"All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." - - - Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860 Whatever the evil (poison) is, it must be presented in a mix of something good, or good for you. Rat poison is like this, 99.5% of the ingredients are tasty and nutritious for the rat (otherwise, they wouldn't eat it, would they?).  Only .5% (1/2 percent) is deadly.

of News, Current Events & Comment for April 2004 December 2003 <====  January 2004 <==== February 2004 <==== March 2004 the URL for this page can be found by returning to the previous page (if a contributing editor, wishes recognition, they should so indicate with their submission) Best printing w/a black only printer is accomplished when your settings are for "black text and black lines"

To save on the amount of forced emails that consume MEGA bytes of HD space,  these pages are created for your convenience. Pictures can be saved by right clicking then follow the yellow brick road, and original of reports can be located by available links in the articles and saved as you would other web pages. I am reminded of Dad's special brownies.  It is the same truth.

A family in Oregon found this fawn on their front steps a few weeks ago and took this photo. The white spots on the steps are apple blossom petals.

As you know, deer hide their fawns and go away for while. The fawns have no odor yet, and naturally stay absolutely still.  Isn't this an amazing photograph! A great job of camouflage! The fawn stayed there all morning, (they live in Bend, OR), and the mama came to get it after 4-5 hours.  Kudos to the people to leave the fawn alone, knowing that mom would be back.
 
 

OK.  I did try to find at least 2 sources for the report.  The report of yesterday seems to have been bogus.  The Shreveport paper fell for it too.

Now I look again, even closer, and see that the ScrappleFace site is a satire site.  I missed it in my first look.

Thanks Scott
 
 

[It does not matter if you like Kerry or not, for anyone to say these things is a death blow to their campaign.  It is interesting that this report was difficult to find and seemingly no BIG media agencies reported it  --  Tribble]

(2004-04-12) -- Sen. John Forbes Kerry, the presumptive Democrat nominee attempting to become the nation's second Roman Catholic president, yesterday said, "Jesus Christ would have been saved from the agony of crucifixion if abortion had been legal and affordable in the early part of the first century A.D."

Mr. Kerry received communion during a Roman Catholic worship service Easter morning despite warnings from several bishops that Catholic politicians who support abortion should not receive the Eucharist.

"From the gospel accounts, we know that Mary was not yet married when she unexpectedly became pregnant," Mr. Kerry told a crowd of admirers on the steps of the Paulist Center, described by The New York Times as a kind of New Age church. "Because Mary could not choose a safe, affordable abortion, Jesus was forced to grow to adulthood and fulfill the prophesies -- enduring the inhumanity of being tortured and nailed to the cross."

Mr. Kerry says he dreams of "an America where no person will ever suffer pain and death beyond the womb."
by Scott Ott

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=soundoff;action=print;num=1081787125
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001667.html
 
 
 

Back on April 17, 2004,  reported a sniper rifle allegedly developed for the purpose of injecting unsuspecting targets with RFID tags.  I deeper inspection reveals it may be a spoof.  A look further on the web site reveals the following page and it appears a little hokey.  http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/products_en002_instructions.htm

While the possibility and probability of using a long range injection method is reasonably practical, this particular product appears to be a stunt.  There have been some VERY good web page writers who have done some VERY good sites promoting implantable products.  But, even though they may have been spoofs, the real McCoy was soon on the market.

The following text is from an email which  has received and it indicates the spoof nature of the Sniper for Tracking product.

I wish to apologize for any discomfort the Sniper for Tracking article may have brought.  Thanks to D & Don for bringing this to our attention.
 
 

Empty promises
Friday February 27, 2004
http://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2004/2/27/features/7407388&sec=features

HILARY CHIEW writes on the Argentine experience in which the introduction of genetically-modified soya created havoc in the nation’s agricultural and dairy industries.

KNOWN for its vast pampas with cows grazing on the pasture, Argentina has a long history as a beef and dairy producer. Indeed, that is now history.

 Gone are the pastures and happy ranchers as many farmers have converted their farmland to cultivate a new brand of crop – the Round-up Ready (RR) soya, a herbicide-tolerant plant, in 1996.

