Quotes

Honor is better than honors. - Abraham Lincoln

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce

One man with courage is a majority. -- President Thomas Jefferson

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

When an old person dies, a library is lost. - Tommy Swann

Living on Earth is expensive, but it includes a free trip around the sun

The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.

Life Doesn't Come With An Instruction Book - That's Why We Have Fathers. - An Anonymous Dad

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Men will spend their health getting wealth; then gladly pay all they have earned to get health back. - Mike Murdock

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? - Lily Tomlin

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. - Glen Wheeler

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- President John Quincy Adams

"Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency. -- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist newspaper editor, 1805-1879

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - President Abraham Lincoln, from a letter, 1859

Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish?

bumper sticker: Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. - A wise Dad

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen

Quit griping about your church; if it were perfect, you couldn't belong. - Msgr. Joseph P. Dooley, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania

If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has. - Rev. Robert E. Harris

Every evening I turn my troubles over to God - He's going to be up all night anyway. - Donald J. Morgan, Columbus, Ohio

I don't know why some people change churches - what difference does it make which one you stay home from? - Rev. Denny Brake

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. - Rev. Denny Brake

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage. - David Jeremiah

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parent from time to time to see him on his knees; or going aside regularly, to keep times with the lord.- Larry Christenson

O, Lord... Build me a son whoes heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. - General Douglas MacArthur

A young successful attorney said: The greatest gift I ever received was a gift I got one Christmas when my dad gave me a small box. Inside was a note saying, "Son, this year I will give you 365 hours, an hour every day after dinner." My dad not only kept his promise, he said, but every year he renewed it and it's the greatest gift I ever had in my life. I am the result of his time.

Every human being on this planet has someone who s/he disagrees with -- a spouse, a parent, a child, a boss, an employee. It is amazing that a parent can walk into a teenager's room, blow his top about the messiness of the room, the irresponsibility of the child, the impossibility of finding anything, the health hazards and the lack of consideration for others -- and expect his child to say, "Gee, Dad, I never thought of that before; thank you for pointing it out. I am definitely going to change!" When that doesn't happen, the parent often figures that maybe next time if he yells just a little bit louder, the message will get through. (Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.) - Rabbi Kalman Packouz

"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Robert E. Lee

Mrs. Whittle on April 14th, 1996

I got parts of this poem from Mrs. Whittle on April 14th, 1996

You will not see the true light,
You will not sit at God's throne,
Without the cross in your sight,
with your heart, not as a drone.

Listen to the true call.
The call of God the Son.
Prick your ears up straight and tall.
Leave your ways and after him run.

Heart Road

There were Old when there were New.
The Old are No More and the New are Old.
Now the New are gone as the dew,
And you will be old and cold.

No No More old only ever more.
Some No More have more that some.
Some No More serve ever under the roar,
And some serve sver under the Son

You the New and you the Old,
Come and pore over your sore.
Will you recieve the ever Son cold?
Will you reign forever more?

Follow the Son, righteous and bold.
Start when new before you're stone.
Tis not easy to change when old.
Habits when new harden like bone.

Grow and learn.  Prolong your life.
Wisdom and understanding seek.
Read the Word and meditate.
You will learn the way of the meek.

Pity the Poor and walk upright.
Ear hear and hand keep the law.
Rejoice for glory in God's sight.
You will honor your Ma and Pa.

Confess and forsake thy sin.
Always fear the wrath of God.
Covet not of thy friend or kin.
Happy and saved from the rod.

No More will you graduate.
Eternal joy at his face.
Eternity is not fate.
You have fought and won the race.


    This is the first poem that I can remember every writing, so 
please tell me what you think.  I wrote it on Thursday night, April
12, 1996.  If you didn't get much out of it, some notes on it follow.


** Law of Death
There were Old when there were New.
 In the past there were old people and new(young) people
The Old are No More and the New are Old.
 The old people are dead(No More) and the new people are old
Now the New are gone as the dew,
 Now the people that were new are dead
And you will be old and cold.
 You too will follow their footsteps and become old and die

** Afterlife
No No More old only ever more.
 Once dead, people don't grow old, but their spirit is eternal
Some No More have more that some.
 Some dead are better off that others
Some No More serve ever under the roar,
 Some dead are under the roar of the lion(Satan) for eternity
And some serve sver under the Son
 Some serve under the Son of God for eternity

** Question
You the New and you the Old,
 You who are old and you who are young
Come and pore over your sore.
 Think about your sin and it's effect
Will you recieve the ever Son cold?
 Will you coldly recieve the Son of God?
Will you reign forever more?
 Will you reign with the Son for all eternity

** Answer
Follow the Son, righteous and bold.
 Follow the Son of God with righteousness and boldness
Start when new before you're stone.
 Start when you are young before you are set in your ways
Tis not easy to change when old.
 It isn't easy to change your ways when you are old
Habits when new harden like bone.
 Habits that you form when you are young will stay with you

 It is now assumed that you have followed the Son

** School
Grow and learn.  Prolong your life.
Wisdom and understanding seek.
 Seek wisdom and understanding
Read the Word and meditate.
 Read the word of God and meditate on it
You will learn the way of the meek.

** Public Life
Pity the Poor and walk upright.
Ear hear and hand keep the law.
 Listen to the law of God and the law of the land and do them
Rejoice for glory in God's sight.
You will honor your Ma and Pa.

