Here we go again; the art of redundancy (standard:humor, 889 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jan 01 2012	Views/Reads: 2441/1527	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Forgive me if I have said this before, but, "Happy New Year." It may be the epitome of redundancy but I have given this greeting for 60 years and I mean it as sincerely this year as I have all the years preceding.

Forgive me if I have said this before, but, "Happy New Year." It may be
the epitome of redundancy but I have given this greeting for 60 years 
and I mean it as sincerely this year as I have all the years preceding. 


The first few years of my life, I had no teeth and so all I could say
was "Goo-goo, daa-daa." It meant the same thing. This year I have all 
of my teeth but I am not certain how many more years. 

The way we start life is the way we usually end life, with no teeth and
drooling all the time with a silly grin on our face. 

Why is it so cute to have a toothless drool at three months but rather
disgusting when you are 93 years old? 

We all start life wearing diapers and if we live long enough we will end
our life wearing the same apparatus. I guess it all depends upon what 
we do between the two events. 

I suppose I could be guilty of not learning as much as I could at my
age, but one thing I have learned and that is the good things in life 
are always repeated. Sure, there are some things that we do once in a 
lifetime and cherish their memories, but the good things in life are 
those things we continually repeat. 

I would wager that in this New Year there would be relatively few, if
any, new things. The past year was supposed to carry with it a lot of 
brand-new things. Most things were those repeated ad nausea for many 
years. 

This year is an election year. Of course, the purpose of this year is to
elect a new president. Every four years we elect a "new" president and 
I have participated in many presidential elections. At least, I went to 
the voting booth and voted. In all those years of electing a "new" 
president it has usually worked out that the new president was 
remarkably quite like the old president. 

Some political pundits make a great deal between a Republican and a
Democrat. It may be my age, but it seems to me that most Democrats are 
Republicans in disguise and most Republicans are Democrats in disguise. 
If I was backed up against a wall with a firing squad in front of me 
and asked to tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, 
the only thing I could come up with would be the spelling. 

A Republican when elected will always act like a Democrat and a Democrat
when elected will usually act like a Republican. Then they wonder why 
the voting public is confused. 

As far as I am concerned, a rattlesnake wearing a rabbit outfit does not
change its nature. It still has poisonous fangs looking for some human 
flesh. 

What has not changed is the fact that a politician running for office
will say anything to get elected and then once elected will develop an 
acute sense of amnesia, which is not that cute. 

Whenever I hear politicians say that when they are elected they are
going to change things I know I am either listening to a fool or 
someone who is trying to fool me. Hundreds of politicians have run on 
the platform of changing Washington DC. Well, how has that been 
working? 

The coming presidential election will be the same as every other one in
the history of the United States. 

In spite of that, there are a few things I am glad will not change. 

The things that are really important in life are those things that do
not change. 

For instance, I am glad the sun comes up every morning. Even though
every day is a new day, the same sun starts the day with its rising. 
The beautiful thing about this is that we can only live one day at a 
time. I cannot remember how much time I have spent worrying about 
something in the future and when that day came, I worried in vain. 


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