 With promises of lower cost, less maintenance and reduced use of agro-chemicals that had caused a host of environmental problems such as soil and water contamination, the farmers were, understandably, eager to try out the high tech crop.

 That was how GM crops were introduced to Argentina. Agronomist Adolfo Boy says the switch to GM crops failed to deliver the good life.

 Instead it has eroded the fundamentals of food sovereignty of Argentines – farmers have grown dependent on GM crops, fail to save their farm seeds and the environment has been further degraded.

  "We are not in a crisis. We are heading towards a catastrophe," cries Boy who has observed and documented the advent of GM crops into his country.

 According to the founding member of the Network for a GE-Free Latin America, prior to the introduction of Monsanto’s RR soy, Argentina was already producing soya for the Chinese oil market since the 1970s.

 However, when Monsanto introduced its transgenic soya, the area planted with soya doubled from seven million ha to 14 million ha and production jumped from 13 million to 37 million tonnes.

 The increased production came at the expense of deforestation and the disappearance of traditional agricultural models that are increasingly being acknowledged as the foundation for a sustainable future.

 “As the area under cultivation expanded, the first effect was the abandonment of the mixed farming systems upon which sustainability was based – the rotation of crops and cattle which helps soil fertility to recover and provides security in the long run.

 “Then, fences, mills and ranching structures were gradually removed. The land entered into a process of permanent crop production, in lots comprised of several small to medium-sized farms in the range of 50 to 100ha,” he recalls.

 A country that used to be able to feed its population has redirected its agriculture to export-oriented production, thus neglecting the need to take care of hunger back home.

 "Argentines do not use soya oil, we use sunflower oil. Products for local consumption were abandoned for RR soya," says Boy, noting that traditional corn, rice, lentil and dairy production were all sidelined

 While soya production grew by 74.5% between 1996 and 2002, official figures show decreases in the area sown with the following food crops: 44.1% for rice, 26% for corn and 3.5% for wheat.

 Highlighting the irony of the short-sighted agriculture policy manifested in the dairy sector, Boy says dairy exporters were reduced from 30,141 in 1998 to 15,000 in 2002. "RR soya domination was so acute that it now reaches the point where Argentina is importing milk from Uruguay."

 Boy also points out that GM crops are a technology for large farms under the pretext of economy of scale, hence promoting the concentration of land in the hands of a few that leads to migration to the cities.

 "It has generated unemployment and the migration of more than 250,000 rural families in the last 14 years largely because their land has passed into the hands of financial institutions that prefer the 'farming pools' method and concentrate millions of hectares into soya production.>

 "These contractors own bigger and faster machines, resulting in severe erosion of the fertile pampas," says an exasperated Boy.

 Reduced food production has plunged Argentina into a state of hunger and is breeding contempt for the government and social unrest.

 Disputing the seed industry's sales pitch that GM crops require less herbicide, Boy says farmers are using more than one herbicide with the introduction of RR soya. In fact, the quantity has increased and more toxic herbicides have to be used to control weeds that are getting hard to eradicate – a sign of growing resistance.

 According to the Friends of the Earth report entitled Genetically modified crops: a decade of failure (1994 – 2004), released at the COP-7 meeting in Kuala Lumpur, in 2001 alone, more than 9.1million kg of herbicide were used for GM soy in comparison with non-GM plants. The use of glyphosate herbicide doubled from 28 milliion litres between 1997-98 to 56 million litres in 1998-99 and reached 100 million litres in the 2002 planting season.

 It noted that weed resistance has prompted the use of highly toxic herbicides with RR soy, and farmers have started using herbicides that are banned in developed countries like atrazine and paraquat.

 RR soya is genetically-engineered to tolerate the spraying of herbicide, thus allowing the use of glyphosate.

 He says without patenting the RR soya in Argentina, farmers multiplied their seeds and thus flooded their fields with RR soya.

 Farmers were engaged in a well-known traditional practice called "brown-bagging" whereby they save the seeds for the next planting season to reduce their costs.

 However, the transgenic soya was patented in 2000 following complaints from American farmers who were paying US$20 (RM76) per kg of seed as opposed to US$12 (RM45.60) per kg paid by their Argentine counterparts. Hence, it is now illegal for farmers to save their seeds in the field and they face the risk of prosecution.

