THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”
So Obammer chooses Joe Biden, where is the change in that? A career politician, 36 years and still going, who gives long winded speeches, using his or other people’s thoughts and words?
The new “Obamma America.”
This week I received an email from Ireland to the brethren in the States…a point to ponder despite your political affiliation: ‘We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States this year.
On one side, you have a pants wearing woman lawyer, married to a lawyer who can’t keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary that they still haven’t paid for yet, against a lawyer who states he is ‘black’ when it is documented that he is only 12% ‘black’, who goes to the wrong church, who has stated that he wants his countrymen to learn to speak Spanish rather than English, who refuses to put his hand over his heart and say the pledge of allegiance or wear the flag of the country he wants to run, who can’t remember if there are 50 or 57 states in his own country, who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run.
Now…On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate ‘Mc’ terminology married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship. What in Lord’s name are ye lads thinking over there?
Unfortunately, it is not that easy nor is it all that cut and dried … Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. Put these two in charge of the Sahara Desert it will eventually run out of sand.
Amtrak train bound for San Diego ran out of fuel over the weekend. It was the little engine that couldn’t. A quick train trip down the coast turned into a long haul for dozens of stranded Amtrak passengers when their train from Los Angeles to San Diego ran out of fuel over the weekend. The train sat for about two hours in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood in northern San Diego before another engine came along to push it to its final destination.
It arrived early Monday morning. The Local Trainmaster said a train running out of fuel is “an unusual occurrence” and Amtrak officials will be looking into how it happened later Monday. AMTRAK is a “government run entity” in case you didn’t know.
I used to work on a railroad and often my duties were to ride or work the Santa Fe Chief Passenger train that ran from Chicago to Dallas. On one particular day a brakeman got into a bit of predicament with a lady passenger and her baby. During the course of the conversation he had mentioned that “her baby was the ugliest baby that he had ever seen” aboard a train.
Which of course did not sit well with the passenger and she went to the conductor of the train and in no uncertain terms, told him what she thought of this thoughtless and uncaring employee of the railroad.
The conductor understanding her concern and trying his level best to make do of a bad situation told the woman that he would have a long talk with the brakeman and he would get him straightened out.
He also told her that “it was not the policy of the railroad to hurt, injure or inflame the passengers that rode their trains, that he would as a way of correcting this obvious situation offer the lady a free meal in the diner car located towards the rear of the train.”
He said to the upset patron, “Please go towards the rear of the train, to the dining car, and tell the people there, that I am issuing you a free meal” and they are to bill me personally for it.
The woman smiled a big smile and replied, “Thank you so very much.”
To which the conductor added, “No thanks necessary, it is the least I could do. And while you are there, make sure they give you a banana for your monkey.”
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