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One more Monday this week and I can pour a couple fingers of W2O and prop my feet up (unless something "interesting" happens). When was the last time you had a predictable Monday Mboog? (Actually, today was pretty good for a change - some of our members here did a smashup job of setting up/supporting the SF Sniper Competition and I got to take the afternoon off to go see how our Regimental Brethren were doing!)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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