 Boy also challenges the apparent cost-saving advantage from the reduction in herbicide use as claimed by the seed industry. The lowered cost, he reveals, was due to the import of Chinese-produced glyphosate that was far cheaper and resulted in 50% reduction of herbicide costs for the farmers.

 Again, this savings will not be for long as Monsanto has sought legal redress against the dumping of glyphosate by Chinese producers.

 "Let Argentina be a warning to others. We are going down the path of destruction," warns Boy.

 Asia, he says, will suffer more as it has much more diverse biological resources that risk being destroyed by GMO contamination.

 His colleague, Dr Lilian Joensen, who is also a molecular biologist and researcher with the Ministry of Health of Argentina, notes that as the industry seeks to expand the cultivation of RR soya, more forests are cleared to make way for this monoculture.

 Describing the situation as total madness, she says: "My government doesn’t seem to have the political will to turn back from this path. And it looks like we have to contend with more adverse consequences from GM crops."

 And there seems to be no way out as there is so much at stake for Argentina. It is the second largest exporter of GM crops after the United States.

 Despite the mayhem back home, the Argentinean government is negotiating at the first meeting of the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol in the same group of countries dubbed the Miami Plus Group that is reportedly trying to weaken the liability and redress regime that is suppose to be established by 2008.

 At the rate contamination by GM crops is raging around the world, one wonders if four years is not too long a wait to have an international liability and redress regime to address the problems created by the introduction of transgenic crops in just under a decade.
 
 

In the divorce matter styled Dean Vs. Dean, Civil Case DR-96-196.01, a divorce was granted the Deans in 1996.  Although The Divorce Industry is always of interest to CourtWatchers Alliance, Dean said “this was especially confusing.”  He said that two weeks before his trial, his ex-wife Jennifer had borrowed $50,000 from her father to “pay for her divorce,” she told Dean.   Phil Dean said that he showed up in court with the best attorney money could buy around Jackson County and his ex-wife showed up Pro Se and alone (without any attorney). Dean said when they walked out the door of Haralson’s courtroom that day, his wife had won the case.  “Go figure,” said Dean.

 After his appeal time had expired in August, 2003, Dean responded by contacting several Alabama newspapers, hoping that one of them would tell his story of injustice at the hands of Respondent.  None were interested in doing that.  Phil Dean doesn’t own a newspaper or a  TV station.   Thereafter, Phil Dean responded in the only other lawful way he knew of at that time.  He erected signs in his front yard along County Road 107, telling his story in a lawful manner.

One of these Dean signs read, “OUR COURT SYSTEM IS A JOKE.”   Given the widespread clamor over the courts and the Divorce Industry seen by Courtwatchers Alliance each month year after year, Relator can certainly agree with that sign and we do so on the World Wide Web everyday without being arrested and locked away without a bond by some neofascist judge who doesn’t happen to agree with us.

The erection of the signs on Mr. Dean’s private property at 4928 County Road 107, shortly brought an angry, injudicious, criminal and fascist response from Respondent Haralson and armed deputies operating at his order.    On August 18, 2003,  Phil Dean awoke before dawn for his usual breakfast.  On returning to his home, he discovered that his signs were missing.   Dean called the Skyline, Al Police Department to report the theft.  He was told by the Chief of Police that Jackson County sheriff’s officers had removed the signs and apparently took them to the courthouse.

He then called Jackson County Sheriff Wells who confirmed that his officers had removed the signs.  He was told that  Sheriff Deputies had removed the signs, apparently on the verbal orders of Respondent Haralson.  The Sheriff also told Dean that he was going to pick him up later that day and that, “the Judge wants you to spend 30 days in jail to teach you a lesson.”

Let’s be perfectly clear about this.  Armed government officers came on to the private land of citizen Phil Dean without a hearing, without due process and without a warrant and confiscated (stolen) the private property (signs) of Mr. Dean on the verbal order of a fascist in a black robe.  Shades of King George.   We tried to stop all that back in 1776 and here we are in Alabama in 2004 during the same thing as the King’s Dragoons were doing in 1776.

