Who am I?
Am I what I appear to be?
My features?
Hair color?
Eyes?

What I am is inside,
Not seen, but felt,
Heard,
known,

Spectacular Green Aurora Borealis Above Bear Lake on January 18, 2005,
Eielson Air Force Base, State of Alaska, USA

viaManguaguan na Palabran Si Yuus – God's Precious Words

Morgan and Me seeing eye to eye.



Sunset off my deck

Bust or brilliance?


Tony said to Bobby a few episodes ago,
"you wouldn't even know it had happened: everything would just go black."

or, is this just a set up for the movie?
or, will they sell the real ending on the DVD?


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100 one liners

1. "A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
2. "I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy.
3. "I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye.
4. "Never waste a lie when the truth will do." - Jack Clancy
5. "Stupidity, if left untreated, is self-correcting." - Heinlein
6. 43% of all statistics are worthless.
7. 7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
8. 99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name.
9. A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
10. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
11. A bad plan is better than no plan.
12. A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
13. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
14. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
15. A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
16. A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
17. A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
18. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
19. A gentleman is a patient wolf.
20. A good pun is its own reword.
21. A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl's complexion seem what it ain't.
22. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
23. A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
24. A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
25. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
26. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
27. A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
28. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
29. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
30. A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
31. A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
32. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
33. A weekend wasted isn't a wasted weekend.
34. A witty saying proves nothing.
35. According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
36. Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
37. Adult: One old enough to know better.
38. After all is said and done, more is said than done.
39. Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
40. All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
41. All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
42. All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
43. All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
44. All work and no play, will make you a manager.
45. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
46. Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
47. An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
48. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
49. Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
50. Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
51. Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
52. Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
53. Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
54. Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
55. Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
56. Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
57. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
58. As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
59. Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
60. Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
61. Attitude determines your altitude.
62. Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
63. Bad spellers of the world untie!
64. Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
65. Batteries not included.
66. Be good - and if you can't be good, be careful.
67. Be good; if you can't be good, have fun.
68. Be naughty - save santa the trip.
69. Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
70. Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
71. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
72. Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
73. Beer - the reason I wake up every afternoon.
74. Best viewed on my computer.
75. Better late than really late.
76. Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried.
77. Biology grows on you.
78. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
79. Carpenter's rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
80. Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
81. Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
82. Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
83. Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
84. Clones are people two.
85. Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
86. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
87. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
88. Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
89. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
90. Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
91. Criminal Lawyer - a redundant phrase.
92. Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
93. Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
94. Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
95. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
96. Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
97. Don't be humble, you're not that great.
98. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
99. Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
100. Don't believe everything you think.

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Telling stories 101

This is a great story and told extremely well.

What a day!!
For the tenth year in a row the kids, Bonnie and I are going.

New Orleans in New Jersey
Friday, June 01, 2007

Michael Arnone's 18th Annual Crawfish Fest

One would have to travel far past the Mason-Dixon Line to see a better lineup of Louisiana music than that at Michael Arnone's Crawfish Fest this weekend at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta. The four-stage festival boasts an all-star roster from New Orleans and environs, kicking off Friday night with a prelude set in the camper's dance hall by Cajun/Creole band the Pine Leaf Boys. The fest finishes Sunday evening with the ideal main-stage headliner -- Dr. John.

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This is absolutely incredible!

How many do you recognize?

500 women in western art.

You can't make this stuff up!

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.

“On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this.”

“Ordinarily,” Dr. Mills continued, “a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands.

“The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Opus.

“When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

“The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son’s financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.”

There was an exquisite twist. “Further investigation revealed that the son had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.

“The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.”

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I'm Back!

Finally.

Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.

~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune

He is Risen!

Stacked eggs....and lots of them!

Good Friday ushers in Easter observances
Friday, April 6, 2007
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By TOM HOWELL JR.

SPARTA — Hopatcong resident Neil Anderson is usually clean-shaven with a flat-top haircut, but come Thanksgiving, he lets his locks and beard grow.

Why? Because for one Thursday night in spring, he has to look like Jesus.

"I really dive in," he said.

For the last four years, Anderson, 44, has portrayed the son of God in a Last Supper reenactment at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. On Thursday night, he and the 12 "apostles" sat at a long table-clothed table straight out of the Roman era.

A captive, standing-room audience took in the seventh annual performance and followed the actors into the sanctuary, or, for Thursday's purposes, the Garden of Gethsemane.

Marty Nielson, 72, of Sparta, used to play Jesus, but he "betrayed himself" and now portrays Judas Iscariot.

"Anderson makes a better-looking Jesus than I do," he quipped.

Nielson likes to joke he went "from the top to the bottom," but he has an important role to play.

"You have to kind of put yourself in a deal of being ostracized by the rest of the Apostles," he said.

In a new feature this year, the actors froze in the exact pose of Leonardo Da Vinci's
famous painting, while Jesus quietly told Judas the betrayer to "Do what you have to do."

At night's end, the apostles took items from the altar and left Jesus alone in the "garden," with only his prayers to the Father.

"All the accoutrements are getting stripped away, and it gets down to the bare fact that he is about to die," Anderson said of the scene's impact.

As the holiest week of the Christian calendar advances toward its culmination, churches throughout Sussex County today will observe the solemn sacrifice of Good Friday before the rebirth contained in Easter Sunday.

Performances such as the one at Shepherd of the Hills bring the Easter story alive, especially for children. The audience Thursday could take in Biblical details, including the Challah bread made by Anderson, and that Apostle Matthew, played by Joe Krieg, of Andover Township, was a tax collector by profession.

via the New Jersey Herald