Watching Politicians Work an Event

This weekend I attended a local civic function on the square where I live. Among the various merchandise vendors and church groups were food vendors selling everything from ice cream to pretzels.

It was interesting to see our local anti-war protester with a booth directly across the narrow street from the flag-waving republican party booth. Yet she was drawing a substantially large crowd in this overtly conservative part of the South. She is not afraid, outspoken and dressed as lady liberty she speaks her peace to anyone that will listen and even to those who won't.

I watched local political personalities mingle through the larger than usual crowd due to mild morning temperatures growing to hot in the afternoon. It brought back memories of traveling with my parents to rallies in my youth to drum up support for candidates and the party in elections gone by. Today's encounters were brief yet just as effective, they were to allow the public to see the "PUBLIC SERVANT" as one of them. Some of these "PUBLIC SERVANTS" actually are effective, others are bodies taking up space.

"However far you may travel in this world, you will still occupy the same volume of space." ~ Traditional Ur-Bororo saying

Unfortunately some of these folks take up valuable space!!! Effective leadership is needed in every town, city, county (parish)(township), district, state, and especially in our nation.

Back to another thought: If the Senate is to pass a law regarding the use of English as the official language; two things:

1. Laws should be in that plain English for everyone to understand. Period.
2. The President should have some command of the language, himself. Period.

Those should be fairly easy, if we require new residents to know English, so should everyone in the Bronx, South Beach, Chicago, Boise, Las Vegas, Crawford, Park City, Toledo, Miami, Nashville, Houston, and everywhere in-between.

"He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that." ~ John Stuart Mill

"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them." ~ Charles C. West

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