Downhill...all the way.
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:54 pmFour score and seven years ago….
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself…
These are the times that try men’s souls…
I regret but I have one live to give for my country…
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country…
The course is too bumpy and needs to be fixed…
What?
Yeah... Lindsey Vonn, an American competing in the Olympics had that too offer after her fall and losing the gold to the German chick.
Not exactly in line with other great quotes from another type of American.
The type that knew that greatness is only achieved through adversity.
Guess what Lindsey…..you were not the only one who raced on that course, and you were not the only one to fall, but there were more that failed to fall than there were that failed to rise to the challenge of the course and succeed.
Nothing, and I mean not one single thing, that is any good has been had in my life through anything less than pain, heart ache, adversity, stress, throwing myself into the wall, into the mix, and falling, falling, getting back up, and falling some more.
I have learned more from my failures than I ever will from my successes.
Lindsey Vonn is an example of an American.
She is a prime example of an entire people that have become complacent, entitled, fat, lazy, boring, and complete prim donnas.
I am not great American.
I am not in a battlefield, I have not bled for my country, I have not overcome as much adversity as others, but that is just it…most of us never will.
And no other generation will know the pains of the ones that came before them.
And when you apply the math to that, feed in 1000 channels of commercial influence, cell phones, iPods, instant gratification, what do you get?
An entire country full of Lindsey Vonn’s whining about the challenges that they are faced with.
Yeah, I know about the ankle and the way she has marketed that injury to make us see her as some kind of heroine, but I see right through that.
She is not the only competitor in the Olympics overcoming injury, fatigue, and bumpy courses.
A man lost his life pushing the limits of his sport before the games even began.
Who cares about her ankle?
Yet any minute now they will gather a collective sigh and she will be deemed ‘America’s Sweetheart’, and the sad part is, they will be 100% correct.
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself…
These are the times that try men’s souls…
I regret but I have one live to give for my country…
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country…
The course is too bumpy and needs to be fixed…
What?
Yeah... Lindsey Vonn, an American competing in the Olympics had that too offer after her fall and losing the gold to the German chick.
Not exactly in line with other great quotes from another type of American.
The type that knew that greatness is only achieved through adversity.
Guess what Lindsey…..you were not the only one who raced on that course, and you were not the only one to fall, but there were more that failed to fall than there were that failed to rise to the challenge of the course and succeed.
Nothing, and I mean not one single thing, that is any good has been had in my life through anything less than pain, heart ache, adversity, stress, throwing myself into the wall, into the mix, and falling, falling, getting back up, and falling some more.
I have learned more from my failures than I ever will from my successes.
Lindsey Vonn is an example of an American.
She is a prime example of an entire people that have become complacent, entitled, fat, lazy, boring, and complete prim donnas.
I am not great American.
I am not in a battlefield, I have not bled for my country, I have not overcome as much adversity as others, but that is just it…most of us never will.
And no other generation will know the pains of the ones that came before them.
And when you apply the math to that, feed in 1000 channels of commercial influence, cell phones, iPods, instant gratification, what do you get?
An entire country full of Lindsey Vonn’s whining about the challenges that they are faced with.
Yeah, I know about the ankle and the way she has marketed that injury to make us see her as some kind of heroine, but I see right through that.
She is not the only competitor in the Olympics overcoming injury, fatigue, and bumpy courses.
A man lost his life pushing the limits of his sport before the games even began.
Who cares about her ankle?
Yet any minute now they will gather a collective sigh and she will be deemed ‘America’s Sweetheart’, and the sad part is, they will be 100% correct.