Congratulations
to San Francisco Giants on finally winning a World Series without Willie Mays!
Building Walls
From Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jan 1, 1802
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
I think this draws a pretty strong link between the establishment clause of the first amendment and the phrase “separation of church and state”, although some anal types will argue that he said ‘between’ not ‘of”.
I think that many Republican candidates are unclear on the concept of ‘concept’. Delaware, Delaware, Colorado, Nevada.
I see Daily Kos has some links to Republicans in their own words, but here I wonder about ‘context’ more than ‘concept’
Strike Through
I would like to be able to change the strike though character in HTML from ‘-‘ to ‘/’. I have not been able to find any way to do it and it isn’t even offered as a ‘text-decoration’ option.
Does anyone know how you go about getting W3C to consider adding that option to the HTML standards?
WAKE UP
I got a new alarm clock that lets you plug in your iPod and will wake you to the music from your player. (if you don’t have your iPod docked then it weakly beeps at you)
The Finale from “Chorus Line” is a good way to wake up in the morning. The Dropkick Murphys The Rocky Road to Dublin also works. Loreena McKennett– not so much.
Champion
I won the Gleneagle Men’s Club Match Play Championship this week.
I also shot my best round ever – an 88. I think my handicap is going down.
The Other End
before I forget…. Every rainbow has two ends…except Mobius Rainbows and Sundogs
In which order is discussed
Normally I would expect the rainbow to be after the storm, but this is Colorado
Weather
We had some weather floating around today
Cheap-Labor Conservatives
I read Paul Krugman’s column on our future prosperity, and then found that Avedon had also read and commented on it along with some links to other commentors. One of the best I saw was about cheap-labor conservatives.
Work cheap or starve, a motto to live by.
These cheap-labor conservatives should read the mission statement for the United States sometime. It’s right there in the first paragraph of the Constitution – after “We the People of the United States, in Order to”.
- form a more perfect Union,
- establish Justice,
- insure domestic Tranquility,
- provide for the common defence,
- promote the general Welfare, and
- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
and ends “do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
About the only mission they seem to care for is to provide for the common defence, because there is money to be made there.