M, Jul 20, 2015, new deadline for public comments on Red Hill Fuel Tank Administrative Order of Consent (AOC). Via email or snail mail. Details here or here.
This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.
SCOTUS Assoc. Justice Antonin Scalia in same-sex marriage dissenting opinion
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.
Israel’s Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] is well-placed to explain to the U.S. Congress the alleged danger of a nuclear Iran. After all, it was Israel and its allies in Washington who fabricated this issue to begin with.
There are millions of Christians in America’s churches that couldn’t tell you what’s in the Bible to save their lives. They couldn’t quote the Ten Commandments; they couldn’t quote the Golden Rule; they couldn’t name Christ’s apostles; they couldn’t quote five verses of Scripture from memory if their lives depended on it.
In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. —Shakespeare, British playwright But four times he who gets his blow in fust. —Josh Billlings, American writer
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MIT economist Jonathan Gruber’s factually impoverished testimony on Obamacare [before the House] didn’t get nearly the attention it should have, as congressional Democrats cleverly decided to release a report on CIA torture abuses on the same day.
[Obamacare] was written in a tortured way to make sure that the CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.
AIPAC, the Israel lobby, kicked off their three-day conference today. With the Jewish lobby's usual chutzpah, they made no secret of urging America, their chief enabler, into an unjust war with Iran. It would be a partnership made in the depths of hell. Had Republican Mitt Romney been elected, and with this boot-licking Congress, we might be there already.
With no evidence to back it up, Israel says that Iran is working toward a nuclear weapon. This is a good reason, according to the Jewish nation, to go to war, as long as the U.S. joins it and spends its own treasure and lives without the Israelis having to give in equal measure.
On the other hand, it's no secret at all that Israel has 300 or so nuclear weapons. But Israel doesn't mention them and neither does its partner in crime, the U.S. It would seem that there is a far greater danger of the use of nuclear weapons from Israel and the U.S. After all, the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons to mass murder human beings is our country. Despite the rationalizations fed to the public at the time, top American military men, such as Eisenhower and MacArthur, thought there was no good reason at all for them. The Japanese were already defeated and trying to surrender.