Poker Girl

Try concentrating on your cards!

Small Arms Data

The 30-06 round is a common hunting round and was used in WWI in the Springfield rifle. The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced “thirty-aught-six”, "thirty-oh-six") or 7.62 x 63 mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 (hence “06”) and standardized, used until the 1960s and early 1970s. It replaced the .30-03, 6 mm Lee Navy and .30 US Army (also called .30-40 Krag). The .30-06 remained the US Army's primary rifle cartridge for nearly 50 years before it was finally replaced by the 7.62 x 51 mm NATO (commercial .308 Winchester) and 5.56x45mm NATO (commercial .223 Remington), both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. It remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

note: The 7.62 x63 refers to the diameter of the bullet and the length of the case in mm (1 inch=25mm). From the bottom of the case to the top of the neck is 63mm. The 7.62x39 is a WWII Soviet round, later used in the AK-47. The rest of the rounds in the picture below are pistol rounds.





  From left to right: 30-06, 7.62x39, .454 Casull, .45 Colt, .357 Magnum, .38 Special, .45 ACP, 9mm, .380, .22 Long Rifle
source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x39mm

Data on some common rounds is shown below. Muzzle energy is the product of bullet mass times velocity squared Kt=1/2  MV²  Big bullets and high velocity means lots of kenetic energy leaving the barrel.

Firearm            Caliber           Muzzle energy

                                              ft-lbf   joules
air gun              .177               15      20

pistol                .22LR             117    159

pistol                 9 mm             383    519

pistol               .45 ACP          416   564

rifle            5.56 × 45 mm        1,325 1,796

rifle           7.62 × 39 mm         1,527 2,070

rifle           7.62 × 51 mm         2,802 3,799

BMG*           .50                     11,091 15,037

*Browning Machine Gun
source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_energy

Complex Life and Complex Machines

The compexity of living things is used to argue that only God could create them. Maybe it is true. However, we notice Nature has some tricks and short-cuts. Among mammals Nature mostly does not invent new structures but modifies existing ones. Horn is made up of hair. Mammals have feet and hands that have 5 digits. Hooves and paws can be shown to be a modification of 5 digits even though they appear so different.  Heart, lungs, eyes and so forth are "standard equipment". Bilateral symmetry is common throughout the animal kingdom. So the variation and complexity have evolved over time by repeating or modifying basic structures. Even some behavior can be shown to be imprinted into the brain at birth by the genetic code.  Simple creatues such as microbes or insects behave in a total pre-programmed way. They are like robots using DNA as a computer program.

Machines can be complex also. The computer you are using to read this is too complex for any one person to grasp all the activity going on inside these machines. Transistors were invented by Physicists based on behavior of atomic structure. Micro circuit experts design billions of transistors into a functional device. With the help of chemists, imaging experts and complex machines the circuits can be "repeated" to produce thousands of parts economically. Software experts write millions of lines of instuctions for the finished computer. Software often uses repeating patterns of pre-designed routines just as nature repeats structures. Software on your computer is so complex it has to be broken into smaller pieces so experts can deal with pieces rather than the whole. It is the old method for dealing with complexity...break the task down into small  pieces one man can deal with.

Actor in old movie resembles real Nazi

On our trip to Europe in 2009 we were on the bus driving thru Paris when our guide pointed to a Hotel that was headquarters for the Nazis in WWII. Below is a pic from Time magazine in 1942 showing the Gestapo Chief at the time.

I saw an old WWII era movie recently. One of those cheap propaganda films to build morale for the war. It was about the murder of the Nazi "Reich's Protector" for Checkoslovacia by partisans and the notorious  reprisals that followed. The actor who played the Nazi chief was strange looking...narrow head, big nose, just like the pic above.

