“New York Times” reporter Kathy Gray was in Freeland, Michigan, on September 10, when President Trump arrived to a cheering crowd – most without masks and none social-distancing. This is actually the first of many tweets Gray transmitted before the Trump campaign forced her to leave. As usual, Trump and his gang just don’t understand the concept of a free press.
Most Ironic Quote of the Week – September 12, 2020
“This is deadly stuff.”
– President Donald Trump to Bob Woodward on February 7, 2020
In a series of taped interviews with Woodward earlier this year, Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed U.S. coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” and that he repeatedly played it down publicly. Woodward, a veteran and legendary journalist who first gained fame with an expose of the Watergate scenario, recounts his conversations with Trump in his new book “Rage.” Not surprisingly, Trump is now trying to downplay the interviews.
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Worst Quote of the Week – September 12, 2020
“Please brothers and sisters, let’s try to not gossip. Gossip is a plague worse than COVID. Worse. Let’s make a big effort: No gossiping!”
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Second Best Quote of the Week – September 12, 2020
“A conservative means you’re in favor of the status quo, and the status quo is keeping the White superiority complex in power. I’m not for that. I am an independent, an independent thinking person.”
– Gregory Cheadle, former California congressional candidate, on why he exited the Republican Party last year.
Cheadle is the man Donald Trump referred to as “my African-American friend” at a campaign rally in 2016. In his interview on CNN, Cheadle bluntly described his choice between the Democratic and Republican Parties: “You’re asking me to choose between projectile vomit and diarrhea.” He later added, “If I vote for Biden, it’ll probably be because I’m voting for Harris.”
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Best Quote of the Week – September 12, 2020
“Obviously, I can’t prove the negatives if you never said those things. The president has a habit of disparaging people. He ends up denigrating almost everybody that he comes in contact with whose last name is not Trump.”
– John Bolton, Former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, during a recent interview on FOX News
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In Remembrance: September 11, 2001
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Image: “Fisherman at Sea”, JMW Turner
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Happy Labor Day 2020!
“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Dare to be honest and fear no labour.”
– Robert Burns
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
“No human masterpiece has been created without great labour.”
– Andre Gide
“If all the cars in the United States were placed end-to-end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.”
– Doug Larson
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
– Joseph Joubert
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.”
– Samuel Gompers
“I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start again after Labor Day.”
– Lewis Black
“Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”
– Ralph Ransom
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“A hundred times every day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
– Albert Einstein
“Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.”
– Greek Proverb
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.”
– Arnold J. Toynbee
“It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything.”
– John Locke
“As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.”
– Elizabeth Esty
“I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.”
– Uzo Aduba
“Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?”
– Michelle Obama
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
– Vince Lombardi
“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.”
– Marc Chagall
“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and – above all – don’t let anyone limit your dreams.”
– Donovan Bailey
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Retro Quote – Mason Cooley
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Worst Quote of the Week – September 5, 2020
“We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that.”
– President Donald Trump, on FOX News, claiming that people in “dark shadows” are controlling the campaign of Joe Biden.
In my recollection, “Dark Shadows” was a highly popular primetime gothic series that ran from 1966 to 1971. It dealt with vampires, ghosts and various creepy ghouls that stalked the darkness. You know, much like we have in Washington, D.C. today. Only thing is the “Dark Shadows” characters were much more loveable.
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