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demand debate


I know I have been relatively silent of late, but if you get the chance, definitely visit the DemandDebate webpage. What is this interestingly-named site concerned with? Well, as taken from their front page:

Educating and empowering students and parents to eliminate bias in environmental education.

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well that is just too convenient

Lately, I admit that the Drudge Report has been pretty much my primary source of news. Sure, I check out the Clinton News Network occasionally, as well as Fox and the BBC, but, more often than not, I go back to Drudge…

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a thousand it’s and a thousand keyboards

One of the great beauties to arise out of the advent of the modern internet is the ease with which information can be shared and transmitted among people from massively different backgrounds, locations, and expertises. Just about anyone can learn aabout just about anything he could ever want to, if…

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a shot in the eye

If you were ever wondering, when you happen to leave your contact lens case at the office (like I did yesterday), a pair of shot glasses work just as well in a pinch. Well, maybe not just as well, considering you cannot exactly carry them around with you easily, but…

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a question for the masses

Why is Hillary Clinton so fixated on the fact that she is a woman? I mean, yes, she is female (at least in some sense of the word) – that is certainly unavoidable. But she keeps using it as leverage, again and again… almost as a plank in…

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up, up, and away

One of the few things I have always been looking forward to when I get older is the ability to purchase and use a powered wheelchair and not get any funny looks. Hell, I would even settle with a Segway (saw a reasonably old guy toodling around a farmer’s market…

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day four

Date: 22 May 2007
Start: Decatur, Texas
End: Tucumcari, New Mexico
Distance Travelled: 456 miles
Duration: 11 (including accounting for CDT to MDT change)
Map link.
Well, this particular day got out to a great start, and…

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coupon upgrades

About this time next year, I figure I will be looking for a new computer. My old Sony is about five years behind the curve at the moment, and I have upgraded it as far as it can go, what with a new video card, more memory, a USB 2.0…

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I hiked/drove all over sokal

So what did you do this weekend?

  

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round about

So what is the deal with the pictures from earlier this morning? Well, first, a little background on how I got where those pictures were taken.
I woke up yesterday morning, and came to the conclusion that I simply did not want to be stuck in my…

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exploratory pictures

There is not a lot to be said for Kalifornistan, but some of its photo opportunities are nice. Explanations later today. And, yes, I like black-and-white and sepia. Deal with it.




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how wars are lost

Assuming the existance of a time machine, go back and ask every major military thinker, from Sun Tzu to Hannibal to Napoleon to Von Clausewitz to Grant to Caesar to Yamamoto to Mahan to Fuller to God alone knows how many others there are, what make up some of the…

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ashop commerce – a review

One of the many ways to make money with your weblog is to develop a product line that people are interested in, and sell it to them. Unfortunately, most web hosters do not provide simple, easy-to-use methods by which weblog administrators can set up their own shopping carts and purcashing…

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a beginning

Who knows, this might turn into something. Update: Added/changed a few things.

With bullets repeatedly slamming into the other side of the crate he was hiding behind, Jonah realized he was not having the best of days.
“Ni ta ma de! Tianxia suoyoude ren. Dou gaisi! Would you go

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breaking atmo

Go. Watch this video.
NOW.
Now that is out of the way, I have to admit, for being an amateur spliced-together film, that is just all manner of shiny. And do not even get me started on how awesome it is that Firefly and

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time for a little perspective

Something to think about while the Democrats hold their 24-hour publicity stunt this evening:

Borrowed from Military Motivator.

Technorati Tags: sacrifice, publicity stunt

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send in the gnomes

You know, as a child, I was never particularly enomoured with the whole garden-gnome thing. To me, they looked far too much like lawn defensive equipment, not lawn decorations, what with the whole pointy hat and everything.
That said, I have to admit that a solar-powered garden

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talk about a misnomer

“Right now, I could kill George Bush,” she said. “No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.” As she made her point, she chuckled and some members of the audience laughed.

Pop quiz time. Who spoke those words?…

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no bias here

So the liberals are constantly decrying how there is never any bias in any newsbroadcast anywhere… Any time anyone tries to level a charge of bias against a media source (other than Fox News, of course), that person is immediately shot down, trampled upon, and ground into the dust, despite…

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sparkly!

No, not “shiny”, “sparkly” – there is a reason. As with all of the gun shows I have attended in the past, I, unfortunately, walked out without purchasing a single firearm. Though, I have to admit, the “gun” shows here in Kalifornistan are remarkably different from the gun shows I…

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I wonder…

… Just how many people actually read the posts that are trackbacked to their open trackback posts. Do you?