Take an even strain

My Dad, Wendell Combs, was a carpenter. In 1950 he built the house I would grow up in. I was 8 years old at the time and I was not a very good carpenters helper. He would lose patience with me sometimes for being haphazard and helter-skelter when I worked with him. All I did was fetch things or hold one end of a measuring tape, things like that. Dad was very methodical and thorough in his work. He was in the Carpenters Union for many years. Union members relied mostly on construction on the IU campus for jobs. Home construction was always non-union.
Some IU projects I remember Dad working on were the expansion of the Student Union building, the football stadium and the School of Business building. Building concrete forms was a common task and then hanging doors and windows followed by interior trim work. All carpenters are not created equal. Some are more suited for rough work and nail pounding. My Dad did those things too but he was often chosen to do the skilled interior trim and finish work because he was good at it. I should add at this point that some of Dad’s relatives teased him about being slow and deliberate in everthing.
Dad told me that If there was a task not clearly belonging to a trade it was usually assigned to the carpenters. He claimed that carpenters had to think and plan ahead more than other trades. Dad was often the one who put the finishing touch on many of the interiors of IU buildings and he was well suited for that work. Some of his Union brothers were not.
I did not inherit Dad’s methodical nature and it has often caused me problems both at work and at home. After all these years I am sometimes still helter-skelter. I have heard of adult attention deficit disorder even though it is normally a childhood problem. Maybe I have a little of that. Maybe too much caffeine. But I have a theory that goes like this: Dad spent 8 hrs a day and 5 days a week on doing carpenter work that would be inspected afterwards and have to be redone if it failed. If you start out working in a rushed, thoughtless manner you are headed for trouble. If you are to survive you will have to develop a steady pace you can maintain for months on the job. Dad said “take an even strain”. You need to be a long distance runner, not a sprinter. This is both physical and mental. My guess is some of Dad’s Union brothers could not do this and were only given the rough work. Dad was often the last carpenter to be laid off at the end because he was needed to finish interior detail.

Kentucky jokes

Story comments - HeraldTimesOnline.com: "What do a Kentucky divorce and a tornado have in common?
No matter what happens -- somebody's losing trailer?"

How can you tell a vampire victim was bitten by a vampire from Kentucky? There is only one tooth mark.

An ant farm?

Another movie quote: The film "Constantine" is fantasy involving angels, demons and lots of comic book violence. One character is very religious and is trying to tell Constantine (a hunter of demons and other satanic characters) that he should have more faith and God has a plan for each of us. Constantine replies " God is like a kid with an ant farm. There is no plan."

Why Carnivores?

Learned that Alaskan bears like pine nuts (seeds). Bears getting tiny seeds one-at-time from pine cones? No, they raid the caches gathered by squirrels. Thus the food value has been concentrated for the bears. This seems to be analogous to the benefit of carnivore behavior. Saw a doc on the ancient body of a pre-historic hunter found in the Alps. It was explained that such a journey over barren terrain would not find much in the way of berries, fruit, etc. But animals there could be harvested.

The goods are odd.

We took a local tour in Skagway, Alaska and our bus driver/guide was an energetic 22 yr old gal working just for the tourist season. She shares a rental house with 3 single girls and 13 single guys who are drivers/guides. Speaking of the social scene during the summer she said that (for the girls) "the odds are good but the goods are odd."

Natures Strategy

It is well known that for every plant and animal nature has built-in procreation in greater numbers than can be sustained by their environment. This strategy is meant to overcome the fact that most offspring will never reach maturity. Plants generate thousands of seeds or millions of spores and many of the offspring of animals do not survive the hazards of life.
Human animals have reached a world population of about 6.5 billion and it is projected to be 9 billion by 2050. Most of the increase will be in the third world, which can least afford it. There is real doubt whether the world environment can support these numbers. The pessimistic view is that environmental damage combined with war, famine and disease will result in the premature death of hundreds of millions people. The USA and western Europe may expect millions will seek refuge illegally on our soil. We better be prepared.

Your Expectations

 

Lawyers again

Citizen to lawyer: "Can you ever get a strait answer from a lawyer?"
Lawyer replies: "Well, yes and no."

thanks to cartoonist Pat Oliphant

545 People

By Charlie Reese
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.


Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million who are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits..... The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it......... Is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think..
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax..

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!

(A great educational piece of writing but I would point out that we need a government and we need good people (politicians I guess) to run it. We elect them so we are responsible. Populism says the people are never wrong and are always the victim of (politicians, corporations, bureaucrats, etc).
This is false of course. In a democracy we all share the burden.
Bill)

Some Ammunition

 

The .223 is the size of the M16 5.5mm round. The .308 is equivalent to the 7.62 NATO round. The .50 cal is used in heavy machine guns. The WWII P-47 Thunderbolt fighter had 8 .50 cal machine guns. Some fighters also had 20mm (.80 cal) cannon.

Is This How We Got Started?

 

Book Tries To Explain (voluntary) Segregation

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by
Beverly Daniel Tatum (Paperback - Jan. 2003)

I have not read the book but we all understand the title and have seen how ethnic groups flock. It was like that in the Navy, black guys hung together. I recall reading about the large number of British retirees who have homes in Spain and how the locals observe the Brits prefer the company of other Brits and are isolated from Spanish society. It is human nature and I do not think it takes a PhD to grasp that.

Orbits Explained

 

Immigrant story from pre-1900

Along with the battered suitcases and ghost-filled registry hall, I’ve never
forgotten the testimony of an Italian immigrant who spoke for many when
he said “I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with
gold. When I got here, I found out three things: first, the streets weren’t
paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all, and third; I was
expected to pave them."

Obama needs a time out

From a story about a Tea-Party gathering in Bloomington:

A tiny blond-haired toddler in a madras skirt and pink Mary Janes clutching her father’s hand sported a T-shirt that read, “Obama and Pelosi need a time out.

Buy a Baby for $150 in Nigeria

(article from UK paper)
The ease with which illegal immigrants
can enter the country was highlighted
yesterday when a baby trafficker banned
from the UK for ten years sneaked back
in to claim thousands at an employment
tribunal.
Peace Sandberg, 42, was jailed for 26
months in 2008 after she bought a three-
month-old baby in Nigeria for £150 and
tried to pass it off as her own to get a
council (section 8 housing in USA) house.
After she had served her sentence she
was deported to Sweden where she
holds joint Swedish/Nigerian citizenship,
and was ordered not to return to Britain
for ten years.
Defying the ban, Sandberg, a former
housing officer who worked with the
elderly in Ealing, London, flew back to the
country and walked straight through
immigration checks at Heathrow Airport.
She returned to Britain to sue her former
employers, the Peabody Trust for race
and sex discrimination. The employment tribunal allowed the
case to proceed knowing she was in the
country illegally.
Mrs Sandberg was caught eventually
after the lawyer representing the trust
raised alarms.

Useless, jobless men – the social blight of our age

(article from London Times)
The benefits system has produced an emasculated generation who can find neither work nor a wife
by Camilla Cavendish

