Whimsy...FL vs CA...Desire...Politics & Stress

Wednesday Whimsy

"Avg person has just 4 hours of free time--per week!" [Drudge Report, 4/8]

"Men embrace scrunchies, other hair accessories" [Drudge Report, 4/9]

There Is No Place Like . . . Florida

"Scary & scarier: 17-ft python, its 73 eggs. Officials at a South FL wildlife preserve say they've captured the largest python ever found in the park. Officials discovered the female python--17' long, 140 lbs--on FRI in Big Cypress National Preserve. The python had 73 developing eggs." [Omaha World Herald, 4/9]

. . . California

• "CA wants to tax soda, tires, guns, water, pain pills, lawyers, car batteries" [Drudge 4/8]
• "Making $300,000 in San Francisco? Still struggling [Drudge, 4/9]
• "$4 gas returns to CA" [Drudge 4/10]

Criminal Minds

"Thief nabs $21,000 worth of panties from Victoria's Secret" [Drudge 4/10]

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

* Reader's Digest Apr 2019

"A customer walks into a pet shop & inquires about buying a goldfish. 'Do you need an aquarium?' asks the salesperson. 'No,' says the customer. 'I don't care what sign it is.'"

DESIRE

"O Lord, in Your strength the king rejoices, & in Your salvation how greatly he exults! You have given him his heart's desire & You have not withheld the request of his lips." Psalm 31:1

"Most important, we know that the only thing that lasts forever is God's unconditional love. His heaert's desire is that we believe in Christ so that we might live for all eternity with Him as our King. For this He sent His Son, His heart's desire." [Psalms for Lent, Jane Wilke, Creative Communications for the Parish, 2018]

Political Potpourri

"Politics stresses out many, ends relationships. You talked politics with your mother, brother, bartender & banker, & all it did was jack up your blood pressure. You know that you are not alone. In this divisive period in American politics, two professors in Nebraska & one in California decided to conduct a survey in March 2017 to see how pervasive were high stress, conflict with family & friends, & even health problems related to thinking & talking about politics . . . Among many findings.

• 38% said politics has caused them to be stressed.
• 31.8% said exposure to media outlets promoting a contrary view 'can drive me crazy.'
• 293" said they had lost their temper because of politics.
• 25.6% said they spend more time thinking about politics than they want to.
• 23.3% said politics compelled them to think seriously about moving. [This is why you should consider moving to a normal state, like Nebraska.]
• 16.9% said politics has related problems for them in their extended families.
• 16.6% said politics at times had made their home life less pleasant." [Omaha World Herald, 4/7]