I truly hope all had a great weekend and are ready for the week ahead….so much stuff…so little time……
One of my favorite quotes is “Stupidity Is The Deliberate Cultivation Of Ignorance”…..not sure who is credited with it…but it is a very good quote.
MLK had one along the same lines……(see below)…..
AMEN!
There is too much of both these days….and Americans are embracing their ignorance and their stupidity as if it were a badge of honor.
So sad!
2016 is an interesting year for an election. We have Americans mad about everything you can think of…..they are pissed at Obama (a convenient scapegoat)…..they whizzed off about immigrants……they are paranoid about anything they cannot understand……
All that is fine……but when looking at the candidate du jour…..maybe the remembrance of the words of George Washington would help….
Lots of opinions, lots of yelling and lots of scrambling to either justify or condemn the act of torture. But Thomas Paine has said it all!
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Thomas Paine
Another gem for consideration for the “Assie” Award. This one comes from the Attorney General Mukasey. The statement was made at a meeting of the American Bar Association.
“”…not every violation of the law is a crime.”
I did not know you could get a law degree from Sears.
We have yet another politico make a statement through his ass. This time it is Phil Gramm and his statement on Americans being whiners.
‘We have sort of become a nation of whiners,’ he said. ‘You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness,
Remember there will be a post at the end of the year of the most anal statements and all get to choose the winner.