"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him." - Robert Benchley

I like it! Creativity in the workplace.

Short post tonight. I've been too busy to think. Didn't even look at the car today.

I leave two weeks from today and will be gone two Sundays on our camping trip. Between now and then I need to pick the songs for the next four Sundays, edit the sound files, make the slide presentations, choose the Scripture passage and reader for each week and create & print the bulletins. That and the sermon for this week and the next. And my lesson this week. (We don't have second hour in July.)

I'm going over to the house of one of the families in our church tomorrow morning to install some shelving. I think. She's five days beyond her due date and it's a home birth. I was in the room for the birth of our sons but only because it was my parental duty. So she has strict instructions to call me if she goes into labor before 11 a.m. tomorrow. If it's any time between 11 and noon there will be a new record set for packing tools and exiting a house!

I heard on NPR that when NATO was founded in 1949 the U.S. covered 50% of the annual budget. We now pay 76% of NATO's annual budget, which runs to 2 billion Euros. If I've done my math correctly (I used a calculator) that works out to $137 billion a year. I'm thinking that with the end of the cold war and the fall of the iron curtain, never mind the fact that many of the countries NATO was intended to protect us against are now member nations, things are a little out of balance. 

I propose that we cut our contribution by 2% every year for the next decade. That'll give the rest of them plenty of time to step up and/or make the tough decisions about what should be cut. And it will put $137 billion back into our budget. 

Tell me why this doesn't make sense.

G'night all.