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Here you go, Pogo . I had a free read left since it's the beginning of the month.
We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
US Airways Flight 1549, which suffered bird strikes, lost thrust in the engines and was forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River. Some called it “the Miracle on the Hudson.” But it was not a miracle. It was, in microcosm, an example of what is needed in emergencies — including the current national crisis — and what is possible when we serve a cause greater than ourselves.
On our famous flight, I witnessed the best in people who rose to the occasion. Passengers and crew worked together to help evacuate an elderly passenger and a mother with a 9-month-old child. New York Waterway took the initiative to radio their vessels to head toward us when they saw us approaching. This successful landing, in short, was the result of good judgment, experience, skill — and the efforts of many.
But as captain, I ultimately was responsible for everything that happened. Had even one person not survived, I would have considered it a tragic failure that I would have felt deeply for the rest of my life. To navigate complex challenges, all leaders must take responsibility and have a moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good.
I am often told how calm I sounded speaking to passengers, crew and air traffic control during the emergency. In every situation, but especially challenging ones, a leader sets the tone and must create an environment in which all can do their best. You get what you project. Whether it is calm and confidence — or fear, anger and hatred — people will respond in kind. Courage can be contagious.
Today, tragically, too many people in power are projecting the worst. Many are cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States, our allies and democracy; encouraging extremists at home and emboldening our adversaries abroad; and threatening the livability of our planet. Many do not respect the offices they hold; they lack — or disregard — a basic knowledge of history, science and leadership; and they act impulsively, worsening a toxic political environment.
As a result, we are in a struggle for who and what we are as a people. We have lost what in the military we call unit cohesion. The fabric of our nation is under attack, while shame — a timeless beacon of right and wrong — seems dead.
This is not the America I know and love. We’re better than this. Our ideals, shared facts and common humanity are what bind us together as a nation and a people. Not one of these values is a political issue, but the lack of them is.
This current absence of civic virtues is not normal, and we must not allow it to become normal. We must rededicate ourselves to the ideals, values and norms that unite us and upon which our democracy depends. We must be engaged and informed voters, and we must get our information from credible, reputable sources.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
When I volunteered for military service during wartime, I took an oath that is similar to the one our elected officials take: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” I vowed to uphold this oath at the cost of my life, if necessary. We must expect no less from our elected officials. And we must hold accountable those who fail to defend our nation and all our people.
After Flight 1549, I realized that because of the sudden worldwide fame, I had been given a greater voice. I knew I could not walk away but had an obligation to use this bully pulpit for good and as an advocate for the safety of the traveling public. I feel that I now have yet another mission, as a defender of our democracy.
We cannot wait for someone to save us. We must do it ourselves. This Election Day is a crucial opportunity to again demonstrate the best in each of us by doing our duty and voting for leaders who are committed to the values that will unite and protect us. Years from now, when our grandchildren learn about this critical time in our nation’s history, they may ask if we got involved, if we made our voices heard. I know what my answer will be. I hope yours will be “yes.”
Trump is the President because 2 mil life long democrat
blue collar workers voted for him.
WOW.....had those 2 million voted their party, Hillary would have beaten Trump by popular votes by FIVE million..................LOL
I see you've come out of the shadows. You are not smart enough to understand that America has never elected a President by a popular vote.
Popular vote is worthless as a whole. Just statewide does it count
Trump is the President because 2 mil life long democrat
blue collar workers voted for him.
WOW.....had those 2 million voted their party, Hillary would have beaten Trump by popular votes by FIVE million..................LOL
I see you've come out of the shadows. You are not smart enough to understand that America has never elected a President by a popular vote.
Popular vote is worthless as a whole. Just statewide does it count
Funny then that when it's the nation it's "worthless" --- yet on the state level it's suddenly "worthful" again. Same thing both times. You lose.
Capt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
---- three people who were long dead before the Republican Party --- which is the younger of the two --- existed.
aaaand we're back to Special Ed and his brain-on-fire claim that Thomas Jefferson founded the Republican Party 28 years after his own death.
Those who ignore their own history are condemned to be mocked on internet message boards for the ludicrous shit they post from Googly Images. Abraham Lincoln said that.
1.The ideology and principles of the Founders have never changed, and those are the principles of conservatives today: individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
It is interesting to note that the iniquity of the Democrats never changed, either.
Even the times before the Civil War found the Democrats espousing socialism and slavery.
Today, it is the defining principle of the Democrat Party.
2. Today, "[t]he most striking difference between Democrats and Republicans is not their views on #MeToo, affirmative action, or the Supreme Court: It’s how they view the economy. Republicans deplore socialism. More than half of Democrats, though, view socialism favorably, according to Gallup.
3. The Democratic Party’s left flank is turning the midterm elections into a referendum on capitalism. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and dozens of other federal and state candidates protest that our economic system is unjust and needs an overhaul.
