November Week 1, 2006

Wednesday  November 1 , 2006

We went to a meeting in Colville and rushed back so I could fix the leak... I replaced the section that was leaking. I looked at the PVC I took out but I can't see where the leak was... but it's fixed... my third solo plumbing job in this house.  We now have three holes in the wall that need to be patched, only one is in a conspicuous area.

Christy, Cindy and Mrs. Allert went to the Ione Community College to see what it's all about. Cindy isn't very interested apparently..

Thursday  November 2 , 2006

The patch in the shower in the basement was coming loose, but not leaking. I pulled the old patch off and replaced it with some JB Weld. We'll see how that works.

Christy went to Colville with G&G to get meds and glasses.

It started to snow pretty good today. I will take pictures tomorrow.

Friday  November 3 , 2006

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.

HL Menckin

It was supposed to snow off and on for about 4 days but they revised the weather report and now it looks like we will be getting rain instead.

Saturday  November 4 , 2006

By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
 Guy Kawasaki

I had some trouble with with last weeks web page... it wouldn't boot up... I suspect it may have been a photo from the net that added some ActiveX files... it is gone now, I spent about an hour and a half rebuilding it...

Sorry this weeks entries are so sparse, I have been busy these days getting ready for Winter and it makes me tired at night... put the plow on the lawn tractor today and went to the dump... I am tired.

Also, Christy is having some pain in her chest and is not getting a lot of sleep. The PC is in the bedroom so I try to shut down the computer work early so I can turn off the light... I want to take her in to the Dr. but she is stubborn... really stubborn, we are going in to Spokane on Monday I will get her in to see a Doctor or I will get myself arrested trying.

Sunday  November 5 , 2006

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas

I took Cindy, Mike and Monica to Colville, Cindy to get her picture taken, Mike because he wanted a diversion... and some wool socks, Monica because she needed some Basketball shoes and bras... now the only part of this that I had difficulty with was the bras... I am not especially comfortable in the bra department, first it's like standing in a room where the walls are made of boobs, second there is an infinite variety of bras from A to DDD they lift they separate the perform miracles, they have padded bras, under-wire support and sports bras, and I am only touching the surface, if men had to confront this sort of variety shopping for underwear they would go insane or go without. ... It went well, except that when I got home I was told by the boss that I got the wrong type... Monica likes them though.... that's what counts I guess.

Oh... I almost forgot... Monica tried on one of the new bras and called Chris to go see how it fit. Chris didn't hear her so Monica came out of the bathroom and walked around the corner just as Christian was coming up the stairs from the basement. He saw Monica and just about hit the wall, he said "Oh my God" and ran back down stairs completely forgetting what he had come up stairs for... It was the funniest thing I had seen in a long time... I guess you had to be there... damn... I had a good laugh.

Here's one of my favorite jokes, it's in three parts:

After Quasimodo's death, the Bishop of the Cathedral of Notre Dame sent word through the streets of Paris that a new bell-ringer was needed. The bishop decided that he would conduct the Auditions personally and went up into the belfry to begin the screening process.

He listened to people ring the bells all day and finally there was just one man left. As he approached out of the shadows the Bishop noticed that he had no arms. The bishop was incredulous. But the man said, "You don't understand, sir. I need a job to provide for my family, and there are no jobs for handicapped people especially people without arms." Against his better judgment he Bishop let him audition.

The man backed up and ran toward the biggest bell. He hit it with his face and it made a beautiful sound. He ran around the belfry like a mad man hitting the bells with his head. The music was so inspired that people from all over Paris were filling up the courtyard below. The bellringer was reaching a crescendo and as a finale he ran head first at the largest bell and missed. He flew out the
belfry window to his death in the courtyard below.

The stunned bishop ran down the stairs to the courtyard. Someone in the crowd asked, "Bishop, who was this man?"

"I didn't get his name," the bishop replied solemnly, "but his face sure rings a bell."

Part Two


The following day, despite the sadness that weighed heavily on his heart from the death of the armless campanologist, the bishop continued his auditions for the bell-ringer of Notre Dame.

