My daughter is in kindergarten. She has been taught a few things, either by my wife and I, or by her teachers, on doing the right thing. I come to think they’re applicable, no matter how old we are.
- Share.
- Play fair.
- Don’t hit people.
- Put things back in where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
- Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
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So true, Rudy…kids have a way of reminding us to “do as we say”.
hi Rudy,
Maybe you should email this list to the legislature in Sacramento, especially:
# Clean up your own mess.
# Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Maybe they could use another dose of Kindergarten. 🙂
It will be interesting to see what happens now…
Steve
PS. You post reminds me of an old poster titled “Everything I really needed to learn in life I learned in Kindergarten”, and I think it’s a lot like your list. Everyone needs to learn these things, and then follow them! Great post.
It might just be the old saying rehashed. Any likeness is unintentional. 🙂
I just read your post about voting / midterm elections then this one and it reminded me of a question on the ballot in our area…
It said “Requires judges of the Orphans’ Court in Baltimore City to be members in good standing of the Maryland Bar who are admitted to practice law in Maryland.”
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Instead of using common language and saying “Requires judges of the Orphans’ Court in Baltimore City to be LAWYERS.”
It implies not that the judge must be a lawyer, but that the judge has always been a lawyer, but now must also be “in good standing.”
That’s my impression and I think that’s what the general public thinks too. The clarity of that question on the ballot was HEAVY RAIN!
The proof? Our state elected a woman who AT THE SAME TIME we made it illegal to to HOLD THE POSITION WE ELECTED HER TO!! LOL!!!
So she’s not allowed to hold that position now. I don’t know who she is and I didn’t vote for any of the candidates on that question, I just voted to stop the restriction of the position to lawyers only. Sure, it may make the jobs of lawmakers easier to deal with others if they’re lawyers, but it doesn’t doesn’t mean it’s going to get done better. It just doesn’t take a lawyer to know what’s right and what’s wrong.
They really should look beyond an Oxford language barrier when writing laws for we general public to vote on. I was lucky someone pointed it out to me before voting or I too may have been fooled. They need to start by employing rule #5 for this mess, try rule #7, then continue with rule #2.
I hate feeling like the little guy who can’t do squat about it. Based on the obvious misunderstanding of the question they should just negate it and make it more clear on the next ballot. Isn’t there someone up at the top who has the courage to reverse this amendment? Apparently none of those lawyers who know what they’re doing are standing up against this. Being on the Maryland Bar in good standing isn’t saying much there.
If you ask me, they should wipe all of the laws and start over with the original Ten Commandments. 🙂