For those who read my blogs and read my life’s journey, you know when I purchased a computer I didn’t know how to turn it on and didn’t know what a mouse, hard-drive and monitor was. I still wrestle with it and type with two fingers. I don’t venture far from my e-mail because I’m afraid I might not be able to get back to it.
However, I have discovered a few exciting things and one is a website by Heritage Foundation. They e-mail wonderful liberty quotes that I sometimes use in my articles. I clicked on the site last night and discovered they will send pocket size editions of The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution for free to anyone who requests them. They stated they have sent out 500,000 copies this year. That’s exciting news to me to hear that many are interested in reading those documents.
Actually, I have had days lately that I’ve felt so sad over the downward spiral of our freedom in this country, and woke up this morning thinking I should write some funny political stuff. I grew up in the Depression years and have heard a lot of talk about politics. Since then, I’ve heard more and read a lot, so what I’m going to write I really do not recall who said it or where I heard it. But here are some political jokes . . .
Most have probably heard the question asked, “How do you tell when a politician is lying? Very easy, if his lips are moving!”
Here’s one about Presidents. George Washington said, “I never told a lie.” Nixon said, “I never told the truth.” And Jimmy Carter said, “I don’t really know the difference.”
Another one says, “Roosevelt proved one could be President for life. Truman proved anyone could be President. Eisenhower proved we don’t really need a President and Kennedy proved it’s dangerous to have one.”
There were lots of jokes about Roosevelt during his term that I can’t recall, but there was one about leading us into the “promised land,” giving men shovels to lean on and telling them they were in the “promised land.”
George Bernard Shaw said, “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
And one of my favorites by Lysander Spooner, “The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves, a contest that, however bloody, can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.”
I’ve had some good and interesting things happen lately. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an article about my blogging. Then my local paper, The Gainesville Times, wrote a great article about my blogging. As a result of the publication of that article, I received a call to be guest on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, all because of my blogging that I began about seven months ago . . . never hearing the word blog when I started. Now, I have more than 125 articles posted.
The election is just around the corner and I remind my readers of several articles posted relating to voting. I also remind readers to click on the RSS feed. You will receive the newest blogs as soon as they are posted by signing up for them.
Let Freedom Ring!
JUST ME,
AC
