On Splitting Legal Hairs
OceansOfThought @ April 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time.”-Abraham Lincoln
This is just embarrassing: 18 states are suing the EPA. They are suing the EPA because the EPA has done nothing in response to [...]
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On the Failure of Morality aka Hello Hypocrisy
OceansOfThought @ March 10, 2008 # Comments Off
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln.
Perhaps I should have called this, the fall of the high and mighty. It has become a sad joke the number of politicians who rail against gay’s, who are themselves gay, who are disgusted by corruption who [...]
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On Bidding for Government Contracts and Foreigners
OceansOfThought @ March 5, 2008 # Comments Off
A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln
Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., has (had) won a contract from the air force to build tankers. There is a pretty big outcry over this. Congress is upset. 50,000+ jobs are going to Europe, while 2000 stay (for [...]
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On The Respect of Language and Culture
OceansOfThought @ February 27, 2008 # Comments Off
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. -Abraham Lincoln
So while driving to work today, a radio station DJ wanted to find out who sang a song he liked. Long story short, it turned out the song was a mix of 3 languages,(french, spanish and an african language) which is spoken natively [...]
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On Gun Control and Rocket Launchers
OceansOfThought @ February 27, 2008 # Comments Off
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. -Abraham Lincoln
The USA today had an interesting front page article on guns and gun control today. Basically the supreme court had decided to review DC’s very, ultra strict gun laws. Until now, the Supreme court had declined the vast [...]
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On Being Humane to Animals
OceansOfThought @ February 2, 2008 # Comments Off
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right….” Abraham Lincoln
Humane.
We call ourselves that, but there is nothing sometimes human in what we do and treat animals. This article is not about PETA, nor will i wax poetic about how we are destroying [...]
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