Welcome to Ray Flatt's Weekly BubbaGram Been paying any attention to the news lately. The following is a story you won't see reported or at least reported properly: The Pope is visiting Washington, D.C., and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac, sailing on the Presidential yacht, the Sequoia. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water. Secret Service guys start to launch a boat, but President Bush waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry." Bush then steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Holy Father's little hat, bends over, picks it up, then walks back to the yacht and climbs aboard. He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence. The next morning, the headlines in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution, Washington Post, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, Houston Chronicle, Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Nashville Tennessean all proclaim: "Bush Can't Swim" I not saying President Bush walks on water, but it seems they forgot to mention that he knew were the rocks are to make it appear like he's walking on water. ----- If you can't trust the news media, can you trust your own memory? Aunt May and Uncle Hershel were sitting on the front pouch the other night when Aunt May got a hankering for a bowl of vanilla ice cream. Uncle Hershel decided that he would be a gentleman and does something nice for a change and offered to go to the kitchen and dish some out. As he was leaving the porch he asked Aunt May, "Is there anything you like on your ice cream?" Aunt May replied, "Some chocolate syrup would be nice. You better write that down or you'll forget." Patiently Uncle Hershel replied, "Woman I can remember a little chocolate syrup. Anything else you want on your vanilla ice cream?" Aunt May responded, "Well now that you mention it, some crushed cherries would also be good. Now write that down or you'll forget." Uncle Hershel getting a little annoyed replied, "Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and crushed cherries. Anything else?" Aunt May said, "And a little whipped cream would top that off just fine. Now write that down lest you forget." Uncle Hershel wasn't about to ask again, stomped off the porch into the house, but you could hear him mumbling the whole way, "Dad gum woman thinks I can't remember a thing. I'll show her." Twenty-five to thirty minutes goes by. Uncle Hershel emerges from the house with a big ol' platter full of fried bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, gravy, butter and homemade jam. Uncle Hershel declares, "See woman, I didn't forget a thing!" Aunt May just shook her head and said, "Herschel, you should have written it down like I told you. You forgot to make the grits." May we all gracefully lose our minds together as we grow older? ------ So if we can't trust the news media and we certainly can't trust our own memory, then who can we trust? Maybe it's our educational system, afterall they teach us to think logically. One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy: "Tommy do you see the tree outside?" TOMMY: "Yes." TEACHER: "Tommy, do you see the grass outside?" TOMMY: "Yes." TEACHER: "Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky". TOMMY: "Okay." (He returned a few minutes later) "Yes, I saw the sky." TEACHER: "Did you see God up there?" TOMMY: "No." TEACHER: "That's my point. We can't see God because he isn't there. Possibly he just doesn't exist"." A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed. LITTLE GIRL:: "Tommy, do you see the tree outside?" TOMMY: "Yes." LITTLE GIRL: "Tommy do you see the grass outside?" TOMMY: "Yessssss!" LITTLE GIRL: "Did you see the sky?" TOMMY: "Yessssss!" LITTLE GIRL: "Tommy, do you see the teacher?" TOMMY: "Yes" LITTLE GIRL: "Do you see her brain?" TOMMY: "No" LITTLE GIRL: "Then according to what we were taught today in school, she possibly may not even have one!" My prayer is that you don't believe everything you see on the news, don't lean on your own memory or understanding, don't lean on logical thinking, but that you walk by faith, not by sight. (FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT" II CORINTHIANS 5:7) Don't just "keep the faith." Pass it on. ----- Bubba-ism of the week - "Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can stop do it permanently!" ----- That's all from BubbaLand, talk to ya next week. 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