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Here’s yet another in the series of “Before you call me a paranoid raving lunatic” blogs.
Right after 9-11, Operation Highlander got started.  Poorly organized, hastily staffed, and given an illegal mandate to violate your civil rights.
Rest assured there were counterparts in at least two countries.  I’ll go with the UK and Australia, but that’s my [...]

[Fox News]
After a three hour deliberation, a jury found OJ Simpson guilty of robbery in a case that involved sports memorabilia.
I haven’t heard anything yet but I’d move out of Los Angeles if I were you.  At very least, avoid stopping your eighteen wheeler for anyone handling a fire extinguisher or any other object menacingly.

I sitting here, still fuming over the treasonous actions of our elected (alleged) representatives in Congress.  It’s not that I didn’t know the handout was going to pass… I’m still allowed my feelings on the topic (which you’ve read already on this blog).  But I wondered aloud to some friends what was going on out [...]

Isn’t it interesting that the bailout has ballooned from the original three pages to something like four hundred and fifty?  Gee, do you have any idea why?
It might have something to do with all of the added pork, given to Congresspersons who wished to vote against it.  Line items that only apply to one state.  [...]

I bought a house a while back.
The only reason I was able to do it was because I had put money away in a 401k. When the house I was renting went up for sale, the owner did their best to assist us in purchasing it.  We almost didn’t get the house.  Why?  Because [...]

I suppose it’s not a total giveaway to begin by stating that this happened in Kentucky.  There is just something inherently funny about Kentucky.  [In the interest of disclosure, I lived there for a few years, but I was only five.  They wanted me to be governor but I was too advanced for the job.]
So [...]

It used to be that I got cut off in my car by just another idiot behind the wheel.  It’s 2008 - a new day, a new century, with new ways to be a driving hazard.   Since I am one of the few left who manage to pay attention while I drive, I have [...]

This is one of those Larger Picture posts, wherein the basic story is sad but looking at the Larger Picture is eye-opening.  And sad.
The Cell Tax Fairness Act would stop all `discriminatory taxes’ on cell service for five years.  While this is a good thing, the logic is interesting, to say the least.  The claim [...]

Congress has a reported nine percent approval rating.
Shocking, isn’t it?  Who’d have thought it would be that high?
They decided to improve their image today by doing something really important.  Making a statement.
They seek to ban cell phone use after taking one’s seat. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), joined by John Duncan (R-TN) have brought us this wonderful [...]

Remember when the Prevaricator-in-Chief tried to get his buddies at the telcos blanket immunity for the illegal spying they did?  Then the lying, backstabbing thieves in Congress went ahead and approved it?
It’s still in the courts, thanks to the EFF.
I urge you to read this short article to become familiar with this case.  Congress already [...]