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Cathy Learoyd (Texas)'s avatar

I can't remember where I heard this saying on Jewish immigrants but it seems to parallel the cycle Lincoln talks about in a beautiful way. It is: The first generation is the carpenters and the tailors so the second generation can be the doctors and the lawyers so the third generation become the artists and the musicians. Love it that the objective is to have the luxury of the arts and music as the height of civilized culture. True wealth is not measured by how much money one has, but by the wealth of the mind to pursue something larger than one's self. My dream is our country and countries around the world put a Well-Being Index as a more important measuring wealth than the GNP.

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Sally ArDubbs's avatar

I wanted to share a post from a friend who is a recount observer in Milwaukee.

I'm told the counting went much better today. We've won every challenge and made real progress. My favorite story of the day:

There are three chairs in front of each counting tables for we observers. The rule is one Biden and, one Trump observer. The third chair for a 3rd Party. Of course, the Trump people were occupying every empty chair despite the rule. The commission announced that they had to stop. So, in a planned response, several Trump observers left the room, tore off their Trump sticker and went back to take the "third" chairs and claimed they were now independent and NOT Trump observers.

When the commission got wind of that, they came around and, literally, removed every "third" chair from every table and stored them.

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