Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Why is it when someone with more notoriety says the same thing...people perk up to listen?


Over and over I have said that when nothing works you start over after throwing the bad things out! Same way with Congress, they all should have been ousted with our last election votes and allowed for the newer mindsets to strut their stuff and maybe, just maybe we would have gotten something accomplished by this term! Stalemates and butting heads, over and over again, just seems to make us all scratch our head and say Geez, I wonder why? Elections folks, remember? That is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country, huh? Truly does mean that, ‘ELECTION’! Where did I hear that before, yep; “The author of the quote was Charles E Weller in 1867, and it was nothing more than a typing exercise. ChaCha!” This site: http://www.chacha.com/question/who-said-%22now-is-the-time-for-all-good-men-to-come-to-the-aid-of-their-country%3F%22 And the actual quote was, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country?" To think that that obscure but meaning something in the larger scheme of things statement stuck in my brain from when I took one typing class as a twelve year old, thinking I would eventually use it for something, how odd that I now have found a use for both! Typing and that quote, oh you knew that, ha! But if we analyze the quote it does sound historic in nature, just look at the year it was written, and for that we must know that it should have some relevance. To me, it being over fifty years old, oops, did I say that out loud? Kidding, it does appear that what is happening now may have happened before, dejevu, with all those stubborn men in Washington, hmm? Sure it has. But somehow, we, as Americans, always find a way to make things come out better, historically speaking. Sure we do have the knack of ‘the spin’, but I am talking reality. And if nothing else, we all know that those people in Washington ARE working for us and that we have the power of the vote, even in local elections to get some changes in the works, before the next biggy one. In the meantime we do have the ability to talk to our representatives via their availability! http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ As we all know it is a while until the next election and in the interim we can all be advocates for what we truly believe in and want for our country to move in the right direction. Many good things have been happening, but many bad things are looming large too. Scary threats, of things being taken away that we all hold near and dear and so those above sites should be helpful for not just giving lip service with complaining, me at times too, ha, but actually to give all of you the feeling of doing something! I have been doing this for years for the non-profits with advocacy, concerning bills under scrutiny to be passed, helping many organizations that I care about. It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to do something, even from the confines of mine, being behind this ancient techno marvel that I hold near and dear to me… and at least the organizations give you updates, as well as final decisions and the senators and representatives send you little email notes too, a win, win. My soapbox is getting a bit slippery now and so I would like to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too! And next time please be here or be square ya hear?! PS Congratulations to the new Pope Francis the 1 of Argentina!

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