SPOTLIGHT

Quote of the Day

Mr.Yoda — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:26:48 GMT

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance.
There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
— Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview for the PBS/AOL digital and broadcast series “Makers: Women Who Make America” [via "AllThingsD"]

IT CAN BE HARD KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE AS A COURT REPORTER

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:20:04 GMT

These are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts", and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said , 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor , isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep , he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son , the 20-year-old , how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20 , much like your IQ.
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
_________________________________________
(My Favorite)
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
____________________________________________
(Another favorite)
ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
AT TORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
_____________________________________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you perfo rmed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral , OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not , he was by the time I finished.
____________________________________________

And last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNES S: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Thank you John for sending these.
It was a good laugh for sure ....

Valencia / Pego / Guadalest

Mr.Yoda — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:30:19 GMT

Blick über Pego	Col de Rates	Col de Rates
Nächste Reihe oben links: Nähe Tarbena; Alle weiteren folgenden Bilder: Guadalest


Reihe oben: Mandel- und Kirschblüte; Folgende Reihe: Auf der Strecke nach Tarbena; Alle weiteren Bilder: Guadalest

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Reihe ganz oben: Stationen auf dem Weg; Folgende Reihe: Blick auf Tarbena; Dritte Reihe: Obst & Gemüse; Alle weiteren Bilder: Guadalest.
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Hello to All ....

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:09:19 GMT

that got the word from John in Washington that I run this blog - let me know if you want me to expand your rights so you can post comments here ....

[This applies ONLY to US citzens that are originally from Gouverneur & vincinity]

Eggs & Milk ....

Mr.Yoda — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:22:48 GMT

This is a story which is perfectly logical to all males - and totally unconceivable to all females:

A wife asks her husband,
"Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get six."

A short time later the husband comes back with six cartons of milk. The wife asks him,
"Why did you buy six cartons of milk?"

He replied,
"They had eggs."

The most important video ....

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:29:38 GMT

www.youtube.com

Wild Turkey and Coke
On A Monday Morning

Mr.Yoda — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:26:41 GMT

Wild Turkey and Coke On A Monday Morning*

I had to go to Harrison this morning and saw this Coke truck sitting on the side of the road. When I got close to it I could see
what was wrong and turned around to go make sure the driver was OK; he was fine. I told him he should get a medal for keeping the truck in the road and not having a major accident. You’ll see why in the pictures.

.. a little Wild Turkey with Coke this morning.

* [got this from a friend living in Kansas]

... prosecute, arrest, interrogate, detain and hold anyone ...

Mr.Yoda — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:32:00 GMT

****
"My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government
results from too much government."

[Thomas Jefferson]

****

President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law:
Sadly the American Constitution and Civil Rights in America died on December 31., 2011, when President Obama signed into law the "Defense Authorization Bill [NDAA]" - allowing the military to prosecute, arrest, interrogate, detain and hold anyone on charges of suspected terrorism without legal rights granted by the Consttution. It has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.

citation:
"Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority." [ACLU]

*edit*
There's that change we were promised...going from bad to worse! [comment]

Scary (2)

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:36:03 GMT

Text from an email I recently received from a friend:

" .. I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around, and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation .. I quickly .. jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars. Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening .. the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic:
There is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device ..
They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom, and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code .. (so that) it can be instantly stolen.
.. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them .. "

Scary ...!

Mr.Yoda — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:48:19 GMT

In today's mail I received some pictures and text on a demonstration recently held in London - need I say that I was utterly shocked?

[The following is a citation from the mail mentioned]
" .. Pictures from London -- this is beyond scary .... Makes you wonder doesn't it .... View the pictures below and decide how you really feel about the future of the Western World. Why would anyone think that we should be at war with nice, peaceful Muslims? These pictures tell it all!
Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over! These pictures are not shown on TV or in Newspapers. Would it be against 'their' human rights?
These pictures are of Muslims marching through the STREETS OF LONDON during their recent 'Religion of Peace Demonstration.'

Can you imagine having a Christian demonstration against Islam in an Islamic country? .. "

(pictures are loading!)

....1	....2	....3
....4		....5
....6	....7	....8

*edit* It seems necessary to emphasise that this text deals with Muslim people [Jihadists], but the same applies to any kind of christian/religious teaching [Crusaders] which poses a threat to independent, rational thinking and action - as described in the following citation:

" .. Denounce all Jihadists and Crusaders for what they are: Psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions and terrible sexual repressions .. "
[Christopher Hitchens]

["click!" auf das jeweilige Bild vergrößert ....]

As never seen on TV:
Young Republican Girls
Swimming Naked
at Pool Party

Mr.Yoda — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:08:35 GMT

** Thanks, John **
===> "click!" ===>
www.re-actio.com

2012 and the End of Days Phenomena

Mr.Yoda — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:39:33 GMT

" .. Dec. 8 & 9

Much has been written about the impending end of the world on December 21, 2012. It has been asserted that on that date, the Maya calendar ends. It is further asserted that in 2012, the planets align, an unseen rogue planet will closely approach the Earth, the Earth's pole will shift and the sun's pathway through the Milky Way will contribute to our woes. None of this is true but an extraordinary number of people are concerned nevertheless. The preoccupation with the "end of days" concept is as old as history itself and even in our civilized society, it is seriously discussed and has received a good deal of unjustified media and public attention. We'll try to separate myth from reality .. "

[cited from "NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratories; CalTech."]

