On her twelfth birthday, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph received a letter from her grandfather that she often reread. Thomas Jefferson told his granddaughter that the “Canons of Conduct in Life” were:
1.Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
2.Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
3.Never spend your money before you have it.
4.Never buy a thing you do not want because it is cheap.
5.Take care of your cents. Dollars will take care of themselves.
6.Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
7.We never repent of eating too little.
8.Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
9.When angry, count to ten before you speak, if very angry, count to one hundred.
Funny how much of it still applies to life 200+ years later…
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are up in arms over Roger Stone’s reporting Spitzer’s activities to the FBI: St Augustine Record
My thoughts are that perhaps Mr. Spitzer should have kept his weenie in his pants and there would have been nothing to report.
But more importantly, what is up with the black socks?
Why Spitzer was Bushwhacked
guess he should’ve kept his little head down and his mouth shut.
Now some folks are suggesting that the Dem primary should be decided by electoral votes: NYT
Aside from the ridiculousness of completely changing the rules and criteria midstream because you think you finally found a measure that puts your candidate ahead, there’s this last paragraph from the same article quoted above:
Just another “For it before I was against it” moment brought to you by our own lovely Dem politicians.
super-delegates may want to read this – likely they’re fretting:
TNR Mag: Slouching Toward Denver – the apocalpse by Noam Scheiber
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LONDON (BBC News) – CND has predicted as many as 5,000 people from across the UK will gather for Easter Monday’s anniversary. MoD police have warned that anyone who tries to breach the site perimeter will be arrested.
The first march was held at Easter in 1958, shortly after the formation of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Some 10,000 people marched from London to Aldermaston in protest at Britain’s first hydrogen bomb tests 50 years ago.
Nuclear DisarmamentNew Perspectives On The Changing World Of the New Millennium.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."CT paper recants Lieberman endorsement:
We Don’t Know This Sen. Joe
– Sen. Lieberman has been too busy burning bridges to build any.
good to know someone in MSM is taking notes.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) has been rumored to be a potential VP choice for Sen. Obama. One wonders how this will play into Barack’s decision-making…
Gov. Sibelius on Friday vetoed a bill that would have allowed a new coal-fired power plant to be built in the state. The legislation would have overturned an October decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to deny Sunflower Electric a coal-plant permit due to greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill would also have stripped the KS Dept. of Health and Environment of the authority to hold power plants to stricter standards than the not-so-strict federal Clean Air Act. “Instead of building two new coal plants, which would produce 11 million new tons of carbon dioxide each year, I support pursuing other, more promising energy and economic development alternatives,” Sebelius said, adding “Building additional coal plants now is likely to create a significant economic liability for Kansas in the future.” The veto was expected, and KS legislators will now consider an override.
Meanwhile, campaigning in in West Virginia, both Clinton and Obama were saying nice things about coal; the former’s comments in particular “fired up” an angry response for failure to oppose mountaintop removal strip mining.
Nice to see someone using veto power for the common good.
That whole “Maybe we can find someway to put the mountaintop back after we’re done” comment was so um, amazing.
Coal has never been clean, as far as I know.
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RaisingKaine.com by Eric
There it is. A small chip we picked up by the side of the road. This is what has fueled our country (and the world) for two plus centuries and is one of the foundations of the industrial revolution and therefore our modern world. In Southwest Virginia today, it is the heart of the battle between corporate self interest, economic depression, and the environment. This is Coal. And these are my thoughts, observations, and photographs from a recent visit Lowell and I made to coal country.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."