Something To Think About Archive

Remember that “There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”

Peruvian-American writer Carlos Castaneda believed that “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

According to Teddy Roosevelt: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done. And self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

W.A. Nance wrote: “No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

We admit that we have an issue with the proliferation and endless marketing of online sports betting as something that may not end well.  Given the lack of control social media has over its users how can we be sure who is betting, how old they are and whether or not they have a gambling problem? And now, with a proposed crypto bill in the Senate, there’s the possibility that so-called “prediction-market operators” like Kalshi will be allowed to treat sports betting like it was commodities trading poses even greater risks with none of the guardrails of legal gaming and it will be especially damaging to the recognized tribes whose profits go to support the welfare of their members as well as their communities at large.

We’ve recently read that one of Eisenhower’s early biographers was “… struck by how Eisenhower never saw power as belonging to him. Instead, he treated it as something he was responsible for – but not entitled to.”

Remember that “No one is a failure who keeps trying.”

It’s been said that “Half a fact is a whole falsehood.”

James L. Phillips believed that “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

It’s been said that “In politics, friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.”

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomberg notes that despite the media claims of environmental destruction from “climate change” causing wildfires, both the U.S. and Canada are below their ten and five year averages respectively for acreage burned year to date. Wildfires are terrifying and massively destructive; but the fact remains that the recent spate of fires both here and throughout the west are either arson or lighting caused often in overgrown forests.  As to people setting fires, we don’t understand that or pretend to know what the answer is. But nature will be helped by the feds recent approval of more harvesting and thinning to reduce fuels in, and improve the health of, our national forests.

According to Samuel Johnson, “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Voltaire wrote: “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hands of time.”

Screenwriter David Nicholls says: “Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”