http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015 I bought a box of books at a rummage sale. In it I found a little hardback entitled The Remedy. The preface: &quot;This book is written to give a remedy for the emancipation of the human race from evil conditions now existing...&quot; From page 1: &quot;Against evils that exist there have long been attempts at reformations and a titanic struggle continues between good and evil.&quot; From page 12: &quot;Evil, and the results of evil, thus multiplying, threaten the overthrow of our civilization till it is in danger of being returned to savagry and numbered with the prehistoric civilizations that have gone before us.&quot; Sound familiar? I had to double check the author. But guess what? IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1915! Continuing from page 12: &quot;These conditions have brought about widespread discontent and restlessness, affecting all classes of people; new politicial parties are forming, proposing rememedies; and so pronounced has become the restlessness the women are asking for the fight of sufferage, to vote, to try to rememdy that, at which, they claim it is conceded, the men have made a failure. And a babble of tongues can be heard over the world.&quot; I pretty much stopped reading there. I glanced through the rest, and again the similarities&nbsp;to another blog amazed me. So, I'm not going to read that blog anymore. I'm tired of the doom and gloom - there have always been&nbsp;naysayers and there always will be. The hem of Miss Liberty's robe may be a little muddy right now, but as Grandma used to say, &quot;it'll all come out in the wash.&quot; America will recover, she always does. I choose to&nbsp;focus&nbsp;on the GOOD things about her, things that my son went to Iraq three times to defend. &nbsp; I bought a box of books at a rummage sale. In it I found a little hardback entitled The Remedy. The preface: &quot;This book is written to give a remedy for the emancipation of the human race from evil conditions now existing...&quot; From page 1: &quot;Against evils that exist there have long been attempts at reformations and a titanic struggle continues between good and evil.&quot; From page 12: &quot;Evil, and the results of evil, thus multiplying, threaten the overthrow of our civilization till it is in danger of being returned to savagry and numbered with the prehistoric civilizations that have gone before us.&quot; Sound familiar? I had to double check the author. But guess what? IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1915! Continuing from page 12: &quot;These conditions have brought about widespread discontent and restlessness, affecting all classes of people; new politicial parties are forming, proposing rememedies; and so pronounced has become the restlessness the women are asking for the fight of sufferage, to vote, to try to rememdy that, at which, they claim it is conceded, the men have made a failure. And a babble of tongues can be heard over the world.&quot; I pretty much stopped reading there. I glanced through the rest, and again the similarities&nbsp;to another blog amazed me. So, I'm not going to read that blog anymore. I'm tired of the doom and gloom - there have always been&nbsp;naysayers and there always will be. The hem of Miss Liberty's robe may be a little muddy right now, but as Grandma used to say, &quot;it'll all come out in the wash.&quot; America will recover, she always does. I choose to&nbsp;focus&nbsp;on the GOOD things about her, things that my son went to Iraq three times to defend. &nbsp; en-us <p><span style="font-size: larger">No kidding! There is always going to be drama. The&nbsp;Big Boys just don't&nbsp;have any more dinero, too&nbsp;bad they didn't stick to gold, like our currency was based on.</span>&nbsp;Everything is circular, only ,......' I ' ...can choose to have a good attitude about every situation, or see some sort of positive in it, it's becoming alot more tiring, some times others may have to step up, but we're making it! Besides, joty, .....you gotta show me where Italy is!!!!!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Joty, I'm reading Dale Carnegie, published....1932, I cracked up when my aunt asked me, in it's immaculate condition,....if it was a first printing.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323913 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323913 <p><span style="font-size: larger">No kidding! There is always going to be drama. The&nbsp;Big Boys just don't&nbsp;have any more dinero, too&nbsp;bad they didn't stick to gold, like our currency was based on.</span>&nbsp;Everything is circular, only ,......' I ' ...can choose to have a good attitude about every situation, or see some sort of positive in it, it's becoming alot more tiring, some times others may have to step up, but we're making it! Besides, joty, .....you gotta show me where Italy is!!!!!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Joty, I'm reading Dale Carnegie, published....1932, I cracked up when my aunt asked me, in it's immaculate condition,....if it was a first printing.</p> <p>Cool blog, Joty.  These things are cyclical and we are just in a "valley" after having been on a "peak" for many years.  I truly believe in this country and our ability to endure through even the roughest of times.  These are scary times, but "this too shall pass".  Thanks for posting something positive. </p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323951 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323951 <p>Cool blog, Joty.  These things are cyclical and we are just in a "valley" after having been on a "peak" for many years.  I truly believe in this country and our ability to endure through even the roughest of times.  These are scary times, but "this too shall pass".  Thanks for posting something positive. </p> <p><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">Thanks, Irish, I knew cyclical was a word. Of course it wasn't in s.c.&nbsp;,...so.... I went from there.......</span></span></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323965 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323965 <p><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">Thanks, Irish, I knew cyclical was a word. Of course it wasn't in s.c.&nbsp;,...so.... I went from there.......</span></span></p> <p>Sometimes spellcheck is no help at all, is it?&nbsp; I just hate when I cannot even get a spelling close enough so that spellcheck will help me.&nbsp;</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323980 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_323980 <p>Sometimes spellcheck is no help at all, is it?&nbsp; I just hate when I cannot even get a spelling close enough so that spellcheck will help me.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: small">Thanks Indy, I guess the old ditty about if we don't&nbsp;learn from history we're doomed to repeat&nbsp;it is true.</span>&nbsp;</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_324091 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_324091 <p><span style="font-size: small">Thanks Indy, I guess the old ditty about if we don't&nbsp;learn from history we're doomed to repeat&nbsp;it is true.</span>&nbsp;</p> <p>1915 isn't so long ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are&nbsp;even a&nbsp;few of the same folks&nbsp;alive.&nbsp; Its an eye-blink of time.</p> <p>Rome didn't collapse in a day, you know.&nbsp; In their case, it took 500 years from the time Ceasar crossed the Rubicon to destroy the Republic and establish his military dictatorship.&nbsp; No doubt folks were hanging out and dismissing the doom and gloomer&nbsp;then too.</p> <p>Meanwhile, what about Global Warming?&nbsp; That's going to kill us all within a decade or so, or I've been told.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_325022 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_325022 <p>1915 isn't so long ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are&nbsp;even a&nbsp;few of the same folks&nbsp;alive.&nbsp; Its an eye-blink of time.</p> <p>Rome didn't collapse in a day, you know.&nbsp; In their case, it took 500 years from the time Ceasar crossed the Rubicon to destroy the Republic and establish his military dictatorship.&nbsp; No doubt folks were hanging out and dismissing the doom and gloomer&nbsp;then too.</p> <p>Meanwhile, what about Global Warming?&nbsp; That's going to kill us all within a decade or so, or I've been told.</p> <p><span style="font-size: small">Well then, why don't you mosey on over to Sam's blog and commiserate with him? I had to quit reading them because my eyes would blur over and instead of Sam's handsome face I would see Kareem Abdul-Jabar as the bell ringer in Steven King's <em>The Stand</em>...</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_325085 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Joty/35015/#c_325085 <p><span style="font-size: small">Well then, why don't you mosey on over to Sam's blog and commiserate with him? I had to quit reading them because my eyes would blur over and instead of Sam's handsome face I would see Kareem Abdul-Jabar as the bell ringer in Steven King's <em>The Stand</em>...</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>