I liked the Snoopy cartoon yesterday so much, I also noticed a second one I’d like to share with you.
Charlie Brown is bent over, writing on his stationery at his table. He writes: “Dear Pencil Pal, Have you had a nice summer?”
In the next panel he continues: “I like to read, do you? I am very fond of books.”
Charlie Brown continues in the third panel: “I can always enjoy a good book. I have always been the sort of person who enjoys reading.”
And finally Charlie writes: “When I have nothing else to do, I read.”
Snoopy is lying in the grass and says to himself: ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have given up on my writing.’
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. We should make ourselves friends of the Constitution. Anything less than this is sure to be “evil, wicked, mean, bad and nasty,” as my wife used to say about things she didn’t agree with me about.
The size of the United States of America was doubled by Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of the area “owned” by the French. Napoleon was in dire need of money to pursue his grand war in Europe. Jefferson wasn’t sure that such a purchase was within his power as President. But he was sure that this opportunity didn’t come around very often—so he bought the whole offered territory. This became known as the Louisiana Purchase.
Republic—a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
In the upcoming Presidential election it would seem to be very important to consider what our first President of the United States said about one thing to look for:
One of my other heroes, and Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, was also an inventor of sorts. Patrick served for a while in his youth as a “bartender” at his father’s General Mercantile Store and Country Inn. He didn’t like it much. He saw first hand how much damage liquor did to the common man. Some people he served lost their money, their families, their wives, their homes, and even their lives to that vile habit—drinking.