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Day by Day Vol I, 3. 8.12.2013

NEWS & VIEWS - Holder to outline new drug offender sentencing proposal - Reuters ; Stop-and-Frisk Practice Violated Rights, Judge Rules A federal judge planned to designate a monitor for the New York Police Department after she found that it routinely stopped people without proper; Illegal Immigrants Claim 'Asylum' to Game Feds Into Footing Hotel Bills

TODAY'S GOSPEL: Matthew 17: 22-27
They will kill him and he will be raised.
The subjects are exempt from the tax

GOLF - Jason Dufner finished bogey-bogey on the two most difficult holes on the Oak Hill Country Club course near Rochester, N.Y., and that was good enough to claim his first major title with a victory in the PGA Championship on Sunday.

GRAPE STOMPING - Winemakers used to make their wine by groups of people stomping on the grapes; but now the machines do it! Want to fool your friends and have  a little fun? Cork drama...When the waiter, 'sommelier' in French,' pulls the cork of your selected wine and now what. Sniff it, lick it, smell it, feel it or hand it back? The answer is feel it. Why? To see if its wet, because if its dry that bottle was not stored on it side properly...waving away any apologies and excuses. The usual tasting of it should tell the story.

TRIVIA – What's the scientific name for the dust we kick up when in motion? The “Pigpen effect.”

SALT OF THE EARTH – Yesterday we pondered the saltiest place on earth...The Dead Sea...and its also the lowest part of Israel. A few facts that might spice up your conversation at dinner tonight. Salt is life itself. We each have about 8 ounces of salt inside us. It's vital for regulating muscle contraction, heartbeat, nerve impulse transmission, protean digestion and the exchange of water between cells, so as to bring food in and waste out. Deprived of salt, the body goes into convulsion, paralysis, and death. Eee gads. Maybe leave that part out.

THE CIA...just one of the many secret agencies that are supposed to protect us from bad guys.

Myth: The CIA was meant to be America's top spy agency, policing the world and protecting American interests with elaborate clandestine activity.The Truth: It may be a spy agency today, but, according to Jonathan Vankin in his book Conspiracies, Coverups and Crimes, that wasn't the original idea:

The CIA was never meant to do its own spying. And it certainly wasn't meant to conduct clandestine operations. The original purpose of the CIA was to summarize and analyze information turned up by other intelligence operations. It was a report writing department.

The CIA's one loophole is a funny phrase in the 1947 law (that created the agency). According to the bill signed by Harry Truman, Central Intelligence Agency would perform “other functions “ at the discretion of the National Security Coucil. The language of the act is fairly specific. Those “other functions” relate only to intelligence. Nowhere does it mention clandestine operations. Even so, the “functions” clause has been the rationale for what has become a...government-sanctioned, secret society.

Over time these types of agencies have mushroomed into behemoths which overlap all in the name of National Security. It seems whatever the oracles dream up in the name of “National Security” will find successful development with out tax dollars. We have way too many so-called watchdogs unleashed unwittingly against the taxpayers. And the CIA is just one of the many that the public is accustomed to fearing...mostly the unknown for the agencies hardly know what they are supposed to be doing.

HOLLYWOOD - What did Dolores Hart do after starring in two movies with Elvis? She became a nun.

ASK SOME EXPERTS

Very Carefully!
Q. How do they get all that shaving cream into an aerosol can?A. “They don't. Shaving cream is basically soap and water, put into a can along with butane gas. Without the gas, all you have soapy liquid. When the valve is pressed, some of the gas mizes with the soapp and water and expands to make foam.” (From The New York Times Book of Science Questions & Answers, by Claiborne Ray.

Always remember the Lord.

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