Good men must not obey the laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) _
Essays_ writer and philosopher q.awadGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato q.awad
In a democracy, laws are the agreed upon boundaries between each person's rights and a formal expression of each person's responsibilities. - pup
Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed. - Junius Henri Browne, 1893, journalist q.Laura Lee _The Futurist_
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon q.awad
One law for the lion and ox is oppression. - William Blake (1757-1827) poet, engraver, and painter
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. - Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) q.marsha1945@AUSTIN.RR.COM
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804Dec21-1881) q.marsha1945@AUSTIN.RR.COM uga2009Dec21
- q.Chagatai Khan
- Laws are society's common sense, written down for the stupid.
- The stupid refuse to read. Thank you for choosing to read.
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Saturday, May 22, 2010
on law
Saturday, May 8, 2010
complementarity
the more philosophical version of the quantum mechanics uncertainty principle
During a lecture on his principle of complementarity, Neils Bohr said that, for every measurable quantity, there is a complementary measurable quantity such that the more precisely one knows one of the quantities, the less precisely they know the other. He was asked from the audience, "Then what is complementary to Truth?" His immediate response was, "Clarity."
During a lecture on his principle of complementarity, Neils Bohr said that, for every measurable quantity, there is a complementary measurable quantity such that the more precisely one knows one of the quantities, the less precisely they know the other. He was asked from the audience, "Then what is complementary to Truth?" His immediate response was, "Clarity."
Monday, March 22, 2010
not a pretty site
David Marshall-Martin was delighted to read the AAP wire service report on 28 February about the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras:
Many were disappointed they couldn't penetrate the thong of onlookers.In an article by Michelle Hanson in the Guardian on 5 March:
If the government are considering competency tests for dog owners, I say go for it - and compulsory microchipping, neutering, third-party insurance.All very good, but what about the dogs?
Monday, October 5, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
yet another sloppy spellcheck
"The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership."
I wonder if the fiances were new or used?
the source
Couple With 16 Children Found Slain
By MELISSA NELSON, AP
PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 10) - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.
Surveillance cameras showed the van at the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola near the Alabama border, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said. The children were unharmed.
The sheriff's office released an enhanced but still grainy photograph of a red, 15-passenger van dating to the late 1970s or early '80s.
Morgan said investigators did not know who killed the wealthy couple known for adopting children with developmental disabilities, many born to drug-addicted mothers. But they said they wanted to question the three men suspected of involvement in the crime.
"It would be pure speculation. We see many random acts of violence now. We just don't know," he said.
Investigators are also awaiting autopsy results on the couple to learn more about the killings, he added.
Morgan said eight of the children, ages 8 to 14, were in the home when the couple was killed Thursday evening. A woman who lives in an outlying building and helps care for the children called emergency dispatchers from the home.
Deputies had to wake some of the children after they arrived, authorities said.
Investigators interviewed the children, who are now staying with other family members, Morgan said.
The Billings had 16 children, 12 of them adopted. They married 18 years ago and each had two children from previous marriages. The couple then began adopting children with developmental disabilities and other problems.
The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership.
In a 2005 story in the Pensacola News Journal, the couple said they wanted to share their wealth with children in need, but didn't imagine their family would grow so large.
"It just happened," Melanie Byrd told the newspaper. "I just wanted to give them a better life."
I wonder if the fiances were new or used?
the source
Couple With 16 Children Found Slain
By MELISSA NELSON, AP
PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 10) - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.
Surveillance cameras showed the van at the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola near the Alabama border, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said. The children were unharmed.
The sheriff's office released an enhanced but still grainy photograph of a red, 15-passenger van dating to the late 1970s or early '80s.
Morgan said investigators did not know who killed the wealthy couple known for adopting children with developmental disabilities, many born to drug-addicted mothers. But they said they wanted to question the three men suspected of involvement in the crime.
"It would be pure speculation. We see many random acts of violence now. We just don't know," he said.
Investigators are also awaiting autopsy results on the couple to learn more about the killings, he added.
Morgan said eight of the children, ages 8 to 14, were in the home when the couple was killed Thursday evening. A woman who lives in an outlying building and helps care for the children called emergency dispatchers from the home.
Deputies had to wake some of the children after they arrived, authorities said.
Investigators interviewed the children, who are now staying with other family members, Morgan said.
The Billings had 16 children, 12 of them adopted. They married 18 years ago and each had two children from previous marriages. The couple then began adopting children with developmental disabilities and other problems.
The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership.
In a 2005 story in the Pensacola News Journal, the couple said they wanted to share their wealth with children in need, but didn't imagine their family would grow so large.
"It just happened," Melanie Byrd told the newspaper. "I just wanted to give them a better life."
Monday, June 29, 2009
lost in translation
Mark Jones encountered an intriguing item on the menu in a Dutch restaurant.
- Sic! World Wide Words
One of the two starters was 'duck's udders'. After checking the Dutch original, rather than the tourist version of the menu, I discovered it was 'eendenborst' or duck breast. I chose the salmon nevertheless.
- Sic! World Wide Words
Monday, June 22, 2009
Medicinal words to describe people
My three children went to a Waldorf school. Waldorf uses the temperaments as one of its many child-management tools. For instance, children of like temperament are often seated together, so that they can "see themselves" and develop accordingly. It works better to have a choleric kid bumping heads with another choleric kid instead of with a weepy melancholic. The phlegs bore one another into action. The melans get fed up with one another's whining. The
sanguines have to learn to tamp down the chatter to get anything done.
My children are: Phlegmatic, Melancholic, and Sanguine-Choleric, so I got to experience four temperaments in three kids. Deciding what to do on a family outing was an interesting experience, I can tell you.- Laura Kennedy q.awad
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Sic - she did what?
Surprise!!!! Jessica Simpson after lingerie party at night and Tony Romo have a sushi lunch the day after at Katsuya May 16, 2008.
AOL.com photo caption
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Teaching and Learning Quotes
Adults are obsolete children. - Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss
Ashes to ashes / Dust to dust / Oil those brains / Before they rust. - Jack Prelutsky (A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, 1993)
Behold the superfluous! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves; "education" they call their theft - and everything turns to sickness and misfortune for them. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1891)
By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes (4th C. BC)
Chance favors the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1759)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams
to be continued
Ashes to ashes / Dust to dust / Oil those brains / Before they rust. - Jack Prelutsky (A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, 1993)
Behold the superfluous! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves; "education" they call their theft - and everything turns to sickness and misfortune for them. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1891)
By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes (4th C. BC)
Chance favors the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1759)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams
to be continued
Monday, August 13, 2007
don't we all!
Mark Goucher has produced a musical at the Edinburgh Festival based on the 1978 adult film Debbie Does Dallas. The Guardian reported on Wednesday: "Goucher's main concern is whether Debbie should be seen having sex. 'I don't want it to be offensive, but we need a bigger climax.'" - Sic! WORLD WIDE WORDS 2007Aug11
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