Something To Think About Archive

Engineer and inventor Charles Kettering believed that “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”

The ongoing protests against Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is about as wrongheaded as you can get. Yes, there are Palestinian civilian casualties. But that tragedy is largely the fault of Hamas who continues to hide behind their own people, even using hospitals as shields for their operations. And to hear some of our elected officials joining with protestors using the rallying cry “From the River to the Sea”, which is a call for the extermination of Israel, is beyond the pale.

The late great Dick Butkus said: “I dreamed of being a great football player as far back as I can remember. I decide to take one step at a time and wouldn’t settle for less.”

According to a Chinese Proverb: He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Margaret Thatcher claimed that “Consensus is the negation of leadership.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote: “He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.”

Despite his creepy, whispered “Guess what? It’s working…” Bidenomics is decidedly NOT working. Rising child poverty, declining inflation adjusted household earnings at all income levels, exploding homelessness, high energy prices stemming from bad “Green Energy” policies and stubborn inflation due to profligate spending by all branches of government.

Cartoonist Charles Schulz once observed that “Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we have never used.”

Coach John Wooden advised us to “Make each day your masterpiece.”

General Mark Clark defined “nagging” as “The constant reiteration of the unhappy truth.”

Annual government pension costs in California have nearly tripled in the past ten years rising from 18.8 billion to 51.2 billion dollars.

Writer and motivation speaker Glenn Van Ekeren notes that “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”

Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats are attempting to thwart the will of the people when it comes to new taxes including those disguised as regulatory fees by trying to remove the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act from next year’s ballot. This ballot measure would require a majority of voters to approve taxes adopted by the Legislature and require that tax dollars levied for a specific purpose are spent only on that specific project or program. It’s another case of “We’re the government, don’t tell us how to spend your money.”

According to the late Senator S.I. Hayakawa, “There’s only one thing age can give you, and that’s wisdom.”

Elizabeth Dole notes that “When you’re in your nineties and looking back, it’s not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you’ve won. It’s really, what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?”

Psychiatrist William Glasser said: “Misery is a bad choice.”

According to Bill Gates, “Often you have to rely on your intuition.”

Physicist Edward Teller claimed that “When you fight for a desperate cause and have a good reason to fight, you usually win.”

The reprehensible attack on Israel by Iran-supported Hamas and their subsequent horrific treatment of their captives is made even worse by the condemnation of Israel by the left-wing “Squad” in Congress and Senator Bernie Sanders who have the gall to say, in essence, that the Israelis brought this upon themselves. We’re surprised that these same idiots haven’t claimed that it’s Ukraine’s fault that Russia invaded them or that China has every right to take over Tawain, an island that China has never had sovereignty over.