The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60939   Message #976915
Posted By: Amos
04-Jul-03 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: Happy 4th of July
Subject: RE: Happy 4th of July
Ya know, dear Guest, not to seem a fool or anything -- but your passion would be much more persuasive if you weren't so chicken shit about standing up as yourself.

John Hancock's comment about King George reading his name without his spectacles comes to mind. The biggest risk those founders ever took was standing up to be counted. Many of them lost the lives and fortunes they gambled on the back of those signatures. If you are serious about invoking their courage as a standard, you might want to model it a bit more and yap about it a bit less...


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