Thomas Jefferson Wrote His Own Epitaph and Didn’t Mention Being President

Before his death, Thomas Jefferson outlined a few specific instructions for his burial; for instance, he wanted the obelisk to be made of coarse stone. Always the writer, Jefferson also crafted his own epitaph highlighting the achievements for which he hoped to be remembered, and, as he put it, “not a word more.” It reads: “Here was buried / Thomas Jefferson / Author of the Declaration of American Independence / of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom / & Father of the University of Virginia.” 

Strangely, nowhere on this epitaph does Jefferson state that he was President of an entire nation; he also fails to mention that he served as governor of Virginia, secretary of state, and Vice President. It’s possible that Jefferson was more proud of his intellectual contributions than the moments he held power. In 1883, Jefferson’s descendants donated the original gravestone to the University of Missouri — a campus designed in a similar fashion to Jefferson’s University of Virginia and the first university in the region acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. Today, a new gravestone marks the founding father’s final resting place, but the epitaph remains the same — still omitting Jefferson’s time as the nation’s chief executive.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

It’s Not Just Inflation — It’s Price Gouging

Corporations across industries, from housing to groceries and used cars, are juicing their profit margins even as the cost of doing business goes down. And they’re not hiding the ball.

For example, the Coca-Cola Company increased the price of its products by 11 percent over the course of 2022. The company’s chief executive said at the time that Coca-Cola had “earned the right” to hike prices for consumers. Coca-Cola’s rival, PepsiCo Inc., also significantly increased prices.

Please stop blaming the current administration for the prices. Biden and the current White House cannot control gas prices anymore than any other administration did. It’s all a matter of supply and demand and corporate greed and the supply is actually through the moon right now, but corporate greed is keeping the price is high.

President Biden is taking on corporate price gouging by banning hidden junk fees and calling on corporations to pass the savings from their reduced costs onto consumers. This is something the administration can do. Kroger raising grocery prices, Exxon increasing gas prices are things that are under corporate control and unfair to consumers but because we don’t live under an Authoritarian government can’t be regulated by the federal government. Maybe they should be but that isn’t the system we have.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Saw a bumper sticker this morning. (100% Not Liberal)

My first thought was bold claim, I wanted to pull the person over and ask them, so you’re against

Free Speach

The concept of Innocent till proven Guilty.

Having the right for legal counsel

Property Ownership

The list could go on and on… these are all liberal positions.

I am with JFK.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The courts have allowed Trump to continue his bully pulpit nonsense without holding him accountable. It is understood that he is a former President but at this point he is just another person of the nation. Is it fear of public opinion or what his followers might do that is keeping him on the streets and not behind bars? That is unclear, but if we take a look at history we find that at some point people reach a point where status does not matter. The Russians executed a Czar and all his family, the English beheaded a King and the French did the same to most of the Court of French Crown. When do we say enough is enough and require he pay for his crimes?
The general feeling probably is that we do not want to kill anyone but just remove them from the spotlight. If the result of the election allows him to move back into the White House, then execution of those he does not like is a very real possibility. There has been a call in Colorado for killing Joe Biden, and I would classify that as a threat and have that idiot locked up.
The Supreme Court is doing a lot of nothing about all this just finding ways to waste time and very possibly trying to let Trump off the hook which is just wrong. The method by which Justices are selected, the amount of time they remain in the job, and a code of ethics written by someone other than themselves that allows for termination of seats for violation of the code.
The other courts that are getting a bad wrap are the courts trying the Jan 6 participants. Everyday there is another tale of how badly they are being treated and that the message the Feds are sending is don’t challenge the government. The lesson these people should be taking away is not that they can’t challenge the government, that they cannot overthrow the government by means of violence on the whim of an idiot. Other candidates to the office have lost out by way of the vote of the Electoral College, not the vote of the people. They have not called for a riot or an insurrection they have accepted it and we the people have had to put up with Presidents like Bush and Trump that really should not have been in office.
They do not deserve to be treated worse than others that are held in jail, but they do not deserve to be treated better either. Attacking guards and attempting to interrupt an official proceeding does not get them a room at the Holiday Inn. It gets them a jail cell and all the luxury that comes with it. Remember most of you are the ones that were so keen to defund the police. Where did you think they were going to cut back first, no new cars, or more austere conditions in jail cells. You that are in those cells chose to rally behind a perpetual loser and do his bidding. So a choice was made, the outcome should have been obvious, and not the piper must be paid. Welcome to the adult world that has no room for the antics of a spoiled two year old.