Jeff Stahler for July 10, 2016

“Your call is very important to us.”

No, it’s not. If it was, a human would have answered by now.

(Yes, I can “read it”. I get to choose what I comment on. This is America, buddy.)

Don’t expect a republicon dominated congress to do anything.

I hate those phone-maze answering devices. One of the worst is Comcast. Not even the human beings that sometimes eventually answer know what their recording stating “Please hold while we process your call” means. Processing a call, what is it, lunch meat?—Vote out the republicans and tea partiers.

Please listen carefully, our menu has changed….

…if you’d like to make a bribe campaign contribution, press ‘$’.

Actually, I’ve had my best luck with geeting access to a senator via phone, and handwritten snail-mail.E-mails really get ignored or are handled by a bot scanning for keywords resulting in canned responses.

It’s a sad testament that a nation as great as ours can’t create an emergency response system that meets the needs of people - nor can it train personnel to effectively meet the needs of the people-all people in an emergency situation.

How is congress suppose to stop the President from race baiting? To my knowledge Obama doesn’t even bother learning facts before spouting incendiary speech.

I’ll let someone better with words say it for me: Mark Twain. It seems things haven’t changed a lot in 100 years.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

…the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn’t leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether—Well, you’d think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.

…I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.