The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard

1 -Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything<br /><br /><br />outside ourselves will affect us.<br /><br /><br /><br />2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. <br /><br /><br /><br />3 - Half the people you know are below average. <br /><br /><br /><br />4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. <br /><br /><br /><br />5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. <br /><br /><br /><br />6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. <br /><br /><br /><br />7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. <br /><br /><br /><br />8 - If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. <br /><br /><br /><br />9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. <br /><br /><br /><br />10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. <br /><br /><br /><br />11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend ... but she left me before we met. <br /><br /><br /><br />12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark? <br /><br /><br /><br />13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? <br /><br /><br /><br />14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. <br /><br /><br /><br />15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. <br /><br /><br /><br />16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. <br /><br /><br /><br />17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. <br /><br /><br /><br />18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. <br /><br /><br /><br />19 - I intend to live forever ... so far, so good. <br /><br /><br /><br />20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? <br /><br /><br /><br />21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. <br /><br /><br /><br />22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice? <br /><br /><br /><br />23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." <br /><br /><br /><br />24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? <br /><br /><br /><br />25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. <br /><br /><br /><br />26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. <br /><br /><br /><br />27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. <br /><br /><br /><br />28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. <br /><br /><br /><br />29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. <br /><br /><br /><br />30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. <br /><br /><br /><br />31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. <br /><br /><br /><br />32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. <br /><br /><br /><br />33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard

1 -Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. 2 - Borrow money from pes...

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ultimate freedom

"'Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.' -- Stephen Covey"

ultimate freedom

"'Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.' -- Stephen C...

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Love and kindness are never wasted

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.<br />They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you the giver.<br />Barbara De Angelis"

Love and kindness are never wasted

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you the giver....

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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime

"People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.<br />When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..<br />When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.<br />They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,<br />To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.<br />They may seem like a godsend and they are.<br />They are there for the reason you need them to be.<br />Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,<br />This person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.<br />Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.<br />Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.<br />What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.<br />The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.<br /><br /><br />Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.<br />They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.<br />They may teach you something you have never done.<br />They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.<br />Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.<br /><br /><br />LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,<br />Things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.<br />Your job is to accept the lesson,<br />Love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.<br />It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.<br /><br /><br />Thank you for being a part of my life,<br />Whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime."

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime

"People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that pers...

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"“Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.”

"“Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.”<br />Irvin Berlin"

"“Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.”

"“Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.” Irvin Berlin"

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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.”<br />Robert F. Bennett"

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosin...

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Believe that life is worth living

"“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”<br />Willliam James"

Believe that life is worth living

"“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” Willliam James"

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Life is hard’

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?”<br />Sydney J. Harris"

Life is hard’

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?” Sydney J. Harris"

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"This is the end, and, for me, the beginning of life."

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif'; font-size: small;"></span><br /> "This is the end, and, for me, the beginning of life."<br /><div><br /></div>

"This is the end, and, for me, the beginning of life."

 "This is the end, and, for me, the beginning of life."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

<blockquote>Gracious God, the Beyond in the midst of our life, who gave Grace to your servant Dietrich Bonhoeffer to know and teach the truth as it is in Jesus Christ, and to bear the cost of following him: Grant that we, strengthened by his teaching and example, may receive your word and embrace its call with an undivided heart; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.</blockquote><blockquote>O God our Father, the source of strength to all your saints, Who brought your servant Dietrich Bonhoeffer through imprisonment and death to the joys of life eternal: Grant that we, being encouraged by their examples, may hold fast the faith that we profess, and that we may seek to know, and acccording to our knowledge to do, your will, even unto death; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.</blockquote>

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gracious God, the Beyond in the midst of our life, who gave Grace to your servant Dietrich Bonhoeffer to know and teach the truth as it is i...

