Posted on 09/26/2020 8:45:23 AM PDT by Lenora Thompson
"This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something."-Will Rogers
Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are. Republican, Democrat, Independent...Americans just want someone in the White House who knows something. In the days leading up to Election Day, let's not forget to laugh together. It's the shortest distance between people and Heaven knows this nation needs to come together again.
Will Rogers knew that. Born in 1879 in Cherokee Nation, Wikipedia describes Rogers as an "American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator." Not bad for a High School drop-out.
His genius was making us laugh at ourselves about topics we Americans took much too seriously in the 1930s and still do today. Topics like politics and government. Rogers' quips are as accurate today as they were back then, proving that nothing much ever changes.
"Remember, write to your Congressman. Even if he can’t read, write to him."
Will didn't try to be funny, per se. He just observed America and then reflected ourselves back at us. As he liked to say, "All I know is just what I read in the papers."
For you young whippersnappers, that's several large sheets of printed paper, folded together, that crackles authoritatively when you shake it over your morning coffee. Try that with a Kindle!
"Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth."
Or just teach Common Core via Zoom. That'll make kids thirst for knowledge...if they aren't arrested for trying to learn like Maverick Stow.
"We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring ’em to make good. That is the general idea."
"When newspapers knock a man a lot, there is sure to be a lot of good in him."
Ya hear that, Mainstream Media!?!
But getting back to Election Day, I had this crazy idea that 1 vote = 1 vote. Ummmm....
"No mathematician in this country has ever been able to figure out how many hundred straw votes it takes to equal one legitimate vote."
I also thought that throwing ballots into ditches was a new thing. Apparently not! Why else would Rogers have said....
"I hope some of the men who get the most votes will be elected."
It heartens me see a new breed of politicians rising, many of them veterans, who unabashedly love God, love their families and love this country more than life itself.
"If we could just send the same bunch of men to Washington for the good of the nation and not for political reasons, we could have the most perfect government in the world."
Even as passionately as we all feel about this election, let's remember that 100 years ago and 100 years from now, human nature will always be the same. There's no such thing as "the good ol' days." So let's keep our sense of humor in the spirit of Will Rogers.
They say to leave 'em laughing and Congress is always good for a few laughs.
"Most people and actors appearing on the stage have some writer to write their material. Congress is good enough for me. They have been writing my material for years."
"The United States Senate opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."
"Papers say: “Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.” I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country."
Permit me to throw in a political joke from the Bob Hope movie ‘The Ghost Breakers’. Hope played Lawrence.
Montgomery: “... a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.”
Lawrence: “You mean like Democrats?”
LOL. I just saw that one on Facebook...brilliant! :D
“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.“
Of course, in those days Democrats weren’t totally socialist so they did have a few brew-ha-has (intentionally misspelled, ha-ha).
LOL. Good one! I wonder what Democrats and Republicans disagreed about “back in the day” when the world was more innocent. (?)
same donaldson tried to get ronal reagan to admit that problems were his fault- reagan immediately answered some thing along the lines of “
“Yes i take the blame because for many years i was a democrat”
My favorite is that “We have the best Congress that money can buy”.
The Oklahoma City Airport is named for Will Rogers (1879-1935), who had a life-long interest in aviation, until it killed him. His closest analog was probably Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain 1835-1910), as both were newspaper columnists, world travelers, humorists and wry commentators on politics. While Clemens was more the author, Rogers was more the entertainer, moving from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood with multiple films to his credit.
In 1935, Rogers, an advocate of American Aviation and friend of Charles Lindberg, joined fellow Oklahoman and aviation record holder, Wiley Post, for an exploratory trip from Washington State to Alaska Territory and then on to Siberia in Russia. For Rogers the goal was to find things for his news columns, for Post, it was to set a USofA-Russia Passenger&Mail route. When nearing Point Barrow, Alaska, weather caused them to land their Lockheed floatplane to establish their location. Upon takeoff from that lagoon, the single engine died and both men were killed in the subsequent crash.
Only thing worse than a small plane is a helicopter.
Just say no.
If “no” is too short, try, “Where’s my horse.”
That’s so sad. I always felt Will Rogers went before his time.
It’s strange because I lost a Great-Uncle in Alaska during WWII in bad weather. The plane was never sound.
And my husband is a cousin-three-times-removed from Charles Lindberegh! Michael’s Grandfather talked casually about going flying with “Slim.” What are the odds!?
Alaska is BIG and Alaska is WILD and Alaska is UNTAMED. Proof of this came in 1972 when the #2 Representative in the US House to Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Hale Boggs (LA-D), went to Alaska to campaign for the Democratic Candidate, Nick Begich. They were 4 people in a Cessna 310, a twin-engine aircraft, traveling from Anchorage to the Capital, Juneau. It disappeared and a 39 day search by locals and US Military found no trace!
I’d never heard of that. Do you reckon it’s the Bermuda Triangle thing in Alaska???? That’s something I’d like to learn more about.
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