Something To Think About Archive

Will Rogers once noted that “The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

It’s been said that “If you can do a little thing well, have confidence that you can do a bigger thing well, too.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Well done is better than well said.”

Remember the uproar over election fraud and interference during the Biden Administration? This resulted in legislation, proposed by the Democrats, for federal oversight that was defeated at the hands of Republicans aided by the defection of two Senate Democrats. We’re puzzled as to why the Trump White House now thinks it’s a good idea. It’s not. Oversight of elections, just like with education, needs to stay local. Yes, there needs to be guidelines to restrict fraud and ensure that everyone legally entitled to vote can, but Nationalized Elections? No.

Skier Linsey Vohn says that “If you’re not attacking the course, the course is attacking you.”

Albert Camus once noted that “Charm is a way of getting an answer without asking a clear question.”

“Status quo” has been defined as Latin for “the mess we’re in.”

According to playwright George Bernard Shaw, “The sound body is the product of the sound mind.”

Coach Tom Landry believed that “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

Machiavelli said: “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” In other words: Stasis, while ultimately dangerous, is easy. Change is Hard.

Physicist Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography, said: “The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.”

According to a Mexican Proverb: Each change brings a little good, each change brings a little bad.”

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic says that “All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It’s the decision not to try.”

Writer Eugene F. Ware claimed that “All glory comes from daring to begin.”

U.S. Hockey Olympian Matt Boldy says that “You shouldn’t be doing anything unless you’re trying to be the best at it.”

We’re glad to see that Sacramento has finally figured out the electric vehicles use the same roads as everyone else without paying for their maintenance. AB 1421, that advances efforts to create a new mileage-based tax for vehicles, is a good idea but only if it applies solely to electric vehicles. Drivers of gas-powered vehicles have been paying more than their unfair share already, effectively subsidizing electric vehicles twice: with a federal tax credit of $7500 per vehicle and secondly by paying the highest gas taxes in the nation.

Coach John Wooden advised us to not “… let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

It’s been said that “The best love is the kind that makes you a better person without changing who you are.”

Mark Twain said: “When in doubt, tell the truth.”

It’s been said that “In politics, all winning is temporary.” And, we would add, “Never fall in love with a politician.”