We used to fight for freedoms.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

Getting a 'Handle' on things

Somebody complained about long-winded 'anonymous' posters instead of answering or responding to any of the issues I raised in my long-winded, anonymous post, so I added a 'handle' to my next post, only to discover that in order for my Google handle to actually have a profile attached to it, I had to sign up for a blog here on blogger.com. Seems a bit over the top just to add a disguised name to a comment, but hey, I'm game.

So there it is, my first ever blog post.

Maybe the next one will actually be interesting.