notes

The fact that you do not know the answer does not mean that someone else does. Steiner

1909 statistics Five leading causes of death were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke

More 1909 - Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

The average life expectancy was 47 years. There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!

If it just "one to a customer", people will buy most anything.

Dale Carnegie once claimed. "You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

TV show host Johnny Carson once asked baseball great Yogi Berra how he liked school. Berra answered, "Closed."

Sometimes I feel so inept. Like when there's a baseball player who's worth $250 million, and I can't remember his or her name.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh - "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask."

Renee Kirchner is doing an outstanding job as a part of the Lab Midwest staff. Renee can be reached at 414-258-6415. Renee has both BS and MS degrees in engineering and works well with Southeast Wisconsin Schools. Let us know and we will have Renee stop to see you at your mutual convenience.

Has Facebook and Twitter taken over much of your life? Well get a new life.

Ben Franklin made it a point to always use Socratic questioning when faced with an argument. He will always remain as one of our most memorable political types.

Is it true, folks never understand the people they hate? How often have you listened to someone deride an individual who is not present? Does it bother you? It should, of course we call it gossip, but most of the time we must remind ourselves not to get involved. What must be the inferiority complex of the one doing the deriding?

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Robert Lewis Stevenson was not talking about teachers when he said the following, but he could have been. "The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from you daily victory and defeat."

No one can be wrong with man and right with God. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Mother Teresa said "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

In making my decision, I must admit that I have allowed facts to influence my thinking

If you want people to remember you, borrow five dollars from them. They probably won't remind you, but they will remember.

Is it easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend? Bill Blake

If you want to have something that will last forever, use a credit card and pay only the minimum each month.

When you do the impossible you have no competition.

"It's a funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." W. Somerset Maugham

words for today

We are reminded of the joke about a man who picked up a frog that said, "If you kiss me I'll turn into a beautiful princess." The man put the frog in his pocket without kissing it, and the frog said, "Wait, why haven't you kissed me yet?" And the man responded, "At this point in my life, I prefer to have a talking frog."

O.J. Simpson once said. "It doesn't matter if you win or lose....until you lose."

Who Said This???? "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." A clue he had US VP by his name. How are your doing on the answer?

Good News - You no longer have to keep up with the Joneses.....They died of exhaustion.

In 1787 George Washington led the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution. He spoke, almost not at all, during the entire meeting. Then someone suggested that the Constitution set a limit of 5,000 men in the Army. George could no longer be quiet. " If that is so,"he said, "let the Constitution also say that no foreign Army should ever invade our country with more than 3,000 troops."

Happened in your home town. A burglar came up and stuck a gun in the man's back. In a flash the man turns, applies a judo grip and flings the piece of garbage across the sidewalk. Then he karate chops the burglar blackening his face, dislocating his jaw, fracturing his ribs and breaking his arm. Finally in total desperation the battered burglar cries out, "Hey buddy, ain't you ever gonna call a cop?"

a smile

A very unpopular but powerful businessman died. Two of his colleagues saw the obituary notice and decided to go to the funeral. When they arrived, they found the church so packed with people that they couldn’t get a seat. Said one, “Look at all these people. How do you explain it?” Said the other, “Give the people what they want and they'll show up!”

A punk rushes into a saloon shooting right and left and yelling, “Alright, all you dirty SOB’s, I’ll give you 10 seconds to get out of here. I’m robbing this place. “Immediately the customers all fled in a hail of bullets – all except for one solitary man who stood by the bar calmly finishing his drink. “Well,”remarked the one remaining man, “there certainly were a lot them weren't there!”

I haven't had much luck with the stock market. First the stock split, then it fell apart completely.

I was having lunch with a school administrator recently. I asked, "Why don't you peel the banana before you eat it?" She said, "Why should I? I know what's inside."

a good read

Ben Franklin An American Life by Walter Isaacson. This is a book that I have recently read and enjoyed. The following is a review from Amazon.com

A book that should be required reading for all American high school students. I wish I had read this book thirty years ago for this book has transformed my cartoonish, single-dimensioned view of Benjamin Franklin into the multi-dimensional, sometimes controversial, and at all times entertaining historical figure.

My favorite book will always be "To Kill A Mockingbird", by Harper Lee. Interesting isn't it, the only book that she ever wrote.