The first man that approached him--also had no arms! The bishop was astonished, and he refused to let him try it because of what had happened the day before. But the man said, "You don't understand, sir. You remember the man yesterday? I am his brother. I need this job to provide for my family, and the family of my dead brother, and there are no jobs for people without arms." So the bishop relented and let him try it.

The man was every bit as accomplished as his brother. He played the bells like he was possessed. As a tribute he even played the same piece as his brother, as he heard the end the Bishop with tears in his eyes held his breath but the man finished the piece flawlessly, there was applause and cheering from the street below. The man turned and went to the window to acknowledge the appreciative crowd, as he started his bow he lost his balance and fell out window to his death onto the Courtyard below.

The stunned bishop ran to his side. Again someone from the crowd asked, "Bishop, who was this man?"

"I don't know his name," the bishop replied sadly, "but he's a dead ringer for his brother."

Part Three

The Bishop, still without a bell-ringer, decided he must continue with his search, so the next day he held still another audition.

All of the people who had auditioned before came to try again and the Bishop patiently listened to them all. One last man came out of the shadows and again the man was armless. The Bishop threw up his arms and told the man that he was not, under any conditions, going to let him audition. But the man patiently explained, "You don't understand, sir. You remember the man yesterday, and the man the day before? I am their brother. They both died in their attempt to get the job of bell-ringer I too will need this job to provide for my family, and the families of my dead brothers, I respectfully suggest that owe me the chance to try out for the job they gave their lives for." The man was so eloquent the bishop relented and let him try.

"But before you do," the bishop said, "you must tell me your name, and the names of your brothers."

The man replied, "My first brother was named Pedro; the second was Juan; and I am Amal."

The man was every bit as accomplished as his brothers. He played the bells like an angel. As a tribute he even played the same piece as his brothers, as he heard the end approaching the Bishop with tears in his eyes held his breath, but the man finished the piece flawlessly, there was applause and cheering from the street below. The man turned and went to the window to acknowledge the appreciative crowd, as he started his bow he had a massive heart attack from all the exertion and fell out window to his death on the Courtyard below.

Someone from the crowd ran up into the belfry and saw the Bishop just sitting there. He said, "Bishop, don't tell me it happen again?" The bishop nodded sadly. The man from the courtyard asked, "Well, should we go down and take a look?"

"Oh, no, that's not necessary," said the bishop, "If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal."

November 2, 2006

Speaking of Apologies

By William Rivers Pitt

For the record, this is what John Kerry said: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Big deal, right? He was clearly referring to George W. Bush with those lines, and sure, his comedic timing is somewhere to the south of sharp. A few people got it, however; Chris Matthews, on his MSNBC show 'Hardball,' said of the quip, "If you listen to the transition of words there, it clearly looks like he was talking about President Bush being in a state of denial, not realizing when he took us into Iraq what he was going to face because he didn't study hard in school."

But whatever to all that, because it's a campaign season, and campaign seasons tend to make people comprehensively stupid, so everyone gets to hoot and holler about this for a few news cycles. Hell, the GOP has to campaign on something, right? Bush, along with White House press secretary Tony Snow and a few weak-kneed Democrats, have demanded that Kerry apologize for, yes, you got it, "insulting the troops." Surely this is Bizarro World, yes?

Let's take a minute and think of some other apologies that probably should be offered, since we're on the subject.

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons," said Bush to the UN General Assembly in September of 2002. This was a lie, and he should apologize.

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons. We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons - the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have," said Bush in October of 2002. This was a lie, and he should apologize.

"The Iraqi regime possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas," said Bush in October of 2002. This was a lie, and he should apologize.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production," said Bush during his January 2003 State of the Union address. This was a lie, and he should apologize.

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," said Bush in March of 2003. This was a lie, and he should apologize.

"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them," said Bush in May of 2003. This was an astonishing, bald-faced lie. He should apologize, and be ashamed of himself.

