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Minting Bank Lobbyists on Capitol HillApril 13, 2010, 7:27 pm Representative Barney Frank publicly rebuked a former aide this month for taking a job with a big Wall Street firm right after drafting a regulation that could affect the way the firm did business. Mr. Frank described it as an unusual transgression, one that embarrassed others working on the legislation and created at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. **SNIP** The case of Peter S. Roberson, whose hiring by a derivatives clearinghouse drew the ire of Mr. Frank, is the most extreme, and it points up holes in...

Frank Bans Ex-Adviser From Dealing With PanelSewell Chan April 1, 2010, 6:11 pm Representative Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said Thursday that he had prohibited a former senior adviser, Peter Roberson, from having any contact with the committee’s staff because Mr. Roberson had become a lobbyist for a company that runs a clearinghouse for derivatives. While serving as a committee adviser, Mr. Roberson worked on legislation to regulate derivatives. But Mr. Roberson has since been hired by Intercontinental Exchange, known as ICE, as vice president of government relations, Bloomberg News reported. He would normally...

I thought I'd share a beautiful song and video that I found today. May you all be as comforted and uplifted by it as I was. The song is by Carroll Roberson.

Tucson police are searching for a suspect in a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning that left one man dead and another seriously injured. At about 2 a.m. three soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista were leaving Tucson hip-hop club Envy, 6211 E. Speedway, following an argument with the suspect, Jurel Dionne Roberson, 21. As the three soldiers were driving west bound on Speedway, Roberson pursued them in a borrowed car, pulled up along side the victims and fired several shots into their car.

It would be extremely beneficial at this point if we could simply produce the original autographs for examination. This would greatly simplify the operation of establishing correctly the New Testament Text. But this simply cannot happen. It has long been acknowledged by scholars that we no longer have the "originals." They have long since passed from the scene. This is due to the fact that scribes were known to destroy worn out MSS after they had copied them. Apparently the church valued the WORDS of the original more than the original itself. Therefore, the readings of the originals must be...