Of all the government adverts that have swamped our radio stations these past few years (must be a quick saving there for the Treasury), one of the most irritating was the jolly woman asking us in a sing-song voice if we had remembered to report changes in our circumstances. Like hell. Every time I heard the ad it conjured up a vision of a lonely official waiting in vain at her desk for people to come in and sign away entitlements to which they feel, well, entitled.
This pathetic advert seemed to me to epitomise the politicians’ total loss of control over the monster that is our benefits system. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) presides over a system so complex that it has to issue 8,690 pages of guidance to help its staff to apply its 51 different benefits — the product of the ever more precise targeting of benefits to particular groups.
In the years of plenty, it was easier to placate and complicate than to simplify. Every new benefit and its separate computer system was just bolted on to the mainframe. But the result is that Britain has more than twice the number of sick people as France. The potential for playing the system, defrauding the system and falling foul of the system is enormous.
So in declaring war yesterday on both poverty and the benefits system, Iain Duncan Smith had it right. If the Government is going to make real inroads into the deficit it will have to tackle the nearly £200 billion welfare budget, which is a third of government spending. This week’s £6 billion of cuts was only Round 1: £6 billion is only 1 per cent of government expenditure, so this was a warm-up. Round 2 will need to take on the DWP leviathan.
But the argument for welfare reform is not just one of affordability. In too many cases, welfare has entrenched poverty. Mr Duncan Smith is one of the few politicians who really understand the poverty trap. Gordon Brown made life more bearable for many people on benefits, but he also made it harder to escape from them. Get a job tomorrow earning between £10,000 and £30,000 a year and you’ll take home only 30p out of every extra pound you earn after the first £10,000. Twenty pence will go in income tax, 11p in national insurance, and 39p in lost tax credits. Add in the loss of other allowances (housing benefit, council tax benefit) and you may find it simply doesn’t pay to work harder. Our poverty trap is deeper than that of most other European countries. That is a strange legacy for a government that wanted to make work pay.
The fear of losing benefits — of not being able to scramble back on to the lifeboat if you fall off — is a huge disincentive to change your circumstances, let alone report them. One in seven working-age households is dependent on benefits for more than half its income. More than half of all lone parents depend on the State for at least half their income. William Beveridge would be horrified to discover that the safety net he designed has become a trap, creating generations of worklessness and dwindling self-esteem. It is also creating a glut of unemployed, unwanted, unmarriageable men.
These men were overlooked during a decade of prosperity that did nothing to change their lives. At the beginning of that decade, 5.4 million working-age adults were claiming out-of-work benefits. The same number were still claiming just before the recession struck. Almost a fifth of 16 to 24-year-olds were not in education, employment or training in 1997. The number was identical in 2006. These people stayed put in the Welsh valleys, in Liverpool, in Glasgow, while Eastern Europeans travelled a thousand miles to pick up work on construction sites in London. Immigration reduced the opportunities available to white British men whose poor education made them less attractive candidates, while the benefits system undermined their motivation.
The problem affects the whole of society because of the striking correlation between male joblessness and single motherhood, particularly in the old industrial cities. In Liverpool, male unemployment rose from 12 per cent in 1971 to 30 per cent in 2001. In 1971 11 per cent of families were headed by a single parent; by 2001, 45 per cent were. Similar patterns can be seen in Birmingham, Strathclyde and Newcastle. The epidemic of male joblessness after the collapse of manufacturing industries coincided with an increase in female employment and welfare support to mothers who found that they could manage alone.
Overlooked by society, irrelevant to employers, unwanted by women who can raise families on benefits without their help, the man who has no work or a series of short-term jobs is a problem. Without steady work, he will struggle to acquire a family: unemployed men are less likely to marry or cohabit than employed ones. Without a stable relationship, he is less likely to grow into a good family man and raise good sons. The taxpayer has become the father: one in four mothers is single and more than half live on welfare. A lot of these women describe the real fathers of their children as “useless” or worse. The men have no role.
In the worst cases, the State has helped to create a class of jobless serial boyfriends who prey on single mothers on benefits. When two of these men moved into the flat that Haringey Council had generously provided for Tracey Connelly, Baby P’s mother, the little boy’s fate was sealed. They killed him. Other such men appear in bit parts in tragedies such as that of Shannon Matthews, abducted and drugged by her own “family”. The welfare system has helped to deprive these children of the most effective check on abuse — the family.
Robert Rowthorn, Professor of Economics at Cambridge, has shown that female and male worklessness have been going in opposite directions for 30 years, well before this latest “mancession”. His research suggests that half the rise in lone parenthood in the past 30 years may be due to male unemployment. He believes that governments must start to focus on these men, and question the feminisation of education and the workplace. It is no solution, he says, to say that women don’t need men or that men should become more female. Nor is it any good waiting for economic growth to dig them out of poverty. Those men need a chance, not a benefits system that undermines them.