105 American soldiers died in Iraq during October because of these lies. 71 American soldiers died in Iraq during September because of these lies. 65 American soldiers died in Iraq during August because of these lies. 43 American soldiers died in July, 61 in June, 69 in May, 76 in April, and 31 in March, the month that marked the three-year anniversary of the carnage unleashed by these lies. 2,818 American soldiers have died since the invasion was undertaken, and 44,779 more have been wounded, because of these lies.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University estimates that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion was undertaken. A police officer was shot to death, along with a clerk in the Ministry of Industry. Two people were killed by a bomb. Forty people were abducted off a highway north of Baghdad, and five bodies showing signs of torture and mutilation were pulled from the Tigris River. Ten more bodies, showing similar signs of torture, were dumped across different districts in Baghdad. All of this happened during a single day. All of this happened yesterday.

Since we're talking about apologies, George W. Bush owes more than a few. In a just world, he would be made to personally appear before the families of all the dead, and all the wounded, in order to beg for their forgiveness.

One apology, just one, would be good for starters.

Originally published at truthout.org



Authors Bio: William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.

Thought all of you would like to read or have a copy of this.  This man out does himself with each new
speech.  He is truly one of the most courageous men in the US...he has absolutely no fear!!   God Bless him!
Maureen

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, this evening. It's long. And some of the best writing I've ever read. C&L has the video and the transcript - here is the transcript:

And finally tonight, a Special Comment.

On the 22nd of May, 1856, as the deteriorating American political system veered towards the edge of the cliff, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina, shuffled into the Senate of this nation, his leg stiff from an old dueling injury, supported by a cane. And he looked for the familiar figure of the prominent Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner.

Brooks found Sumner at his desk, mailing out copies of a speech he had delivered three days earlier ­ a speech against slavery.

The Congressman matter-of-factly raised his walking stick in mid-air, and smashed its metal point, across the Senator's head.

Congressman Brooks hit his victim repeatedly. Senator Sumner somehow got to his feet and tried to flee. Brooks chased him, and delivered untold blows to Sumner's head. Even though Sumner lay unconscious and bleeding, on the Senate floor, Brooks finally stopped beating him, only because his cane finally broke.

Others will cite John Brown's attack on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry as the exact point after which the Civil War became inevitable.

In point of fact, it might have been the moment ­ not when Brooks broke his cane over the prostrate body of Senator Sumner - but when voters in Brooks's district started sending him new canes.

Tonight, we almost wonder to whom President Bush will send the next new cane.

There is tonight no political division in this country that he and his party will not exploit, nor have not exploited; no anxiety that he and his party will not inflame.

There is no line this President has not crossed ­ nor will not cross ­ to keep one political party, in power.

He has spread any and every fear among us, in a desperate effort to avoid that which he most fears ­ some check, some balance against what has become not an imperial, but a unilateral presidency.

And now it is evident that it no longer matters to him, whether that effort to avoid the judgment of the people, is subtle and nuanced ­ or laughably transparent.

Senator John Kerry called him out Monday.

He did it two years too late.

He had been too cordial ­ just as Vice President Gore had been too cordial in 2000 ­ just as millions of us, have been too cordial ever since.

Senator Kerry, as you well know, spoke at a college in Southern California. With bitter humor, he told the students that he had been in Texas the day before, that President Bush used to live in that state, but that now he lives in the state of denial.

He said the trip had reminded him about the value of education ­ that quote "if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you can get stuck in Iraq."

The Senator, in essence, called Mr. Bush stupid.

The context was unmistakable: Texas;the state of denial;stuck in Iraq. No interpretation required.

And Mr. Bush and his minions responded, by appearing to be too stupid to realize that they had been called stupid.

They demanded Kerry apologize ­ to the troops in Iraq.

And so he now has.

That phrase "appearing to be too stupid" is used deliberately, Mr. Bush.

Because there are only three possibilities here:

One, sir, is that you are far more stupid than the worst of your critics have suggested; that you could not follow the construction of a simple sentence; that you could not recognize your own life story when it was deftly summarized; that you could not perceive it was the sad ledger of your presidency that was being recounted.

