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THE KNIGHT TIMES Bishop John C. Reiss Council No. 15964 Knights of Columbus

May 2018

Grand Knight’s Message

Well, we’re in the home stretch of the fraternal year and continue to push towards our recruiting quota for the Star Council award. To that end, we held a recruiting drive the weekend th of April 7 . We didn’t get a ton of prospects but those we did get were very interested in joining. At our special council meeting held on Tuesday, April 17th we read in new candidates Ben Lagua and John Vitale, transfer Mark Montecalvo, and Bill Degnan who is a readmission. I was able to attend the Admission Degree ceremony in Freehold on April 24th where Ben Lagua joined our order. Let’s welcome Ben and all our new Brothers aboard! Ben couldn’t make the meeting, as he’s back in Freehold to make his Formation Degree. For those keeping score at home our count currently stands at 11, with two awaiting their Admission Degree. We’re getting very close but so is the end of the fraternal year so I urge everyone to “think recruiting”. It’s as easy as asking a few men, “Has anyone talked to you about becoming a member of the Knights of Columbus?” on the way out of Mass each week. I had a nice conversation with Father Roberts on the way to and back from the Pride In th Our Priests dinner on April 12 . As always, he thanked our Council for all of the great work we do and thanked him for all of his support. He’s definitely behind us and in our corner. His pulpit announcement during the recruiting drive was very persuasive. I’ll let the Program Directors provide the details but we’ve got a ton of great events happening in May. The Baby Bottle Boomerang rolled out in April and will wrap up this month, we’ve got the Blue Mass this weekend, the annual carnival and hopefully we can find a rescheduled date for medical equipment collections for MedShare. As always, please consider pitching in and lending a hand. Finally, as this fraternal year winds down and we prepare the next fraternal year we’ll be presenting the slate of 2018/2019 Officers for nomination tonight. It’s a very strong slate, filled with Brothers who are passionate and committed to furthering our Council.

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1 Chaplain’s Message My Dear Brother Knights,

How appropriate that we enter into the spring of our life in the month of May, it is a month that is filled with colorful flowers, warm breezes and a beauty that only a loving God could create for each of us. It is the month dedicated to Our Blessed Mother and we ask Mary’s guidance and protection in our prayers that we come close to the Lord’s real presence in the Holy Eucharist.

May we as spring believers of the Lord be filled with the same prayerfulness and commitment to serve the Lord, Jesus Christ in our commitment to our families, our workplace and wherever the Lord guides us and directs us to be. Through the prayers of the Blessed Mother may this be a month in your homes and your families that is blessed with good health and peace in the coming days.

Sincerely yours in Christ, Rev. Eugene J. Roberts, Chaplain Pastor, St. Gabriel’s Church

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Religious and Civil Rights －SK Richard Bilon Religious & Civil Rights Program 24 · The Monitor says the Judge blocks Mississippi’s new 15-week ABORTION ban In Jackson, Mississippi, the Governor, Phil Bryant signed this into law on March 19th. This is the most restrictive state abortion bill in the nation. It bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, as reported in the Monitor. However, the owner of the states only abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, immediately filed suit claiming it is unconstitutional. At a th morning hearing on March 20 , the very next day, a federal judge blocked the law with a temporary restraining order.“We Catholic bishops of Mississippi wish to reaffirm the sacredness of human life from conception until natural death,” said Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson and Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III of Biloxi. “With Pope St. John Paul II, we recognize abortion as ’a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be society’s promoters and defenders.’”The Susan B. Anthony List, a national pro-life organization, praised Bryant and state lawmakers “for their commitment to making Mississippi ‘the safest place in America’ for unborn children and their mothers.” The organization’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, described Mississippi as being “at the vanguard of the growing momentum to bring our laws back into line with basic human decency. It is one of 20 states that have passed popular, compassionate legislation to stop cruel late-term abortions after five months.” Dannenfelser called the status quo on abortion “unjust” and “untenable.” “It is in states like Mississippi where the greatest progress toward correcting it

2 is being made,” she added. “It is about time the courts caught up.” And to that, we proudly agree and to Jesus, we say AMEN!