There was no arrest warrant or capias.    Dean was finally presented with an ORDER OF CONTEMPT, although there had never been a Hearing on the Contempt Charge.    It was hurredly drafted in a fit of passion, signed and executed by the most powerful man in Jackson County, Alabama, Judge Wallace Haralson, a judge gone mad with power and a madman who must be removed from this office.  Wallace Haralson should not be a judge anywhere in the free world, although he would probably do a nice job in The People’s Republic Of North Korea.

[For more of this story gotohttp://www.courtwatchers.org/ALABAMANEOFACIST.htm]

Circuit Judge Wallace Haralson said on March 17 that he received a letter from the state Judicial Inquiry Commission asking him "to be more judicious in the future toward arresting powers."

[For more of this story gotohttp://www.infowars.com/print/ps/jailed4sign.htm]

More is available at
http://www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=322&i=592
http://marcosolo.antville.org/stories/744179/ (a foreign report)
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive7.htm
http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/659196.html
 
 

Our Father Who Art In Heaven.
YES?

Don't interrupt me. I'm praying.
BUT -- YOU CALLED ME!

Called you? No, I didn't call you. I'm praying. -- Our Father who art in heaven
THERE -- YOU DID IT AGAIN

Did what?
CALLED ME. YOU SAID, "OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN", WELL HERE I AM. WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND?

But I didn't mean anything by it. I was, you know, just saying my prayers for the day. I always say the Lord's Prayer. It makes me feel good, kind of like fulfilling a duty.
WELL, ALL RIGHT CONTINUE.

Okay, -- Hallowed be Thy name.
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?

By what?
BY "HALLOWED BE THY NAME"?

It means, it means ... good grief, I don't know what it means. How in the world should I know? It's just a part of the prayer. By the way, what does it mean?
IT MEANS HONORED, HOLY, WONDERFUL.

Hey, that makes sense. I never thought about what 'hallowed' meant before. Thanks. -- Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
DO YOU REALLY MEAN THAT?

Sure, why not?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

Doing? Why, nothing, I guess. I just think it would be kind of neat if you got control of everything down here like you have up there. We're kinda in a mess down here you know.
YES, I KNOW; BUT, HAVE I GOT CONTROL OF YOU?

Well, I go to church.
THAT ISN'T WHAT I ASKED YOU. WHAT ABOUT YOUR BAD TEMPER? YOU'VE REALLY GOT A PROBLEM THERE, YOU KNOW. AND THEN THERE'S THE WAY YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY -- ALL ON YOURSELF.  AND WHAT ABOUT THE KIND OF BOOKS YOU READ?

Now hold on just a minute! Stop picking on me! I'm just as good as some of the rest of those people at church!
EXCUSE ME. I THOUGHT YOU WERE PRAYING FOR MY WILL TO BE DONE.  IF THAT IS TO HAPPEN, IT WILL HAVE TO START WITH THE ONES WHO ARE PRAYING FOR IT. LIKE YOU, FOR EXAMPLE.

Oh, all right. I guess I do have some hang-ups. Now that you mention it, I could probably name some others.
SO COULD I.

I haven't thought about it very much until now, but I really would like to cut out some of those things. I would like to, you know, be really free.
GOOD. NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE. WE'LL WORK TOGETHER -- YOU AND ME. I'M PROUD OF YOU.

Look, Lord, if you don't mind, I need to finish up here. This is taking a lot longer than it usually does. Give us this day, our daily bread.
YOU NEED TO CUT OUT THE BREAD. YOU'RE OVERWEIGHT AS IT IS.

Hey, wait a minute! What is this? Here I was doing my religious duty, and all of a sudden you break in and remind me of all my hang-ups.
PRAYING IS A DANGEROUS THING. YOU JUST MIGHT GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR. REMEMBER, YOU CALLED ME -- AND HERE I AM. IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW. KEEP PRAYING.

...pause...

WELL, GO ON.
I'm scared to.

SCARED? OF WHAT?
I know what you'll say.

TRY ME.
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.

WHAT ABOUT JOHN?
See? I knew it! I knew you would bring up him! Why, Lord, he's told lies about me, spread stories. He never paid back the money he owes me. I've sworn to get even with him!

BUT -- YOUR PRAYER -- WHAT ABOUT YOUR PRAYER?
I didn't -- mean it.

WELL, AT LEAST YOU'RE HONEST.  BUT, IT'S QUITE A LOAD CARRYING AROUND ALL THAT BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT ISN'T IT?
Yes, but I'll feel better as soon as I get even with him. Boy, have I got some plans for him. He'll wish she had never been born.

NO, YOU WON'T FEEL ANY BETTER.  YOU'LL FEEL WORSE. REVENGE ISN'T SWEET. YOU KNOW HOW UNHAPPY YOU ARE -- WELL, I CAN CHANGE THAT.
You can? How?

FORGIVE JOHN. THEN, I'LL FORGIVE YOU; AND THE HATE AND SIN WILL BE CAROL'S PROBLEM -- NOT YOURS. YOU WILL HAVE SETTLED THE PROBLEM AS FAR AS YOU ARE CONCERNED.
Oh, you know, you're right. You always are. And more than I want revenge, I want to be right with You..., (sigh). All right...all right...I forgive him.

THERE NOW! WONDERFUL! HOW DO YOU FEEL?
Hmmmm. Well, not bad. Not bad at all! In fact, I feel pretty great! You know, I don't think I'll go to bed uptight tonight. I haven't been getting much rest, you know.

YEAH, I KNOW. BUT, YOU'RE NOT THROUGH WITH YOUR PRAYER ARE YOU? GO ON.
Oh, all right. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

GOOD! GOOD! I'LL DO THAT. JUST DON'T PUT YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BE TEMPTED.
What do you mean by that?

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Yeah. I know.

OKAY. GO AHEAD. FINISH YOUR PRAYER.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BRING ME GLORY -- WHAT WOULD REALLY MAKE ME HAPPY?
No, but I'd like to know. I want to please you now. I've really made a mess of things. I want to truly follow you. I can see now how great that would be. So, tell me ... how do I make you happy?
 
 

The Flat Earth Report

Snipers for Tracking
contributing editor Rodger
http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/products_en001.htm

[This does not require comment.  If you can not figure it, then no comment would do, and if you can figure it, then no comment is needed.]

"EMPIRE NORTH is always at the cutting edge of technology, at the research of new products in the important area of Non-Lethal-Weaponry. This young, ambitious Danish company is currently developing brand new kinds of identification tools and anti-riot-equipment, tailored for the modern urban battlefield, combining outstanding Danish design and know-how."

 The ID SNIPERTM rifle designed by EMPIRE NORTH

What is the ID SNIPERTM rifle?

It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.

Why use the ID SNIPERTM rifle?

As the urban battlefield grows more complex and intense, new ways of managing and controlling crowds are needed. The attention of the media changes the rules of the game. Sometimes it is difficult to engage the enemy in the streets without causing damage to the all important image of the state. Instead EMPIRE NORTH suggests to mark and identify a suspicious subject on a safe distance, enabeling the national law enforcement agency to keep track on the target through a satellite in the weeks to come.
 

The ID SNIPERTM rifle was presented by Empire North in Beijing at the China Police 2002 exhibition.
 
 

The Flat Earth Report

Big Brother is Following
contributing editor Rodger
http://www.matrics.com/products/tags.shtml

[Be certain to scroll to the middle and lower portions of the page in the above link and select from the many tag types to view a larger image of them.  Here are a couple of them.]

...

Matrics RFID Tags

Matrics designs, manufactures and provides for a full suite of RFID tags application. Matrics tags produce exceptionally high application performance through advanced, patented design and stringent manufacturing.

What sets Matrics' tags apart from all others is innovation. Only Matrics tags are orientation-insensitive. Matrics' patented dual-dipole tag is the only tag that can be read at different orientations - a key factor in achieving near 100% read rates.
 
 
 

FOUND IN IRAQ !
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page440.html
They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long.

If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by our troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these bastards in your tent!!