This, of course, compliments you, Mr. Bush, because even those who do not "make the most of it," who do not "study hard," who do not "do their homework," and who do not "make an effort to be smart" might still just be stupid ­ but honest.

No; the first option, sir, is, at best, improbable. You are not honest.

The second option is that you and those who work for you deliberately twisted what Senator Kerry said to fit your political template. That you decided to take advantage of it, to once again pretend that the attacks, solely about your own incompetence, were in fact attacks on the troops ­ or even on the nation itself.

The third possibility is, obviously, the nightmare scenario; that the first two options are in some way conflated.

That it is both politically convenient for you, and personally satisfying to you, to confuse yourself with the country for which, sir, you work.

A brief reminder, Mr. Bush: You are not the United States of America.

You are merely a politician whose entire legacy will have been a willingness to make anything political ­ to have, in this case, refused to acknowledge that the insult wasn't about the troops, and that the insult was not even truly about you either ­ that the insult, in fact, is you.

So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans' deliberate distortions.

Thus the President will now begin the apologies he owes our troops, right?

This President must apologize to the troops ­ for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, quote "look like just a comma."

This President must apologize to the troops ­ because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.

This President must apologize to the troops ­ for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence, at a banquet, while our troops were in harm's way.

This President must apologize to the troops ­ because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.

This President must apologize to the troops ­ because his administration ran out of "plan" after barely two months.

This President must apologize to the troops ­ for getting 2,815 of them killed.

This President must apologize to the troops ­ for getting this country into a war without a clue.

And Mr. Bush owes us an apology… for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.

­

We will not receive them, of course.

This President never apologizes.

Not to the troops.

Not to the people.

Nor will those henchmen who have echoed him.

In calling him a "stuffed suit," Senator Kerry was wrong about the Press Secretary.

Mr. Snow's words and conduct ­ falsely earnest and earnestly false ­ suggest he is not "stuffed" - he is inflated.

And in leaving him out of the equation, Senator Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Senator McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.

He rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.

Only, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry's head came in a context, even more disturbing: Mr. McCain demanded the apology, while electioneering for a Republican congressional candidate in Illinois.

He was speaking of how often he had been to Walter Reed Hospital to see the wounded Iraq veterans, of how, quote "many of the have lost limbs." He said all this while demanding that the voters of Illinois reject a candidate who is not only a wounded Iraq veteran, but who lost two limbs there: Tammy Duckworth.

Support some of the wounded veterans. But bad-mouth the Democratic one.

And exploit all the veterans, and all the still-serving personnel, in a cheap and tawdry political trick, to try to bury the truth: that John Kerry said the President had been stupid.

And to continue this slander as late as this morning ­ as biased, or gullible, or lazy newscasters, nodded in sleep-walking assent.

Senator McCain became a front man in a collective lie to break sticks over the heads of Democrats ­ one of them his friend; another his fellow veteran, leg-less, for whom he should weep and applaud, or at minimum about whom, he should stay quiet.

That was beneath the Senator from Arizona.

And it was all because of an imaginary insult to the troops that his party cynically manufactured ­ out of a desperation, and a futility, as deep as that of Congressman Brooks, when he went hunting for Senator Sumner.

This, is our beloved country now, as you have re-defined it, Mr. Bush.

Get a tortured Vietnam veteran to attack a decorated Vietnam veteran, in defense of military personnel, whom that decorated veteran did not insult.

Or, get your henchmen to take advantage of the evil lingering dregs of the fear of miscegenation in Tennessee, in your party's advertisements against Harold Ford.

Or, get the satellites who orbit around you, like Rush Limbaugh, to exploit the illness ­ and the bi-partisanship ­ of Michael J. Fox ­ yes, get someone to make fun of the cripple.

Oh, and sir, don't forget to drag your own wife into it.

"It's always easy," she said of Mr. Fox's commercials ­ and she used this phrase twice ­ "to manipulate people's feelings."

