"I read the first line of your post and am not going to
read the rest."
So much for a reasonable, logical, rational discussion of
reality based issues.
FWIW, I'm not going to be shamed, intimidated or coerced
into changing my style. Those tactics do not provide a
substantive, legitimate or appropriate basis to affect
change.
Teddy Roosevelt said this on May 12, 1900 .. .while he was
still governor of New York. Too bad we don't have more
people who feel this way today.....
"We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, and
foreign policy; but we cannot afford to differ on the
question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently
to endure.....
"Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute
prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a
man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public
life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity....
..........................................
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of
deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the
man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by
the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who
errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a
worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory or defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt |
