Recently while going through an airport during one of his many trips, President Bush encountered a man with long hair, wearing a white robe and sandals, holding a staff. President Bush went up to the man and said, "Aren't you Moses?"



The man never answered but just kept staring ahead. Again the President said, "Moses!" in a loud voice. The man just kept staring ahead, never answering the president.



Soon a secret service agent came along and President Bush grabbed him and said, "Doesn't this man look like Moses to you?" The secret service agent agreed with the President. "Well," said the President, "every time I say his name, he just keeps staring ahead and refuses to speak. Watch!" Again, the President yelled, "Moses!" and again the man stared ahead.



The secret service man went up to the man in the white robe and whispered, "You look just like Moses. Are you Moses?" The man leaned over and whispered, "Yes, I am Moses. However, the last time I talked to a bush I spent 40 years wandering in the desert!"

Another sign that the apocalypse is upon us.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Something smells funny in the Arkansas drug-testing business, and a state legislator thinks it might be the urine.

Jay Martin, a freshman state representative, won passage through the Arkansas House of Representatives last week of his measure that will make it illegal to sell or use urine to falsify a drug or alcohol screening test.


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We went to a memorial service for a friend from work yesterday. It might have been the first completely secular service I have ever been too. No mention of God. No mention of any higher power. One of the speakers did mention that the deceased practiced "native American spiritualism", whatever that means. The "service" consisted of remembrances, a couple of videos, and stories from the audience. Many of them were laced with strong language and bordered on risque. Only one person said anything about how important the deceased was in that he affected so many people (there were 300 or so at the service). It was actually a little depressing to not hear the Christian message of hope in the new life with God after death.

I knew the deceased pretty well. He was a great person, easy going, helpful, a good employee. I had no idea about his other life as a square dance caller and dancer and the multitude of people that he impacted in that way. I wonder if I were to die, would people at work know what I stand for? I hope so, but I'm not sure.

QotD: "I like insects for their stupidity. A paper wasp is fumbling at the stained-glass window on my right. I saw the same sight in the same spot last Sunday: Psst! Idiot! Sweetheart! Go around by the door! I hope we seem as endearingly stupid to God--bumbling down into lamps, running half-wit across the floor, banging for days at teh hinge of an opened door. I hope so. It does not seem likely." Annie Dillard in "Teaching a Stone to Talk"

QotD: "Say's Law: the more people are saying, the more there is to be said." BoBos in Paradise

Another sign the apocalypse is upon us!
Entertainment - Reuters
'Dateline' to Focus on Michael Jackson's Face
Fri Jan 17, 8:51 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC News is ready to give singer Michael Jackson (news) his prime-time close-up, novel nose and all, but the self-proclaimed King of Pop is not happy about it.

God help us!

QotD: "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." -Frank Zappa

Yahoo! News - Texas Tech Professor Arrested in Plague Scare
The World Health Organization (news - web sites) reports 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague globally every year. In the United States, plague is reported in between 10 and 15 people every year, killing a small percentage.

This is a classic example of the bad use of numbers. If the plague kills one person out of 15, that is nearly 7%. That doesn't strike me as a small percentage.

QotD: "Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance, as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent." Johathon Swift in Gulliver's Travels

QOTD: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." Winston Churchill. Note: I found this in a calendar with a quote on every page .

Humphrey's proverb. "If you can't plan well, plan often."

A great interview by Dick Staub. Worth the read.
Dick Staub

QotD: "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinions of others." Marcus Aurelius, "Mediations", Book 12

Christianity Today Magazine - 'Jesusy' Anne Lamott Great interview with Anne Lamott.

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QotD: "If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous." Pascal, Pensees #273

QotD: "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion." Proverbs 18:2 That verse was written especially for me.