Any lies Edwards told, his lawyers, said were in an effort to keep the affair a secret from his wife, Elizabeth, who was dying of cancer, and not to advance his political career.
Res ipsa loquitur
John Edwards Verdict: Not Guilty, But Hung Jury on 5 Counts - ABC News
9 “‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife —with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
11 “‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
12 “‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
14 “‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.
15 “‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
16 “‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
17 “‘If a man marries his sister , the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.
18 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
The people who take Leviticus so seriously about homosexuality better read up on the rest of Chapter 20.
Leviticus 20 NIV - Punishments for Sin - The LORD said to - Bible Gateway
Determination
(by MidwestCurrans)
The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail is a rail trail between Lowell and Framingham that is getting built sloooowly. If ever completed (at least down through Concord), I and my kids could ride over the river and through the woods to their Grandmother’s house. Someone could write a song about that.
The next big thing that could happen is that Phase 2A of the BFRT could get built in 2013, if the project is included in the Boston MPO’s 2013-2016 Draft Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).
Please help: Go to http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/comment_cert_doc.html, click on the 2nd button (Draft FFYs 2013-16 Transportation Improvement Program), fill in the contact info, and under comment, say something like, “I support the inclusion of Phase 2A of the BFRT in Acton, Carlisle and Westford in the 2013-2016 TIP.”
Who knew? Who could have guessed that mild-mannered atmospheric physicists, ice dynamicists, solar physicists and all the rest were so well organized, and had such power as to be able to perpetrate a deception unprecedented in the history of human knowledge.
It’s clear, then, that we need to restore the sorts of safeguards that gave us a couple of generations without major banking panics.
I’m not a huge Walmart fan but I applaud their rooftop solar projects.
(via Walmart to install solar panels on 27 stores in Mass. - Business - The Boston Globe)
That’s a big rain drop. (via Photos: If All of Earth’s Water was put into Single Sphere, from the USGS Water Science School)
Read the article and see the bottom right- it might be time to check the sentiment analysis logic…
The other side of the world is generally very wet. (via The Other Side of the World - Peakbagger.com)
We live on a cloud planet. (via Clouds and Climate - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com)
Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.
Economics is counterintuitive. Conard’s ideas are also counterintuitive. So, Conard’s ideas must be correct. QED.
I continue to be amazed by how even very sharp people can be blinded by their perception of their own brilliance.
Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com
That’s just cool
(via Once-in-a-lifetime picture of lightning striking San Francisco’s Bay Bridge | Mail Online)
Climate change provokes such visceral arguments because it allows ancient battles — about personal responsibility, state intervention, the regulation of industry, the distribution of resources and wealth, or the role of technologies in society — to be fought all over again.
But we’ve turned it into a political football, a bizarre litmus test for conservatism.
