Looking for an honest man

[dhyatt]

diogenese logs on to CP frequently but has yet to post? I can only he/she is looking for honesty and isn't quite convinced :?

[Diogenese]

I generally subscribe more to “acta non verba”, but not so with blogs/discussion groups. I do enjoy lurking about the Cary Politics site, and wish I had discovered the site before, not after, the recent municipal elections. My aversion to blogs/discussion groups aside, I have enjoyed, and look forward to discussions and information from Cary Politics. I will follow with particular interest the discourse on Ron Paul and his efforts running for president. I wonder if our recent municipal election experience could occur on a national scale?

[dhyatt]

I generally subscribe more to “acta non verba”, but not so with blogs/discussion groups. I do enjoy lurking about the Cary Politics site, and wish I had discovered the site before, not after, the recent municipal elections. My aversion to blogs/discussion groups aside, I have enjoyed, and look forward to discussions and information from Cary Politics. I will follow with particular interest the discourse on Ron Paul and his efforts running for president. I wonder if our recent municipal election experience could occur on a national scale?

Good! I can now give you the official CP welcome :-) There's always a chance for Ron Paul but it will take coaxing many, many Americans out from under the warm blanket of big government and that will be very hard to do as there are very few of us that realize we are slowly being suffocated.

[johnb]

The Greek philosopher was Diogenes.

The joke at the base I was stationed at in Turkey, his hometown of Sinop, was in a wooden statue carved and sold in trinket shops. It showed Diogenes with his lantern and the quotation: "An honest man, no, I'm looking for a piece of ***."

When Alexander the Great met Diogenes, allegedly, Alexander stood before him and announced himself and asked if he could do anything for him. To wit, Diogenes replied to the effect "Yes, you can move, you are blocking the sunlight."