Quote Of The Day (3-28-2012)

 

25 Truths, 5 Truisms

 

 

25 Truths, 5 Truisms

 

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

- John Adams

 

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

- Mark Twain

 

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.

- Mark Twain

 

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

- Winston Churchill

 

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

 

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

- G. Gordon Liddy

 

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

 

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

 

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

 

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

- Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)

 

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

- Ronald Reagan (1986)

 

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

- Will Rogers

 

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

- P.J. O'Rourke

 

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

- Voltaire (1764)

 

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

- Pericles (430 B.C.)

 

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

- Mark Twain (1866)

 

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.

- Anonymous

 

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

- Ronald Reagan

 

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

- Winston Churchill

 

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

- Mark Twain

 

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

 

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.

- Mark Twain

 

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

 

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

- Thomas Jefferson

 

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

- Aesop

 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

 

2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving.

 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, that is the beginning of the

end of any nation!

 

Can you think of a single reason for not sharing this?

 

Neither could I......

Robert E. Lee: Remembering An American Legend

 

The article written by Calvin E. Johnson Jr., which is posted on Canada Free Press, does a good job on remembering Robert E. Lee.

 

Robert E. Lee: Remembering an American Legend by Calvin E. Johnson Jr.

Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, “Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war.”

 

Dear students, teachers, parents, church, community leaders, historians and folks everywhere, January is the birthday month of War Between the States Generals; James Longstreet born on January 8, 1821, Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson born on January 21, 1824, George Pickett born on January 28, 1825 and Thursday, January 19, 2012, is the 205th birthday of General Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of people everywhere. 

 

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Quote Of The Day (1-15-2012)

 

“Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”

 

Winston Churchill

The Drama Of Lincoln’s Ghost

 

I thought as a change of  pace I would write about one of the ghost of the United States presidents, Abraham Lincoln, haunting the White House.

 

It has been told most of the haunting from Lincoln's ghost were during the administration of Franklin D.  Roosevelt.  Perhaps, it was because they both were in power at of great war for the United States. 

1. The Lincoln bedroom was used by Eleanor Roosevelt has a study during Franklin Roosevelt's 13 year occupancy.  Eleanor never claimed to have seen Lincoln's ghost but has spoken of feeling being watched.  She believed it was Lincoln.

2. The young clerk during the Roosevelt occupancy of the White House claimed to have seen Lincoln's ghost sitting on a bed, taking off his boots.

3. While spending the night the White House during the presidency of Roosevelt, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands found herself awakened by a rap on the bedroom door.  She got up and answer the door.  She was confronted Lincoln's ghost staring at her from a hallway.

4. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Harry Truman reported hearing unexplained knocking on their bedroom doors but didn't explain why they thought it was Lincoln.

5. It has been well known Lincoln anguished over the horrors of the Civil War.  His spirit may have continued to be anguishing even after his death.  President Coolidge's wife spoke on several occasions as seeing  the spirit of Lincoln standing with his hands clasped behind his back at a window in the oval office.  He was staring out over the Potomac River in the direction of battlefields.

6. This is one of my favorite sightings that has to do with Winston Churchill.  During one of Winston Churchill's visits to the United States during WWII, he got of the bath, went into the adjoining bedroom.  Churchill was startled to see Abraham Lincoln spending at the fireplace in the room, leaning on the mantle.  Churchill blinked then said 'Good evening, Mr. President.  You seem to have me at a disadvantage." Lincoln smiled and disappeared.

It also has been said Lincoln's spirit has been seen at other places, not just at the White House.  There has been sightings of his grave in Springfield, Illinois.  There has been claims of people seeing his funeral train many years after it carried his body to Springfield.

 

I guess this drama shows rather and the physical or spiritual realm the past has a way of coming back to haunt you.  It also makes one wonder if anyone else has seen Lincoln's ghost and not talking about it.

Questions I Asked Myself Lately.

 

Questions I Asked Myself Lately

By Kathleen S. Blake

Where are the heroes in these modern times?

When are they going to rise during these chaotic times?

Where are the George Washington's?

Where are the Thomas Jefferson's?

Where are the Martin Luther King's, the Gandhi's?

Why are the Winston Churchill's to encourage their country during its darkest hour?

Will they arise during the troubling times?

Where are the Paul Revere's that will take a warning under a midnight sky?

Where are the Ronald Reagan's?

Where are the Samuel Adams?

Where are the Abraham Lincoln's?

Lord, help us, we can't afford a divided nation?

Where are the prayer warriors that will pray for the nation?

Don't they understand we are under siege, we have Benedict Arnolds among us.

Where are the Audie Murphy's?

Where are the General George Patton's?

Don't people understand we need great strategiststo make a stand?

Where are that Thomas Paine's of common sense?

Don't these people understand we have liars and manipulators in our government?

Will men and women of these qualities arise?

Lord, please, send them to us.