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Entries from September 2005

Using Misfortune To Enslave

September 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Kurt Nimmo authors a blog titled Another Day in the Empire. In an entry on 28 Sep 2005, titled The Death of a Constitutional Republic, he wrote:
Unfortunately, as a nation and a people, we are no longer “vigilant against a dreadful condition.” Most of us know little if nothing about the Constitution and the [...]

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Movie “spoilers” suck!

September 29th, 2005 · No Comments

My Google Desktop caught a news link to an article describing how flight attendants were outraged over the movie “FlightPlan” so out of curiosity I decided to read the article to see what all the fuss was about. While the article contained a warning that there were “movie spoilers”, that warning appeared after the [...]

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You Can Survive Quicksand!

September 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments

I’ve seen my share of movies where someone falls into quicksand. Unless some hero miraculously rescues the now–stuck person, that person gets sucked down into the quicksand and dies.
A new study shows that a person does not have to die after falling into a quicksand pit.
Frankly, I’m relieved. That’s one less thing I have to [...]

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Katrina frees anti-terrorist dolphins

September 26th, 2005 · No Comments

25 Sep 2005 - According to this Observer story, armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
I have trouble understanding how something like this can happen. Wouldn’t you think that such special animals would be kept in a facility that wasn’t [...]

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The Danger of Precedent

September 25th, 2005 · 4 Comments

It seems pretty apparent to me that this idea of establishing a precedent is key in the political/legal realm.
Politicians tell us that they want to do something – let’s call it “BigX” – for a perfectly desireable and sensible reason.
Most people hear that reason and barring any glaring objections, will agree that BigX is a [...]

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