Edison Coatings wrote:

> So how exactly did they say 8 people shovelled all the excrement of 
> all those pairs of a couple of million species that they somehow 
> managed to squeeze onto a wooden boat big enough to hold all of 
> them along with enough food to feed all of them for 40 days, 
> (especially considering wooden boats that size would leak and sink 
> unless continuously pumped)? And how did they keep the lions from 
> eating the lambs and extinguishing the species? 

Hmmm... reminds me of recent conversation with wife... Catholic? 
regarding relative size of Pope, as seen on TV meeting w/ Mr. Bush and 
her comment that the Pope likely displaces a larger amount of water than 
the president, to wit, I hope not as much as Moses or we really have a 
problem.

Interesting trend these days all the politicians coming out with their 
religious persuasions. Kinda refreshing to get a broad spectrum of 
beliefs rather than to have them all hidden in the background, or the 
public trend of the sacred being the sole domain of one outspoken 
persuasion.

On another note... Vasily Grossman, Jewish, journalist wandered around 
w/ Red Army (Soviet) and novelist... I am reading A Writer at War, A 
Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945.

"House painters or stonemasons, when they are angry with an employer, 
brick up into a wall an egg or a box of cockroaches (with some bran for 
them to eat). The egg stinks and the cockroaches rustle. It torments the 
owners."

On the discovery of Treblinka he was allowed to go there and to 
interview survivors. The piece that he wrote on Treblinka is incredible.

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