{"id":541443,"date":"2010-04-22T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2010-04-22T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:01:08","slug":"illegal-day-of-prayer-a-costly-taxi-ride-and-schwarzenegger-wants%c2%a0money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541443","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Day Of Prayer, A Costly Taxi Ride And Schwarzenegger Wants\u00a0Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Judge outlaws  National Day of Prayer.<\/strong> It was bound to happen sooner or later. Last week,  U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb declared that the National Day of Prayer\u2014something  the nation has honored since it was first proclaimed by President Harry Truman  back in 1952\u2014is unconstitutional. She was responding to a lawsuit filed by  something called the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Despite the ruling, the  White House says the president still intends to recognize a National Day of  Prayer. Maybe we should all pray that judges read the Constitution again (if  they ever have).<\/p>\n<p><strong>*No silly walk for  this guy.<\/strong> Tens of thousands of people have had their travel plans disrupted thanks to ash  clouds from a volcano in Iceland  that spread over much of Europe. One of them  was my favorite English funnyman, John Cleese, of the \u201cMinistry of Silly Walks\u201d  fame. Cleese was stranded in Oslo,   Norway, after a  TV appearance there. When he couldn\u2019t find any other way to get home he hired a  cab to drive him to Brussels, where he caught a  train to London.  Total cost of the trip: a hefty $5,140.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u201cBring your money,  buddy.\u201d <\/strong>I\u2019ve  written before about the flight of capital from California. Something like 25 percent of the  state\u2019s millionaires have fled to less taxing states. But here\u2019s a twist: A  multimillionaire I know is moving to Newport    Beach from an eastern city. A few weeks ago he  received a personal phone call welcoming him to the state from embattled  governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Near the end of the call the governor said,  \u201cAnd please bring your money with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Judge outlaws National Day of Prayer. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Last week, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb declared that the National Day of Prayer\u2014something the nation has honored since it was first proclaimed by President Harry Truman back in 1952\u2014is unconstitutional. She was responding to a lawsuit filed by something called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}