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To: AndyJackson

“You are not a fool, but a weasel. “

How so? I pointed out that your prose celebrates the adults who risk all, not the children.

I don’t think much of a culture that pushes their kids to undertake the risks and responsibilities of adulthood.


127 posted on 06/12/2010 8:32:03 AM PDT by Persevero (If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?)
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To: Persevero
It's Theodore Roosevelt's prose. And it not about age, it's about spirit. Read post 123 for more of that kind of "doer of deeds" spirit in another 16 yr old.
138 posted on 06/12/2010 8:39:28 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Persevero
your prose celebrates the adults who risk all, not the children.

The prose, sadly, is not mine, but that of one of our heroes of generations now gone, nor am I the one who posted it.

And I called you a weasel because you are a charlattan attempting to justify a point of view based upon a quibble over what Theodor Roosevelt meant by the word "man" completely forgetting the sense of the passage about being in the ring, etc., which is where this young lady placed herself. And I assure you that once she cast off lines and took the helm, the only person who set the course and steered it was she herself.

181 posted on 06/12/2010 9:46:08 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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