The PBS newshour's coverage of the Website case tonight was shameful. #PBS
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They began with a warm interview with the plaintiff followed by Marcia Coyle's clueless discussion of the argument....
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buying into the idea that the training program the Masterpiece bakeshop's owner had to take was a relearning program, a play on Communist era shots Colorado's laws.
In lines short and tight
We acknowledge what we've received.
Though "Thank You" seems small
For the blessings we possess,
For joy we have come to know.
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We do seek much more:
Peace and healthy lives for those
Caught in strife and need.
It is not enough for us
To dip once more in pockets.
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Our thanks must be great
And embolden our thinking
To spread God's shelter
Of peace to places we don't know,
To spread God's Wings close and far.
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"Mehta: The lawyers on both sides of this case, notwithstanding the high stakes, the novel principles, the volume of evidence for months and months and months demonstrated nothing but the highest degree of professionalism....
...Mehta continued: Not only our profession should not only be proud of what you've done but people in this country should be proud of what you've done. The time you've put in, the sacrifices while separated from your families. However, this verdict comes out...
Nd it's behaving that way. Issuing ruling after ruling based on false notions of "history and traditions," which have no basis in our jurisprudence, while ignoring the tradition of giving weight to precedent, the historical basis of our law.
Never let me hear complaints that parties make up rights out of whole cloth when the Court itself, in a number of recent opinions, has created a new principal unrooted in text or history. A set of principles that has no known or discoverable boundaries or basis.
In lines short and tight
We acknowledge what we've received.
Though "Thank You" seems small
For the blessings we possess,
For joy we have come to know.
We do seek much more:
Peace and healthy lives for those
Caught in strife and need.
It is not enough for us
To dip once more in pockets.
Our thanks must be great
And embolden our thinking
To spread God's shelter
Of peace to places we don't know,
To spread God's Wings close and far.
I remember the clear blue sky. I was hiking along the Highline Trail at Glacier National Park. Mountain goats and sheep dotted the rugged landscape. The day before I had hiked on the other side of the mountain, the other side of the Continental Divide...
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....climbing almost straight up, it seemed to me, along waterfalls past several glacial lakes to the lower edge of Grinnell Glacier. Looking up I could see an arête, a narrow sharp ridge, far above, with wisps of clouds seeming to surround it. . . .
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... But this day I was on the other side of the mountain. To the left were sheer cliffs at times, but this was a much gentler climb. This trail slowly rose from the valley floor to the heights. On the right the mountains bent slowly . . .
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