High Taxes Forced Michael Caine to Leave UK

'I left the country for eight years when tax was put up to 82 per cent. You didn't get the 82 per cent tax from me for eight years. You didn't get any tax at all from me for the next eight years,' he told the BBC.
'Apart from that, a quarter of a billion dollars of movies were made outside this country instead of inside it which is just from one stupid, loud-mouth moronic actor. Imagine what is happening to companies, proper companies, who then disappear. It's no good.'
The Oscar winner, 77, added he once told Tony Blair 'you can't tax people who have enough money for air fare' because they would just leave.
However, he admitted he would not quit Britain for a second time because he would not want to be separated from his three grandchildren.
Sir Michael, who is worth an estimated £45million, spent eight years living in the U.S. in the 70s after income tax hit 82 per cent but returned when Margaret Thatcher came to power and cut the rate again. 
He is a vocal critic of high taxes and vociferously attacked Labour last year after the top rate was hiked to 50 per cent, threatening to go back to America if they rose any higher.
At the time, he said: 'You know how much they made out of that high taxation all those years ago? Nothing. But they sent a mass of incredible brains to America.
'We've got 3.5million layabouts laying about on benefits, and I'm 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them. Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not keep sticking it on.
'You're saying to poor people "let's tax those rich gits" and I understand that. You slice up the cake, give everyone a chance, but don't destroy the people that are making the bloody cake.'

Trapping Monkeys

We have heard how to trap a monkey. Put a treat inside a coconut shell and cut a hole just large enough for the monkey’s hand but too small for his fist holding he treat. The monkey will be caught because he will not let go of the treat. For us the treat we will not let go is excess government spending requiring constant increases in public debt. But we are smart monkeys so we know that constantly increasing the nation’s debt cannot be sustained and will soon drag us down. The thing is, we are smart enough to see the answer but lack the willpower to overcome our desire for more treats.

Another gem of movie script writing.

From the movie "3:10 to Yuma". The outlaw Ben Wade (Russel Crowe) tells this story to Dan, his captor. "Did you ever read the Bible Dan? I have. When I was 8 years old my Dad got killed over a drink of whiskey. My Mom said we were going to move back East. She took me to the train station, sat me down and handed me a Bible. She said read this until I get back. It took me 3 days to read it. She never came back."

Classroom anarchy, killers in school uniform and how a generation is being betrayed

From the Daily Mail (UK) By Max Hastings
Last updated at 2:02 AM on 29th March 2010

The murder of 15-year- old Sofyen Belamouadden is an especially shocking gang crime because it was carried out in the midst of Victoria station, by boys apparently wearing school blazers.
It is tragically easy to imagine the horrors of life in the sort of classrooms the murderers come from.

We have grown accustomed to the existence of feral children - violent, amoral, unteachable and later unemployable - in many parts of Britain.

It is easy to identify their immediate victims, fellow teenagers who are bullied and occasionally killed. But beyond these, a much larger host pays the price: millions of children who want to equip themselves to lead decent lives.
Indiscipline and violence are viruses, which infect all those around them. In classrooms up and down the land, they make it impossible for many teachers to teach and their pupils to be educated.

Many prisoners, few solutions | The Indianapolis Star

The Indianapolis Star editorial of 20Feb2010 laments The fact that Indiana has one of the highest rates of incarceration. Below is my response.

The public does not want, and does not deserve, to have thugs, thieves and murderers loose in their community. Prisons are not for the inmates benefit...they are for our, society's, benefit. If the prisons are full, build more. If there are not enough judges and prosecuters, hire more. Social programs and rehabilitation should be continued but the truth is they mostly do not work. Public safety should be our top priority.

Heaven and Hell in Europe

In a European Heaven-
• The French are the cooks,
• The EngLish are the police,
. The Germans are the mechanics,
• The ItaLians are the Lovers and
• The Swiss organize everything.

In a European Hell-
* The EngLish are the cooks,
• The Germans are the police,
• The French are the mechanics,
• The Swiss are the Lovers and
• The ItaLians organize everything!

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes:
Seven social sins:
1. Politics without principles
2. Wealth without work
3. Pleasure without conscience
4. knowledge without character
5. Commerce without morality
6. Science without humanity
7. Worship without sacrifice.