While sniffing through my Sitemeter referer logs, I stumbled across this link and discovered that I was part of a University of Missouri English course on blogging:

Does that mean I'm cool now?

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Democrats are utilizing a "morning-after" loophole to completely ignore President ObamaÂ’s ban on cash from lobbyists.

This will, I'm sure, lead to calls for a ban on morning-after donations.

Ludicrous.

The problem isn't on the demand side. As long as politicians have favors to sell, lobbyists will line up to buy them in either the white, black, or gray markets of influence-peddling.

The answer is to hit the supply side. Cut back the number of favors politicians have to sell. Take away as many regulatory powers as possible.

Once upon a time, information travelled so slowly that companies could get away with screwing people over because no one would find out.

Communication technology has changed that. If a company screws someone over in Boston, the news will be tweeted to LA in 30 seconds, their reputation will be in shambles by the end of the week, and they'll be out of business by the end of the month.

We don't need government watchdogs when everyone owns their own pitbull.

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Basil of Basil's Blog has a delightful parody of the classic Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", now starring Barack Obama in the role made famous by Billy Mumy.

It's a GOOD thing.

Yes, it's a VERY good thing.

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Headline - "FBI Investigating Alleged Militia Training Camp"

Bullshit all the way.

It's not a militia training camp, it's just a shooting range.

The reason it's being investigated is that one guy who goes there regularly was a convicted felon who owned guns that were stored in a locker there - which is against the law.

However, shooting ranges are not required to perform background checks on people who use the range.

Why its being referred to as a "militia training camp" is a little fuzzy from the story, but it sounds like the FBI's informant heard other users refer to it as such.

According to the story, the owner "claims the word 'militia' is just a part of an inside joke. He says his group is a local chapter of Project Appleseed, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching marksmanship and preserving gun rights."

The idiot who wrote the story didn't figure out something I Googled up in 10 seconds.

Project Appleseed is a bunch of liberal busybodies who want to infect schools.

The Appleseed Project is the organization dedicated to marksmanship & gun rights.

Take this story for what it's worth. Which is nothing.

But reading between the lines, the REAL story is that the FBI is trying to use the word "militia" as an excuse to go after your guns.

Quite troubling, that.

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Sikhs want to serve in the military.

Only problem is, they need to wear beards & turbans for religious reasons.

I'm torn. I believe that part of military discipline is holding to somewhat arbitrary standards of personal appearance so as to provide a uniform image by all members at all times. Civilians should be able to look at you and say "he's obviously military. God bless him".

On the other hand, I know for a fact that there are very few things the military doesn't have a waiver for. Shaving is high on that list. Fact is, due to the fact that black people have curly hair, they are very susceptible to ingrown facial hair, which causes bumps on their faces, making daily shaving difficult and painful. A lot of black guys weren't required to shave for medical reasons. Didn't make them any less capable of serving.

What it DOES do, though, is cause a little resentment among their co-workers. NOBODY wants to shave every day, and it's a pain in the ass, even if you like the clean-shaven look. So it's a small cut to morale and unit cohesiveness. Then again, when you serve in the military, EVERYTHING is a pain in the ass, and adding one more item to the list is just a tiny drop in the ocean of things that military folk bitch about, yet still accept as "part of the job".

So in balance, I say Sikhs should be allowed to serve with beards & turbans, but in exchange, they have to realize that we're fighting a war that involves killing Arabs. So if they want to serve, they can't bitch about being offended when someone makes a comment about wanting to kill "hairy-faced rag-heads".

Fair enough?

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Beloved Wife is trying to discover the joys of running.

She hates it. Can't find a single way to make it pleasant. I had to show her the groin-shaving video just to scare her out of the house today.

Anyone got some ideas to make it less godawful? She already takes her mp3 player with, so I'm looking for more.

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Real cream in your coffee.

Love/hate/never had?

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