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Archive for June, 2005

Congress Fights Kelo, In Its Own Way
Thursday, June 30th, 2005

AP reports that the House of Representatives is seeking to ban federal funds from being used to obtain or improve property seized via Kelo v. New London for private developers.
It’s a good start, but it does not attack the principle. A civil authority can still order your property given to someone else. If Congress wants [...]

"Gay Marriage" an Abuse of Language
Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Spain’s socialist government legalized same-sex unions today, joining Belgium and the Netherlands, with Canada working on it.

Try This on Your Boss
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

AP reports that the House of Representatives voted themselves a $3,100 pay raise, making their salary $165,200 for next year. The last time that the Republicans rejected the pay raise was in 1998. Check this out at the end of the article:
“It’s not a pay raise,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. “It’s an [...]

(Hat tip: Drudge)
Freestar Media issued in a press release that their CEO, Logan Darrow Clements, is seeking to build a hotel on the land of none other than Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home [...]

Bible Study Without Bibles
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

I visited Lutheran Church and School of Messiah in Grand Junction Sunday. I like to catch the Adult Bible Study before a later traditional service, just to get a feel for the attitudes of a congregation.

SCOTUS Term Finally Over
Monday, June 27th, 2005

But not before the First Amendment’s Establishment of Religion clause gets a whacking.
Sometimes Scalia makes me scratch my head. Today, though, he nails it in his dissent to McCreary County, Kentucky, et. al., v. ACLU, et. al. :
What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely [...]

Legislate What Our Society Will Bear
Sunday, June 26th, 2005

All scriptural text is NIV, from biblegateway.com.
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority [...]

They're Here Somewhere
Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Brooks & Dunn Trucks
Two of three trucks at the Doubletree Hotel in Grand Junction, CO.

Trailer Logo
Logo on the side of Brooks & Dunn Trailer

A twenty-something girl with a seriously short miniskirt boarded the elevator with me and used her key in the elevator to get to the secured eighth floor. Groupie, maybe?
Update, 8:30pm: Room Service [...]

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