Something To Think About Archive

The U.S. Department of War was originally established in 1789 to manage the Army and Navy until the Navy department was created in 1798. The War Department was abolished and replaced with the National Military Establishment following WW2 in 1947 and renamed the Department of Defense in 1949. We are not sure why now, when America is not actually involved in a shooting war nor expecting one the Trump administration renamed it the Department of War. It just seems unnecessarily bellicose to us given that the entire world knows that we are the remaining global superpower.

Procrastination is never a good idea, as has been noted, later is like the horizon it recedes as it approaches.

Teddy Roosevelt believed, “In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is; Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.”

Greg Iles “I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.”

Ben Sass “The constitution requires a certain amount of unity at least a minimal shared concept of a common good.”

Marguerite Steen Quote: “Greatness is a two-faced coin – and the reverse is humility.”

Despite the fact that more Americans say that they trust the Federal government now than they did a year ago- with a recent poll having 33% expressing faith in the government, a 10 point jump from 2024, the oposition party believes socialism is the answer. While calling the current party a threat to democracy. Socialism will save democracy in America? Not sure we see how that works.

W. Somerset Maugham “It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.”‘

Coach Joe Paterno believed that “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”

It’s been said that “A man who has the habit of getting to the bottom of things is a man who is going to the top.”

Ovid said: “There is no excellence without difficulty.”

Coleridge wrote: “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

The Administration’s recent “investment” in Intel is justified by Howard Lutnick saying Biden gave them $11 billion in grants and “got nothing for it” while Trump is at least getting stock for their $9 billion. How about we don’t waste any taxpayer money trying to pick winners and losers, which is essentially nationalizing them and socialistic. Remember Obama’s $528 million wasted on Solyndra? The lipstick for their pig is that they are creating a sovereign wealth fund. That’s great, except sovereign wealth funds are established investment vehicles not ad hoc one-off decisions. And, with the deficits the U.S. is running, it’s akin to you or me buying stock using our credit cards that we have no hope of ever paying down off.

Entrepreneur and Fortune 500 CEO John Sculley claims that “The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.”

We enjoyed seeing that while Google’s Deep Mind AI may have scored a gold metal at the recent mathematical Olympiad; 26 students, including four Americans, out scored AI in the competition. There is hope for humanity yet.

Ogden Nash defined middle age as, “when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else”