Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged work, blood, family, money, society, treasure, sentiment, war, life, government, car, House, America, mortgage, frost, black, burn, read, lie, cheat, global, fear, freedom, liberty, policy, internet, hungry, tax, dollar, floor, goodness, consequence, man, cry, planet, credit, value, stand, garden, fight, damage, wind, H. L., Mencken, hoist, flag, slit, throat, word, normal, caution, pirate, abandon, spoils, tempt, meaning, rally, warning, call to arms, action, risk, plunder, context, see, trust, conclusion, victor, bust, payoff, investment, flip, company, Bernie, Madoff, steal, employer, fellow, construction, build, profit, structural integrity, structure, business, joist, basement, wallboard, drywall, booty, insurance, pay, claim, useless, worthless, chest, flood, wave, hurricane, payment, generous, storm surge, sales, Wall Street, American Dream, something, nothing, corporation, grade school, lose, future, job, unemployed, homeless, Darwin, Charles, evolution, treatise, survival, fact, want, need, utopia, grace, desire, city on a hill, pacifism, conscientious object, reality, theory, weed, animal, drought, sword on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged work, signs, money, Atlanta, news, parking, government, car, judge, attorney, lawyer, story, article, letter, funds, fee, greed, terrorist, terrorism, abuse, citizen, law enforcement, ticket, freedom, legitimate, Department of Homeland Security, Texas, Seattle, Washington D.C., veteran, law, exception, conspiracy, vehicle, dollar, authority, country, camera, man, budget, cost, Jericho, police, illegal, court, dismiss, fight, charge, statistic, numbers, law breaking, reprimand, city, violation, New York City, revenue, infraction, mayor, Michael Bloomberg, traffic enforcement agent, meter, maid, fine, citation, shift, MSNBC, piggy bank, extreme, super-agent, Black Friday, Boston, visitor, resident, increase, curb, crosswalk, Sacremento, shortfall, intention, system, collect, Colorado, Denver, Louisville, Kentucky, boot, Montgomery County, Maryland, Baltimore, cell, phone, convenience, New Orleans, agent, scan, license, violator, legal, text message, electronic, machine, productivity, double-park, driver, alternate-side, Bronx, accuse, false, New York Times, bus zone, penalty, authorities, registration, confusing, damage, illegible, missing, muni-meter, sanction, mugging, unlawful, mass-ticket, harrassment, Columbus, Ohio, Santa Monica, California, Fort Worth, Portland, Oregon, trend, goal, Chicago, bogus, holy, unreasonable, tenuous, unpleasant, push, decency, common sense, courtesy, extortion, populace, idiocy, innocent, ruin, taxes, IRS, prison, drug-related, payroll, seize, activity, sale on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let me preface this statistic-rich post by noting the following: 1) most of these numbers were derived from two online sources, so if they were incorrect then I am also; and 2) if you are caught genuinely breaking a law, you deserve to be fined, ticketed, booted, or otherwise reprimanded as defined by local [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged block, budget, burden, buy, buyer, car, Cash For Clunkers, choice, class, con, consumer, cost, credit, crush, dealership, demand, destroy, economy, engine, government, hardship, incentive, liquid glass, low-income, market, mileage, new, price, pro, program, purchase, salable, shred, stimulus, supply, trade-in, truck, used, value, vehicle, voucher, water glass on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cash For Clunkers seems like a pretty good program. Bring in a not-so-great vehicle and get up to $4500 in credit toward a new vehicle, a value virtually no one would get from a traditional trade-in program. There are a few stipulations but nothing outlandish. And it’s helping both the consumer and [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged hopeless, Wal-Mart, death, government, red, author, economy, intelligence, fiction, global, personal, dead, sci-fi, science fiction, fantasy, Orson Scott Card, Ender, Ender's Game, Pastwatch, Redemption of Christopher Columbus, alternate history, European, New World, time, end, world, Homo sapiens, eco group, eco warrior, extinction, global warming, doomsday, prophecy, religion, religious, zealot, scientist, rule, armageddon, nuclear, quasar, burst, giant, species, fearmongering, invulnerable, denial, social, construst, stability, stable, safety, human nature, knowledge, ignorance, disillusionment, doom, imminent, atone, Beowulf, blight, planet, fertile, millenia, blink, survive, bacteria, pollute, destroy on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve read much of the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre, you’ve probably heard of Orson Scott Card. Probably best known for his “Ender” series (beginning with Ender’s Game), he has authored dozens of books and short stories as well as having worked on scripts, comic book novelizations, video game dialogs, and many other projects.
