with surface to air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery.

But I never much cared for flying in bad weather.

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

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex