A Collection of humorous comments..

 "In my many years I have come to a conclusion, ... that one useless man is a shame,  two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government."*

~John Adams 

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 *"If you don't read the newspaper you are  uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are  misinformed."*

 ~Mark Twain 

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 *"I  contend that for  a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying  to lift himself up by the  handle."*

 ~Winston Churchill 

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 *"A government which  robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of  Paul."*

 ~George Bernard Shaw  

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 *"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."*

 ~ Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University 

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 *"Giving  money and  power to  government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."*

 ~P.J. O'Rourke,  Civil Libertarian 

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 *"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"*

 ~Pericles (430  B.C.)  

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 *"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."*

 ~Mark Twain  (1866)                          

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 *"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."*

 ~ Ronald  Reagan  

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 *"The  only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."*

 ~Mark Twain 

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 *"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."*

 ~Edward Langley,  Artist (1928-1995)                          

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 *"A  government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."*

 ~Thomas Jefferson  

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 *"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."*

 ~Aesop              

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 *"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"*

 ~P.J.  O'Rourke

British writer pens the best description of Trump I've read

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clump fulls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

When is it OK to Use the "F" Word?

Question:  When is the use of "f***" or "f***ing" acceptable? Answer:   There are only 11 times throughout history where the "F" word has been considered acceptable for use.   In ASCENDING order, those exclamations were:   11. "What the f*** do you mean, we’re sinking?" Capt. E. J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912.   10. "What the f*** was that?" Mayor Of Hiroshima , 1945   9. " Where did all those f***ing Indians come from?" George Custer, 1877   8. "Any f***ing idiot could understand that." Albert Einstein, 1938.   7. "It does so f***ing look like her!" Picasso, 1926   "How the f*** did you work that out?"  Student of Pythagoras, 126 BC.    5. "You want WHAT on the f***ing ceiling?"  Michelangelo, 1566.    6. "Where the f*** are we?"  Amelia Earhart, 1937    7. "Scattered f***ing showers, my ass!"  Noah, 4314 BC    2. "Aw, come on Monica. Who the f*** is going to find out?"  Bill Clinton, 1998    AND THE WINNER IS .....   1."There is no f***ing way Trump will ever become President"  Hillary Clinton, 2016