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<DIV>If Noah had to build his Ark in 2006...</DIV>
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<DIV>...we would have grounds to enjoin the proposed Flood on grounds of breach
of contract, to wit, Genesis 9: 8-17.</DIV>
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<DIV>But in the world we live in (a very different world than Noah lived in) I
really don't want to be without OSHA, even though the current staff are a bunch
of wimps who can't be bothered to leave their comfy offices to do field
investigations of any hazard whatsoever.</DIV>
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<DIV>If Noah had to build his Ark in 2006...</DIV>
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<DIV>...he would have had trouble raising the capital to finance the project,
because he had no collateral to offer, the enterprise offered a high risk with
little prospect of a profitable return, all the available land for such a large
undertaking was owned by real estate development corporations keeping the
property in readiness for building new strip malls, and he would have been sued
by leveraged buyout firms for depressing the stock market with his dismal
forecasts, not to mention there might be insider-trading implications...</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. Noah didn't build a boat at all. He built a <EM>tevya</EM> which means
box, and it was far too small to have contained all the animals. How did they
all fit? That was G-d's problem, not Noah's. I bet G-d could get a couple of
spotted owls in whether PETA wanted him to or not.</DIV></BODY></HTML>