User:SpartHawg948

About Me
My name is William, I am 26, and I am a Staff Sergeant (SSgt) in the US Air Force Reserve, moonlighting as a security consultant for a major Silicon Valley pharmaceuticals company. I live in Santa Clara, California, and I LOVE Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2!!! I aim to do whatever I can to improve this site, as I feel it's a great resource. Also, I am an Bureaucrat (both here and at a secret side project...), so if anyone has any questions or needs help with anything, please just let me know!

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but I have no patience whatsoever with crybabies, whiners, speculators, and boors. If you are going to be rude to someone else, plant purely speculative info, or insult others but then start crying when someone calls you on it, you WILL be hearing from me.

Now that the seriousness is taken care of, it's my goal to make this the most informative site possible, while also keeping it a nice, friendly environment for users. Any assistance in furthering that goal is, of course, greatly appreciated, and I try to acknowledge people for their efforts as much as possible. So I hope you all enjoy the site, and hopefully you'll be hearing from me (for something good, of course!)

Words to live by

 * "Let him who desires peace prepare for war"- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (more commonly known as Vegetius) from De Re Militari
 * "An armed society is a polite society"- Robert A. Heinlein
 * "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"- Winston Churchill
 * "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity- in short, of tyranny- and is committed to making tyranny universal."- Adlai Stevenson
 * "The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage."- Alexis de Tocqueville
 * "The world is not going to be saved by legislation."- William Howard Taft
 * "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."- Charles Evans Hughes

Featured Quote
This section will just be for quotes I like that aren't necessarily as concise and pithy as the ones featured above. They don't even necessarily have to be relevant to anything, I may just choose quotes from sources I like (such as George S. Patton, who provides the first of these) or works I like (such as the Anabasis by Xenophon). Good times!


 * "If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…? " - Blaise Pascal, renowned French philosopher and scientist.

Spart's History Corner!
So, as mentioned earlier, it's a pretty big day. Why? Well, because 150 years ago today, April 12th, Confederate batteries under the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard opened fire on the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter, commanded by Major Robert Anderson. With this act of unprovoked aggression, the South ushered in the American Civil War, one of the most ghastly conflicts in the history of mankind.

19 April - 150 years ago today, the Baltimore riot of 1861 began. Massachusetts militiamen marching through the city of Baltimore, Maryland were attacked by gangs of Confederate sympathizers. During the riot, four soldiers from Company D and Company I of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment and twelve civilians were killed, and the offices of the Baltimore Wecker, a pro-Union German-language newspaper, were burned. The next day, Massachusetts Brigadier General Benjamin Butler (who I once chronicled in my featured bio section) arrived with reinforcements from the Massachusetts militia and restored order.

Tongue-in cheek thought of the, ah, who am I kidding? I'm not gonna change this daily...

 * Awww... I think RiftJargon likes me! Sadly, I'll have to break it to the poor kid that I'm just not that into him. This bromance appears to be distinctly one-sided. :P SpartHawg948 05:50, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh my... I got embroiled in a debate at a forum here on the interwebs. It was one where some loony toon (and a few pals) argue that the secession of the southern states in 1861 was legal and that, even if it was illegal, the Union's invasion and reintegration of the south was itself illegal. It's ridiculous. He argues that, if secession was illegal, then the Union acted illegally by abolishing the state legislatures of the southern states, despite the fact that several people (myself included) have pointed out that, if secession is illegal and a state legislature votes to secede, then they are in a state of insurrection, which the Constitution specifically empowers the federal government to suppress. He just refuses to even address that point. He also argues (and get ready for this one, it's a riot) that, if secession was illegal, than the Union acted illegally by violating the Second Amendment rights of the southerners! That's right! He actually argues that by sending our army to put down an armed rebellion, the government violated the right of those same armed rebels to keep and bear arms! I swear, you just can't make this stuff up! SpartHawg948 10:37, June 3, 2011 (UTC)