Espresso con panna hits the spot
#coffeechain #espresso
Great use for them!
My wife and I always save chopsticks and plastic utensils from restaurants to use at home. They come in handy!
Minimum wage laws easily get out of control. If there is a power balance between workers and employers, workers are positioned to negotiate for a just wage. Minimum wage laws step in when that negotiation process has failed, but that can lead the workers and employers to abdicate their negotiating power to government.
I'm not convinced democracy as we have today is the best political system. You need some way of representing the needs of the citizenry, but democracy is easily captured by interests that are skilled at influencing public opinion.
I think some taxes are necessary to fulfill the basic roles of government, such as national defence, but we ought to be very careful about how much taxation is levied, and on what.
Taxing production is idiotic. It disincentives precisely the thing a society needs to prosper.
I disagree with this.
Here in Texas property taxes are used to pay for most everything, but especially in the cities, a lot of people are renters. So you have urban renter populations voting to raised property taxes on suburban and rural home owners to fund urban public works.
I'm not opposed to public works paid for by taxes, but the people who enjoy the fruits of the tax hike might not be the same people who have to pay the costs. If you own property, even under a mortgage, you'll feel the property tax and exercise due caution before approving it.
Minimum wage should be negotiated between unions and employers.
This is different. Property tax is a tax on production. The flow of money in the case of welfare is in completely the opposite direction.
People who own no property shouldn't be allowed to vote on property tax increases.
The fact that the Bible is internally consistent is a miracle in itself, IMO.
I'd say it's slightly different than a heresy, since it doesn't proclaim itself to be Christianity.
But yeah, I generally agree. A lot of Islam's ideas came through Christian heresies in Mohammad's time.
That's a good distinction. The Quran was more "dropped out of the sky," so to speak, rather than slowly compiled like the Bible.
Islam is much closer to an invented religion, arguably, than an organic one for that reason.
To play Devil's Advocate for a moment, don't people on the outside say the same thing about Christianity?
Atheists and agnostics always critique the Bible for having two different Gods, the Old Testament God who commanded genocide, and the New Testament God who commanded love of neighbor. Obviously we know the two are consistent, but to someone picking up the Bible for the first time, the Pentateuch and the Gospels almost appear to be from different religions.
I wonder if there is similar nuance within Islam that I, as an outsider, don't know all the details of. Kind of like how ex-Christians often assume all Christians are basically Protestant evangelicals. We're not, there are so many gradations of doctrine and practice. If Islam had some similar internal disagreement, I wouldn't necessarily know about it any more than the secular guy would know about all the disagreement within Christianity.
You often here non-Muslims repeat the same talking points about Islam, but I want to be careful not to paint with too broad a brush.
Rage against the dying of the light (daylight savings time ending)
Brunch on a Monday? Why not?
First one isn't always terrible, but second one is where it hits stride
How does one only make one pancake? Every recipe I've used makes a few.
Isn't that what the National Eucharistic Revival is trying to do? Hopefully we see more of that.