People Say the Darndest Things

People Say the Darndest Things

The late, great American television personality, Art Linkletter, used to say, “Kids say the darndest things,” which was a truism to anyone who has ever had children.

The kids Linkletter featured on his TV show did indeed say some of the most amazing, insightful, and cute darned things. Still, they rarely matched what some people say today, “things” which are sometimes insightful, sometimes threatening, but which hardly qualify as ”cute.”

“Cheers’ ” Cliff Claven, the obnoxious yet lovable postman who wasn’t much into delivering mail but who did know just about everything about everything else has moved on from the Boston tavern and recently said some darned interesting things concerning America’s future.

Among other observations, the real Cliff Claven, John Ratzenberger, now a social-activist advocate for getting skilled workers in America back to work, thinks that our aging, untrained workforce may soon result in dire consequences.

In Clavenish rhetoric, Ratzenberger contends that, “If we don’t come to grips with this problem and teach our kids marketable skills, we’re going to end up like the Roman Empire. When we run out of plumbers, or people who maintain the water system, from the reservoir to the faucet in your house, and there’s no one around to fix it, we become a Third World country. . . [where] You turn the light switch on, and it may or may not work.”

I don’t know Ratzenberger’s politics but politics are irrelevant in this case because he’s right.

A much less affable Anthony K. Jones, who adopted the name “Van Jones” because it sounded better, served a brief stint as President Barack Hussein Obama’s “green czar” despite having as many “greenie” or czarist credentials as I do, was forced to resign his czarship in 2009 when his black racist history was outed.

Among other features of that history were his reference to Republicans “a**holes” in a speech at Berkeley, his background as an admitted “rowdy [black] nationalist . . . [converted to] a communist,” his attack on suburban white kids as mass murderers, and cutting an anti-American, anti-Semitic recording with convicted cop-killer, Mumia abu-Jamal. (http://bit.ly/pKHbdR)

Jones, Obama’s nominee for the position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, never exactly crawled back into the White House woodwork after being outed and has been ceaselessly spouting ever since following what would have be a humiliating rejection to normal people. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5641.)