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our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

<blockquote>By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,<br />  And confidently waiting come what may,<br />we know that God is with us night and morning,<br />  and never fails to greet us each new day.</blockquote><blockquote>Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,<br />  Still evil days bring burdens hard to bear;<br />Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation<br />  for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare.</blockquote><blockquote>And when this cup You give is filled to brimming<br />  With bitter suffering, hard to understand,<br />we take it thankfully and without trembling,<br />  out of so good and so beloved a hand.</blockquote><blockquote>Yet when again in this same world You give us<br />  The joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun,<br />we shall remember all the days we lived through,<br />  and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.</blockquote>

our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,   And confidently waiting come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning,   and n...

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"“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”<br /><br />~Demosthenes"

"“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~Demosthenes"

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"“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”<br />~ Sir Winston Churchill"

"“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill"

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"“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”<br /><br />~ John C. Maxwell"

"“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell"

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this comes out to 26%.

*The official A.A. figures, which show an A.A, membership in the U.S. of around one million, are very conservative -- the National Institute of Health surveys show that there are quite a few more Americans than that who are sober because of having attended A.A.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />**By way of comparison, there were 50,000 in attendance at the Minneapolis convention in 2000, and 50,000 at the Toronto convention in 2005.<br /><br /><br /><br />***Let's say we have a four-year university program, like the undergraduate programs at Indiana University, only at this university, nobody ever drops out, and nobody is ever flunked out. We enroll 1,000 new students every year:<br /><br /><br /><br />1st year students: 1,000 = 25% of the 4,000 total<br /><br />2nd year students: 1,000 = 25% of the 4,000 total<br /><br />3rd year students: 1,000 = 25% of the 4,000 total<br /><br />4th year students: 1,000 = 25% of the 4,000 total<br /><br /><br /><br />Does this mean that 75% of the students are flunked out, and that only 25% successfully gain their degrees? Of course not! The ratio of 4th year students to 1st year students is 1,000/1,000 (or 25/25, which ever way you choose to phrase it) which means a one hundred percent success rate.<br /><br /><br /><br />During the 33 years I taught at Indiana University, we in fact performed these calculations every year -- although we in fact did have a certain percentage of students who dropped out or were flunked out every year -- in order to keep an eye on any places where we might have an abnormally high ratio of students failing to make it, so that we could attempt remedial measures of some sort.<br /><br /><br /><br />In the A.A. Triennial Surveys, 19% of the people in their first year of attending A.A. meetings were in their first month of attending A.A., while 5% of the first year people were in their twelfth month of attending A.A. If we take that 5/19 ratio -- 5 divided by 19 -- this comes out to 26%.<br />-- <br /><br />Bill Cleveland<br /><br />310-792-8013

this comes out to 26%.

*The official A.A. figures, which show an A.A, membership in the U.S. of around one million, are very conservative -- the National Institute...

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1 % A.A. success rate statistically impossible

