Something To Think About Archive

From January 1 to June 30 it cost Donald Trump’s campaign $17 million to raise $53.8 million while it spent $57 million during the same time period, with almost half of that going to legal expenses through his PAC to defend Mr. Trump against the indictments he is facing in four states. And let’s not forget the three special counsels at the Justice Department currently investigating the sitting president, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter whose sweetheart deal on income tax issues and a federal gun law violation defies belief. Surely we can do better.

Baseball Manager Tommy Lasorda claimed that “… the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.”

Publisher Malcom Forbes believed that “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

According to Bob Hope, “You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.”

Desert Storm’s “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkorpf said: “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

Benjamin Franklin advised us to “Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”

Old politicians, unlike soldiers, seem to never fade away. Unfortunately for us, the electorate. You have Dianne Feinstein refusing to step aside even with her well-chronicled health issues including encephalitis, or swelling of the brain; Mitch McConnell recently blanked out during a press conference and was led away from the podium; and most dangerous of all, is the Leader of the Free World Joe Biden who, during a televised live meeting with Israel’s President, mentally drifted away mumbling, seemingly to himself, while reading from cue cards. America is increasingly being ruled by a gerontocracy, not that the younger generation of leaders inspires much confidence with their infighting and inability to work together, but at least they can utter a cogent sentence.

According to Hubert Humprhey, “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

Writer Ray Bradbury once observed that “I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.”

Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan defined the concept of “Fedspeak.”  as: “… a language of purposeful obfuscation to avoid certain questions coming up, which you know you can’t answer.”

“When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper…is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity,” Alexander Hamilton warned, “he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”

Apple CEO Tim Cook says that “You don’t have to choose between doing good and doing well.”

Elon Musk recently predicted that demand for electricity in the U.S. would triple by 2045 due to electric vehicles whose adoption we would note is being required by the government. PG&E has forecast an increase of 70% over the next 20 years and others see a doubling in demand by 2050. As fossil fuel plants are phased out or at least no new ones coming on-line,

this additional power is supposed to be provided by costly and unreliable “renewables”, that have yet to be built or connected to the power grid.

Writer Elbert Hubbard claimed that “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

According to an Irish Proverb: A man should be like tea, his real strength appearing when he gets in hot water.”

Seneca said: “We are always complaining that our days are too few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”

Peyton Manning defines “pressure” as “…something that you feel when you don’t know what to do.”

Shame on the majority of the U.S. National Women’s team who remained silent during the singing of the National Anthem at the World Cup. If you are that ashamed of your country, why do you wear the uniform and represent them on the field?

We’re pleased to see that Tuolumne County made the right move in the hiring of Drew Njirich to manage the county’s two airports and his beginning efforts to move them forward or, hopefully, at least back to where they once were: a valuable county asset. Njirich’s experience in the military and in aviation should be welcomed by users of the airports who have been neglected and ignored for some time. Columbia Airport in particular can be more than an important air attack base and once again be a useful asset to general business and tourism.

Essayist Robert Benchley once noted that “It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”