MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

        FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF                        DAVID, A SAVIOUR WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD. 

        AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU. YE SHALL FIND                THE BABE WRAPPED IN SWADLING CLOTHES LYING IN            A MANGER. 

LUKE 2;1 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

 MERRY CHRISTMAS 

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."

Luke 2: 11

CHRISTMAS 2011

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:10-12

The above picture is Da Vinci's Madonna of The Rocks or sometimes called The Virgin of the Rocks. The original painting is in the Louvre, while the charcoal sketch hangs in the London National Gallery of Art (our favourite museum bar none), along with a second painting. There is a controversy as to which painting came first, whether Da Vinici's assistants worked on the painting in the National Gallery, and whether Da Vinici was forced to alter the paintings. Wiki has a good article here on the paintings.

Merry Christmas.

XMAS EVE EVE

UPDATE: YOUR NEW CIRCUIT JUDGE- JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS: DARRIN GAYLES. WELL DONE GOVERNOR CRIST!

On the eve of Christmas Eve, here's the holiday scoop:

Miami Dade Courts are open today, although the clerks office will probably close at 12:00 or 1:00 PM.

Bah humbug.

Miami Dade State and Federal Courts (see below) are closed Friday.

Don't go on the Dade 11th Circuit website or Harvey Ruvin's Clerk of the Court website looking for a Holiday schedule. You won't find one.

However, props to Harvey and the Gang for allowing an attorney to check where they are on the court appointments list. Want to find out what position you are at on the appointment wheel of mis-fortune? Plug in your bar number here.

Thing are a little bit better at the Federal Website, which contains a link to

"Fast Freddie's" (c) 2010 administrative order for the holidays. Ever the careful legal technocrat, our Chief Judge has cited to 5 U.S.C 6103 for the authority to designate an additional day off from work when a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday. Our Chief Judge carefully notes that tradition and precedent are such that when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the additional day off is Friday. Therefore, in the spirit of the season, and by the power vested in his holiness by the Congress of the United States Of America, etc., etc., the courts of the Southern District of Florida are hereby closed this Friday, December 24 for Christmas and next Friday, December 31, for New Years.

You can read the order here.

Tis the season for our robed readers to sip a little too much free booze at the office parties now in full swing all over the county. A gentle blog reminder not to drive if you've been drinking, but please do something otherwise stupid-but safe- so we can have something to write about in the New Year.

Be safe. Remember those we have recently lost, and after counting your blessings,

remember that 66 years ago, like today, America's Armed Forces were overseas engaged in combat. Remember to say a silent prayer for our soldiers, and have a Merry Christmas.

(We always make it a habit this time of year to re-read Stephen Ambrose's remarkable account of the 101st's defense of Bastogne in December, 1944. When Germany launched a surprise attack known as the Battle of the Bulge, all Eisenhower had in reserves were the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions. Both were ordered into the battle. Trucked across France and then marching into Bastogne while U.S. soldiers were fleeing in panic the other way on the same highway the 101st was marching in on, the division was lightly outfitted, without winter clothes or sufficient ammunition. And yet, with nothing to rely on other than each other, the 101st- and it's 506th PIR made famous by Ambrose's account in Band Of Brothers- took up front line positions in the woods of Bastogne, dug foxholes in the bitter cold, and once again held off the best troops and tanks of Germany. Their story is a remarkable one, and we urge you read about them and remember their sacrifice as we also remember the sacrifice of our current men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. )

YES VIRGINIA THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS

(click on the image to enlarge it.)

While there may be a Santa Claus, Christmas itself is in jeopardy, as the Justice Building blog has exclusively learned. The Boynton Beach Police department has arrested MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Yes, Merry Christmas has been arrested.

We are monitoring the situation and hopefully Merry Christmas will be bonded out before December 25, 2009.

Updates as they become available.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

UPDATED: This may just be the most wonderful story of 2007.
A US Solider in Iraq, a single man, meets, befriends, and finally adopts a
young Iraqi boy who has cerebral palsy and is living in an orphanage.

The Solider is Capt. Scott Southworth, and he is what being an American is all about.

CLICK HERE for the most heartwarming story of 2007, and one of the best things we have ever heard of one human being doing for another.

From all of us here at the Justice Building Blog who labour 24 hours a day to bring you the latest news and humor from our beloved Justice Building:

MERRY CHRISTMAS.



TRACK SANTA: Click here for Rumpole's (semi) exclusive contract with the North American Air defense Command to track Santa.
TRACK SANTA

And finally, this news which we first read on the Broward Blog:

The Lakota Indian tribe, who are decedents from Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and whose territory includes Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming, has announced "We are no longer citizens Of the United States."

The story is HERE and the tribe announced that it would be issuing passports, driver's licenses, and that its citizens would live tax free.

Rumpole says: Sign us up. We're in.

And for all of our religious and Christian readers, we leave you with this message of peace:

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone around about them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:10-12

Happy Holidays. See You Wednesday.