It is statistically impossible for AA to have only a 1% success rate.<br />There are about 1 million A.A. members in the U.S., according to the official A.A. statistics.*<br />Now if 100 raving alcoholics had to come to A.A. in order for just one of them to get sober (while the other 99 went back to smashing cars, being unable to hold jobs, and getting into fist fights in bars), <br />that would mean that 99 million raving alcoholics would have had to have come to A.A. meetings and failed, to balance out that paltry 1 million who got sober.<br />The U.S. population is about 300 million.<br />That would mean that one third of the people in the U.S., men, women, and children -- AT A BARE MINIMUM -- must be raving alcoholics, running into one another drunkenly on the highways and bumping into one another as they stagger down the pavement.<br />But according to the National Institutes of Health News for Mar. 17, 1995, only 4.38 % of persons aged eighteen and older in the U.S. suffer from alcohol dependence (that is, the kind of chronic hardcore alcoholism which A.A. was developed to treat). That is only around ten million alcoholics in the U.S. -- not a hundred million!(An additional 3.03 % drink too much for their own good, but would be able to quit using their own will power if given a sufficient reason to do so.)<br />See http://www.niaaa. nih.gov/NewsEven ts/NewsReleases/ nlaes.htm <http: newsevents="" newsreleases="" nlaes.htm="" www.niaaa.nih.gov=""><br />Do you see the problem? There are only about 10 million chronic hardcore alcoholics in the United States. If A.A. were only capable of getting 1% of alcoholics sober, there could be at most only 100,000 A.A. members in the whole United States.**<br />If A.A. were capable of getting only 2% of alcoholics sober, that would still necessitate that there only be 200,000 A.A. members in the whole United States, and that one sixth of the people in the United States were raving alcoholics, ALL of whom had tried getting sober in A.A., even though only 98% of them succeeded.<br />How about the 5% figure? If all 10 million of the people in the U.S. who suffer from alcoholism had gone to at least a few A.A. meetings, then it is true, that if 5% of these got sober in A.A., that we could account for a total A.A. membership of 500,000. But that would only be half of the real count, and it would require that ALL of the alcoholics in the U.S. had gone to at least a few A.A. meetings -- which we know is not true.<br />(And anyway, the 5% figure was a blatant error from the beginning. It came originally from a man named Richard K., who belonged to the AAHistoryLovers back then, and who did not know how to read the statistical tables in the A.A. Triennial Surveys. I remember well how a number of us tried to show him how he was misreading the tables -- that the 5% figure at one place was NOT the one-year success rate, merely the percentage of the people at these A.A. meetings who were in their twelfth month of attending A.A.*** -- but he continued to insist that his misreading was correct. And then, God help us, this blatant misreading began being repeated by certain other people on the internet, without these people remotely bothering to check where that figure had come from or who had dreamed it up.)<br />Now let's look at a serious figure instead.<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>The A.A. Triennial Membership Surveys for 1977 through 1989 show that, of those people who are in their first month of attending A.A. meetings, 26% will still be attending A.A. meetings at the end of that year. That means that we would have to run 4 million people roughly through a few A.A. meetings in order to come out with 1 million people who stay in A.A. and get a bit of sobriety. With 10 million people in the U.S. classified as alcohol dependent, that means that we would have to conclude that nowadays about 40% of the alcoholics in the U.S. end up with a little bit of contact with A.A. at one time or another during their lives. And in fact, as a ball park estimate, this 40% figure matches up at least reasonably well with some very well done National Institute of Health studies.</blockquote><br /><br /><br />SO A 26 % ONE-YEAR RETENTION RATE MATCHES UP FAIRLY WELL with the other statistics which we possess -- and with common sense observations we can make -- about A.A. in the modern United States.And of those who "really try" -- as for example, by continuing to go to A.A. meetings for more than 90 days -- according to the modern A.A. Triennial Membership Surveys, 56% of those people will still be attending A.A. meetings at the end of that year.Hmmm -- 56% of those who "really try" seem to be able to get sober in modern A.A. -- sounds suspiciously like the old time claims from back in the 1930's and 40's, when they said that 50% of the people who came to A.A. and "really tried" were able to get sober.<br />Glenn C.<br />South Bend, Indiana

1 % A.A. success rate statistically impossible

It is statistically impossible for AA to have only a 1% success rate. There are about 1 million A.A. members in the U.S., according to the o...

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The little tiger cubs were adopted by a chimpanzee after they had to be separated from their mother

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_Loxu0NDchovhBsajigLMt-Ivhyu1nhNlew1UK5DRJcPLWaI1xz1FwzPANhJi33yvzTcTJdVrvHMHz7_71zbEGjo9OkNtM6R_5EXoWNR9hItVmW71BVP8HsSuH_C0T4WE_VyZlfw9_54/s1600/gatzo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_Loxu0NDchovhBsajigLMt-Ivhyu1nhNlew1UK5DRJcPLWaI1xz1FwzPANhJi33yvzTcTJdVrvHMHz7_71zbEGjo9OkNtM6R_5EXoWNR9hItVmW71BVP8HsSuH_C0T4WE_VyZlfw9_54/s320/gatzo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The little tiger cubs were adopted by a chimpanzee after they had to be separated from their mother as she demonstrated an aggressive attitude towards them. It isn’t the first time that two years old Anjana adopted rejected babies. She has also raised lions and leopards.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Because her love is truthful and pure, the tigers prosper with her care and attention. Isn’t that something to think about? She plays with them all day. She smothers them with her love, feeds them until they are big enough to care for themselves. They have become her purpose in life and we watch delighted. Why aren’t we so delighted to look after our own siblings in the same way, with the same loving care and attention?"</span>