  

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holy backups, batman

One of the many drawbacks of living geographically separated from your Better Half is that transferring files from one another can be notoriously painful and/or complicated. Sure, AIM (one of the easiest and cheapest ways to keep in touch, I might add) does support file transfers, but they are crotchety…

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how to confuse the hell out of people

Wear a pair of combat boots, and a pair of baggy cargo pants, and then walk around carrying a bag from Victoria’s Secret and one from REI.
The looks you get…

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picture frames gone spiffy

I do not know about you, but I have a lot of digital pictures. A lot of digital pictures… like in the neighborhood of 14,000. Granted, over two thousand of those came from our cross-country trip, and almost another thousand from my wedding, but that is still a lot of…

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butt of a joke

As you all may recall, I wrote about the U15 stock replacement for any AR-15-style riles, for those people who are unfortunate to live within the People’s Republic of Kalifornistan. Basically, it removes the pistol grip of the AR-15 (the sticking point…

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thank you for the wine

Well, it is not wine, but I still appreciate the plug SerenityStuff.com put in for my book, Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Firefly. And, I confess, no, it does not have any decent chili recipies in it, nor any…

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payperpost – a review

As I mentioned repeatedly before, this weblog is attempting a few experiments with outside funding sources. One such source is PayPerPost. As with a wide variety of other webpages out there, this particular company specializes in blog marketing, in that it connects advertisers interested in having posts…

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operation grim

Alrighty, I will admit it… once upon a time, I did, indeed, have a Maxim subscription – see, I am not as nerdy as you once thought. At least not mostly. If it is any consolation, I read it primarily for the same reason my mother read Playboy…

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oh, that is priceless

So I went and downloaded the Cinematic Trailer for Starcraft 2 (in addition to the gameplay video, which is just amazing, but not the point of this post), and watched it… I was suitably impressed right up until one minute and thirty-seven seconds in.
The…

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day three

Date: 20 May 2007
Start: Sulphur, Louisiana
End: Decatur, Texas (with stop-over in Houston, Texas)
Distance Travelled: 485 miles
Duration: 13 hours, 30 minutes (with five hours spent in Houston)
Map link (approximate information…

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I never knew…

… I could write this much in a week. So what have you been up to?

  

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e.t. phone home

You all know the feeling… you are either moving with a cell phone, looking to get a cell phone, or trying to change providers, and while each and every cell phone provider out there has surprisingly comprehensive maps of their coverage areas and what is roaming and where their data…

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as if there was any doubt…

You scored as Serenity (Firefly), You like to live your own way and don’t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

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just drive on by

I admit, there has not been a whole lot of Serenity-related news on this weblog for quite some time now, and I apologize for that. Do not get me wrong – the news has certainly been out there… I have just been lazy. In the spirit of trying…

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smorty – a review

As I previously mentioned, this weblog is exploring some alternate means of funding itself – after all, webspace is not cheap, and someone or something has to pay for it all. One of those alternatives particularly relevant to weblogs is to find a way to get get paid to

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stop dog-earing my posts

Use a bookmark instead!
… Yeah, ok, that was pretty bad. Anywise, I admit, I have never really jumped on the whole social networking rocketship all that much. Granted, I do have a Facebook account, but that is primarily to keep in touch with some old college friends. Otherwise,…

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full exposure

No, not of me, ladies. Sorry. You would have to clear that through Better Half.
So, what am I exposing instead? Well, as a previous post may have indicated, this weblog is trying to explore some alternate funding possibilities, in light of the fact that

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why i love america

Over the past few days, quite a few people have been documenting why they love America. This is, of course, understandable, considering that yesterday was the Fourth of July – the day America declared her independence from the…

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disclosure policy

This policy is valid from 05 July 2007
- This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Linoge ( linoge (at) wallsofthecity (dot) net ).
- This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other…

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i find your faith … disturbing

Please excuse the mutiliation of the quote – it makes sense later on. As my long-time readers are probably aware, this weblog is being hosted on Dreamhost machines. Despite an inordinate amount of negative reviews, complaints about downtime, and gripes about customer service, I have never really…

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day two

Date: 19 May 2007
Start: Southern Georgia
End: Sulphur, Louisiana
Distance Travelled: Approximately 650 miles
Duration: 11 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for EDT to CDT change)
This, the second day of our trip, was definitely a time-and-distance day. Having driven this particular stretch of…

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july 4, 2007

Two hundred, thirty-one years ago, fifty-six brave men pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a country they, themselves, created and founded by the approving of the Declaration of Independence. I say “approving” as the actual document itself was not signed until almost…

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