Monday, February 22, 2016
Old joke (used before)
One of my father's favorite 'jokes'.
('Jokes' in quotes because my father, being a teacher by nature and training, never told jokes purely for humor; he always had a point.)
A missionary was talking to an Indian chief.
Missionary: "You should be working instead of sitting in front of your tipi."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "So you can earn money."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "You can save it for the future."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "When you get older, you can relax."
Chief: "I'm already doing that."
The joke stayed with me. I followed the missionary's advice. Worked, saved, semi-retired early. The last line also stayed with me. "Already doing that" is a solution to many conundrums. Politicians like to pretend that a situation is NOT already settled, in order to create a false goal of settling it. Rubio is the latest purveyor of this nonsense:
('Jokes' in quotes because my father, being a teacher by nature and training, never told jokes purely for humor; he always had a point.)
A missionary was talking to an Indian chief.
Missionary: "You should be working instead of sitting in front of your tipi."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "So you can earn money."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "You can save it for the future."
Chief: "Why?"
Missionary: "When you get older, you can relax."
Chief: "I'm already doing that."
The joke stayed with me. I followed the missionary's advice. Worked, saved, semi-retired early. The last line also stayed with me. "Already doing that" is a solution to many conundrums. Politicians like to pretend that a situation is NOT already settled, in order to create a false goal of settling it. Rubio is the latest purveyor of this nonsense:
I think people realize on the Republican side that we cannot afford — this country cannot afford — to lose this election, and that I give the party the best chance, not just to unify the conservative movement, but to grow it," Rubio replied. "To take our message to people that don’t vote Republican now, grow our party, grow our movement, and to beat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders."Grow the party? Take the message to people that don't vote Republican? Trump's ALREADY DOING THAT. Your problem, of course, is that Trump is taking the message to the wrong people. He's taking it to Americans. INTOLERABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE! Only Mexicans are acceptable Party members. ¶ 4:23 AM
