Something To Think About Archive

Dropping charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams who has been accused of graft and pardoning convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and then signing an Executive Order allowing U.S. companies to bribe overseas officials in order to get business is just wrong. We understand that some of this is a rebound on the lawfare that was practiced against Trump, and some is a quid pro quo for cooperation with I.C.E., but it’s a step, or three, too far. Bribing state officials here and abroad is wrong. Period. Finally, we note that four of the past ten Illinois Governors served time for fraud or corruption. Some people deserve to be prosecuted and go to jail.

Writer John Steinbeck believed that “People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.”

Canadian columnist Maurice Switzer says, “You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.”

It’s been said that “Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.”

English writer John Ruskin believed that “Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them.”

Author Elaine St. James notes that “Simplifying is not necessarily getting rid of everything we’ve worked so hard for… It’s about deciding what’s important to us and gracefully letting go of the things that aren’t.”

HUD Secretary Scott Turner said his internal DOGE team has identified $260 million in savings just two days prior to the discovery of $1.9billion in funds “mis-placed” by the Biden Administration. Meanwhile, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he has canceled a Biden-era $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” It’s been reported that the EPA had also sent $160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer, bypassing at least five U.S. sources.

Remember that “…you’ll always have time for the things you put first.”

Pliny the Elder reminds us that “Opportunities lost can never be regained.”

Will Rogers once noted that “We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”

Gandhi said: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Author Ethel Watts Mumford believed that “The doors of Opportunity are marked “Push” and “Pull.”

The Trump family has made $80million since the election selling Trump watches, crypto, sneakers and other trinkets oftentimes with Trump himself voicing the ads hawking his wares. We recognize that it’s legal, certainly when compared to the Biden’s selling their access to power for decades, but we still think that it’s a poor image for the Leader of the Free World to personally profit from his popularity while in office. After leaving the White House, sure, make all you can, but not while sitting in the oval office. It’s called “public service” for a reason.

It’s been said that “Upon achieving victory, the problem with riding high is that the air gets pretty thin, and you can get lost in the clouds.”

Thoreau said, “The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”

“There’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question,” says actor/comedienne Kristin Wiig, “Because I think it’s really hard to lie.”

Dorthea Dix believed that “Surely the consolation prize of old age is finding out how few things are worth worrying over.”

Poet Laureate Maya Angelou once noted that “Fear brings out the worst in everybody.”

We get President Trump pulling the security detail from Anthony Fauci, all he did is lie about the origins of Covid, but we think that former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should get special consideration given that the Ayatollah Khamenei has put out a hit on them for their role in the assassination of Iranian terrorist General Soleimani during the first Trump Administration, an act that clearly was important to the world’s security and deserving of our continued support for their safety.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale cautioned us that “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”