Something To Think About Archive

According to a Puerto Rican Proverb: “There is a great distance between said and done.”

Will Rogers advised us not to “… just grab the first thing that comes by… know what to turn down.”

Michelangelo said: “Genius is eternal patience.”

Joe Biden’s continuing calls for the rich to pay their “fair share” never ends and he never bothers to define what’s “fair.” Consider that the top 10% of earners in 2021 provided nearly 76% of federal tax revenue. And recently released figures for 2021 show that the top 1% of Americans reported 26.3% of the country’s adjusted gross income but paid 45.8% of total income taxes. In any other reference, that would be considered more than “fair.”

Digital pioneer Jerome Blattner believed that “A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.”

Digital pioneer Jerome Blattner believed that “A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.”

Winston Churchill once observed that “We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”

Chinese author and inventor Lin Yutang said: “The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”

According to French playwright Andre’ Gide: “The wise man is he who constantly wonders aloud.”

We have to ask why the Biden administration has relaxed restrictions on Venezuelan and Iranian oil exports while recently curtailing Alaskan oil exploration and production in the NPR? It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve for a reason. It’s not a National Park or a National Forest or a Wilderness Area. It’s under the Bureau of Land Management. Let them manage it for benefit of all Americans. Meanwhile, every time oil spikes, often as a result of their policies, they draw down inventory from the SPR to try and lower high gas prices. Just like the NPR it’s called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for a reason, to protect us during an emergency by ensuring that we have adequate oil available to not shut down the country. It is not there to manipulate market prices, play politics and buy votes.

It’s been suggested that “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”

Lucille Ball claimed that “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”

Earnest Hemmingway once noted that “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one pace to another.”

According to Armenian-American novelist and playwright William Saroyan, “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.”

Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr believed that “Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.”

The Biden ministration continues to give cash to EV carmakers and manufacturers of batteries along with subsidies to car buyers; and yet they require coal fired plants to shut down if they can’t reduce emissions and they are banning new gas-powered plants. If they really care about climate change, why don’t they give THEM that money to update their plants to reduce emissions? Or to build new tech nuclear plants? Because without these power plants, there will be no electricity to charge all these electric vehicles and run the all-electric homes they want.

“Choose your journey, change your journey, own your journey;” says astronaut Susan Kilrain, “but above all else, enjoy your journey.”

Essayist William Hazlitt wrote: “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”

Writer Josh Billings claimed that “It’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so.”

It’s interesting to note that Gavin Newsome’s $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers not only excludes his wealthy donor’s Panera Bread units but also his own group of restaurants, that he founded in 1992, like the PlumpJack Cafe in Olympic Valley which recently advertised for a part-time busser at, yep, $16 per hour.