{"id":29114,"date":"2019-10-24T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29114"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:07:08","slug":"engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29114","title":{"rendered":"Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took four hours and some phone calls but my letter is on its way to the Sunday before the election Trib. Sadly I would have had to send it in yesterday to get in this Sunday&#8217;s Trib. I&#8217;m sure if the thirty day&#8217;s hadn&#8217;t interfered my letter would have counted as a free letter to the editor. Now it has cost me $62.50. No wonder political letters have all but dried up.<\/p>\n<p>I also OK&#8217;ed an ad for myself on my Facebook Page. I&#8217;ll have spent about $20.00 each on four week-long ad runs. Unless I take up the offer Facebook sent me to get some of their professional advice on how to turn this post as an ad <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28350\">Were Republicans ever good?<\/a>. I&#8217;m tempted.<\/p>\n<p>BTW for your curiosity I have received not a single order for this book online&#8230;except for my brother&#8230;who graciously gave me a nice contribution as well. I have &#8220;sold&#8221; about 75 books by donation. I will not be printing out huge numbers of them but I will print out a couple extra when I put the printing order in. That won&#8217;t be any time soon. The last six weeks I haven&#8217;t had the long quiet stretches needed to compose a book&#8230;..just the short intense moments to crank out blog posts. I hope I&#8217;ll be able to clear my head after the election win, lose or draw. And in that time I will put together a quickie book (sort of a Harry&#8217;s Reader stopgap book as a freebie for those 75 unfulfilled orders. Then it will be on to my Idiot book about public education then if I can martial the concentration I hope to explain how the Republican Party turned out so cockeyed.<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; My &#8220;Idiot&#8221; Book comes from the famous quotation of Mark Twain: First God created the Idiot. That was for practice. Then he created the School Board.&#8221; I love that quote. I put it on my Education page in my first School Board related webpage.<\/p>\n<p>Heck I just googled it and found three occasions when I broadcast that bit of spite:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/WeltyforSchoolBoard\/w4sb2013.htm\">W4SB2013<\/a><br \/>\nwww.snowbizz.com \u203a WeltyforSchoolBoard<br \/>\nFor God&#8217;s sake when I was in high school and a teacher&#8217;s orders were obeyed like &#8230; public that agreed with Mark Twain when he said, \u201cFirst God created idiots.<br \/>\nDuluth Schools<\/p>\n<p>www.snowbizz.com \u203a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/DuluthSchools%20Page\/ISD709.htm\">ISD709<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;First God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he created school boards.&#8221; Mark Twain. If you don&#8217;t read anything else on this page look at this. It is an &#8230;<br \/>\nThe official source for all the blather of &#8230; &#8211; lincolndemocrat.com<br \/>\nlincolndemocrat.com \u203a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28712\">Jun 15, 2019<\/a> &#8211; The candidate I thought had it made in the shade, the ex-Chair of the &#8230;.. reference to finding stuff on my first website: www.snowbizz.com. &#8230; She embraced evangelical tenets, like trusting God, not one&#8217;s own feelings. &#8230;. He does his best to live up to Mark Twain&#8217;s assessment: &#8220;First God created the idiot.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took four hours and some phone calls but my letter is on its way to the Sunday before the election Trib. 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