The Pledge

Me and Some Great Americans | 4/24/07 | Knitting a Conundrum

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

I challenge you, FRiends and FReepers, to take the pledge.

...Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan, 1975

It is time for us to put our money, our hands, and our heart where our mouth says it is. Take the pledge.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

We can bicker and fight, or curl up in a ball, or let the ones who want to destroy us tell us who our candidate should be, as liberal as they are, or get out there, and work. Take the pledge.

If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right-- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives. Ronald Reagan

Everybody can do something. It is always better to light one candle than curse the darkness. Take the pledge!

All Politics is Local

 
The pledge:

I hereby pledge to do everything I can to take an active role in campaigning for a conservative during the primary season, using every resource I have available and every fiber of my conservative heart.

Time to stand up and be counted.  Together we WILL make the difference.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Ronald Reagan once said: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.

Ours is the choice.

Take the pledge. Post things we can do to get the word out. Come brag about what you are doing to help. Lift each other up. Make a difference...or go quietly into that dark night and tell your grandchildren about now nice it once was.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

a one time only ping. I think this is important, at least to think about. I combined multiple ping lists and you might get more than one ping, and I apologize. I will not do this on a regular basis.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I hereby pledge!

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Bump! :-)

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I do hereby pledge.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

So there you are! ;)

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Here I are!

I got to the end of the To Do list, just found another shiny new one! LOL

But his one has smaller projects and more reasonable deadlines. :-)

So whose rockets won’t jeopardize the ceasefire today???? :-(

See ya at the other thread....

[DCPatriot]

If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right-- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives. Ronald Reagan

WOO-HOO! Most fitting and excellent.

I take the pledge!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. — Ronald Reagan

[pollywog]

I take the pledge!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Cicero

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Bump!!

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Bump!!

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I hereby pledge to do everything I can to take an active role in campaigning for a conservative....

Jeepers, Knitting A Condundrum, where am I going to find one of those??? I keep looking for the second coming of Ronald Reagan; but alas, he never arrives!

The conservatives these days all too often come across as single-issue candidates, strong and capable on that issue. The most appealing ones for me personally (Tancredo, Huckabee) are probably unelectable....

But the Hitlerys of this world are all things to all people, and thus not accountable to anyone for anything. But they stroke the vanity of the mindless mob; and so the mindless mob will likely vote for Hitlery; or almost as bad, for Obama. Flatly put, neither of these two is fit or qualified to be president of the United States.

I dread this next election more than I can ever say.

Sorry I'm so glum today. I pray for our nation, trusting in our Lord. May all things be done according to His Word, on earth as it is in heaven.

It is said the Spirit bloweth whither it list. Let us hope and pray that it blows at the right time, and in the right direction.

Thank you for the ping!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

When it looks dark, think about George Washington at Valley Forge. Even then, there were people who rolled up their sleeves and snuck in food and supplies.

Think of England after Dunkirk.

Think of yourself looking at a huge stack of dishes or laundry to do.

You roll up your sleeves, and grab one plate or one towel, and start working.

If we fail, no one can say we didn’t try.

If we win, we will know it’s the hard word that made it happen.

Stop looking at the election. Look at the primary season. Grass roots is where it’s at.

All politics are local.

[hosepipe]

[.. Sorry I'm so glum today. I pray for our nation, trusting in our Lord. May all things be done according to His Word, on earth as it is in heaven. ..]

You're in luck.. things will happen just that way...
Everything is the best it can be.. just perfect..
American politics must happen this way...

Last day(latter times) prophecy is rolling along nicely..
God is NOT filing his fingernails as earth goes into the dumpster..
Actually Abraham would probably envy you're own position to watch it all happen..

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. — Ronald Reagan

[Knitting A Conundrum]

For some, the distance is shorter than the other.

One of the guys who helped there be an America once said:

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
-Patrick Henry

Another said:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men.”

Samuel Adams

And another:
“They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Ben Franklin

All of those guys were facing really high stakes, much higher in actual risk than we do on a day-to-day basis. It wasn’t an intellectual game or a maybe, but a good chance at a hanging.

But they gave us something precious.

Not every person feels that pull. You have to go with your own ability to stand up for it. But understand, America as founded means more to a lot of us than protection against the potential attack of the jihadis. It means a dream of liberty and life, and if we compromise that too far, we will no longer be America. We will be America’s ghost.

[DocRock]

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