Buried somewhere [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged Missouri, Democrat, government, Washington, destruction, state, terrorism, American, threat, detain, report, law enforcement, federal, Christian, political, Chuck Baldwin, paraphenalia, suspect, conservative, airport, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, newspaper, Herald, Everett, Snohomish, county, Seattle, Mt. Baker, Snoqualmie, national forest, Extremism report, Homeland insecurity, Debra J. Saunders, Debra Saunders, SanFrancisco Chronicle, extremism, Rightwing Extremism, sensitive, home-grown, militia, violence, violent, attack, dissent, Washington D.C., facts, Crackers Beware, non-violent, organization, nationwide, assessment, militant, abortion, free trade, NAFTA, gun control, same sex marriage, veteran, Oklahoma City bomber, Tim McVeigh, Gulf War, law, bias, harm, dangerous, lone wolf, terrorist cell, suspicious, dire motive, sludge, white, supremacist, autonomy, ideal, fearmonger, exception, conspiracy, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, I&A, domestic, planning, rhetoric, knife, Current Economic, and Political Climate, Fueling Resurgence, in Radicalization, and Recruitment on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I know I’ve posted nothing since coming back but I have to re-visit a recent topic before I can in good conscience move on to post anything new.
In my travels I picked up a newspaper which had been discarded in a hotel lobby. You may ask why, when it would normally be more [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged abuse, advocate, agencies, airport, airport security, Al Qaeda, American, answer, anti-abortionist, AP, arrest, Bob Barr, border, Campaign For Liberty, candidate, cash, cell phone, China, Christian, Chuck Baldwin, citizen, civil, compliant, condemn, condescension, confidential, Connecticut, conservative, convention, DEA, delineations, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Public Safety, detain, DHS, document, DPS, drug, economic, explanation, FAA, Fairfield, FBI, federal, fly, freedom, Germany, Good Morning America, government, Hitler, identification, indivisible, injustice, insignificant, Jews, law enforcement, legitimate, liberty, lieutenant governor, local, mafia, Magna Cum Laude, mainstream, Mao, marginalize, memory, merchandise, MIAC, middle eastern, Missouri, Missouri Information Analysis Center, Modern Militia Movement, money, news, non-profit, paraphenalia, pattern, persecute, Peter Kinder, plane, pocketknife, policy, polite, political, privacy, prohibited, public safety, question, record, regulations, release, report, rescind, response, retract, rights, Rome, Ron Paul, Rueters, rules, Russia, Sacred Heart University, scary, screwdriver, search, seatbelt, secret, serious, St. Louis, Stalin, state, Steve Bierfeldt, stripped, substantial, suspect, terrorism, terrorist, Texas, threat, ticket, transaction, travesty, TSA, underworld, Virginia, witch hunt on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Terrorist profiling isn’t just for Middle Easterners anymore.
A young whitebread American professional was recently held by TSA agents in the St. Louis airport. Did he mistakenly leave a screwdrivier in his carry-on? A pocketknife in his suit pants? He did verbally threaten someone or carry prohibited substances? No. Nothing of [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged America, Americans, bank, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, candidate, cheat, China, Communist, consequences, corporate, corruption, council, cowardice, crazy, Dark Ages, death, deception, Democratic, destruction, dishonor, economy, election, electoral college, executive, facet, fiat, George W. Bush, global, government, greed, hell, infiltrate, inflation, judicial, legislative, lie, local, millions, money, national, nonsense, parallel dimension, perception, platform, politicians, politics, president, representative, Rip Van Winkle, Robert Heinlein, saviour, spending, state, Stranger In A Strange Land, trillions, uncontrolled, understanding, vote, Washington, worldwide, wrong on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My fellow Americans, and other readers from around the world, I believe something very strange has happened to us. An author named Robert Heinlein once wrote a book called Stranger in a Strange Land, and while I’ve never read said book I feel the title is all too accurate in describing my little corner [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged Barack, desperate, economy, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, government, inauguration, Obama, power, president, president-elect, socialist on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Unless you’ve been in a coma or huddled in the dark under a very, very large rock, you’ve heard abour our new president. Not just “president-elect” anymore but now officially in charge of the full enchilada, Barack Hussein Obama is the man in charge, commander-in-chief.
I don’t know about you but I didn’t exactly go [...]
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Posted in General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged Barack Obama, candidate, Democrat, election, GOP, government, John McCain, McCain, nominee, Obama, politics, president, Republican on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People, I’m tired of all the politics flying around our media-centric country like flies around a fresh pile of poop. I understand this is a presidential election with a black(ish) man as a potential future president. I get it. After an 8-year Republican run I’d say McCain’s chances are just over nil because it’s been, oh, decades, [...]
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