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Community – Paul Lorenz

We had to reschedule our Church wide collection of household medical equipment to be donated to the MedShare Program – We will discuss a new date during our May Knights Business Meeting. Please keep locating any old wheelchairs, canes, walkers that you may have and are no longer using or your friends and family are no longer using.

The Marlboro Township 10th Annual Memorial Day Parade will be on Sunday May 20th @ 1400 hours starting from the parking lot of the Marlboro Post Office and continuing down School Road West to the main Township Office Complex and the Veterans Memorial. Refreshments will be served after in the Town Hall.

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Membership Report-Mike Mahon

Congratulation to the following brother who has completed Admission (First Degree) Formation exemplification

Benjamin Lagua

Degree Opportunities

Thursday, May 10, 2018

St. Cecilia Council #7024 10 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, N.J. 08852

Admission Degree to commence at 8:00PM followed by Formation Degree exemplification

3 Please be advised that Prince of Peace Council will be hosting an Admission (First) Degree exemplification ceremonies on

Monday, May 21, 2018

Prince of Peace Council #5903 3 La Satta Ave, Englishtown N.J. 07726

Please be advised that St. Bernadette Council will be hosting an Admission (First) Degree & Formation (Second) Degree exemplifications ceremonies on

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

St. Bernadette Council #8478 20 Villanove Rd, Parlin N.J. 08859

Admission Degree to commence at 8:00PM followed by Formation Degree exemplification

Degree Attire

It is the responsibility of the Councils to ensure that all candidates wear a jacket and tie to their exemplification. Officers, sponsors and escorts should also be appropriately dressed.

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Inside the Conversion Tactics of the Early Christian Church

BY BART D. EHRMAN // MARCH 29, 2018 The triumph of Christianity over the pagan religions of ancient Rome led to the greatest historical transformation the West has ever seen: a transformation that was not only religious, but also social, political and cultural. Just in terms of “high culture,” Western art, music, literature and philosophy would have been incalculably different had the masses continued to worship the gods of the Roman pantheon instead of the one God of Jesus—if paganism, rather than Christianity, had inspired their imaginations and guided their thoughts. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and modernity as we know them would also have been unimaginably different. But how did it happen? According to our earliest records, the first “Christians” to believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus were 11 male disciples and a handful of women—say 20

4 people altogether. These were lower-class, uneducated day laborers from a remote corner of the Roman Empire. And yet, within three centuries, the Christian church could count some 3 million adherents. By the end of the 4th century, it was the official religion of Rome, numbering 30 million followers—or half the Empire. A century after that, there were very few pagans left. Christians today might claim that their faith triumphed over the other Roman religions because it was (and is) true, right and good. That may be so. But one still needs to consider the historical contingencies that led to the Christian conquest, and in particular the brilliant strategy the Christian evangelistic campaign used in winning converts. These are five aspects of that strategy: The Christian Church Created a Need. Strangely enough, Christianity did not succeed in taking over the ancient world simply by addressing deeply sensed needs of its target audience, the pagan adherents of traditional polytheistic religions. On the contrary, it actually created a need that almost no one knew they had. Everyone in the ancient world, except for Jews, was “pagan”—that is, they believed in many gods. These gods—whether the state gods of Rome, the local municipal gods, the family gods, the gods of forests, mountains, streams and meadows—were active in the world, involved with humans on every level. They ensured that crops would grow and livestock would reproduce; they brought rain and protected against storms; they warded off disease and restored the sick to health; they maintained social stability; and provided military victories for the troops. The gods would do such things in exchange for proper worship, which at all times and everywhere involved saying the right prayers and performing the appropriate sacrifices. If the gods were not worshiped in these ways—if they were ignored—they could bring disastrous retribution: drought, epidemic, economic collapse, military defeat and so on. But the key point is that the gods were principally active—for good or ill—in the present life, to worshippers in the here and now. Almost no one in the Roman world practiced religion in order to escape eternal punishment or receive an eternal reward—that is, until the Christians came along. Unlike pagans, Christians claimed there was only one God and that he should be worshiped not by sacrifice but by proper belief. Anyone who didn’t believe the right things would be considered a transgressor before God. And, most significant of all, rewards and punishments would be dispensed not only in this life, but in the life to come: either eternal bliss in heaven or everlasting torment in the fires of hell. Religion had never promoted such an idea before. Christians created a need for salvation that no one knew they had. They then argued that they alone could meet the need. And they succeeded massively. It ‘Proved’ Its Superiority Everyone in the ancient world knew that divinity was all about power. Humans cannot control whether it rains or an epidemic destroys the community or a natural disasters hits; but the gods can. They can provide for humans what mere mortals cannot do for themselves. This stood at the root of all ancient religion. And it became the chief selling point of the Christian message. Christians declared that their God was more powerful than any other god—in fact, more powerful than all the supposed other gods combined. God alone was God, and he alone could provide what people need.

