"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'...ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say." (James Whitcomb Riley)

This is why so many people roll their eyes behind the backs of so-called "born again" Christians when start opening their yaps when they impose themselves on others as "holier than thou" and start to impose their view of the world on everybody as though they have "the truth."

"Evolution" has NOTHING to do with religion.

Man, this is irritating...

School yanks T-shirts over evolution theme

The Associated Press

Monday, Aug. 31 2009
SEDALIA, Mo. — T-shirts promoting the Smith-Cotton High School band's fall
program have been recalled because of concerns about the shirt's evolution
theme.

Assistant Superintendent Brad Pollitt said parents complained to him after the
band marched in the Missouri State Fair parade. Though the shirts don't violate
the school's dress code, Pollitt noted that the district is required by law to
remain neutral on religion.

The light gray shirts feature an image of a monkey progressing through various
stages of evolution until eventually becoming a human. Each figure holds a
brass instrument that also evolves, illustrating the theme "Brass Evolutions."

"I was disappointed with the image on the shirt," said Sherry Melby, a band
parent who teaches in the district. "I don't think evolution should be
associated with our school."

But other parents were just as dismayed that the shirts were taken away from
students at the Sedalia school.

Sophomore band member Denyel Luke said the reaction by some to the evolution
theme was a little extreme.

"It's not like we are saying God is bad," Luke said. "We aren't promoting
evolution."

The district will have to absorb the $700 cost of the shirts, which will be
replaced as soon as administrators approve a design for the new ones.

It occurred to me tonight that Pres. Obama seems to be having more trouble with his black acquaintances than with whites.

It was that Reverend Jeremiah Wright who took attention away from Obama's campaign with his outrageously racist remarks against whites during his campaign, and now he has to deal with another loudmouth -- an alleged Harvard scholar Louis Gates -- who derailed Obama's healthcare reform initiative two weeks ago. Then the President tried to bring this whole thing to a climax with the famous "beer summit" last Thursday. Now tonight, Louis Gates is once again trying to grab the media spotlight with his statement tonight claiming that he had received death threats.

In his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House on Thursday with President Obama and Police Sgt. James Crowley, who is white, Gates, who is black, said the debate over racial profiling sparked by his arrest shows that issues of class and race still run "profoundly deep" in the United States.

"They have not been resolved at all," he told a crowd of more than 150 who came to see him at the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival. Gates said he had to shut down his public e-mail and change his cell-phone number after receiving numerous death and bomb threats.

You know, it is old black men like Louis Gates, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, who apparently don't have anything better to do than to rant and rave about race and the racial divide between blacks and whites because they have become obsessed and infatuated with the glare of the media...cameras, lights, and microphones.

Part of being "scholarly" is knowing when to speak up, and when to shut up.

During the last presidential campaign, a suggestion came out of the possibility that Pres. Obama would be another Jimmy Carter, a case of an overly smart guy (a nuclear physicist) who had real trouble handling the simple things around his presidency. I am getting the real impression that the person who made this suggestion was not far off.

From day one, despite being dubbed as "The Messiah" and the man who would save the world, his administration has been nothing but one misstep after another. While Pres. Bush, the younger, constantly fell over himself via his malapropisms, Pres. Obama seems to have no concept on real leadership by all of his etiquette missteps...his inability to speak or say the right thing at the right time.

At the beginning of his administration, during his visit to Great Britain, he gave as a gift a box of NTSC (American TV standard) standard DVDs of American movies. He ordered a bust of Sir Winston Churchill given to the United States after 9/11 to be returned to England, to the Brits great shock. Then we have the incident when First Lady Michelle Obama actually "touched" Queen Elizabeth...which is another no-no. So while we have our newest version of Vice President Dan Quayle in Vice President Biden, the President....a Harvard-educated attorney...laying and SERIOUSLY misspeaking on the whole issue of the Harvard professor who DID NOT act like an educated man when he messed and acted suspiciously with a Cambridge, MA police officer, accusing the police department and the officer while an ongoing investigation was going on...

And now we have his "Cash for Clunkers" fiasco which fell apart after one week of being implemented, followed by a news story this morning that The Messiah had invited the CEOs of the top U.S. corporations for a working lunch at the White House, and then asks these people for their credit card numbers after the fact, and after they had been "invited." It is common for White House visitors to be charged for food they consume at the same rate charged by restaurants, but c'mon, Barack, get yourself in order!

Hillary Clinton always talks about hitting the "reset" button in relationships.

I think Pres. Obama needs to hit the "reset" button in his presidency.

THis excellent commercial for Volkswagen features a good friend of mine...

This small news clip in today's San Diego Union-Tribune really got me thinking about the fragility of life, especially when we assume that someone close to us, someone we share mental images with, someone we love is abruptly taken home by our Maker. This is not some metaphysical question, it is REALITY. It is one thing if someone is sick or in poor health. But this guy obviously was in the prime of life. And when he got up this morning, he undoubtedly thought about all the things he has to do, people he has to see, situations he has to clarify and find solutions to.

IT BEGS THE QUESTION....

When was the last time you hugged that person?
When was the last time you shared a laugh, shared a tear with that person?
How do you know that the last time you did those things won't be the last time you ever see them alive? Last time you hear the sound of their voice?
Before this man collapsed, what was the last thing he thought about it?
Who did he irrationally love? What was his passion?
How will he be remembered by others who are left behind knowing that this life on this earth has been extinguished?
How would you remember that person?
How would you be remembered if you were suddenly taken from this earth? This life?

Man dies at Seaport Village; no ID

The Medical Examiner's Office is asking for the public's help to identify a man who collapsed at Seaport Village this morning and died.

The man was exercising when he collapsed. He died at 10:45 a.m. at UCSD Medical Center.

He is described as white, in his 40s, about 6 feet tall and 195 pounds. He had salt-and-pepper hair and green eyes. He had no tattoos or noticeable scars. He was wearing athletic shorts and red and silver Asics gel running shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the medical examiner at (858) 694-2895.