A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of a dust cloud, advanced toward
him and stopped.
The driver, a 20-year-old young man wearing a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes,
Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out of the window and asked
our
shepherd, "If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your
flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his peacefully grazing
flock, and calmly answered, "Sure."
The young man parked his car, whipped out his notebook computer,
connected it to a cell phone, surfed to a NASA page on the Internet
where
he
called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, then
opened
up a
database and some Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas. He finally
printed out a 150-page report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer,
turned around to our shepherd and said, "You have here exactly 1,586
sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take one of my sheep,"
said the shepherd.
He watched the young guy make a selection and bundle it into his
Cherokee.
When he was finished the sheepherder said, "If I can tell you exactly
what your political persuasion is, where you're from and whom you work
for,
will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working for Jesse
Jackson,"
said the shepherd.
"That's correct," said the young man. "How did you guess that?"
"Easy", answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but you showed up
here anyway. You want to be paid for the solution to a question I
already
knew the answer to. And, you don't know squat about my business because
you
just took my dog."
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Unstinting Gaurdian of Children
Defender of Those Unable To