5 The power struggle between the Christian and pagan gods is on full display in a wide range of ancient texts. Consider the apocryphal book called the Acts of John, an account of the missionary escapades of Jesus’ disciple John the Son of Zebedee. At one point in the narrative, John visits the city of Ephesus and its renowned temple to the goddess Athena. Entering the sacred site, John ascends a platform and issues a challenge to a large crowd of pagans: They are to pray to their divine protectoress to strike him dead. If she fails to respond, he in turn will ask his God to kill all of them. The crowd is terrified—they have already seen John raise people from the dead, and they know his God means business. When they refuse to take the challenge, John curses the divinity of the place, and suddenly the altar of Artemis splits into pieces, the idols break apart and the roof caves in, killing the goddess’s chief priest on the spot. The crowd makes the expected response: “There is only one God, that of John…now we have converted, since we have seen your miraculous deeds.” Although obviously legendary, the tale conveys an important truth. Miraculous powers were the Christians’ evangelistic calling card, their compelling proof. Jesus himself, the son of God, had performed one miracle after the other. He was born of a virgin; he fulfilled prophecies spoken centuries earlier by ancient seers; he healed the sick; he cast out demons; he raised the dead. And if all that wasn’t enough, at the end of his life he himself rose from the grave and ascended to heaven to dwell with God forevermore. His disciples also did miracles—amazing miracles—all recorded for posterity in writings widely available. And the miracles continued to the present day. People became convinced by these stories. Not en masse, but one person at a time. It Worked from the Ground Up Christianity did not initially succeed by taking its message to the great and the powerful, the mighty Roman elite. It succeeded at first as a grassroots movement. The original followers of Jesus told those close to them what they believed: that the great miracle worker Jesus had been raised from the dead, and that his wonders continued to be performed among those who believed in him. They convinced others. Not most of those they talked with, but some. And as it turns out, small but steady growth from the ground up is all it took. One might think that if Christianity went from some 20 people in the year of Jesus’ death, say 30 CE, to something like 3 million people 300 years later, there must have been massive evangelistic rallies, converting thousands at a time, each and every day. That wasn’t the case at all. If you chart the necessary rate of growth along an exponential curve, the Christian movement needed to increase at a rate of around 3 percent annually. That is to say, if there are 100 Christians this year, there need to be only three conversions by the year’s end. If that happens year after year after year, the numbers eventually pile up. Later in the history of the movement, when there are 100,000 Christians, the same annual growth rate will yield 3,000 converts; when there are 1 million Christians, 30,000 converts. The key was to reach people one at a time. It grows from the bottom up, not the top down. The top will eventually convert. But you start below, at the base, where most people actually live. It Cannibalized the Competition Christianity succeeded in large measure because it required potential converts to make a decision that was exclusive and final. If they chose to join the church, they had to abandon all previous religious commitments and associations. For the Christian faith, it was all or nothing, so as it fed its own growth, it devoured the competition.

