Florida Power and Light won the prestigious International Edward Demming award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and overall quality. They didn’t blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the Japanese spent 6 months studying FPL and later published a 1,000 page dissertation essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky”….. FPL field leadership laughed, took out markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY”….
When every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein, they said it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart their oil pumping industry. The Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 10 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
When the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground, they said no-one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved everyone of them….
That’s our America.
When a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his seven virgins, began opening fire on a train in France, the Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.
Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. That’s just how we roll.
Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet for the better part of the past decade a group of intellectual something-or-others have been teaching an insufferable storyline that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other.
Enough.
When I hear Donald Trump say “Make America Great Again”, I also hear the familiar echo “cowboy up” people.
It’s high time we stop being embarrassed about our exceptional nature, and start being proud of it again. Because when it matters most, when it really counts, when it’s really needed, there’s a whole bunch of people all around this world of ours that are mighty happy when swagger walks in to solve their problems.
I grabbed this snippet from this article, though Sundance has used it a few times over the years.
Because they lost the award, the Japanese spent 6 months studying FPL and later published a 1,000 page dissertation essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky”….. FPL field leadership laughed, took out markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY”….
I’m on the younger side. I was raised with the idea that Americans have a “can do” attitude, and there is something called American ingenuity.
These aren’t ad slogans or marketing ploys. They’re baked into our DNA. We make the impossible possible at every turn.
Any single, solitary act that denies this, or labels us the enemy, puts boundaries on our boundless ability to excel and succeed. It is an attempt to handcuff us and stems from the belief that America succeeds too much - and should give others a shot at the title. Heavy weight champs don’t allow others to claim the title without a fight, just so they can “also enjoy.” We will need to be beaten in a square fight. And, as far as the eye can see - there isn’t a hopeful contender on the planet.
Working in Europe and nobody doing fucking anything if they were a native to the country really activated my almonds. Definitely one of the top three reasons I left after only a year and a half.
This is the type of attitude I like to see.
I grabbed this snippet from this article, though Sundance has used it a few times over the years.
My fucking sides! 🤣
We have best senses of humor, believe me!
AMEN.
I’m on the younger side. I was raised with the idea that Americans have a “can do” attitude, and there is something called American ingenuity.
These aren’t ad slogans or marketing ploys. They’re baked into our DNA. We make the impossible possible at every turn.
Any single, solitary act that denies this, or labels us the enemy, puts boundaries on our boundless ability to excel and succeed. It is an attempt to handcuff us and stems from the belief that America succeeds too much - and should give others a shot at the title. Heavy weight champs don’t allow others to claim the title without a fight, just so they can “also enjoy.” We will need to be beaten in a square fight. And, as far as the eye can see - there isn’t a hopeful contender on the planet.
Working in Europe and nobody doing fucking anything if they were a native to the country really activated my almonds. Definitely one of the top three reasons I left after only a year and a half.
This is the only type of attitude we need to have. Anything less is an insult to freedom.