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A Rooster Crows
This morning one of the roosters crowed for the first time. It startled me from sleep. At first I thought something was being strangled. It wasn’t your typical crow, instead sounding more like a creaky gate opening. Or like something was being strangled. Only after hearing it three or four times did I realize it…
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Vegetarian Dogs
Many years ago, there was an advertisement in the PETA magazine for a vegetarian dog food. Vegetarian, because “dogs were never meant to eat meat”. That was when I realized those people were crazy and left the animal rights movement. I find the same sort of insanity on the other side of the railroad tracks. …
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Thoughts On The Zimmerman Trial
The George Zimmerman Trial Is Not About Justice Thought-provoking article. “a young, athletic and hooded thug with lots of texting messages about guns, fighting and drugs, Trayvon Martin attacked George Zimmerman. While bashing the neighborhood watch volunteer’s brains out on the sidewalk the young thug was shot dead. ” That’s a very different portrayal of…
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The Higgs Principle
“As a general rule for understanding public policies, I insist that there are no persistent “failed” policies. Policies that do not achieve their desired outcomes for the actual powers-that-be are quickly changed. If you want to know why the U.S. policies have been what they have been for the past sixty years, you need only…
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Support Edward Snowden
In this day and age, it’s difficult to tell lies from truth, heroes from villans, honest men from liars. It may be that Snowden is a patsy for some larger hidden political action. But he has revealed, if only in part, some of the criminal, tyrannical actions of the government. For that he should be…
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If You’re Not Doing Anything Wrong…
The sycophants and supporters of tyranny are always bringing up that tired, pathalogical platitude that “if you’re not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to fear” when the subject of surveillance comes up. There are numerous reasons that that excuse is bullshit, but one that no one mentions is that you ARE doing something…