Past Life Regression Discovers Source of Phobia

A man residing somewhere in southern California had become tired of an ongoing phobia that showed up whenever it rained.  The phobia struck whenever he came close to a mud puddle--he would get an unbearable anxiety attack in which he felt that the puddle might swallow him up at any given moment.   

As the area around Los Angeles is generally not known for its abundant rainfall, he delayed seeing anyone for a long time until one day he went to see a hypnotherapist known for his keen ability to get to the core of a problem through time regression therapy. 

After intensely scanning the man's life experiences all the way back to the moment of his birth without finding a clue,  the hypnotist extended his search into the man's past lives.  The therapist and the patient were about to give up when they stumbled upon a scene at a log cabin in the early nineteenth century old west:  There he was, the man with the phobia, sitting no more than six months old in a wooden bathtub. 

While the little tot in the tub was splashing around joyously, the door to the cabin opens, and the baby's father, all dirty and sweaty, comes and demands a bath right then and there.  "Can you just wait until the baby is finished and then you can have a bath in his water?" asked Mom.  "You don't expect a hard-working fella to sit down in that filthy sewage puddle, do you?" Dad replied.  Fearing Dad's rising anger, Mom reassured him "You can have a clean bath in a minute," she gasped as she carried the tub through the cabin door and dumped its contents on a vegetable patch in the back yard.  

Less than a second later, there were screams of panic from the baby and Mom and torrents of foul language coming from the Dad accusing Mom of intentionally having thrown the baby out with the bath water.
 

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining--Even in China.

'Twas in the news today--A bridge collapsed in Shanghai because instead of using just steel and good concrete, the builders used garbage in the interior of beams and pillars. If there is any consistency to Chinese history, there will be heads that roll. Back in 07 the Chinese executed a director of their food and drug agency because he took a bribe to certify drugs that ended up killing people. So there is a good chance that those who cheated with the bridge construction will face the death penalty. So where is the silver lining? Executions in China have a life saving component: The organs of persons executed are harvested when the sentence has been carried out and people needing a replacement kidney or liver may get the organ needed to stay alive...