Posted on 05/12/2010 1:01:07 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
Thank you for posting that. I lurked in the 90s and early 00s, got busy in Ws second term and am now ACTIVE. My son has also taken up the shield and is marching steadily forward.
I know how you feel. I get that way sometimes but I am just like a battery that needs to sit in the charger to get juiced up again and then I am good to go.
Keep your chin up. All is not lost. We’ve only just begun to fight!
Or... if your more inclined to the marine.... We have not yet begun to fight!
Unfortunately this is one of those problems that ignoring won’t make go away. Like rotting floorboards. But as you say, defeatism is hardly helpful either. Fortunately, the U.S. was given a lot of safety buffers against what would have already happened with so many communist infiltrators in our government. It may never get as bad as I fear it might.
Admirably stated Salem..in all respects.
Thanks for the ping.
Time to go shine my shield . . .
I just wanted to add that participation in an Appleseed shoot always renews my spirit and commitment (see the Why should I come? page for more info).
Great post.
bttt
The “Man in the Arena” quote from Teddy Roosevelt is a good one to remember. The entire speech is at the link. The “man in the arena” quote is the first paragraph. I skimmed the entire (long!!!) speech and it looks like I will be reading it in detail later - all about being a good citizen. Another paragraph popped out at me that I have also included.
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/speech%20arena.htm
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat......
“Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or antireligious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest. The very last thing an intelligent and self-respecting member of a democratic community should do is to reward any public man because that public man says that he will get the private citizen something to which this private citizen is not entitled, or will gratify some emotion or animosity which this private citizen ought not to possess.”
I actually agree with you. This year is the first that I ever watched “Dancing with the Stars.”
I found it necessary to get away from politics. I’m convinced Obama is out to destroy this country.
I’ve found Turner Classic Movies keeps me a little sane...the news is so sensationalized...or maybe i have just come to see what it really is...a business.
Very good post.
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