A Soulful Journey

"We're up to our keister in midgets."  -F anny Brice on the 1928 elections What we need are giants of righteousness.

Q. How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?    A. Seven – one to supervise, one to arrange for the electricity to be shut off, one to make sure that safety and quality standards are maintained, one to monitor compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, one to manage personnel relations, one to fill out the paperwork and one to screw the light bulb into the water faucet.  Rabbi Gerald Zelizer

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” ~Aesop

Because it's [trees] glorious presence is mute testimony to an intelligence far greater than any on earth certainly in the present Administration." - Woody Allen

“…the right question is usually more important than the right answer to the wrong question.”   - Alvin Toffler , Third Wave Politicians are experts in evading questions that they do not want to answer, or do not know.   Better to be honest and say, “I do not know.”

A wealthy man lay critically ill.  "There's  only one thing that will save you," his doctor said.  "A brain transplant.  It's experimental and very costly." "Money is no object," the man said.  "Can you get a brain?" "There are three available.  The first was from a college professor, but it'll cost you $10,000." "Don't worry, I can pay.  What about the second?" "It was from a rocket scientist. It'll cost you $100,000." "I have the money.  And I'd be a lot smarter too.  What about the third?" "The third was from a Washington bureaucrat.  It will set you back half a million dollars." "Why so much for the bureaucrat's brain?" the patient asked. "Never been used."   -Herman Toran

"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."   - Will Rogers We see how much more money is often spent on promotion rather than making things better. It is also true for politician and elections.  Wouldn't it be refreshing if it were the opposite?

“With that nut in Russia polluting the air with all kinds of fancy fallout, no one has time to check the veracity of any statement made by anyone about anything.” – Groucho Marx in Memories It is easy to obfuscate.   Just try weaving together several disparate thoughts and listeners will walk away wagging their heads in despair.   Politicians do it all the time.   But to relate to, and with, others takes focus.

"When Hitler started the extermination campaign, he didn't begin with the Jews. He went for the mentally subnormal, saying it would be much kinder to give them a gentle, easy death. Maybe with amniocentesis we are trying to spare the health services with the high cost of dealing with the handicap, and cloaking it with an air of public respectability." - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in "The Jewish Chronicle,"  May 1982. It is critical that we question what we see, hear, and read. There is a reason why God gave us a searching mind . Question the motives of politicians. Question the media. Take nothing for granted. You have a mind capable of ascertaining truth and do not need anyone to convince you of it.