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quote of the day – joe huffman

If you have ever had or been around kids, you are probably familiar with Doctor Lawrence Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Development, which can be essentially compacted to:

1. I should do this because if I do not, I will be punished.

2. I should do this because it is

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too slow

Well, there was going to be a post in this space… until Jennifer went and stole pretty much all of it.

So go over there and read it. Be that way. …

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quote of the day – j.c. fiske

On the one hand, the request to read and offer my thoughts on the particular weblog post discussed below came as part of a mass-spam of various folks on Twitter.

On the other hand, I am always looking for quick-and-easy blogfodder, especially that no one else has touched on before. …

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should have sprung for the run-flats

… Because something tells me trying to run one of these will not go over too well with the power-tripping high-school drop-outs hiding behind their blue uniforms and tin badges:

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security on Tuesday partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security

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quote of the day – lowenaffchen

You will note that I have been largely silent regarding the ongoing "Occupy [X Location]" idiocy that seems to be sweeping the nation at the moment, and apart from this post and my previous one, I am going to keep up that trend. Trust me, it is better for …

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a not-very-serious suggestion

1. If you “announce your candidacy” for Presidency in any and all public fashions, you are automatically disqualified from ever holding the office.

2. No party primaries occur.

3. The country holds a write-in ballot. You may write in the name of any person on your slip; however, votes for …

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one cannot escape the government

One of the many joys of living in a relative backwater like Knoxville is that I have been able to observe the spread of the Thousands of Sexual Assaulters’ cancer-inducing, ionizing-radiation-spewing backscatter "security" systems from afar, without having to actually partake of the privacy-invading glow.

Fortunately, …

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what if you held a protest and no one cared?

Apparently some self-absorbed collectivists are making some sort of attempt at not-very-"civil disobedience" on Wall Street in New York City by getting together, protesting, demonstrating, and generally whinging that some people are more economically successful than they are.

No, seriously. If there is any message discernible in the hailstorm

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we stand with gibson

Unfortunately, we have other plans, but if you are in the Nashville region on the 8th and have some free time, I would strongly recommend attending the We Stand With Gibson rally and free concert between 1400 and 1600 at the Scoreboard Restaurant. I do not know their names, …

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quote of the day – michael ramirez

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If it sounds this stupid when we, the people, say it, how it is any less stupid when the government – and, specifically, Our Glorious President – does it?

(And, yes, pictures/cartoons can count as quotes – that whole "thousand words" thing…)

(Michael Ramirez drew it, though I cannot …

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mark one for the good guys

Barron Barnett’s State Sponsored Criminal Count is spinning merrily along about as well as we all knew/feared it would, but sometimes, only sometimes, there is a faint glimmer of hope on the horizon:

Geoffrey Asher just returned home from buying auto parts, and after coming out of a shed

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… that word; i do not think it means… ah, screw it

It may take me a few moments to compose myself in order to adequately respond to this news, rather than just flail meaninglessly on the keyboard:

The Obama administration announced Thursday that it would suspend deportation proceedings against many illegal immigrants who pose no threat to national security or

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a lawsuit hardly cuts it

Regular readers will recall the series of posts I wrote concerning the killing of Jose Guerena by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, as well as my contentions that:

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department created this situation when they reached and stretched for every piece of unrelated information they could possibly

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the collapse will not be aired

By and large, I do not go to political speeches, rallies, or events… I generally read faster than most people talk, so I tend to get bored, and the honest reality is that I hate having to listen to people tell other people that they are going to to do …

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quote of the day – robb allen

Military members/veterans, employees in any business in the world, and countless other people are probably familiar with the Peter Principle, though they may have never actually heard it called that. The idea is fairly simple: "in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their ‘level …

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examine their motivation

newtonefailnewtonefailA goodly number of my compatriots are justifiably annoyed at the second-in-line for the American throne Presidency referring to supporters of a more fiscally-sound budgetary policy as "terrorists", and I can certainly understand where they are coming from.

But, really, Vice-President Joe Biden saying something mind-numbingly idiotic is not much …

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holding their feet to the fire

Jay G has the “Dead Goblin Count”.

Barron is launching the “State Sponsored Criminal Count”:

The rules are simple:

1. The person worked for the government, IE: TSA, DHS, FBI, BATFE, or any other part of the government, local, state or federal.
2. The person committed the crime

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manufacturing "terrorists"

On the one hand, the Center for Disease Control would really like you to be ready to handle your family’s continued health and wellbeing during natural disasters or regional/national emergencies, to the point of even fully embracing the zombie meme. This makes all kinds of sense, simply because the …

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make a vote, lose a vote

My requirements for my duly-elected representatives to get my votes are fairly simple: respect and preserve my rights, do your best to minimize government, and stand up for what you believe in. Through their failings in one or more of those categories, Representative John Duncan and Senator Bob Corker both

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another question

When did the budget become the President’s job?

Seriously… do people even remember what the President’s job is? …

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