Where on earth might the First Lady have gotten that idea, Mr. President?

From your endless manipulation of people's feelings about terrorism?

"How ever they put it," you said Monday of the Democrats, on the subject of Iraq , "their approach comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses."

No manipulation of feelings there.

No manipulation of the charlatans of your administration into the only truth-tellers.

No shocked outrage at the Kerry insult that wasn't; no subtle smile as the First Lady silently sticks the knife in Michael J. Fox's back; no attempt on the campaign trail to bury the reality that you have already assured that the terrorists are winning.

Winning in Iraq, sir.

Winning in America, sir.

There, we have chaos: joint U.S./Iraqi checkpoints at Sadr City, the base of the radical Shiite militias ­ and the Americans have been ordered out by the Prime Minister of Iraq… and our Secretary of Defense doesn't even know about it!

And here ­ we have deliberate, systematic, institutionalized lying and smearing and terrorizing ­ a code of deceit, that somehow permits a President to say, quote, "If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don't have one."

Permits him to say this while his plan in Iraq has amounted to a twisted version of the advice once offered to Lyndon Johnson about his Iraq, called Vietnam.

Instead of "declare victory ­ and get out"… we now have "declare victory ­ and stay, indefinitely."

And also here, we have institutionalized the terrorizing of the opposition. True domestic terror:

– Critics of your administration in the media receive letters filled with fake anthrax.

– Braying newspapers applaud, or laugh, or reveal details the FBI wished kept quiet, and thus impede or ruin the investigation.

– A series of reactionary columnists encourages treason charges against a newspaper that published "national security information" ­ that was openly available on the internet.

– One radio critic receives a letter, threatening the revelation of as much personal information about her as can be obtained ­ and expressing the hope that someone will then shoot her with an AK-47 machine gun.

– And finally, a critic of an incumbent Republican Senator, a critic armed with nothing but words, is attacked by the Senator's supporters, and thrown to the floor, in full view of television cameras, as if someone really did want to re-enact the intent and the rage of the day Preston Brooks found Senator Charles Sumner.

Of course, Mr. President, you did none of these things.

You instructed no one to mail the fake anthrax. Nor undermine the FBI's case. Nor call for the execution of the editors of the New York Times. Nor threaten to assassinate Stephanie Miller. Nor beat up a man yelling at Senator Allen. Nor have the first lady knife Michael J. Fox. Nor tell John McCain to lie about John Kerry.

No, you did not.

And the genius of the thing, is the same, as in King Henry's rhetorical question about Archbishop Thomas Becket: "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

All you have to do, sir… is hand out enough new canes.

Steve Allen

1. ...And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions. This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive. As for the fanatics, whose number is legion in our own time, we might be advised to leave them to heaven. They will not, unfortunately, do us the same courtesy. They attack us and each other, and whatever their protestations to peaceful intent, the bloody record of history makes clear that they are easily disposed to restore to the sword. My own belief in God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge. My respect for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even well-educated Christians are frustated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record. Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it. Some Christians, alas, resort to formal lying to obscure such reality. [Steve Allen]
   
   
    
2. As I argued in Beloved Son, a book about my son Brian and the subject of religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction in the methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless conversions -- to anything -- less likely. Brian now realizes this and has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with. The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind. [Steve Allen]
   
   
    
3. One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
4. There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
5. There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
6. The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
7. Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
8. God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope. [Steve Allen, More Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
9. No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible. [Steve Allen, More Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
   
   
    
10. If...we assume that there is no God, it follows that morality is even more important than if there is a Deity. If God exists, his unlimited power can certainly redress imbalances in the scale of human justice. But if there is no God, then it is up to man to be as moral as he can. [Steve Allen]
    
    
     
11. It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty. [Steve Allen, quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]
    
    
     
12. If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. [Steve Allen, quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]
    
    
     
13. To those who wish to punish others--or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands-- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort. [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]
    
     
14. ...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. [Steve Allen]