** Private Life
Confess and forsake thy sin.
 Confess and stop your sin
Always fear the wrath of God.
Covet not of thy friend or kin.
 Don't try to get the posessions of others
Happy and saved from the rod.
 You will be happy and you won't be punished

** Your reward
No More will you graduate.
 When you die, you will graduate from your physical body
Eternal joy at his face.
 You will have eternal joy in God's presence
Eternity is not fate.
 What happens to you in eternity is not determined by fate
 It is determined by what you do now
You have fought and won the race.
 (I'll leave the last line up to you)

Walking on hands

Charlie was a fine fellow who loved to play outdoors and fish and swim. He really enjoyed life. His only problem was that he had a deformed foot and couldn't run. Sometimes he even had trouble walking and tripped but he didn't let that bother him because he could do many things that he enjoyed.
Sometimes other kids at school would make fun of him but he tried to ignore it. A boy named Jerry once told him that his foot was so bad that he should walk on his hands instead. Everyone laughed at him. Even though he tried to laugh with them it really hurt.
He began to wonder if maybe he was born to walk on his hands. He tried walking on his hands a few times but it was hard. He tried more and he got better but he also got hurt a lot from falling and got cuts on his hands. Soon he started walking on his hands at school. People really started to look at him funny and laugh at him but he knew that is how he was born. When people laughed at him sometimes he would tell them that he was born that way and they should accept him as he is.
After a while he found other people that walked on their hands and he felt better and accepted when he was around others who were born to walk on their hands. If anyone laughed at them they would tell them that they were born that way and that they would have to deny who they are to walk on their feet. They were finally free and living the way that they were designed to live but the freedom had a few problems -- they still got hurt often.
Many had sores on their hands from the rough ground and bruises from falling. They often got nose bleeds from being upside down so often. Some people would tell them that they weren't born that way, that it was hurting them, and that they could walk on their feet if they tried but that made them feel rejected so they called them hand-walker haters. Once a hand walker name George did learn to walk on his feet again but they denied that because they knew that they were born to walk on their hands.
Charlie finally got acceptance by accepting that he was a hand-walker but he died just a few years later because of an accident where a nose bleed distracted him and he fell off of a balcony. Unfortunately many hand-walkers died similar deaths. Charlie got acceptance in hand-walking but it hurt him time and time again and finally killed him.
--James Stauffer
March 22, 2005

Yale prof: Tea Partiers know more science than you think | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Yale prof: Tea Partiers know more science than you think | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: "those who professed to be Tea Party members had a positive correlation with scientific smarts.
Those who described themselves as merely Republicans had a negative correlation. The correlations were not large, but they were there."

"Kahan insisted that those of a more leftward political bias had the highest positive correlation."

Cyclone Phailin Kills 17, Affects 9 Million - Gospel for Asia

Cyclone Phailin Kills 17, Affects 9 Million - Gospel for Asia: "Electricity has been turned off in 12 Odishan districts and may take a week to turn on again, and communications are severely limited.
With many roads either collapsed or blocked by trees, officials are still waiting to see the extent of the damage along the coast. Some estimate 236,000 homes are damaged."

Lunch is free for all students in some Florida schools, due to new federal program | Fox News

Lunch is free for all students in some Florida schools, due to new federal program | Fox News: "schools and even entire districts can now receive free breakfast and lunch if 40 percent or more of students’ families are identified as low-income"

State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks

State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks: "The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil's Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion's share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers."

"Even though federal lands such as the Apostle Islands National Lakeshorehave been shuttered, the DNR issued a statement saying all state parks, trails and other recreational properties were open and not affected by the federal government's budget problems.

The agency also reopened a boat launch Wednesdayat Wyalusing State Park on the Mississippi River. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed the launch on Tuesday because it was on federal land.

But in a sign of defiance, the DNR removed the barricades at the landing, saying it had the legal authority to operate the launch under a 1961 agreement with the federal government.

On Tuesday, vast swaths of land were closed by the federal government because of the budget stalemate.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed all its properties, including the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge and the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. The agency said that fishing and hunting on those lands were prohibited."

"The federal agency provided the DNR $701,000 for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to the DNR. The DNR said the majority of money for the parks comes from the state and that it would usestate funds to continue operations."

"Cruises to view the Apostle Islands continue, but the boats cannot go within a quarter-mile of the islands, according to David Eades, executive director of the Bayfield Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Bureau. He said a gate had also been put up on the road leading to sea caves on the shoreline."

John Tate: Our nation has been in default for a long time - Campaign for Liberty

John Tate: Our nation has been in default for a long time - Campaign for Liberty: "By its very nature, raising the debt ceiling means acknowledging our inability to make good on the checks we’ve written.  The only way to pay Peter is to hope Paul does us another solid."

"If the ceiling is not raised by October 17, and the federal government loses its borrowing authority, Lew noted, “we will be left to meet our country’s commitments with only the cash on hand and any incoming revenues.”"

Education Week | Cato Institute

Education Week | Cato Institute: "The most useful figures for comparing school districts of varying sizes are the annual per-pupil expenditures (PPE). However, half of all state education departments report PPE figures that leave out major cost items such as buildings, interest on debt, and pensions, thereby significantly understating what is actually spent."

"A recent survey by Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance found that the public’s average estimate of the annual cost per student in public schools nationwide was only $6,680. The true cost is more than double that estimate, at nearly $14,000 per student annually"