“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
Mary Renault
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
Victor Hugo
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
There is feature of addiction disease known as “consequence blindness” that is shared with the ideologues of the left. That is to say, those who believe in deficit budgets to incentivize dependency on the state receive a bigger pay-off by way of an immediate thrill, than the delayed gratification of fiscal conservatives. This is a serious problem for our culture, for if liberal/progressivism is a parallel disease to alcohol/drug addiction, then unless our culture “hits bottom”, there is no hope for recovery. Then our only alternative will be Submission. But will we cure the disease by killing the patient?
Chuck Fire, Indian Fighter
Chuck
Some of us are injuns around here so you better check yourself or you will have a fight on your hands. Cheif Llpoh will personally scalp your ass before you even know what hit you. ?
To Bea Lever,
There are consequences to everything we do and don’t do, and we will accept them, whether we are willing to or not. After you scalp my ass and Davey Crockett’s, you will be left to deal with the New Settlers and they are already here. How’s that working out for us?
Don’t look now Chuck, my comment was the TBP version of a welcome. If I had called you Up-Chuck you would know I was fukkin with you.
Thanks for the welcome Bea, I was hoping we could bury the tomahawk and collaborate. Now, how will we deal with those other People of the Book who will not compromise? It’s gonna be us against them, but for our children’s children’s children. What is is, what isn’t isn’t.
Chuck Fire, Unrepentant Sinner, Reformed Indian Fighter
“Chuck Fire, Unrepentant Sinner, Reformed Indian Fighter”
What the hell does that even mean ……. reformed Indian fighter?
Stucky, I guess you didn’t spend your formative years watching TV shows like the Disney series, “Davey Crockett, Indian fighter” where every kid I knew wanted to be just like him, including wearing a ‘coon skin cap. Those were the days when you could celebrate your heritage, be politically incorrect, and no apologies were necessary. Now Bea, and all the injuns us “cowboys” once fought are trying to be on the same side against a new threat. I’m still a fighter, just reformed to acknowledge new allies. Is it still possible for offspring to throw off the guilt of their parent’s generation or will we forever validate the grievances that infest the Left for past injustices? Is it even correct to self-righteously judge our ancestors? After all, where would we be without them?
Chuck Fire, Speaking Truth to Power
I loved Davy Crockett. And, Daniel Boone. And, the Rifleman. And bunches of other Westerns. I really got a kick out of the injuns on F-Troop, irreverence and inaccuracies notwithstanding.
I just didn’t know HOW you were using the term. Nice explanation! Thanks.
Coon skin caps…….every southern boy wanted one back in the day. That was long ago in another time in a very different Merika. Them boys wants a dress now because we iz all tolerant don’t ya know. Sigh….
coons and caps …… that meaning sure has changed over the years
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Too funny Stuck but alas it rings of truth. I liked the 50’s version myself.
Chuck……I’m thinking you ARE a southerner….right?
Hi Bea and Stuck,
You are my new BFF’s, which will be more valuable than gold someday. Sorry, I’m from about as far north of the Mason-Dixon as you can get: Edmonton, Alberta. That’s in Canada Eh! But it doesn’t matter because my generation (the Boomers) bought what you were selling, lock, stock and two smoking barrels. So I was just as (North) American as anybody. It’s too bad that wouldn’t happen today. Your country (and mine) has brought the communists from under the bed into every university with a tenure program, and the results are there for all to see. So I ain’t buyin’ no mo’. Who would a thunk a demonstrably failed ideology (which brilliantly tapped into the wellspring of human envy) from an unemployable British intellectual would be able to leap the gap to social Marxism and take over the whole western world? This, my friends, is the power of complaint, which has no chance of resolution since now we have jumped the boundary of that which we are response-able for, and must fix all perceived wrongs that anybody, anywhere, can think of. We have become the spoiled children of rich parents, thanks to dishonest money. Really, what chance do we have of becoming the heroes of our younger years? I guess it’s time I grew up and realized we are all addicted to squandering the inheritance of our children’s children’s children.
Chuck Fire, Workin’ on mysteries without any clues.