6 That may seem unusual by contemporary standards, since in today’s world we normally understand that someone who becomes Baptist cannot remain Buddhist; a Muslim is not a Mormon. But we ourselves accept exclusive religions precisely because the early Christians convinced the world that this is how it ought to be. Personal religion is one thing or another, not both—or several—at once. The pagan religions didn’t operate like that at all. Since pagans all worshiped many gods, there was no sense that any one God demanded exclusive attention. Quite the opposite. Within pagan circles, if you choose to worship a new god—say, Apollo—that didn’t mean you gave up the worship of another, such as Zeus. No, you worshiped both—along with Hermes, Athena, Ares, your city gods, your family gods and whichever others you chose, whenever you chose. Christians, though, maintained there was only one God, and if you followed him, you had to abandon the others. In the long run, this meant that every adherent Christians gained was completely lost to paganism. No other religion demanded such exclusivity. For that reason, as Christianity grew, it destroyed all competition in its wake. And it went on like that for millennia, as Christians forged into new territories, toppling Celtic gods, Norse gods and many others. It Found a Powerful Sponsor Even though early Christianity was a grassroots movement, throughout its first three centuries it recognized fully the importance of converting influential supporters. At the beginning, this simply meant converting an adult male who was head of his household—the paterfamilias. In the Roman world, the paterfamilias chose the family’s religion. If you converted him, you got his wife, children and slaves in the package. Even if it was a small family—a husband, wife and two children—the conversion of one person meant the conversion of four. That multiplier effect went a long way toward achieving the needed 3 percent annual growth rate. Contributed by Dr. Ralph J. Papaleo Source:https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-conversion-tactics-of-the-early-christian-church?History Vault.com

Benefits and Drawbacks of Drinking Coffee

Few beverages have been studied by scientists as much as coffee. Drunk in moderation coffee comes with a whole list of benefits to drinkers. Yet recently the state of California had coffeemakers put a warning label on their packaging that drinking coffee could possibly cause cancer. What is the real story behind coffee and is there a danger of getting cancer? Joanna Sochan, Adrenal Fatigue and Digestive Health Expert said the following about drinking Coffee:

Coffee is in the news regularly and it seems the body of data suggests that it could be beneficial for a number of medical conditions is steadily growing. It’s an amazingly potent collection of biologically active compounds which have far reaching effects on the body. As such it needs to be perceived and respected as a potent drug.

7 Caffeine, the most widely known compound in coffee, only makes up a mere 1% to 2% of the bean. The other ingredients such as chlorogenic acids, caffeol, polyphenols, phytoestrogens and diterpenes are now being researched regarding their effects on health.

Highly regarded Medscape News published an excellent and extensively referenced summary of the potential medical benefits of coffee consumption (you can check it out here although registration is required to view in full). In summary, the main health conditions/ body systems covered in the summary include:

● Cardiovascular system – despite potentially increasing blood pressure, coffee may lower the risk for coronary disease and protect against heart failure. In cited studies, moderate coffee intake was associated with a lower risk for coronary heart disease as far out as 10 years, and new data suggests that an average of 2 cups a day protects against heart failure. ● Coffee consumption may cut stroke risk by as much as 25%. While its impact on stroke risk in those with cardiovascular disease is still in question, data presented at the European Meeting on Hypertension 2012 found that 1 to 3 cups a day may protect against ischemic stroke in the general population. ● Weight loss and diabetes – studies have linked coffee consumption with improved glucose metabolism, reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and promotion of weight loss in overweight people. ● Cancer – according to recent data moderate to heavy coffee consumption (4-6 cups per day) can reduce the risk for numerous cancers. The benefits are thought to be at least partially due to its antioxidant and anti-mutagenic properties. ● Dementia and Parkinson’s disease – it’s clear that coffee temporarily affects cognition, many of us need it to get going in the morning! But new research also links it with more enduring effects on cognitive well being including slowing the progression of dementia and Parkinson’s disease. ● Depression – coffee drinkers reportedly have significantly decreased risk of developing depression. A 2011 study suggests that a boost in coffee consumption might also benefit our mental health: women who drank 2 to 3 cups of coffee per day had a 15% decreased risk for depression compared with those who drank less than 1 cup per week. A 20% decreased risk was seen in those who drank 4 cups or more per day. ● Liver disease – coffee has been reported to slow disease progression in alcoholic cirrhosis, hepatitis C and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The liver helps to break down coffee, but coffee might also protect the liver (in some cases). ● It can also be beneficial for dry-eye syndrome, gout and in preventing MRSA infection. Coffee and hot tea consumption were found to be protective against one of the most concerning bugs, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Drawbacks and risks As is often the case, with the benefits come the risks, and coffee consumption certainly has negative medical and psychiatric effects to consider. The Medscape News report mentions that besides the potential increase in blood pressure, coffee can incite or worsen anxiety, insomnia, tremor and potentially elevate glaucoma risk. Also, given the potential severity of symptoms,

8 caffeine withdrawal syndrome is under consideration for classification as a type of mental disorder.

