The human being is a guest house
Every morning there is a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor

Welcome and entertain them all
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house
and empty it from its furniture
still, treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Jelaluddin Balkhi Runi (1207- 1248)

'Natural Energy Exercises'

While doing an interview with Bush about border patrol, If you look closely in the background, you can see a people going over the wall.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13190.htm

Religion and Politics .. full of invective.. funny.. http://religionandpolitics.ytmnd.com/

Throughout his career, Descartes was known for working in bed until noon. For Descartes, Hodgkinson writes, “lying in bed thinking was the very essence of being human: Cogito ergo sum, or, in other words, I lie in bed thinking, therefore I am.”

From 'Sneak Out of Work Right Now'by Michael Maiello at Forbes.com

The essence of Gödel's incompleteness theorem is that you cannot have both completeness and consistency. A bold anthropomorphic conclusion is that there are three types of people; those that must have answers to everything; those that panic in the face of inconsistencies; and those that plod along taking the gaps of incompleteness as well as the clashes of inconsistencies in stride if they notice them at all, or else they succumb to the tragedy of the human condition.

... ordinary humans who make do with both inconsistencies and gaps in their experience of life and the world.

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An embarrassing moment ensued the day the Queen of Greece came to Barnard College to receive an honorary degree. One of the guests at the ceremony was a crusty old psychiatrist from Colombia University across the avenue.

“ Come over and meet the Queen of Greece,” smiled the dean of Barnard. The old psychiatrist shook hands graciously, then cackled to the dean – loud enough for Her Majesty to overhear, “She seems harmless enough.. How long has she thought she is the Queen?”

Hawke's nuclear dump plan 'pie in the sky

Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has rejected a call  by former prime minister Bob Hawke for Australia to become the world's nuclear waste dump.
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Mr Hawke said he had already raised the idea with the Greens.

"One of them, I'm not going to talk about his name, his initial reaction was 'oh, shit', and then when I went through these things and what it could mean, he said this should be talked about," Mr Hawke said.