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Experience

Saturdays on the blog are normally reserved for things ranging from trivial to frivolous to foolish. Today, due to the out-dated nature of my offering, we can add irrelevant. As promised, I have refrained from political outbursts for the last week. Well, almost, anyway. Technically, I should wait ’til tomorrow; but tomorrow is the Lord’s Day, and as this post is both frivolous and political, I’d best get it out of my system today. It’s not much—pretty lame, actually—but I reckon it’s worth the price of admission.

The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither McCain nor Obama had enough votes to win.
There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election. After much discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote lake in northern Minnesota.

There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately to return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties.

At the end of the first day, McCain returned with ten fish. Soon, Obama returned with no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having an unlucky day or something, and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.

At the end of the 2nd day McCain came in with twenty fish and Obama came in again with none.

That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said, “I think John McCain is cheating. I want you to go out tomorrow and don’t even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see how he’s cheating.” The following night, Reid asked Obama, “Well, tell me, how is McCain cheating?”

Obama replied, “Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice!”

Experience matters.

See you in church tomorrow.

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