"You’ve got to accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative. Latch on to the affirmative.” Johnny Mercer
December 31, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Suppose we did it differently?
Instead of New Year’s resolutions that focus on what we aren’t, what we didn’t, what we shoulda,’ suppose we focused on all the things we already do right?
We’d find that "positive” really works.
Look at pup...
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne
December 24, 2014
By Linda Case Gibbons
They’re wrong. The critics who say Christmas is nothing but a great day for shopkeepers.
It is about the presents, it’s true, and the food. It’s how people show their love. But Christmas is also about role models.
It’s tough to be a good one, but Jesus Christ hit the ball out of the park.
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"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” George Bernard Shaw
December 17, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Race riots in the streets. Open season on cops. Unsecured U.S. borders and foreign policy in tatters.
It’s the face of America today, carefully crafted by the politicians in office, from the top down, on through city government.
It all can be traced bac...
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
November 26, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Chuck Hegel is out as Secretary of Defense. Rumor has it he was forced out. Rumor also has it that he disagreed with the president and sided with military opinion coming out of the Pentagon.
It doesn’t pay to disagree with Obama.
Some people end up being investigated. Som...
"If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” George Carlin
November 19, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It’s that time again! Time to get together to give thanks. And as Americans, there’s lots to be thankful for.
But this year, after the mid-term elections, Ferguson and a forced amnesty, there’s a feeling that something is wrong.
Where did the old American fighting spirit go, we wonder? The pride in country...
"This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the Congressional Budget Office did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical to getting this thing (Obamacare) to pass.” Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, economist
November 12, 2014
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"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein
October 22, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
The crickets are just plain tired of it.
Every time the president should say something about a crisis, what does he say? Nothing. Then what does the media do? Haul out the cricket soundtrack!
And the crickets are fed up! C...
"When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.” Samantha Power
October 15, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It was very touching, the head of one of those gloomy Communist countries reaching out to our president.
At first Obama thought it was Kim Kardashian contacting him and was bummed out when he discovered it wasn€..