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CLONING BAN AND BUREAUCRATS

The good news is, the Louisiana state legislature passed a ban on human cloning on a 97-2 vote. When it comes to human beings, ‘’parts’’ is NOT ‘’parts.’’ Scientific experimentation to create new human beings, even the smallest of their ‘’parts,’’ is creepy.

The bad news, however, is that yesterday, on the International Day of Celebration for my birthday, before I could renew my driver’s license, I had to sit on the floor outside a government office for a half-hour waiting for the bureaucrats to finish their lunch break.

It was enough to make me favor cloning -- of government bureaucrats, so the lines wouldn’t be so long.

I had arrived at 1:30 p.m., feeling clever for avoiding the lunchtime rush, only to find the lights off and the door locked, with a sign: ‘’Closed for Lunch, 1:30 to 2.’’ A veritable crowd of other taxpayers and citizens, likewise miffed, lined up behind me. There were no chairs, so we sat on the floor.

Could they NOT have THOUGHT of STAGGERING the employee lunch breaks to keep the office open like private businesses do? Is that too . . . STAGGERING a notion, to provide good public service to the people who are PAYING you to provide it?

Come to think of it . . . if we cloned bureaucrats, we wouldn’t have to pay the clones a salary, because they’d have the same Social Security number as the bureaucrat from which they were cloned. Therefore, we’d improve government service without increasing the cost. A human two-fer!

If not, then at the very least, we should clone Brad Pitt, Demi Moore and a selected number of other good-looking people to serve as stand-ins for the driver’s license photo.

Ought to be SOME kind of reward for waiting in line that long.

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Prayer request: An elderly couple, Andy and Edie, are suddenly having to sell their house and move far away to be closer to their adult children, because of poor health. Father, speed the sale of their home. Protect them en route and as they settle into their new environment. Send new friends into their path, and keep them close to their old ones, too. Their lives have honored You, and for that example, we’re grateful. (Titus 2:2,3)