Community Service

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One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the haircut, he asked for his bill and the barber replied, "I cannot accept money from you today. I'm doing community service this week." The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen tulips waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop came in for a haircut and when he tried to pay his bill, the barber again replied, "I cannot accept money from you today. I'm doing community service this week." The cop was happy and left the shop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Member of Parliament came in for a haircut and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, "I cannot accept money from you today. I'm doing community service this week." The politician was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Members of Parliament lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

Truth

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A Wonderful Compilation of Essential Truths:

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~ Jay Leno

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Henry Cate, VII

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~ Will Rogers

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~ Nikita Khrushchev

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~ Clarence Darrow

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~ John Quinton

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~ Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~ Charles de Gaulle

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~ Doug Larson

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Richard Dubois, MD

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We Stole It

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S.I. Hayakawa

S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born, Republican Senator for California, English professor and wit, summed up the position of our Anglo-American Empire over the past 1,000 years with:

"We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa

Nuclear Power Is Out

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Japan Pulls The Plug On Nuclear Power

• by Beth Buczynski
• September 16, 2012
• 5:00 am

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Sometimes, it takes a disaster to open people’s eyes. For Japan, it took and earthquake, tsunami and continuous nuclear fallout. The Japanese government announced Friday that it intends to stop using nuclear power by the 2030s. Many say this dramatic shift is the result of public concerns about safety following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which experts have called the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Since the Fukushima fallout, the effects of the radiation leak have been widespread and varied, from mutant butterflies to tests that suggest Japanese youth are already showing signs of internal radiation exposure. Immediately following the disaster, Japanese officials ordered inspections of all nuclear reactors, and started to look more seriously atsolar and geothermal energy.

Now, it appears that the current administration, which has lost favor with the constituency, is ready to pull the plug completely. To make up for the lost power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, intends to triple the share of renewable power to 30 percent of Japan’s energy mix. However, a policy statement admits that the country will remain a top importer of oil, coal and gas for the foreseeable future.

It may just be political posturing, a way to engender goodwill and votes among an electorate that’s more enthusiastic about renewable energy, but in this case, the end may justify the means. Still, if Noda fails to get re-elected, there’s fear that the plan to phase out nuclear may be reversed. Critics say taking all nuclear power plants off line will lead to painful increases in the cost of electricity.

According to Reuters, all but two of Japan’s nuclear 50 reactors are idled for safety checks and the government plans to allow restarts of units taken off line after the disaster if they are deemed safe by a new atomic regulator. The move follows suit with Germany which last year announced a plan to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/japan-pulls-the-plug-on-nuclear-power.html#ixzz26jQeiEq7

Christianity

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Why are people who think they are Christians so far off the bag from what Jesus taught? Christians have been hearing the message more-or-less unchanged every Sunday for almost 2,000 years. Here's a clue: The Christians were fairly confused for about 300 years after Jesus was crucified. The people running the Jewish religion booted the Christians out of the Synagogues. The Romans began to scapegoat the Christians and feed them to lions. Christians were doing strange things themselves — like flagellation and castrating themselves. I'm not making this up. Then one day, Constantine, a Roman general, was on his way to fight a battle to decide if he would become the next emperor. Looking up, the story goes, he saw a cross on the sun and these words in the sky, "By this sign, you will conquer." (I was always told not to look at the sun.) So Constantine had his legionnaires paint crosses on their shields. They defeated their opponents who may have been wondering, "What the ding dong is this?" and Constantine became the Emperor for life. I'm not making this up. Constantine was so happy about becoming emperor, he made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. The Romans were not very fussy about anybody's religion. People could do whatever they wanted. The Romans only got upset with people who challenged the State. The Christians, however, were extremely concerned about what religion people practiced. They made sure they would never lose the power they now enjoyed. They decided which Books of the Bible were in the canon and which books were out. They created exactly what Jesus condemned — an established hierarchical church. Constantine founded Constantinople on the site of the ancient Greek city, Byzantium. The Emperor was the head of the Christian Church. The headquarters of the Orthodox Christian Church is still in Constantinople — which has been called Istanbul since the Ottoman Turks, who were Muslims, took over in 1453.

This was a rocky start for Christianity, I'm sure you will agree. I won't relate the travails of Christianity for the next 1,700 years, but rest assured Christianity travelled a blood soaked road. Christians mostly killed other Christians or converted Saxons and Vikings by the sword. Christians burned recalcitrant heathens at the stake. They boiled them in oil. They gouged out their eyes. By contrast, Muslims have always been pretty darned good Christians — as are the Dalai Lama and Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss and the Neturei Karta today.

St. Francis of Assisi and Mother Teresa were excellent Christians. I agree with Mohandas Gandhi who said, "Christianity is a wonderful religion. We should have some of it."