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All I can say is Holy Shit!

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hehe, just came across this funny shit. Rock, Paper, Saddam. Check it out.

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I Think Everyone should have fewer freedoms
I don’t, really, but I chose this title as the apparent mantra of some of the most prominent political choices.
Democrats feel wealthy people should have less control over their own money, employers should have less freedom to decide who they can and can’t hire, colleges should have less freedom regarding admissions choices, Christians should have less freedom expressing themselves in a public arena.
Republicans feel individuals should have less freedom deciding who they can and can’t marry, citizens should have less freedom to publicly criticize the government, citizens should have less freedom to make stupid lifestyle choices.
This is but a small sampling of the infringement of freedoms that is part of the character of both parties. There are individuals within each party that are exceptions, but I am speaking about the “official” party policy.
In this day and age, the Libertarian Party is becoming increasingly relevant.
signing off,
Gideon MacLeish

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Damn, already the fourth. Last day before my vacation starts too. Going to Hilton Head tommorow, which I am looking forward too. Today will probably be a very long day at work I am sure, I know yesterday was. I didn’t get home until about ten pm last night.
Have done a shitload of work on my HA pages recently, that’s one of the reasons I haven’t blogged in the last few days. Will try and post a bit more tonight. Also may try and post some photo’s while I am out of town.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Democratic group crucial to John Kerry’s presidential campaign has paid felons – some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in at least three election swing states.
America Coming Together, contending that convicted criminals deserve a second chance in society, employs felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio and perhaps in other states among the 17 it is targeting in its drive. Some lived in halfway houses, and at least four returned to prison.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.
The court previously had said police may briefly detain people they suspect of wrongdoing, without any proof. But until now, the justices had never held that during those encounters a person must reveal their identity.
The court’s 5-4 decision upholds laws in at least 21 states giving police the right to ask people their name and jail those who don’t cooperate. Law enforcement officials say identification requests are a routine part of detective work.
I don’t have any kind of eloquent argument against this, I will leave that to all the other bullshit artists. but to me this just means giving away more of my freedom and personal property rights. The more rights and freedom that you give away to “protect” yourself eventually lead to not being free OR protected.
One of the arguments that led to this narrow decision was that in this “day of terroists” we would be protecting the terrorists and other criminals by not doing this.
bullshit

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Pretty nice weekend. I am actually off this weekend, got a nice Relic watch for Father’s Day, and the blog is one year old today. Shadowscope has actually been around for six years or so, and six more before that as a BBS. It has gone through a boatload of changes over the last couple of years as I settle on a format for the site.

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Here’s a bit of information I came across about Social Security. I already knew most of it, but it’s always nice to be reminded of how the democrats are fucking us all.

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Just pre-ordered the Song of Sussanah, the newest Dark Tower book by Stephen King. Is supposed to be released on June 8th. Looking forward to this. If you haven’t read any of this series, I highly reccomend them.

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Finished digging the pond out today, placed the liner and filled. I am going to need around 30-50 more bricks to go around it, but it looks pretty cool right now. Planted some Creeping Jenny at one end. Once it settles in I am going to get some goldfish and buy some more water plants for it. Starting to look pretty cool. Perhaps I can take a few pics with my phone tommorow afternoon.

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