Daily Roundup sounds better than Microblog, if you ask me.
- I thought we already had a gas tax. Farmers protest EPA plans to tax greenhouse gas “emissions” from cattle (Via Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, who will probably have to come up with a new name in a few weeks);
- Another way to reduce discrimination against fat people: taxpayer funded stomach stapling;
- Navy settles anti-sonar environmental lawsuits filed by Natural Resources Defense Council. I can’t tell from reading this AP story precisely what good the settlement will do for the Navy, or for whales, porpoises, and dolphins, but it appears money is changing hands;
- This explains a lot: former attorney general John Ashcroft makes his best decisions “when I have a lot of morphine in my system” (Via Classical Values);
- A perfect season for the Detroit Lions;
- You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch: Alabama man sets own home ablaze in rage over not receiving Christmas presents;
- Newspapers are receiving and printing outsourced, slanted opinion pieces for free. Question: how does this differ from blogging? Answer: I’m wearing pajamas (well, a sweatshirt and sweatpants), as I write this, and I have a dog in my lap. Presumably the outsourced writers wear business casual in a fur-free environment;
- If you read the European libertarian blog Samizdata, send good wishes to Brian Micklethwait, one of their best writers, who has unfortunate news to report.
Tomorrow, I predict that somewhere, someone will be sued.
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I think I know why attorneys are so fierce in their interpetation of the seperation of church and state. The Bible seems to call “a spade a spade”.
Luke 11:46 King James
“And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.”
Luke 11:52 King James
“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”
That’s good to know, Throckmorton, and you could probably throw in a reference to Henry VI as well.
But what does it have to do with anything I wrote here?
I think you last sentance stated it.
“Tomorrow, I predict that somewhere, someone will be sued.”
This triggered in me the frustration that I have with our present “tort system”. I personally try to find guidance in the Bible and these are the verses that the concordance pulled up.
In regards to Henry VI, I assume you mean the play and not the actual Henry VI who died in the Tower of London. I think the real Henry VI can shed some light though. During his reign there was an extreme breakdown of law and order in government by several power hungry factions and as a result corruption flourished. Henry tried to find solace and guidance in his faith and ended up locked in the Tower of London by these power hungry factions where he eventually went insane and was murdered.