Something To Think About Archive

“You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments;” says tennis champion Roger Federer. “That to me is the sign of a champion.”

After spending $230 million on a temporary Gaza port pier that was constructed in May to bring aid to Gaza and operated for a total of just twenty days, the Pentagon shut it down last month citing several technical and logistical issues affecting its operations. In other words, it was a bad idea executed poorly that did nothing as intended and that cost us real money that could have been spent on real American, and even mid-east, problems.

Steven Wright notes that “Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”

“The way to get started,” noted Walt Disney, “is to quit talking and begin.”

It’s been pointed out that saying Congress and the White House spend like the proverbial “drunken sailor” is an insult to drunken sailors everywhere.

A wise person acknowledges his mistakes. A fool will defend his.

La Rochefoucauld said: “Few people know how to be old.”

While we are firm believer in the Constitution as a governing document, including the Second Amendment, we can’t disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 8 to 1 decision upholding a federal law that forbids domestic abusers from possessing guns. Gun ownership and legal carry is a right that should also be exercised as a deserved and earned privilege.

18^th century French writer Sebastion Chamfort claimed that “If it were not for the government, we would have nothing to laugh at in France.”

Ambrose Bierce wrote: “Hope is desire and expectation rolled into on.”

It’s been said that “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”

According to management guru Peter Drucker: “Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

Executive Bob Eaton says that “A leader is someone who can take a group of people to a place they don’t think they can go.”

In a recent decision the Supreme Court invalidated the Securities and Exchange Commission system used to seek civil fraud penalties. Claiming that it violated their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “A defendant facing a fraud suit has the right to be tried by a jury of his peers before a neutral adjudicator.” Meanwhile, the Biden administration had warned that such a decision would threaten agencies across the federal government with similar structures including the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Labor Relations Board. And to that, we say “good!” It’s about time these unelected bureaucrats with an agenda were reined in.

Coach K says that “Instead of feeling sorry for yourself and using adversity as an excuse, accept the situation and try to make the most of it.”

Albert Camus wrote: “Integrity has no need of rules.”

According to writer Franklin P. Jones: “Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.”

Dr Joyce Brothers said: “Listening, not imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

“Life is tough, so accept the consequences;” says author and sportswriter Jim Dent. “With the good, also comes the bad.”

The Senate has finally done something right with the Armed Services Committee’s bipartisan approval of an increase in defense spending. With the U.S. meeting aggression by Russia, Iran and China on three fronts: Ukraine, the Mid-East and Tawain, it is imperative that we replenish our stocks of armaments as well as rebuild our naval and air capabilities to meet these threats to global stability.