“IS IT TRUE” SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

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IS IT TRUE at the September 3, 2020 meeting of the Evansville Board of Public Works, the board approved of an advertising contract between the City of Evansville Human Relations Commission and Best View Media LLC in the amount of $4,188.00 for Fair Housing Advertisement to be displayed in city buses, shelters and on benches? …we wonder why the Evansville Board of Public Works would approve a new advertising contract with anyone until they have resolved a current lawsuit filed against them and Best View Media, LLC concerning a prior contractual advertising dispute with another business?

IS IT TRUE.please wear your mask, distance yourself from people, and avoid large crowds? …have a safe and enjoyable “Labor Day”?

IS IT TRUE that sometimes a politician’s 15 minutes of fame turns out to be a lifetime of political disgrace and pain? -CCO

IS IT TRUE when politicians think that they are invincible, it’s a proven fact it turns out that they are not? -CCO

IS IT TRUE that some politicians don’t understand that the respect and admiration shown to them by the masses have very little to do with them as a person, but it’s more about the political office they hold? -CCO

IS IT TRUE when the masses see an obvious backroom political bait and switch deal happening, they quickly realize that this backroom political deal usually involves money and political appointments? –CCO

IS IT TRUE there are major differences between an elected official and s politician? …that most elected officials are a “Good Steward Of The Public Trust” that practice “Good Public Policy” but politicians are self-serving? –CCO

IS IT TRUE that liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist?  -Frederick Douglass

IS IT TRUE that you cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred? –Abraham Lincoln

IS IT TRUE that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened?  –John F. Kennedy

IS IT TRUE under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right?     H.L. Mencken

IS IT TRUE in politics, you must always keep running with the pack, and the moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves? –R. A. Butler

IS IT TRUE, let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer? Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past? Let us accept our own responsibility for the future? - John F. Kennedy

IS IT TRUE that Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other?     Oscar Ameringer

IS IT TRUE he knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career?  ― George Bernard Shaw

IS IT TRUE  that today’s most public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read or comprehend them either?” ” ― Gore Vidal

IS IT TRUE If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates?― Thomas Sowell

IS IT TRUE they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve?
And if you do, you never get the results you expected?  ― E.A. Bucchianeri

IS IT TRUE that Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance? ― J Bartell,

IS IT TRUE  that a politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he’s the only one who can save the ship? –Ivern Ball

IS IT TRUE we live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy? –Martin L. Gross

IS IT TRUE  that all of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field? – Albert Einstein

IS IT TRUE that Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy? – Ernest Benn

IS IT TRUE that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed?    Mao Zedong

IS IT TRUE the future happiness for Americans is if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them? –Thomas Jefferson

IS IT TRUE that politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant?   –Henri Queuille

IS IT TRUE that politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity?–Albert Einstein

IS IT TRUE you may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time?   –Abraham Lincoln

IS IT TRUE that politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions?  –Albert Einstein

IS IT TRUE in war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times?   –Winston Churchill

IS IT TRUE that politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage?   –Dwight D. Eisenhower

IS IT TRUE that politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is?     Margaret Cho

IS IT TRUE the whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men?  –Reinhold Niebuhr

IS IT TRUE that politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them?   –Paul Valery

IS IT TRUE when the people fear the Government we have Tyranny?  When the Government fears the people we have Liberty?

IS IT TRUE we also would like to thank Kemberle Weightman for preparing and sending us the daily EPD activity report?

IS IT TRUE our “READERS POLLS” are non-scientific but trendy?

Today’s “Readers Poll” question is: Do agree with Sheriff Dave Wedding that left-wing Democrats want to burn the flag, defund the police, don’t acknowledge God, and are idiots?

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