4. ...Warren has introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act, which would give workers control of 40% of corporate-board seats and a veto over many decisions. It would also compel boards to focus on murky “community and societal factors” instead of maximizing profitability. Investors won’t put their money into an enterprise under those conditions."
Socialism Tops Agenda Of D'crats
5. In the above we see the results of allowing the Left to control our institutions of learning, and replace learning with indoctrination.
6. Case in point.....government school never told you what a failure socialism/communism/Progressivism has been everywhere it has been instituted.
7. Here's something else they never taught you.
George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was the Democrat social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era.
8. " What society needed was slavery, not just for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
"Socialism," Proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associate labor. All these purposes, slavery fully land perfectly attains. [...] Socialism is already slavery in all save the master... Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.”
Fitzhugh, George (1854 Sociology for the South, p. 48)
9. The two hallmarks of the Democrat Party......socialism, and slavery.
Southern Democrat theoretician George Fitzhugh made an interesting admission about two related desires of the Democrats: Slavery and Socialism.
" What society needed was slavery, not just for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
"Socialism," Proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associate labor. All these purposes, slavery fully land perfectly attains. [...] Socialism is already slavery in all save the master... Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.” Fitzhugh, George (1854Sociology for the South, p. 48)
And, they remain, the party of slavery and of socialism.
Take notes, Stinky....and then slither away.
I think he is saying he lost respect for youCapt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
Too bad, I lost some respect for Capt. Sullenberger...
/——/ So? That’s his opinion.Capt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
Capt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
I'll make a deal with Sully...he doesn't tell me how to run the country...I won't tell him how to fly a plane!
/—-/ “if” is for children- If I get a pony for Christmas then all the kids in school will like me.Trump is the President because 2 mil life long democrat
blue collar workers voted for him.
WOW.....had those 2 million voted their party, Hillary would have beaten Trump by popular votes by FIVE million..................LOL
Capt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
---- three people who were long dead before the Republican Party --- which is the younger of the two --- existed.
aaaand we're back to Special Ed and his brain-on-fire claim that Thomas Jefferson founded the Republican Party 28 years after his own death.
Those who ignore their own history are condemned to be mocked on internet message boards for the ludicrous shit they post from Googly Images. Abraham Lincoln said that.
1.The ideology and principles of the Founders have never changed, and those are the principles of conservatives today: individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
It is interesting to note that the iniquity of the Democrats never changed, either.
Even the times before the Civil War found the Democrats espousing socialism and slavery.
Today, it is the defining principle of the Democrat Party.
2. Today, "[t]he most striking difference between Democrats and Republicans is not their views on #MeToo, affirmative action, or the Supreme Court: It’s how they view the economy. Republicans deplore socialism. More than half of Democrats, though, view socialism favorably, according to Gallup.
3. The Democratic Party’s left flank is turning the midterm elections into a referendum on capitalism. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and dozens of other federal and state candidates protest that our economic system is unjust and needs an overhaul.
4. ...Warren has introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act, which would give workers control of 40% of corporate-board seats and a veto over many decisions. It would also compel boards to focus on murky “community and societal factors” instead of maximizing profitability. Investors won’t put their money into an enterprise under those conditions."
Socialism Tops Agenda Of D'crats
5. In the above we see the results of allowing the Left to control our institutions of learning, and replace learning with indoctrination.
6. Case in point.....government school never told you what a failure socialism/communism/Progressivism has been everywhere it has been instituted.
7. Here's something else they never taught you.
George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was the Democrat social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era.
8. " What society needed was slavery, not just for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
"Socialism," Proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associate labor. All these purposes, slavery fully land perfectly attains. [...] Socialism is already slavery in all save the master... Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.”
Fitzhugh, George (1854 Sociology for the South, p. 48)
9. The two hallmarks of the Democrat Party......socialism, and slavery.
Southern Democrat theoretician George Fitzhugh made an interesting admission about two related desires of the Democrats: Slavery and Socialism.
" What society needed was slavery, not just for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
"Socialism," Proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associate labor. All these purposes, slavery fully land perfectly attains. [...] Socialism is already slavery in all save the master... Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.” Fitzhugh, George (1854Sociology for the South, p. 48)
And, they remain, the party of slavery and of socialism.
Take notes, Stinky....and then slither away.
Bullshit.
Number one, "socialism" didn't even exist when the Democratic Party became a thing in 1834; number two it took no such slavery position; number three there is no such thing as a "Democrat Party" and there never has been; number four the three figures in your puerile childish Googly Image WERE ALL STILL DEAD twenty years later when the "Republic Party" began, which means they literally never coexisted WITH it; and number five, political parties are vehicles --- they DO NOT and CAN NOT remain static in ideologies over a century's time, nor did these two.
And number six, though I didn't bother to mention this before, your figurine on the left cites three people who aren't even in politics in the first place. DUH.
Capt. Sullenberger: I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
I’ve never been more concerned about this country’s future
Opinion | We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
I'll make a deal with Sully...he doesn't tell me how to run the country...I won't tell him how to fly a plane!
You run the country?
