Flying the Lawn Chair

Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair
By KEITH RIDLER


CAMBRIDGE, Idaho (AP) - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

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This is my kind of guy. - DOB

Twilight Zone

Mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
-William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Johann Hamann

"My soul, with all its moral deficiencies and basic crookedness, is in His hand. Its righteousness is the work of the Spirit, a Creator, a Redeemer; to make it sound rests neither in my power, nor in that of a friend."
- Johann Hamann

Lest You Think I'm All Highbrow

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