When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always someone who sees a solution and is willing to take charge. - Very often that person is mad.

Military action is important to the nation - it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is important to examine it. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Therefore what restrains compeditors is harm, what keeps compeditors busy is work, what motivates compeditors is profit. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

What historian wrote words like, "Of all the war's I have studied I have yet to find one that was not actually fought for the monetry gain of a few individuals."

I read yesterday of a man who died by accidently catching a cricket ball in his mouth. The back of his skull was cracked from the inside. The news story though devoted as much space to the fact that the batsman was out as the ball was caught and not dropped.

I have studied military action (and war) - it stinks. It is the means by which the many fight so that the few may get to take from each other or keep what profit they have or had.

If the enemy is in range so are you. - US Army manual.

Madness is not being normal. I am mad. I do not believe the world outside my home is as danger filled as most others do. I go out and see, feel and hear what is going on at all times of day or night. Normal people only do this when they have to. They prefer in their fear to rely on the exaggerated accounts of the media. I would let my kids play out, give them wooden rather than plasic toys but encourage them to make their own, teach them how to do useful things like make box carts and safe ladders, take them on camping holidays - not because of cost but because it teaches them so many life skills - and take them out lots to loads of different types of places so they can play (the real way a child learns) in as many different environments as possible. See I am quite mad. I grow vegetables among the flowers in my garden and all my veges are eaten. Even the green ones. See! Totally mad!

Mankind has a perfect record in aviation - we have never left one up there! (Now get hold of and listen to the Goons Show called Wings over Dagenham.) - Murphy (the one credited with Murphy's Laws).

Any ship can be a minesweeper at least once.

The only time you have too much fuel is when there is a fire.

Football commentator 1: "He dribbles forward and then kicks the ball on with his foot! Yes Brian?" Football commentator 2: "That is right Michael! It is why they call the game 'football'!"

And while looking at redundant information a commentator of Grand Prix Formula One actually said, "He is coming up to the finish line and chequered flag now! He crosses the line and the flag is waved! He has won!" Well I suppose he had to say something even if it was something we all knew.

I suspect the statement, "We have a 100% success rate in aviation. We have never left one up there!" led to the Goons producing wings over Dagenham, a comedy where people were attempting to rescue a pilot who could not land as he hadn't enough fuel to do so.
As you make your way through these pages of my site, some of the above may actually make sense. Then mayhap it could be you are becoming mad too. For if madness is having a range of beliefs way from the norm, then I am mad. I believe, for example, that societies current woes could have been easily avoided if simple and not at all costly decisions had been taken in the fifties and early sixties. (Eventually you may find the page that justifies this statement.) I question much but console myself with the thought that though I may have not done any great thing that helped humanity, I have continually helped my friends at cost to myself without counting that cost. Anyway! There is still time yet!
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