Posted on 05/27/2005 5:14:52 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
And Bump The Blur!
"I'm taking names" and together we'll go kick .... donkeys.
Take mine, Blur. And I'm looking right now for my sharpest pair of Donk kickin' Condi boots.
A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING.
by John Donne
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise, 5
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ;
Men reckon what it did, and meant ; 10
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove 15
The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so 25
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35
And makes me end where I begun.
Not not my valedictory opus... Just like the plaintive tone, and the call to fortitude. There's no crying in baseball, dust ourselves off and fight another day.
This is no where as depressing as the non-impeachment impeachment.
Bump ya!
We keep screaming and hollering out here along the fruited plain, the politicians continue to do the stupidity we keep yelling for them to quit doing. They apparently aren't listening to the calls, voicemail, reading their faxes, or e-mail. Cutting off funding to the GOP is counterproductive, because if enough of us do that, it will put the Democrats at a distinct advantage financially.
Whoa. Fascinating stuff.
Yes, there is little glamour in the door-to-door trenches. It involves getting out of our "comfort zone" and out into the real world.
If we don't we are merely fooling ourselves with false hopes.
And we must ALL be involved. Go for it, Miss Behave!
The NEA is indoctrinating our kids just like Mao indoctrinated every Chinese child. We must create constant pressure, constant anti-propaganda (communicate the TRUTH) !
Remind yourself that although we may be losing battles, a lot of them, we've been the winning the war over the last 40 years and it is just getting started.
The enemy is not dems, they are already dead. The enemy is our own weakness.
bump read later
I don't see it that way. I'm not mad at the GOP over the recent mess, I'm mad at the 7 dwarfs and I don't want a penny of my money going their way. I plan to send money to the candidates I do support or find of strategic value across the country. And I plan to tell the GOP every time they call or write that I will resume contributions when they give me the option of excluding red state Republican's who betray the voters who gave them the majority. (See how reasonable I am compared to some...I don't hold Snowe, Collins or Chafee to the same standards. I don't think we are at that point :)
I don't do this lightly, there are only a very few issues that could have moved me to this decision. I saw countless campaign speeches made by the President, 3 in person this last go around. We all know what judicial nominees meant to his election.
But I just may go for it--I enjoyed it before, most of the time, albeit sometimes suffering brain drain--and I was sorry to have to give up my seat due to a move. I have my toe in the water now, swirling it around, checking for warmth. I just may cannonball in...in my jammies and all. :-)
It Be 'Bout The Blur Bump!
Many do get mad for one reason or another, over the smallest things. I'm not mad at the 7 dwarves, nor am I surprised. Disappointed, yes, but I'm not completely mad. I've never donated to an out of state candidate, so there's no love loss there.
This too will pass.
Frist is fine .. he did the right thing in calling the cloture for Bolton
It's now on record .. Reid and Lieberman went back on their word of honor .. the Dem Party look like obstructionist and the Gang of 7 look like fools
McCain and his gang .. they ticked off the wrong people
Republicans have looooooooooooong memories and they won't forget
And if some do .. many will remind them
I'm a county officer. All of the officers are conservatives. But we have a cabal of older country club republicans who still control all the vacancy committees, and the district captain positions in the county. Basically, they all sit around and have teas and try to make sure that conservatives don't get nominated to anything here in the county. They also hold most of the precinct spots because the precinct committee people don't call anyone before the caucuses, so the couple that have been the precinct captains for 20 years are the only ones that show up at the caucuses and reelect themselves. And the grassroots are very conservative here. It Makes Me Furious.
But this election cycle, we are going around the district captains and the precinct committee people. We have an autodialer and they are going to be really surprised when 20 people show up for their caucus. The precinct captains that won't work will still have their position; but we're going to appoint someone else to do the work.
The folks that walk the precincts are actually not in the party structure. They are young conservatives who are as fed up as I am.
I'm fed up with sit on your ass Republicans whose only goal is to prevent conservatives from having a voice in the party. That's gonna change here in my county in the next two years.
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