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It appears that the Metro Nashville City Council will be reconsidering guns-in-parks:

Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro’s rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.

The thing I find interesting is that Sam Coleman was one of the most vocal opponents of allowing …

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Patch your machines, people…

…even if your client asks you to never patch them. I’ve got something like 160 billable hours since November 1 because my client “didn’t want to see popups” on some customer-facing kiosks. The popups they were complaining about were operating system updates being pushed out, so we stopped pushing updates …

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New narrative on Ft Hood shooter

It’s the Army’s fault, because they didn’t take his accusations of war crimes committed by his patients seriously.
Yes, clearly the last resort of a “whistleblower” is mass murder. He couldn’t have, you know, just flown to The Hague and started talking to the International Court or emailed someone at …

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clumsy and/or random

Speaking of irrational gun-lusting, I must have watched too much Star Wars as a child, because I really want one of these… and a matching pistol that shoots honest-to-God ray-gun-caliber rounds. Or one could just get the carbine and the required barrel, magazine, and main spring to

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more food for thought

To continue with my linky-minimal-thinky posting trend for today, Joe Huffman weighs in on the open carry debate. You will want to read the whole thing, and check out the massive link-fest at the end, but his end sentence is a good take-away:

Let’s not be so stupid as

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such a waste

A lot of states and cities have been making a lot of noise about how unsafe it is to drive while talking on a cell phone you are holding. Well, the facts are out – the real reason you do not want to talk on a cell phone while driving …

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reality knocks hard

According to the anti-rights advocates of our world, things like this never happen, and even if they did happen, you should wait for the police to arrive, rather than try to defend yourself and your family.
I say, “To Hell with that,” on both counts.
Home break-ins, robberies, burglaries, and …

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at least according to them

So what was the best of this year?…

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lazy quoting

As the saying goes, coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Right after leaving a comment on the most-recent post in a series of posts regarding a quasi-debate Roberta X is having with some other individuals concerning how the Bill of Rights should and should not be applied, I poked …

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how far we have fallen

What.
The.
Frak?

Yes. That is Our Glorious President. That is President Barack Hussein Obama of the United States of America demonstrating that he, and, by extension, his country, is subservient and deferential to Emperor Akihito of Japan.
In just over 50 years, we went from a mere General

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all in how you phrase it

As a recurring project here at “walls of the city”, I have been taking quotes from anti-rights advocates, and editing them slightly to more-adequately expose the outright and rank bigotry contained within them. Sometimes, this editing is a bit of a stretch, and I am willing to admit that, …

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plainly spoken

To follow with a trend throughout the corner of the Cortex I frequently visit, today’s quote comes from Roberta X:

I’m not going to hold debates here. I don’t give a flying fuck what you think of me or my ideas and I most certainly won’t accept addled “correction”

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newest time-waster

Gratuitous Space Battles. I will let the game-designer speak for himself:

GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one.

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hang them high

Better Half and I managed to hang nine things on the walls of our apartment so far this week, with another two or so scheduled for today.
All that means is that we will find a house we could be happy with tomorrow……

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blockage on the line

For more than a few months, our military commanders in Afghanistan have been requesting more troops in order to support the ongoing compaigns there. Those requests have, no doubt, been couched in very political and cautious language, but even so, the primary message of all of them have been …

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just keep on digging

Imagine that you are high up in the chain of command of an activism and lobbying organization. Imagine that one of your representatives, operating in his official representative capacities, gave a video interview at some point in the past. Imagine that the said representative managed to thoroughly misquote an Amendment …

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rock and a hard place

I am not sure which was worse in my dream – the zombies, or the clean-up robots (who mostly resembled a human-sized version of the Lost in Space movie’s Robot) who could not differentiate between moving-but-mostly-dead humans and moving-but-still-living ones. At least the ‘bots relied on melee attacks as much …

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simple question

So, are they armed or not?…

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too close to home

When you realize how plausible it is, it stops being funny:

What if Barack Obama had been President on December 8, 1941?

President Obama gives speech on the attack on Pearl Harbor at music awards dinner.

“Thank you ladies and gentlemen this has been a great event. Let me

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make use of it

As of five minutes ago, there were somewhere around 20 individuals waiting outside our local Applebee’s (with an indeterminate number inside).
Good to see.…

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