A sad state of the world . . .

Where has common sense gone these days? I noted that a year or so ago our city was supposed to start building a Wal-Mart Super Center or whatevery they call the giant-sized versions of most everyone's favorite shopping haunt. The project went on indefinite hold as they say they can't build where they intended because we have to protect some rat, plants, and insects who hang around the proposed building site.

Immediately after reading that, the next article dealt with the unemployment problems in our city and what can we do about it? People are coming into the unemployment office several times a week, hoping to find a job. What could possibly be the solution . . .

Does anyone see the problem here? We are preserving a habitat for rats or whatever while humans go hungry and jobless? What happens if the majority of these critters decide to migrate somewhere else. Do we have a laison with the rat community so we will know when the property might become available?

I'm constantly amazed at the mind set of the world today where the good of humans is superceded by rodents or endangered weeds. Didn't God give man dominion over the animals in the Bible? Save a seal . . . or a rat, but don't worry about people. God can't be happy with our choices.

Pentecost Sunday!

It seems like it was just Ash Wednesday and tomorrow is already Pentecost Sunday. Naturally, I have a favorite quote to share for the occasion.

Round roll the weeks our hearts to greet,
With blissful joy returning;
for lo! the Holy Paraclete
On twelve bright brows sits burning."

Roman Breviary, Pentecost, Hymn Beata nobis gaudia at Lauds. (Tr. W. Blew) - Attributed to St. Hilary of Poitiers, 4th century.

Too many grains of truth here . . .

"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
-- P. G. Wodehouse

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
-- Lee Iacocca

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
-- Harry S Truman

Mother Theresa could say it in few words . . .

"There is more hunger for love and
appreciation in this world than for bread."- Mother Teresa

We should all be blessed with an attack cat . . .

 Although she does look rather fierce, Miss Stubby is just yawning. It seems twice as scary since she is usually a very timid cat . . . except when it comes to food. The same cats she will shy away from on a daily basis, don't have a chance of getting any tasty scraps when Miss Stubby is around. She is like a stealth eater - she pounces, grabs, and departs with the best of the offerings in hand . . . uh, in mouth, that is!