Yesterday we saw an angry individual fly his airplane into an IRS building to express his anger at our government. We run into people every once in a while who are so mad about their personal issues that they are willing to harm innocent people.
Why are we not more frightened by people who are willing to solve their issues through violent acts against others? Why are we not willing to tell people when they need help with their behavior problems? Why does it take someone dying to make Americans face the reality that we need to teach people better anger management skills? Violent behavior is never the answer to solving a problem with other individuals or the government.
It is one thing to encourage people to stand up for their civil rights but quite another to encourage them to harm people in order to get their own way on issues. You can see a crowd mentality when these people get in large groups and spread their anger.
We hear on talk radio everyday individuals encouraging violent acts toward others but it is not just republicans who have a problem with this behavior. I have seen individuals with anger management problems in the Democratic Party and they are scary.
Partisanship has been taken too far in this country and our people are being encouraged to turn on each other in both verbal and physically violent attacks to solve their issues. We should be encouraging civil discord in order to solve difficult social issues. We should be willing to listen to all individuals even if we do not agree with them on issues.
We must first start by respecting the fact that everyone has a right to disagree with our viewpoints and we cannot force them to agree with us simply because we do not like their stand on an issue.
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Will Rogers
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
"All I can do is share one person's experiences on her own path, not tell you how to walk yours. If a guru is what you are looking for, find another! If I am a teacher, it is because I am already walking the path that you, Dear Reader, may wish to be on. Although each of us must make our own way, I can put up signs at least, and make the way slightly less hazardous for those who wish to walk a similar path."
C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
A Female Democrat
1/1/10 A new year and a number of future elections to cover. The budget will be a major issue this year and we must work hard to protect the core values of our party.