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Las Vegas has Paris, New York, New York The Venetian and Caesars Palace.

The next big resort has to be The Holy Land Casino, Spa and Resort.

It could have the Dome of the Rock Arena, The Western Wall Casino and the Dead Sea Spa. You can have Falafel and Bagels at the Bethlehem Breakfast Buffet, walk on water at the Sea of Galilee Aquatic Center and don’t miss the nightly Jericho City Walls Light Show. Plenty of shopping on Ben Yehuda Street, in the Arab Souk and in the Tel Aviv Mall. The awe inspiring Stations of the Cross would be along one side of the front lobby which would also diplomatically display a reproduction of the spot where Mohammad ascended and an artists re-creation of the Second Temple. All the architectural details will of course be finished in Jerusalem Limestone.

It will not be possible to make everything perfectly harmonious with the tenets of all three religions for whom the Holy land is sacred. For instance gambling, drinking and alluring women will be not only be allowed they will be encouraged. Expressly forbidden at the The Holy Land Casino, Spa and Resort will be: the expulsion of money changers, throwing Christians to lions, and of course weapons and checkpoints.

The Holy Land Casino, Spa and Resort another brilliant idea from swcamborne.com. Thanks to Alan, Sandy and Nurit for helping to create of this idea. We have the ideas you do the work to develop them.

Photos courtesy of Vegas.com.

“He who laughs, lasts.”

Benjamin Franklin

1706- 1790

More Franklin Quotes

Here is a combination idea for a low cost fund raiser for charity.

First idea: My friend Joe Rogers runs a fund raiser for Save Our Youth Center (SOY) in Costa Mesa, CA.  He works quite hard on it every spring.

Second idea: I was talking to some friends about the fantasy football league they play in and how much time they spend on it.
The synthesis: It  struck me that you could connection these two ideas and create a:

“Charity Fantasy Golf Tournament Fund Raiser”

• It could happen on a rainy Sunday in the winter.
• The participants could bid to buy players for their foursomes.
• The scores on each hole would be posted every 15 minutes during the tournament.
• Scores would be determined by random draw of actual scores from the same hole in past tournaments.
• All proceeds would go to the Charity.

There is an opportunity for some one to create this product if it doesn’t already exist.

The left fears that federal surveillance of international phone traffic is a constraint on our constitutional rights.

The right fears that as Robert Samuelson said in the Washington Post: “campaign finance ‘reform’ is a dagger in the heart of the First Amendment.”

With all of this worrying from both sides I’m feeling pretty good. We can do both of these tasks better and we will. Our system was set up to move slowly and give a large influence to the established powers. Eventually however change happens and if we look from far enough away we can see progress toward more freedom and more justice for more people.

During our recent remodel we used the garage to store all kind of things that usually had homes in the kitchen. In fact we had the kitchen in the garage for six months. It was not fun. But the remodel turned out very well and we are very happy with our new soft modern look in the new family room and kitchen. But this article is about reclaiming the garage. Every available space had been stacked with things that were homeless.

Debris and detritus in the garage/workshop

The east bench before

Our garage has never been for cars. It has for most of the twenty plus years we’ve lived in the house been part storage and part workshop. This tidying/cleaning process is intended to recover some of the space shown in the pictures above for the workshop.
I have three different tidying, organizing, cleaning techniques that I use. Which method I use is situation dependent. When the mess is this bad I use the rule of tens. In the area that needs tidying I pick up the ten most egregiously out of place things and put them away or throw them away. For things that have to be put away somewhere else I stack them out of the area to be taken care of later. I count the items in my head and when I reach ten I look at the progress and time permitting start over.
The rule of tens works for big messes because it allows maximum progress with minimum effort and it has pre-set stopping points. At the end of putting away ten things you can always see real progress and then establish a new baseline to work from.
This is what the workshop area of the garage looked like at the end of two hours:

The new workbench after

the east bench after
Progress is being made. Next step the storage area of the garage.