I would also add the following drawbacks:

● The acidity of coffee is associated with digestive discomfort, indigestion, heartburn, GERD and dysbiosis (imbalances in gut flora). ● Elevated urinary excretion minerals such as calcium, magnesium and potassium have been noted in coffee drinkers. An imbalance in the electrolyte status can lead to serious systemic complications. It also interferes with iron absorption. ● Use coffee with care if you have depleted adrenals manifesting in fatigue, low energy, sugar cravings and heightened stress response. ● Constituents in coffee can interfere with normal drug metabolism and detoxification in the liver making it difficult to regulate the normal detoxification process in the liver. ● Another issue to be aware of is that for certain medications that are poorly absorbed to start with, their absorption decreases even further, with coffee making any symptoms worse. ● Addiction is often an issue with coffee drinkers. Ask any coffee drinker about how it feels to withdraw from coffee, and you may mistake their story for that of a drug addict’s… Although I also enjoy a cup of coffee now and then, I don’t consider it as food required for our health and wellbeing. While certain people may tolerate coffee and even enjoy some health benefits, it is evident that it is not for everyone.

So what is the story behind California’s health warning about coffee and cancer?

CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus, director of the Westside Cancer Center at USC, says he believes it is too early to put this kind of blanket warning on coffee.

"When you put a bold declaration that 'X may cause cancer' when there isn't data to that effect in humans, to me it causes panic rather than informed knowledge," he told "CBS This Morning."

The World Health Organization's cancer agency moved coffee off the "possible carcinogen" list two years ago, though it says evidence is insufficient to rule out any possible role.

The current flap isn't about coffee itself, but a chemical called acrylamide that's made when the beans are roasted. Government agencies call it a probable or likely carcinogen, based on animal research, and a group sued to require coffee sellers to warn of that under a California law passed by voters in 1986.

CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus, director of the Westside Cancer Center at USC, says he believes it is too early to put this kind of blanket warning on coffee.

"When you put a bold declaration that 'X may cause cancer' when there isn't data to that effect in humans, to me it causes panic rather than informed knowledge," he told "CBS This Morning."

9 The World Health Organization's cancer agency moved coffee off the "possible carcinogen" list two years ago, though it says evidence is insufficient to rule out any possible role.

Drinking coffee has many benefits, principally its rich in antioxidants which can possible inhabit the onset of cancer, but it is a drug and taken in extraordinary amounts it can cause an increase in fatigue, low energy, sugar cravings and heightened stress response. You should monitor your reaction to drinking coffee, and discuss any negative effects with your physician. Enjoying one of two cups a day probably won’t do you any harm, unless you suffer from irregular heartbeat. Then you could switch to decaffeinated coffee, but check with your doctor first. It all depends on your health situation. Remember, there are other beverages you can drink and water is the best. As far as the cancer warning in the state of California, studies linking cancer-causing agents in the roasting of coffee beans have been called inconclusive and premature. Submitted by Ralph J. Papaleo, Ph.D Sources: https://www.naturimedica.com/drinking-coffee-pros-and-cons-from-a-medical-https://www.cbsn ews.com/news/coffee-may-come-with-cancer-risk-california-lawsuit-proposition-65/perspective/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-cancer-warning-judge-rules-on-coffee-carcinogen-acr ylamide/