The little tiger cubs were adopted by a chimpanzee after they had to be separated from their mother

The little tiger cubs were adopted by a chimpanzee after they had to be separated from their mother as she demonstrated an aggressive atti...

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Slashdot | Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction

<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/03/29/1241212">Slashdot Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction</a>: "new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin. The rats that gorged themselves on the human food quickly became obese"

Slashdot | Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction

Slashdot Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction : "new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain ...

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"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three<br />things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace<br />of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- ar...

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"Today's Prayer:

I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. I pray God will interpret to me the personalities of other people,<br />so that I can understand them and help them.<br /><br />Today's Quotable:<br />I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. Martin Luther"

"Today's Prayer:

I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. I pray God will interpret to me the personalities of other people, so that I can unde...

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Four feet phallus causes offence in North Yorkshire village but shopkeeper vows to ‘Free Willy’

Four feet phallus causes offence in North Yorkshire village but shopkeeper vows to ‘Free Willy’<br /><br />A North Yorkshire shopkeeper has had a key piece of stock confiscated by North Yorkshire Police after it caused a string of complaints.<br /><br />Jason Hadlow, owner of Simply Dutch at Leeming Bar, has been issued with a public order offence and will face a fine if he wants to reclaim the garden ornament.<br /><br />Jason recently received a new range of garden furniture including a four feet penis-shaped obelisk which went on display in Simply Dutch’s window at the end of March.<br /><br />Following complaints from local people, North Yorkshire Police visited the store, removed the offending ornament, worth in the region of £200, and issued Jason with a public order offence for ‘displaying a sign or item liable to cause harassment, alarm or distress.’<br /><br />Jason must now pay £80 by Friday 9th April to retrieve the item from Northallerton Police Station, or could face court action. However, the entrepreneur, from Yarm, is refusing to back down stating that the phallus is in keeping with Simply Dutch’s quirky ethos and has even started a ‘Free Willy’ campaign in store and on Facebook.<br /><br />Jason said: “The world is a crazy place and I'm sure the local constabulary has better things to do. It’s just another example of overzealous policing and I couldn’t believe they were serious. We might have had one or two complaints but most of the customers loved it as they know what Simply Dutch is like and the type of things we stock.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwd8wyTIuD2KUqO4wXKKO2PyYA0WJllSvfJwgWxJyPq3fsVn74MvnBJ1qzHNQgxBX9YO-iDHMye4ycuSW1Nk7WjfuEAnOtz3ihl2S3j-NdmD92zu_gvYUXC1eYzox93iByBteupUe0uAF6/s1600/Photo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwd8wyTIuD2KUqO4wXKKO2PyYA0WJllSvfJwgWxJyPq3fsVn74MvnBJ1qzHNQgxBX9YO-iDHMye4ycuSW1Nk7WjfuEAnOtz3ihl2S3j-NdmD92zu_gvYUXC1eYzox93iByBteupUe0uAF6/s320/Photo2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>“We’ve had naked stone strippers, Roman and Greek-style statues, African pothouses and all sorts of other weird pieces of furniture in the window which haven’t caused such a stir. So I am a little shocked, to say the least, that an £80 ransom is being demanded for the phallus

Four feet phallus causes offence in North Yorkshire village but shopkeeper vows to ‘Free Willy’

Four feet phallus causes offence in North Yorkshire village but shopkeeper vows to ‘Free Willy’ A North Yorkshire shopkeeper has had a key p...

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