A decade ago, in 2006, his son John (who goes by Jack) ran for a US Senate seat in Nevada. I was in Las Vegas on business at the time and happened to pass by a grocery store. They'd erected a dias of sorts and the signs said, "Meet Pres. Jimmy Carter". Dad showed up to stump for junior.
I turned into the shopping center out of general interest, parked, and watched as Jimmy Carter gave a speech. But nobody listened. People wheeled their shopping carts in and out, they'd pause, briefly, and continue to their cars, unload wares and drive off. In the time that Carter spoke, and I came for the last 20 minutes of his speech, there were at most, ten people who listened.
He's irrelevant.
Just as Obama will be irrelevant.
History weighed him in the balance and found him wanting.
Jack Carter lost his run for the Senate because nobody cared about either him or his father.
LL is spot on. Carter is irrelevant but he did cause a lot of damage to the US during his reign. We're still paying for his poor decisions about the Mideast.
This blog has many elements and depending on your interests, may pique your imagination...or not. I urge you to be unreasonable. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. The unreasonable persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves, therefore all progress depends on unreasonable people. The more unreasonable you are, the more likely you are to enjoy this blog. All men dream, but not equally.
If you're a socialist or a Marxist, you'll find that I poke fun at your absurd notions of "good government" on a regular basis. So you might not wish to follow this blog because you'll be offended.
John Locke said, "One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." I like what Locke said. We can't theorize without adequate information because when we do we inevitably twist facts to suit theories rather than theories to suit facts. In this blog and in my life, I try to maintain this perspective.
Either you believe in our essential spark of shared divinity, or you succumb to our human insecurity. Either way your conscience lets you slice it, the main thing is to earnestly do what is right at the time.
Today, I balance work and play as much as anyone can. All things remaining equal, play is more important. Life is short - it's important to make every day count for something, if only to yourself.
I'm a former tinker/tailor/soldier/sailor who has now decided that maybe it really wasn't all done for nothing.
Been Gone Far Too Long
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I've been busy with life, work is great, family is amazing and I'm going
to aim to come back to my blog this year. I know I won't make it back here
dai...
In his Father's Footsteps
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Today my eldest grandson started his student enlistment in the New York Air
National Guard. He starts his monthly drills soon and will attend basic
train...
A rose by any other name...
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I've been busier than ever. And yet somehow, I still manage to find the
time to stare out of a window or become distracted with all the (hilarious)
meme's ...
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A man who never met a dictator he didn't like. Sad news about the cancer being gone.
A decade ago, in 2006, his son John (who goes by Jack) ran for a US Senate seat in Nevada. I was in Las Vegas on business at the time and happened to pass by a grocery store. They'd erected a dias of sorts and the signs said, "Meet Pres. Jimmy Carter". Dad showed up to stump for junior.
I turned into the shopping center out of general interest, parked, and watched as Jimmy Carter gave a speech. But nobody listened. People wheeled their shopping carts in and out, they'd pause, briefly, and continue to their cars, unload wares and drive off. In the time that Carter spoke, and I came for the last 20 minutes of his speech, there were at most, ten people who listened.
He's irrelevant.
Just as Obama will be irrelevant.
History weighed him in the balance and found him wanting.
Jack Carter lost his run for the Senate because nobody cared about either him or his father.
sic semper tyransus?
LL is spot on. Carter is irrelevant but he did cause a lot of damage to the US during his reign. We're still paying for his poor decisions about the Mideast.
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