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Comcast sucks. Again. Only, this time, the suckage is a little more significant.
Our twelve months of promo-ness came up this month, and our cable/internet bill jumped about 30% overnight – to be expected, after all, that is the contract we agreed to. I tried calling up Comcast twice …

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remembering veterans

The day is rapdily drawing to a close, so if you have not already, please thank a veteran for their service. Numerous soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coasties sacrifice so much of their time, energy, and lives to protect us, our country, and our way of life – a simple …

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nothing to see here

TriggerFinger points us to a rather troubling development in once-Great Britain:

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting.

Despite widespread opposition over

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solid ground

Tropical storms are much more tolerable from 400-odd miles away from where they made landfall, and not on the coast itself, or, even better, bobbing around on a bitty little ship as we try to steam through the bloody things……

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learn from your past

I am not a tactical operations expert, so my lessons-learned from the Fort Hood mass murder were relatively short, probably incomplete, and just the tip of a very large iceberg. On the other hand, Karl Rehn is somewhat versed in these kinds of matters, being a certified NRA instructor, Master …

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in their own words

It is a damned near-pathetic state of affairs when the families of our servicemen and women feel as though their military members would be safer in a war zone than at their own, American bases:

JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: And you’re still scheduled for deployment in January?

PVT. JOSEPH FOSTER,

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Day 120 of the Daily Massacres Caused By Guns Being In Restaurants

And yet, still nothing to report.
New date for the Restaurant Carry Lawsuit is November 20, I believe.…

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scaly knives

In my mindless meanderings around the internet, I occasionally end up at places positively chock-a-block full of drool-worthy eye-candy, such as Blade Forums – I could absolutely spend hours at that website, digging through countless examples of beautiful tools and hardware that I could never hope to afford (or rationalize), …

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not-so-fun facts

Here is some interesting, albeit frightening, trivia concerning our wonderful new enslavement health insurance bill:
According to Caleb, you could fit 3.41 copies of his Moby Dick into the bill.
Speaking personally, it would take 1.86 copies of my Atlas Shrugged to measure up to the same length as …

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different species

I wonder if this is an adequate explanation of why “liberals” / “progressives” / anti-rights-advocates-in-general never seem to understand plain language when pro-rights activists are trying to explain the importance of individual freedoms to them……

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lessons learned

Every one of life’s experiences is an opportunity for us to learn, and while the mass murder at Fort Hood is undeniably tragic and unfortunate, it is also provides education to those willing to pay attention. So far as I see it, the two large take-aways are thus:
1. The …

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wonderful news for a sunday morning

As of last night, the United States Federal Government just took a massive step towards becoming the largest slave-owning entity in the history of mankind. Additionally, the United States House of Representatives just put a quantifiable, specific, monetary cost on being a citizen of America – $750 a year for

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simply put

As always, Oleg Volk has an amazing way with words:

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know them by their words

Many years back, a considerable number of “liberals“, “progressives”, Democrats, and other left-leaning individuals made copious quantities of hay over President Bush’s delayed response to the 9/11 attacks, holding it up as evidence that President Bush was somehow involved in the attacks, did not care about the attacks, …

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if you build it

Ok, the engineer in me has officially decreed this to be the coolest thing I have ever seen. The short story?
Local Motors announces a competition to design a car to meet a certain set of requirements.
People from around the world design up cars, and submit them to …

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visitors from out of town

So Better Half and I started watching the new series V a few nights back, and my only real gripe so far (aside from various engineering and physics qualms) was the acceptance rate. Yes, these aliens are human-looking. Yes, they get here speaking our languages. Yes, they talk some good …

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hit me!

Thanks to RideFast’s reminder, my donate button off to the left has been updated to make use of the new GunPal system… which probably does not matter, since no one used the old one, but there it is.…

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hiding behind them

With winter storming Eastern Tennessee by force these days, one of the considerations Better Half and I will have for our future house will be window treatments. Window treatments? Well, in addition to blocking out sunlight, Peeping Toms, and other such things, a lot of pleated curtains these days also …

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not quite copy-paste

It is something of a lengthy post, but you need to read this. There, but for the grace of God, goes America, and it would seem as though God’s graces have been getting mighty sparce recently……

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storing your money

For all of those veterans out there who are not yet members of USAA, this is your chance.

I am very pleased to let you know that USAA membership is now open to anyone who has honorably served in the U.S. military.

Starting with our first eligibility expansion

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