--Rick

In reality, camel spiders aren't some mysterious Arabian creature -- we have them in the United States and in Mexico, where they are called matevenados. They are slightly smaller than the human hand, and while they do run quickly, their top speed is 10 miles per hour, not 25. But they also make no noise, they excrete no venom, and although they can be voracious nocturnal predators, they don't eat camels. They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions.

http://50.lycos.com/040703.asp
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcamelspider.html
http://www.arabianwildlife.com/nature/insect/ins09.html
 
 

WIESBADEN, April 5 -- "NOTHING CAN SAVE THIS SYSTEM,"
A TOP EUROPEAN BANKER NOTED TODAY,
following Friday's events on financial markets.

The banker said that the world, and in particular the U.S., are in the midst of the biggest credit expansion in history.

In the case of the U.S., the credit generation, not only in absolute terms, but also relative to the size of the economy, is now greater than in the years preceding the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Ever more credit is being required to feed the various bubbles.

These financial asset bubbles, in turn, are needed to keep private households from taking on more debt for consumption.

"What kind of system is this", he said.  "You call this an economy?"  In earlier times, he said, you would call this a "pyramid scheme."

In recent years, the U.S. economy produced about $2 trillion in new debt per year.

But, in the meantime, we have accelerated to an annual rate of $2.7 trillion in new debt.

Any considerable rate increase is now a threat to the system.

Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries have already climbed up from 3.65% on March 17 to 4.23% today, with the biggest rise taking place on Friday, April 2.

The banker said he can't judge at what point the house of cards will come down. But that it will come down is certain. And it might come down fast.

[Source: St. Louis Fed, combined wires]
 
 

“If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid.  We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the “poor”; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GATT, or “fast-track”; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax.  We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget.  The government would be small, frugal, and limited.”
  – Congressman Ron Paul (1998)

“When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement.  You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired.  Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...”
  – W. Allen Wallis, former Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, May 27, 1976

“There is no prospect that today’s younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them.”
  – Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner and author of “Social Insecurity”, quoted in the December 1995 Reader’s Digest.

“All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.”
  - Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, January 24, 1996.
 
 

Read this message, then click on the
link to look a picture of two dolphins
jumping out of the water in tandem.

Research has shown that the more
differences you notice in the two
dolphins, the more stressed you are.

This is attributed to influences
intensifying your concentration and
recognition when stressed.

The two are very similar, so if you can
tell the difference without looking hard,
you should pack up work and go home
immediately.
 

click here to view the dolphins
 
 

duh

A Stranger in the House
contributing editor Jeanne

 A few months after I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family.

 The stranger was quickly accepted and was welcomed quite easily around town. As I grew up I never questioned his place in our family. Mum taught me to love the Word of God, and Dad taught me to obey it. But the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales.

Adventures, mysteries, and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spellbound for hours each evening. He was like a friend to the whole family.

 He took Dad, Bill, and me to our first major league baseball game and he was always encouraging us to see movies and even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie stars.

 The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn't seem to mind, but sometimes Mum would quietly get up (while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of faraway places ) leave the room, and go to her bedroom; read her Bible, and pray. I wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave.

 You see, my dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but this stranger never felt an obligation to honor them.

 Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our house - not from us, from our friends, or adults. But our longtime visitor used occasional four letter words that burned my ears and made Dad squirm. To my knowledge the stranger was never confronted.

 My Dad was a teetotaler who didn't permit alcohol in his home - not even for cooking, but the stranger felt like we needed exposure, and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often.

 He made cigarettes look tasty, ! cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely ( too freely ) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and always pretty embarrassing. I know now that my early concepts of the man/woman relationship were wrongly influenced by the stranger.

 As I look back, I believe it was the grace of God that the stranger did not influence us more. I really think mother was praying for us, as time after time he opposed the values of my parents, yet was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave.

 More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family on Morningside Drive. But if I were to walk into my parents' living room today, you would still see him sitting over in a corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.

 His name?...
 
 
 
 

 We always just called him T.V.
 
 

H U M O R

Pet Images
contributing editor Dale

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Technology for Country Folk
contributing editor Jeanne

Computer Shopping
contributing editor Dale

 
 

the offices of Dewey, Cheetum & Howe

No SSN for ID

[I know this is not the cure or the fix for the SSN being used for ID, but it is evidence of what can happen if enough people complain about a universal ID system.  --  Tribble]

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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

[Similar reports have circulated, but this is a good one.]

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