Ruin is formal — Devil's work
Crumbling is not an instant's Act:
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays —
'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —
Emily Dickinson.
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Beloved Of His Home
We Were Not Likened To Dogs:
We were not led like sheep to the slaughter in the boxcars
For like leprous sheep they led us to extinction
Over all the beautiful landscapes of Europe. . . .
The Gentiles did not handle their sheep as they handled our
bodies:
Before slaughter they did not pull out the teeth of their sheep:
They did not pluck the wool �?-om their bodies as they did to us:
They did not push the sheep into the �?re to make ashes of the
living
And to scatter the ashes over rivers and sewers.
Are there other parables like this, our catastrophe, that came to us
from their hands?
There are no other parables (all words are shades of shadow)—
And therein is the horror-striking expression: There are no other
parables!
Uri Zvi Greenberg.
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Apropos Of Kavanaugh
House Journal, September 23, 1789:
A mesage [sic] was received from the President of the United States, notifying that the President approves of the act, entitled "An act for allowing certain compensation to the Judges of the Supreme and other Courts, and to the Attorney General of the United States;" also, the resolve for procuring, from time to time, the statutes of the several States; and has this day affixed his signature to the same. And the messenger delivered in the said act and resolve, and then withdrew.
Ordered, That the click here Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith.
The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States."
Mr. Speaker left the chair.
Mr. Boudinot took the chair of the committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Boudinot reported that the committe had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made some progress therein.
Resolved, That this House will, to-morrow, again resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the said bill.
Betting they never thought that a sexual predator would be entitled to a SCOTUS seat, 'cept probably most of them were just like the entitled old white men and boys of today...
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To establish Post Offices and Post Roads
[The Post Office] is perhaps the only mercantile project which has been successfully managed by, I believe, every sort of government.
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book V, Ch 2)
Obviously, Smith never met Congressman Issa...
Anyhoo, the Post Office has been around since before we had even declared independence--with Ben Franklin made the first Postmaster General--showing just how important communication in general and the postal service in particular is. The Articles Congress passed An Ordinance for Regulating the Post-Office of the United States of America in 1782.
Once the US Congress ramped up under our Constitution in 1789, the House wanted to continue the existing regime:
[U]ntil further provision be made by law, the General Post Office of the United States shall be conducted according to the rules and regulations prescribed: by the ordinances and resolutions of the late Congress, and that contracts be made for the conveyance of the mail in conformity thereto...
But the Senate had other click here ideas, and on September 11:
Mr. Butler, in behalf of the committee appointed on the tenth of September, on the resolve of the House of Representatives, providing for the regulation of the post of flee, reported, not to concur in the resolve, and a bill upon the subject matter thereof;
And, on the question of concurrence in the resolve of the House of Representatives:
It passed in the negative.
Ordered, That the bill, entitled "An act for the temporary establishment of the post office," have the first reading at this time.
It's not apparent from the record how much, if any, debate there was on the bill. It zipped through the Senate, and was passed even more rapidly by the House. The act was extremely brief and its operation was limited through the next session, though it had to be renewed the following August, and again in March after that (when service was also extended to Bennington in the new state of Vermont!).
Regardless, today marks when the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, borrowed yet again from the Articles Congress and (re)created the position of Postmaster General. Congrats to Samuel Osgood, to whom the honor was bestowed a few days later...
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