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2 posted on 09/10/2007 9:06:04 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.com)
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Maybe the use of some high speed bullets would help the situation.


3 posted on 09/10/2007 9:13:49 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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Nothing is easier than taking cheap shots at the police, and there are journalists and politicians who do it regularly, as well as community activists who make a career out of it.
Police and a military are sine qua non for a government. Yet the governmentists who trash private enterprise are equally hard on the police and the military. The unifying principle I see in this is that in all cases the people being criticized are those who are making decisions and getting things done. And the people doing the criticizing never do that.
Theodore Roosevelt
There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.

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 is 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 . . .


18 posted on 09/11/2007 2:56:28 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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