5 Minutes of your life waisted

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' , 'radar' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Now you know everything!

And the waiting begins... 

Doesn't get much snoozier then this... 

Pope Dies

ITALY'S SKY ITALIA QUOTING VATICAN SOURCES SAYS POPE'S BRAIN, HEART STILL FUNCTIONING...

Berger to Plead Guilty

Ex-Clinton Aide to Admit Taking Classified Papers

WASHINGTON, March 31 - Samuel R. Berger, a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and give up his security clearance for three years for removing classified material from a government archive, the Justice Department and associates of Mr. Berger's said Thursday.

He is expected to enter his plea on Friday in United States District Court here, capping an embarrassing episode that reverberated in last year's presidential campaign.

Last rites it has been reportered, was administered to Pope John Paul II. For a person who was once named man of the year, he really deserves to be called man of the century.

My dinner companion last night at a special company event. Mr. Gigot (Editor of the Wall Street Journal) sat to my left, and Dan Henninger (his number two) sat on my right. Among other guests at the dinner, Robert George, James Taranto, Grover Norquist (whom I took a taxi home with), and R. Emmett Tyrrell amongst others... 

Something about Monday made me think of this picture... 

The visual image...

Another Lethal Quake

Sad, but unfortunately true...another earthquake has hit in the Indian Ocean.

Pray for those who have died, and for those poor people under constant attack from nature.

As if the battle to save Terri Schiavo's life has not been enough, Terri's death will bring on a new set of bouts between Terri's family and her husband. Michael Schiavo wants the deceased body cremated, while the family wants to have a proper burial service.

What has become of our country? We're off on a crusade in the middle east to establish democracies, but here at home we are in a struggle to deny a human being food. Is there a food shortage supple that the American public has not been aware of? To make things worse, her death will bring more legal fights. Enough already. Give Terri some food. Save her.

Imagine if former Attorney General Janet Reno were Governor of Florida today instead of Governor Jeb Bush. Would she send in the FBI to give Terri food by gunpoint ala Elian Gonzalez?

Ultimately the Courts should be held responsible for the death of Terri.

President Bush seek to change the ways of the Federal Courts by pushing through Congress Judicial nominees that "err to the side of life".

The President must take more radical steps to send a clear and present message to the Courts that protecting life should be their motto.

President Roosevelt undertook radiacl steps in 1930's when the Supreme Court continously tore down many Economic reforms FDR passed through Congress to save the country from the Great Depression. The very threat of packing the Supreme Court with a block of Justices forced the court to alter the way it made decisions.

In 1938, in the case of United States v. Carolene Products , the court conceded to Roosevelt's demands.

Oyez summarizes a footnote from United States v. Carolene Products this way:

"In this otherwise unremarkable case, the Court planted the seeds for a new jurisprudence in a footnote to Stone's opinion for the Court. Here Stone gives a presumption of constitutionality to economic regulation. The Court would no longer substitute its views on economic policy for the views of Congress. Stone went further in footnote four by cautiously asserting that certain types of legislation might not merit deference toward constitutional validity. The most controversial element in the footnote was the suggestion that prejudice directed against discrete and insular minorities may call for "more searching judicial inquiry."

The last line suggest that the Court would no longer rule on economics decisions, instead leaving that to the Congress, but would instead focus on social issues; this would take them down a path of eventually ruling in favor of legalizing abortion in the Roe v. Wade decision.

It is time for the Court to leave matters of life or death to the people, not unelected officials.

Luke 24
The Resurrection

1But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

5and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

6"He is not here, but He has risen Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

7saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again."

8And they remembered His words,

9and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

10Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles.

John 20
The Empty Tomb

1Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.

2So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him."

3So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.

4The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

5and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.

6And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there,

7and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

8So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.