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The Difference of One

You know that Constitutional Amendment, which protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms? The 2nd one? Well, good news. The Supreme Court has decided the amendment actually protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Clever bunch, aren’t they?
Anyway, this is a huge deal [...]

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Letter to My Government

Dear Government:
Yesterday, I spent some time with your average American voters.
You remember that plan you had to divert attention from your war, your recession and your corruption by creating a presidential election full of celebrity-gossip type media coverage, trumpeting what amounts to about a 0.0086 per gallon gas-coupon and then pointing your finger and being [...]

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Life Lesson #2972

Little boys with a week to go before having their cast removed should not be required to dig their own worms.

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Mysterious Eggs

Ms. Diva doesn’t know how three raw eggs were broken on her carpet and shoved under the bookshelf.
“Things like this do happen sometimes,” she says, “Very strange things.”
UFOs.  The paranormal.  Chicken eggs which fly through the house and spontaneously crack on the carpet.  Huh, I totally missed that on the SciFi Channel.

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This morning I stopped at the local beer joint to grab a cup of coffee. (I know it sounds funny, but the beer joint is one of the few places in town brewing JFG. Consequently, they get just as many of the local coffee drinkers as they do alcoholics.)
Anyway, I bumped into Backwoods Bob [...]

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Missus Jackie at the Community Cup and Missus McConnell, whose first name is Guerry although I never call her by that, are planning a meeting on Monday, March 10 at 7PM for folks who are interested in starting a Hawkins County Simplicity Group.
The group, which will be limited to 8-10 people, will be offering an [...]

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Dear Lawmakers: Bite Me

The holidays are over. It’s back to work – and time to comply with new state laws.
As of yesterday (1/1/08) Tennessee employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants or fail to adequately check the status of illegal immigrants could lose their business license. Employers do not violate the new law if [...]

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Kidnapping Minor Identities

From News Channel 11’s Consumer Watch Report:
You want to protect your kids from every danger. You teach them to look both ways before crossing the street, how to dial 911, and never to talk to strangers. Now there’s a new danger to include with those cardinal rules: identity theft. It’s a [...]

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky soldier facing his second tour of duty in Iraq said in a jailhouse interview Monday that he was seeking mental help at a veterans hospital when police showed up in the middle of the night to arrest him.
Spc. Justin Faulkner, 22, of Stanton, Ky., is accused of being absent [...]

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To Catch a Vandal

This morning the hubby called to inform me the soccer fields had been vandalized again and requested Park Director’s telephone number.
While I was looking it up in the directory, he was muttering that I should have it memorized by now.  After all, this is the fifth week in a row the Friday Night vandals have [...]

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