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Our ease of life is a curse to many. A large majority of our citizens are "pussies." They are not equipped to handle difficult circumst...
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Our ease of life is a curse to many. A large majority of our citizens are "pussies." They are not equipped to handle difficult circumstances, ensure their own self-reliance, face and conquer hard work challenges, and rise to the occasion when circumstances become tough. They are immersed and possessed by the artificial "PUSH-BUTTON" World (PBW) which consumes their existence. In fact they are often addicted to it and when, not if, this PBW comes crashing down around them, many will give up their will to live. That is shocking but true. As a society we have far strayed from the hard work, self-reliant, can-do principles that our forefathers used to create the very societies which we now enjoy. To integrate these principles of mental toughness and tenacity in the face of hardship is to "depussify" our children and perhaps ourselves. The easy life is indeed wonderful and is to be enjoyed fully. These are GREAT times full of amazing luxury, food, technology (like YouTube!), and gear that makes our lives easier, safer, and recreational. But all parents should strive to depussify their sons and daughters and encourage and teach meaningful skill sets that don't require a video game, electricity, or makeup. This can be done through fun but challenging family outings like backpacking, fishing, hiking, hunting, camping, and shooting adventures where we leave the PBW behind and strike out on a multi-day excursion, far from society, to live "real." You should prove to yourself (and your kids) that you have the skills and confidence to be comfortable when you are really away from it all. No phone, no cars, no MTV, no texting, no games...just you out in the wilderness making life work for you. My father is responsible for setting me on this pathway, and like all good fathers, he realized that protecting his children against the harsh realities of work, discomfort, hunger, accountability, and exertion would create an entitlement, spoiled attitude in his children. He made the hard choices for us kids and we have benefitted greatly from his parenting. Coming from the poorest of circumstances, he lifted himself up and achieved success as a decorated USAF Combat Pilot in Vietnam and then later in life, a successful businessman. He gave us a higher standard of living but did not let it muddy the waters of his parenting resolve. My childhood was a wonderful series of amazing and challenging outdoor adventures (that I later built upon apart from Dad) that I shared with my father. But while we had fun and overcame the terrain, weather, and discomfort challenges that accompany real outdoor adventures, my Dad was laying the groundwork for his sons to become men of substance. The military teaches the same things and those individuals with proper upbringing (like "InadvertentSmell" who has great parents) will excel in that "buck stops with you" environment where your actions or lack thereof can get people killed. In TNP, I advocate the making of fun and memorable family and friend adventures but they often will serve this larger purpose of depussification for all "attendees"...even yourself. The prepared individual will FIRST be mentally tough, having gone through many such experiences that stock his or her mental reservoirs of confidence in trying circumstances. As a parent, guardian, brother, sister, teacher (or just you alone!), look for opportunities to go out and live these "proving" experiences. This prepares you for the harsh realities of natural disasters, economic hardship, survival situations, and maybe even societal collapse. Enjoy the PBW and have fun. But be a man or woman of substance. Understand that is all an illusion, dependent on a very delicate economic foundation, and at any given time fate may call on you to survive just as ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Teach toughness, teach readiness, teach self-reliance, and don't be a pussy. I am grateful I had a Father who did just that. //////////////////////// Music: www.torley.com
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Jon Voight reads a special message to America about Barack Obama on FOX News's Huckabee show.
Interview
Actor Jon Voight Defends His Controversial Obama Comments
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," June 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Impact" segment tonight: plenty of controversy at a big Republican fundraiser in Washington this week. First, Sarah Palin was denied a speaking role. But not so for actor Jon Voight. He really spoke.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JON VOIGHT, ACTOR: We are becoming a weak nation. Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar. He thinks he's going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really thinks he's going to bring all the enemies of the world into a little playground where they'll swing each other back and forth. We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression.
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O'REILLY: Wow! Here now, Mr. Voight.
So what is your essential beef, when you just cut down — it was a long speech you gave — with President Obama? What's the main complaint?
VOIGHT: Well, it is essentially this, Bill, if I had to break it down. We were warned by Hillary Clinton that he had no experience, that he had no qualifications. We were warned by his now vice president, Joe Biden, he had no experience. So he was a novice. And now we're getting what we could have expected, if we had listened. We have a fellow who's bringing us to chaos and socialism.
O'REILLY: I don't see any chaos. In Iraq he's pretty much doing what Bush did. He's keeping the soldiers there. There may be chaos when we start to withdraw, but right now it's...
VOIGHT: The chaos I'm speaking of is economic chaos.
O'REILLY: OK. But let's stay — let's stay with foreign policy and we'll get into...
VOIGHT: OK.
O'REILLY: ...because you made some points about Julius Caesar, wants to convince the world. Obviously, you feel he's naive and idealistic.
VOIGHT: Well, I feel he's weak.
O'REILLY: You feel he's weak?
VOIGHT: Just exactly why we have this muscle-flexing from Korea. Nothing's happening. They...
O'REILLY: What would you do though? I mean, you know, we've talked this over. It's a very tough situation in Korea.
VOIGHT: Well, this is — there must be a response.
O'REILLY: What kind of a response?
VOIGHT: Well...
O'REILLY: See, now we're getting into a really tough area.
VOIGHT: No — are you — do I have the experience to say something that deeply needs to be said? I have a, you know, a head on my shoulders, and I can think of a few things. But certainly they should be let to know that there are going to be consequences.
O'REILLY: I think you're right. I think that Obama will have to basically say to them, look, you can't be kidnapping American citizens and if you do, you'll pay a price. But he — as we said, Kim Jung Il wants Obama to overreact.
Now, going back to the (INAUDIBLE)...
VOIGHT: Is that what you think it is?
O'REILLY: Oh yes, I think Kim Jung Il...
VOIGHT: I think he doesn't...
O'REILLY: ...wants...
VOIGHT: I don't think he thinks there's going to be any response whatsoever.
O'REILLY: You may be right, but I think he wants one. He'd love for President Obama to send over some bombers and do something. He would love that. That's what Kim Jong-Il wants.
VOIGHT: How do you know that?
O'REILLY: It's an educated guess because I followed the man. He's a provocateur. He has no value of life at all. He's like Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein thought he'd get away with it and he wound up dead. Kim Jong-Il, same mindset. Tyrants are always like that.
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