Odds & Ends
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9:58PM Ice and Snow
So much for global warming. Winter in Washington State had been mild, but earlier this week there was more snow on my property than I had ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of customers in the region were without power and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was closed due to falling ice.
Ice chunks force closure of Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Reuters Discovers Preppers
Reuters ran an article on the growing “prepper” or preparedness movement. The article mentions SurvivalBlog editor and author James Wesley Rawles and calls his blog the “guiding light of the prepper movement.” I would agree with that sentiment. I read SurvivalBlog on a nearly daily basis.
Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse
Gay Marriage in Washington State
Every time gay marriage is voted on by the people it is rejected, but liberal politicians and activist judges continue to force the issue upon a reluctant electorate. The Washington State legislature, controlled by Democrats, is taking up the issue this year and despite what the voters have already said, may pass it.
Gay marriage gaining momentum in WA Legislature
No Picnic
The News Digest section of this month’s Limbaugh Letter contains a story about Quail Hollow Farm, an organic community farm in southern Nevada. The farm wanted to serve a “farm-to-fork” meal where neighbors and guests could tour the place and sample the produces. First, the Southern Nevada Health District required a special use permit and, after the farm complied, still declared the food “unfit for human consumption,” and ordered it “doused with bleach and dumped. The reason the food was unfit in the eyes of the bureaucrats was because it had no package labels or sales receipts. As Rush points out, that was because the food was all grown on the farm. Rush then asks, “What next? Fines for ‘unlicensed’ lemonade stands.” Actually, in a blogpost titled The War against Lemonade Stands, I pointed out that in Oregon it has already happened.
Reader Comments (1)
The gay marriage bill promises religious freedom in its title but its *content* is specifically designed to take it away, and to open both pastors and churches to legal action.
Abortion proponents have been introducing a bill for at least the last couple of sessions that, if passed, would give them a platform from which to sue pro-life pregnancy resource centers into bankruptcy. This looks like a similar attack on churches and pastors.
Here's my analysis of the language of the bill as it pertains to religious freedom:
http://crybelovedcountry.com/2012/01/washingtons-gay-marriage-bill-a-frontal-attack-on-religious-freedom/