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Sir Myghin wrote:Grammar: the difference between "helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse".

You put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABlye

This is why I love punctuation!

If the entire world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Beyond the gilded cage.

And a few of us backstage.

Aw, geez. You're working on a holiday again...

Livin' the life, man.
In my mind.

Get that pin away from my balloon.

He may be at work, but he's got us! mwahahahahahahahahaha!

Duct taping, anyone?

That would hit the spot, t!

Harry Truman after the presidency-

Harry Truman, from Missouri, was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
Historians have written that the only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence, Missouri. On top of that, his wife inherited the house from her Mother.
When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.
Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and
personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance'
and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There were no Secret Service agents following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he
declined, stating, 'You don't want me. You want the
office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.
It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale.'
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he
refused to accept it, writing, 'I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.'
He never owned his own home and as president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in
cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.
Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices.
Political offices are now for sale.
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, 'My choices early in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth,
there's hardly any difference.'

and I believe he had the worst approval ratings ever for an American president before Bush came along.

My point is that he wasn't a money grubbing pile of steaming monkey turds.

As are most if not all polititians now a days.

Approve or not.

That was my point to.

Perhaps he bought into the "for" part of the phrase, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people" more than the ones we see and detest the money-grubbing behavior of today? Seeing that he was working "for" the people rather than for himself would be a very different perspective.

As I see it today, many of the politicians think of working for the people in as much as they are making laws for us or setting up infrastructure for us, but then when it comes to pay or perks they seem to forget they are working for anyone and act as if they are owed everything and anything they want and that we can afford to give it to them.

"When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-- Jonathan Swift

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)