Tour de France/Drugs-to-win; Champaign/Alcohol-to-live; Escargot. Escargot? Janet entered a Snail Emporium. She was shown 48 different types of snails. The curator had a special snail she had as a pet. The snail’s name was Paul. So enthused was the curator that Janet experience a snail delicacy with champaign the week before the Tour de France that she prepared a very special snail eatery delight for her guest. Viva la France. Escargot de Paul.

There are some principles that do not seem fair. In a parable of Jesus, he tells of a harvester that paid a man a fixed wage for eight hours of work. He then paid the same fixed wage to a man who agreed to one hour of work. Both laborers agreed to the same wage. Question. Was it fair that they received the same wage? The implication was that it was fair as each labor agreed independently with the harvester. Ouch.

What parent does not wish to have their progeny stand on the parent’s shoulders’? If not, then why the parents? It all starts with, "Here, let me make your bed for you." Such is the stigma of the future. Ouch.

"I am having difficulties. I go into a state of paralysis because I am unsure, confused, and so time just goes by with little result" "Come to church." "No, I do not have time." Ouch.

High maintenance people take pride in their need to be satisfied. They consume other people’s time with their blue sky ideas that they believe are more special than those of others. Or they admit to wanting the best, for money to flow to them that they can be who they are, special. The end game for high maintenance individuals is that they control society that the labor of others is wheat in their barn. Ouch.

Is helping these individuals prolonging their path of ouch? Are they unaware that they need to do what they say they are going to do? That they need, note need, to make their own bed every day? That church is the place of their best investment of time? That they need to see value in all things.

It is always a person’s own call. Always. We all do exactly what we want to do.

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It is estimated that 1/3 the price of present day oil is speculation. This means that even if the oil companies operate in normal fashion, they benefit from nothing more than the speculators driving up the cost of oil beyond supply and demand. The oil companies are along for the ride on the carts of the financial brokers. And guess who the horses are?

It matters less where or when you begin the race, it is more with whom you are yoked. Not heredity, circumstance, money, nor position of power effects one’s life as much as the person at our shoulder.

Who is the most powerful person in the U.S.A.? Is it the Attorney General who can order a Federal Marshal to arrest the president? Is the Secret Service at the order of the Attorney General? Who is at the top of the pyramid? While the president is the Commander and Chief, can the judicial branch call his authority to a halt? This is not a rhetorical a question?

Do you know that by some reports that the U.S.A. has 149,994 more atomic bombs than necessary to obliterate the vast majority of world’s population? (Business Leaders For Sensible Priorities)

Who is smart?