OK, fine, one last post

This by way of update.

Does anyone except me remember this dumb post I did about Oily Titz wherein she argued that the “Law of Nations” mentioned in the Constitution was a book?

EXCERPT 3: U.S. Constitution, Article I, §8:

The Congress shall have Power…To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations

Yes, Law of Nations is CAPITALIZED, meaning our framers were citing a proper name. There was only one Law of Nations in 1787 officially declared. And yes, Congress has the power to create and enforce ANY LAW mentioned in the Law of Nations written by Emmerich de Vattel! It was sitting right under our noses the entire time.

Anyway, you know who didn’t know much about this book at the time the Constitution was written? George Washington, since he hadn’t yet checked it out of the library.

Washington failed to return two books in 1789, which have been accruing overdue fees.

The former president, who died in December 1799, borrowed two books from what was then the only library in Manhattan – “Law of Nations,” a dissertation on international relations, and a volume of debate transcripts from Britain’s House of Commons.

If the book was just so damn important, one would have thought that GW would have owned it already, no?

I mean, I started an entire religion based in part on both L. Ron Hubbard and Everybody Poops, but I at least bought them off Amazon.com.

For those curious, my religion is tenatively entitled: Everyone shits out Science Fiction Books. For short: Battlefield Poop.

Category: Politics