"Texas bar officials said more than 350 lawyers from across the state have volunteered to represent the children free of charge."
As reported by MSNBC here.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Lawyers Give Back
You have, undoubtedly, heard the media reports about how officials entered the YFZ Ranch run by the "Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints" in Eldorado, Texas, where they removed 416 children. I just want to share once piece of information that might have slipped by you:
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Man, I'd throw my hat in the ring. If I were a lawyer, of course.
That little quiz will be a piece of cake for you.
I'd settle for a piece of bagel. ;o)
Mmmmm....bagels....I need to go eat lunch.
How in the world is he not tired of bagels yet?
Because I recognize that bagels are God's manna in NYC - a delicious gift from heaven sent to me out of our Lord's loving kindness.
"As the Lord commanded Moses, Husband put the bagel in front of the Empire State Building, that it might be kept..."
"And when the dew settled on Central Park at night, the bagels also came down..."
Oooh... I hear lightning.
I wonder if the Lindaj shrapnel will reach New York after the lightening bolt strikes.
I'm pretty sure that's a quote from the "Gospel According to Lindaj" - I think that's somewhere in the middle.
It's from the Book of Bageleviticus. And you call yourself a Bible scholar. Hmph.
Lindaj shrapnel? Are you a fan of "Lost"? I can see Hurley pointing to a bloody chunk on your shirt and saying, "Dude, you've got some lindaj on you."
Bageleviticus. I must have skipped over that book.
No, I've never actually seen Lost. You make it sound, umm, well... gross.
Bageliviticus is the creation myth surrounding the bagel. It tells the story of the new Promise Land of New York City (the Bronx, to be exact because seriously... Israel ain't such a prized possession), and how the Shekinah Glory marked that return by raining bagels on His people. And hailing cream cheese. It was dangerous being one of His Chosen back in the day. Don't even get me started on the bolts of lox. Yuck.
Oh, and you know why there's a hole in the bagel? According to Bageleviticus, the Lord realized that making manna in the shape of a flat disk was just mean. His people were constantly chasing manna frisbees around the desert and though it amused Him mightily at first, Moses eventually just sat down and said, "I'd rather eat dirt."
The hole in the bagel allows air to flow through, so the darn things fall STRAIGHT to the ground.
"Dude, I've got some lindaj shrapnel on me."
While I'm not yet familiar with that apocryphal book, it clearly tells of a gracious and loving God who showers His people with wonderful gifts from heaven.
Well, it also provides a host of arcane and often puzzling rules to follow when it comes to preparation and consumption of bagels, but frankly... the rules just don't translate to the modern world, so they're now largely ignored.
Well, some would argue, based upon their theological paradigm, that those rules in Bageleviticus were specifically for a previous dispensation. The revelation of a new covenant allows the freedom to choose whether to eat their bagel plain, toasted, or with a scallion cream cheese.
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised bagel inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set bagels free from the sins committed under the first covenant, namely Tofutti "cream cheese."
Theologians perennially struggled to correctly interpret the "unpardonable sin" passages. Recent scholarship based upon careful exegesis of the original texts, along with a new hermeneutic, reveal that the unpardonable sin is the defilement of a bagel with Tofutti "cream cheese."
Wife is currently in hiding in fear of getting hit by shrapnel.
Tofutti "cream cheese" is awesome!
I realize that in the moment, sin can be appealing. But don't defile the holiness of a bagel for a moment of health consciousness and a lifetime of low cholesterol.
And the mouthpiece of bagel apologetics rears his ugly head. Get thee behind me, Philadelphia. I will not be swayed by your creamy, fat-laden decadence.
Thou shalt not live on bagels with tofu, but on bagels smothered with cream cheese, lox, deli meat, or butter.
(Actually, about 90% of the bagels I eat are bagels with nothing on them.)
Here's a Texas lawyer you gave a little TOO much:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24167666/
He's not one of us. I checked.
"You" should be "who." I'm not BLAMING you!!
This guy sounds brilliant: "...Reposa fluctuated between apologizing for offending Breland [the judge] and justifying his behavior as a zealous attorney defending a client. ... Reposa's gesture was just the latest in a string of offensive behavior, which included calling prosecutors vulgar names in court."
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