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~pt.1~DONKEY TRACKS" ~~
from: The White Donkey Society
August 18, 2004
~TRAILS of INSPIRATION~
Pathway
http://www.riversongs.com/basic/pathway.html
The Best Day Of My Life
http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRinspire489.htm
~TRAILS of WISDOM~
No one has an exclusive on opportunity.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
-- Chinese Proverb
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." --Barry Goldwater
"Man's way leads to a hopeless end--God's way leads to
an endless hope." -- Unknown
"Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature." --Winston Churchill
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-- Yiddish Proverb
A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from
a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. -- Author unknown
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." --Groucho Marx
~TRAILS of KNOWLEGE~
Did aliens save planet in 1908?
Russians say they have found spaceship debris
Posted: August 12, 2004 Â 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Members of a Russian scientific team researching the site of the Tunguska meteorite crash of 1908 say they have found remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, report a variety of Russian news agencies.The object appeared to be a large metallic block, according to the reports. The researchers chipped off a piece of the object and will now test its composition.One scientist said based on his calculations, the mass of the space object headed for Earth in 1908 was nearly 1 billion tons. He believes the meteorite was blasted by the spaceship at an altitude of 10 kilometers to prevent the destruction of all humanity on the planet. "I am fully confident and I can make an official statement that we were saved by some forces of a superior civilization," Yuri Lavbin said. "They exploded this enormous meteorite that headed towards us with enormous speed," he said. Now this great object that caused the meteorite to explode is found at last. We will continue our research, he said. Lavbin says that the results of this year's expedition give him hope that the Tunguska mystery will be solved before the phenomenon's 100th anniversary. To do this, Russian researchers plan another large-scale expedition to the Eastern Siberia. The scientific team says the Tunguska event was an aerial explosion that occurred near the Tunguska River in Siberia June 30, 1908. The blast felled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150-square kilometers. Local residents observed a huge fireball, almost as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky. A few minutes later, there was a flash that lit up half of the sky, followed by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows up to 400 miles away. The explosion registered at seismic stations across Eurasia, and produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected by the recently invented barographs in Britain. Over the next few weeks, night skies over Europe and western Russia glowed brightly enough for people to read by. In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency that lasted for several months. The size of the blast was later estimated to be between 10 and 15 megatons. Until this year members of numerous expeditions have failed to find any remains of the object that caused the event. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Vitamin E wards off colds in elderly, study says CHICAGO, Aug. 17 â Vitamin E supplements ward off colds in the elderly and may help some seniors avoid upper respiratory tract infections that can prove deadly, researchers said Tuesday. In the study of 617 nursing home patients aged 65 or older, those who swallowed a vitamin E supplement daily had significantly fewer common colds and had a 20 percent overall lower risk of acquiring a cold, compared to participants given a harmless placebo.
More patients taking the vitamin avoided upper respiratory tract infections than in the placebo group during the one-year study period. However, the vitamin did not reduce lower respiratory tract infections.
Respiratory illnesses in the elderly can be debilitating and lead to complications and death, study author Simin Meydani of Tufts University in Boston wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
''It is recognized that nutrition has a major impact on disease resistance, and Meydani's group has previously shown that vitamin E supplementation improves measures of immune response. The current study shows an impact on actual disease incidence,'' Annette Dickinson, president of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the nutritional supplement industry, said in a statement. --[Reuters]
~TRAILS of HE-HAWS~ #1 A lady goes to her priest one day and says, "Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."
"What do they say?" the priest inquired.
"They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?'"
"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, and then, he thought for a moment.
"You know," he said, "I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Frank and Jacob. My parrots can teach your parrots to pray and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying that horrible thing-in no time at all."
"Thank you," the woman responded, "this may very well be the solution to my problem." The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest's house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage, holding rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them.
After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison: "Hi,we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"
There was stunned silence.
Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed, "Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered." #2 The two young boys were discussing their ailments together in the children's ward"Are you medical or surgical?" asked the first, who had been in the ward for a week."I don't know what you mean," replied the second."It's simple," replied the first. "Were you sick when you came in here? Or did they make you sick when you got here?" #3 A policeman pulls over a driver for swerving in and out of lanes on the highway. He tells the guy to blow a breath into a breathalyzer.
''I can't do that, officer.''
''Why not?''
''Because I'm an asthmatic. I could get an asthma attack if I blow into that tube.''
''Okay, we'll just get a urine sample down at the station.''
''Can't do that either, officer.''
''Why not?''
''Because I'm a diabetic. I could get low blood sugar if I pee in a cup.''
''Alright, we could get a blood sample.''
''Can't do that either, officer.''
''Why not?''
''Because I'm a hemophiliac. If I give blood I could die.''
''Fine then, just walk this white line.''
''Can't do that either, officer.''
''Why not?''
#4 Two elderly Wal-Mart greeters were sitting on a bench during break time and one turns to the other asking, "Slim, I'm 73 years old and I'm just full of aches and pains. I know you are about my age.
How do you feel?' Slim says, " I feel just like a new born babe."
Rather amazed his coworker repeats his statement in the form of a question,"Really? A new born babe???"
"Yup", grins Slim, " No teeth, No hair and I think I just wet my pants
~cont. pt.2
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