December 1st 2008
Quote Of The Day: God’s Hand Edition
“God must have been with them, ’cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal.” - Bexar County TX Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kyle Coleman
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hen asked to explain whatever possessed him to ram his pickup at a speed in excess of 100 mph into the car of the woman driving ahead of him, the driver had a simple answer for the police: God told him to do it because the woman wasn’t driving right.
God apparently didn’t care to address whether the gentleman’s action should be considered to be “driving right” or not.
Amazingly, both cars spun in the median and came to a stop without entering oncoming lanes. Neither driver was injured, leading to the sheriff’s spokesman’s quote that God just might have been involved in this mess.
And not at all amazingly in this world that no longer sees prophets (or profits, for that matter), a psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the pickup truck driver.
Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly. Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, Yale Law), Jim Steinberg (Harvard, Yale Law) and Susan Rice (Stanford, Oxford D. Phil.).
Rich, rich Barack Obama! Unlike McCain (and counter to his own promise), he shunned the government hand-out (or is that hand-up?) and entrepreneurally set out to raise his money on his own. 
Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered.
Sure, Gates is staying on as Defense Sec, and that’s a very good thing in these tumultuous times. But good leaders require and depend on good deputies, and Gates’ deputies apparently are not too keen on working with the Obama team, or visa versa.