When Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy
June 30th, 2004 - 5:21 am
Sgt. Mom (of Team Stryker), doesn’t bother taking names today, going directly to the kicking of ass:
This reminds us again of where we came from, as Americans, and why we— or our ancestors left. They were economic migrants, losers in political bun fights, religious non-conformists, convicts, criminals, cranks, deadbeats and weirdoes, fleeing from the law, from conformity, the stake and the lash, from poverty, land clearances, pogroms, men with guns, the dead hand of nobility of both the ready made and inherited kinds, and the intellectual set that whores for established authority. Against all confident expectation, we throve and prospered, prospered to an incredible degree, all these outcasts and ner
Sgt. Mom took the words out of my mouth and the rant out of my heart.
Heh. They do say living well is the best revenge …
As a born and raised Texan, I approve.
The original rogue nation. I revel in it and have for a long, long time.
TO: Stephen Green
RE: Look On It As…
“We have the nerve, the absolute nerve to prosper, against all their expectations.” — Sgt (USAF) Mom
…Evolution in Action. — Niven and Pournelle, Oath of Fealty
Regards,
Chuck(le)