Another attempt to straighten out one of those odd stories that circle the world in virtually no time .... and reach the "believers"! Nobody asked me, but nevertheless I drop my two cents:
It will not help.
They don't want to know the truth.

101 years plus 81 years = PERFECT!

Mr.Yoda — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:41:35 GMT

Yearly Dementia Test

Mr.Yoda — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:54:40 GMT

It's that time of year for us to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it!
Below is a very private way to gauge how your memory compares to the last test. Some may think it is too easy but the ones with memory problems may have difficulty.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.

1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer: 'bread.' If you said 'toast' give up now and do something else..
Try not to hurt yourself.
If you said, bread, go to Question 2.

2. Say 'silk' five times. Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?

Answer: Cows drink water. If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?

Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these??? If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.

4. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales ...
In London , 17 people get on the bus.
In Reading , 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on.
In Swindon , 2 people get off and 4 get on.
In Cardiff , 11 people get off and 16 people get on.
In Swansea , 3 people get off and 5 people get on.
In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on.
You then arrive at Milford Haven ..

Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus driver?

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your own age?
It was YOU driving the bus!!

PS:
95% of people fail most of the questions!!

the blind eye ....

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:33:53 GMT

" .. Critics say German authorities have played down the existence of rightwing extremism, concentrating instead on the threats posed by leftwing terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists. Whether they deliberately turned a blind eye or genuinely did not have a handle on the violence being wrought by neo-Nazis is open to interpretation .. "

[source of quote]

Additional reading (German!):
Opalkatze

2012

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:00:44 GMT

The [New Age] Esoterics have misunderstood Einstein when he said:

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

He meant the goal-oriented, unbiased imagination of scientists, so if he's quoted just with the highlighted part of his sentences above - he's misquoted!

Esoterics, however, procure & use "evidence" - mostly quoted out of context - to adorn their fancyful (abstruse) theories with a touch of science.

Go get the truth & scientific evidence @

°°° on vacation °°°

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:33:37 GMT

See you later ....

A Beautiful Monster ....

Mr.Yoda — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:56:07 GMT

A "Gigantic Wasp With Long, Powerful Jaws" has been discovered recently by a Californian Entomologist, Lynn Kimsey.

No free will .... nothing at all ...!

Mr.Yoda — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:37:09 GMT

"..Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly:
1) No gods worth having exist;
2) no life after death exists;
3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists;
4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and
5) human free will is nonexistent.."

William B. Provine [Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University], “, “Evolution: Free will and punishment and meaning in life”; cited from his 1998 Darwin Day Keynote Address.

Yesssss!
That about sums up the basic truth about Life, Earth und the Universe. People fear the necessity of being responsible for themselves, they tend to look for some 'greater being' to relieve them from just that. No wonder they eagerly swallow what is preached in most Religions:
Leave it to GOD, he'll take care of you - the catch, however, being that furtheron this individual is seperated from thinking for itself. Their life will be reigned by others, whom they - no questions to be asked - have to pay for this 'translation service' ....

Poor souls, unable to stand on their own feet, to think for themselves and cope with what life asks of them.

The "Economy Balloon" ....

Mr.Yoda — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:38:15 GMT

[Cutout from Source - where you'll find the original cartoon.]

"..a well-formed nipple
surrounded by areola and hair
on the left foot.."

Mr.Yoda — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:39:50 GMT

Strange things happen around the world - and we wouldn't be aware of any of this if there was no internet .... ok, you might say, "who cares?", but isn't it interesting to know that evolution is still at work?

[source; Pictures of the anomaly at the source.]

Finally ...!

Mr.Yoda — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:53:55 GMT

It is long known that pregnancy among teenage girls in America is unsurpassed on the globe .... yet the so-called 'CHRISTIAN fundamentalists' try to keep sex education out of schools and preachers of all kinds condemn any move to change this.

However, just recently the causes of teenage pregnancy were collected and accumulated in the following chart⁽*⁾:

^(*) [pls find the high resolution at the source ....]

*edit*
"The Onion" resembles the well known "Postillon" ....

Surprise ...!

Mr.Yoda — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:06:46 GMT

Watch & listen carefully - especially close to the end of the video ....

Who is "Josh Ritter"?

Longevity ....

Mr.Yoda — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:13:07 GMT

[Queen & Harry S. Truman; 1951]

[Queen & B. Obama; 2011]

"QE" gives new meaning to the phrase "Long Live the Queen!" ....

It can't fly ....

Mr.Yoda — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:30:51 GMT

but almost everything else:

AMPHIBIOUS CARAVAN

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