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Butch Furse
As Congress recovers from the crisis of the Jan. 6 mob violence we are sure many of those rioters who have been charged are now having second thoughts. Those participants feel they face prosecution unfairly because they were “just watching the violent actions of just a few.” Sorry, but I have no sympathy for those being charged.
My “not sorry feelings” stem from the instructions my parents gave me when I was a grade schooler and repeated the message many times when I would leave home with some of my friends. Mom and Dad simply told me to stay away from trouble situations; never follow the crowd and get involved because if there were adverse actions from just a few, you will still be associated.
I told the Betterhalf my story and she proudly told me she never had to worry about that. “I was a farm girl and never went to town very often to become involved in anything,” she noted. And then she gave me a skeptical look.
I did make a confession when I admitted, “We city kids-friends might have sidestepped a few of my parent’s warnings, but we never came close to any major demonstrations...maybe just an outhouse upset on Halloween.”
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This past week it has been nice being able to take a few full-stride walks on fairly warm on dry concrete. As one person noted a lot of people like snow, but he found it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Time to move on to a few smiles from these words of advice:
Days are like identical suitcases all the same size. But some people can pack more into them than others.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
If you can’t think of anything nice about any of your friends, then you have the wrong friends.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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A visitor at the Capitol was accompanied by his small son. The little boy watched the gallery when the House came to order.
“Why did the minister pray for all those men, Pop?”
“He didn’t. He looked them over and prayed for the country.”
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