Dutch Teacher Who Saved 600 Jewish Children from Nazis Dies at 107

BY ERIN BLAKEMORE // APRIL 4, 2018 In 1942 and 1943, Dutch educator Johan van Hulst arranged for the transport of some very precious cargo. It was passed over a hedge, hidden in basket and sacks, and then whisked out of Amsterdam by bicycle. The cargo wasn’t food or supplies: It was Jewish children, smuggled and saved by van Hulst. By the end of the war, van Hulst had helped spirit an estimated 600 Jewish children out of harm’s way. Now, his heroism is being remembered with news of his death in Amsterdam on March 22, 2018. He was 107. A Christian, van Hulst became deputy principal of the Reformed Teachers’ Training College in Amsterdam in 1940, the year Germany invaded the Netherlands. Van Hulst helped turn the school into a site of anti-Nazi resistance and a shelter for Dutch teachers who refused to sign the oath of loyalty to Germany that soon became required of Dutch university students. In 1942, it became a shelter of another kind. The school was across the street from a theater that acted as a deportation center for Jews. There, Jewish children were taken from their parents and sent to a daycare facility next door to van Hulst’s school. Working in secret with the nursery’s workers, van Hulst and his colleagues helped smuggle the children out of the city. The children were passed over a hedge to the teachers, held in classrooms, and then hidden in baskets and sacks. Resistance workers then cycled them to the countryside to live out the rest of the war in hiding. Walter Süskind, the Jew who ran the record-keeping at the

10 deportation center, would then erase the children’s names from the official records. The ruse lasted until 1943, when the daycare center was closed and its Jewish director, Henriëtte Pimentel, was sent to Auschwitz. Later in life, van Hulst served in the Dutch Senate and the European Parliament. He was one of thousands of resistance workers who defied the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and worked to protect and hide Dutch Jews during World War II. Though more than 75 percent of the Netherlands’ Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, two-thirds of the Jews who went into hiding in the Netherlands survived. Johan van Hulst saved an estimated 600 children and was named Righteous Among the Nations in 1972 by Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. He also helped hide other Jews during the war. But until the end of his life, he regretted not doing more. “You realize that you cannot possibly take all the children with you,” he told Yad Vashem. “You know for a fact that the children you leave behind are going to die. I took twelve with me. Later on I asked myself: ‘Why not thirteen?’” Today, the school where van Hulst and his colleagues worked to save Jewish children from Nazi atrocities is the site of the Dutch National Holocaust Museum. Submitted by Dr. Ralph J. Papaleo Source: https://www.history.com/news/johan-van-hulst-death-wwii-hero?cmpid=email-hist-made-2018-0405. History Vault. A Dedication to a Dog Named Skip

By Dr. Ralph J. Papaleo

Somewhere on the margin between death

And life, an old man wanders

With a walking stick and a black dog

Leading the way.

Worn down by journey’s traveled

‘Til neither could walk anymore.

The old man would cry out, “Wait!”

And the dog would shorten his stride

‘til both were a matchless pair.

11 The old dog seemed to know

Things were not as they were before,

When both traveled the endless byways of life.

One day the old dog went down

And couldn’t rise again.

The old man wept;

Then he went back to retrace his steps

And to find his lost companion.

Somewhere on the margins between death and life and forever

Where the wind and rain meet the sky

Where all journeys end and begin again,

You can look up and see

A man walking the endless byways,

The black dog leading the way.

Some Things to Make You Smile

I’m going to the casino tonight. I hope I break even. I need the money. Last night I got thrown out of the casino. I completely misunderstood the crap table. A doctor answers his phone and hears the familiar voice of a colleague on the other end of the line. "We need a fourth for poker," said the friend. "I'll be right over," whispered the doctor. As he was putting on his coat, his wife asked, "Is it serious?" "Oh yes, quite serious," said the doctor gravely. "In fact, there are three doctors there already!" ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ………………….

13 As I walked in the casino, I passed some Siamese twins on their way out. I said, “Did you win?” They said, “Yes and no.” ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ………………….. A man walks into a casino, and at the entrance there was a Labrador Retriever playing poker. Curious, he went to check out the play action. Sure enough the dog was playing, and seemingly making good hands. After three rounds, the man said, “I can’t believe that this dog can play, he must be the smartest dog in the world!" The owner replied, “ I’d like to take credit for this, but my dog, he isn't that smart, he doesn’t know how to bluff, every time he gets a good hand, he just sits there and howls." ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………. A blonde went to Atlantic City, looking to play the slots. She loved slots, and had been

14 waiting a long time for a trip out to a casino to really play. She made it to all the casinos looking for the best place to play. Finally she found a place, and picked a machine she thought was lucky for wins. She was throwing dollars upon dollars into the machine, and sure enough she was getting back coins. Finally the manager of the casino came up to the woman, and asked her politely if she could just leave the change machine alone.

Source: http://bankrollbonus.com/gamblingjokes.html Submitted by Dr. Ralph J. Papaleo

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