<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Not Yours to&nbsp;Give]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Mark Alexander&#8217;s column today recounts <a href="http://64.203.107.114/alexander/edition.asp?id=663" target="_blank">my favorite Davy Crocket story</a>. It&#8217;s one which should be required reading by every member of congress.</p>
<p>Once per week, minimum.</p>
<p>And enjoy this sidebar rant:</p>
<blockquote><p>In one of his more legendary orations, Crockett proclaimed: &#8220;Mr. Speaker &#8230; the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Everett] talks of summing up the merits of the question, but I&#8217;ll sum up my own. In one word I&#8217;m a screamer, and have got the roughest racking horse, the prettiest sister, the surest rifle and the ugliest dog in the district. I&#8217;m a leetle the savagest crittur you ever did see. My father can whip any man in Kentucky, and I can lick my father. I can out-speak any man on this floor, and give him two hours start. I can run faster, dive deeper, stay longer under, and come out drier, than any chap this side the big Swamp. I can outlook a panther and outstare a flash of lightning, tote a steamboat on my back and play at rough and tumble with a lion, and an occasional kick from a zebra.&#8221;</p>
<p>Crockett continued, &#8220;I can take the rag off &#8212; frighten the old folks &#8212; astonish the natives &#8212; and beat the Dutch all to smash, make nothing of sleeping under a blanket of snow and don&#8217;t mind being frozen more than a rotten apple. I can walk like an ox, run like a fox, swim like an eel, yell like an Indian, fight like a devil, spout like an earthquake, make love like a mad bull, and swallow a Mexican whole without choking if you butter his head and pin his ears back.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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