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Teddy Roosevelt

Posted by Rezwan on Aug 02, 2006 at 04:40 PM
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TR is known to have said:

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing you can do is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Of course, in some cases doing nothing IS the best thing, but this doesn’t apply in our case. In the quest for fusion, we need to pursue all the viable options. It could turn out that our approach is the “right” approach. It could turn out that another fusion approach out there is better, or “more right”. It could turn out that our approach never quite works and thus is the “wrong” approach. If you feel our approach is wrong, then go out and find another fusion approach and support that one. But don’t just sit there and be a whinging free-rider that does nothing.

And go check out the musical “A Mulholland Christmas Carol” by Bill Robens. This play fuses the life story of William Mulholland with Charles Dicken’s “Christmas Carol”. Teddy appears as “the Ghost of Christmas Present” and, after prefacing his song with the above quote, goes on to sing the following:

Get up!
Get out of bed!
We’ve a long night’s journey ahead.
Don’t be afraid and don’t be reticent.
If I had acted in this way,
I would never have been president.
You want examples then I shalllllll
Submit to youuuuuu
A damned canal!
A dozen years we left the French,
to navigate that dreadful trench.
It was no use. Could not be done.
Progress: Nil. Mosquitos: One.
I took the job upon myself,
to dig to the Pacific shelf.
We fired the French, relieved a debt,
our troubles were not over yet.
Columbia was soon at hand,
for technically it was their land…
I sent them threats and ships as well,
to blow them to infernal hell!
And now one need not brave the horn
for THAT’s - my friends - how PANAMA
was born.

And that’s just bully.
Simply bully.
Don’t be afraid to risk defeat
and live your life more fully.
You will succeed and have more FUN,
if you say BULLY,
forge ahead
and see to it the job is done!

(c) Bill Robens