Archive for March, 2009
Don’t Let it Happen to Us!
High School – 1957 vs. 2009
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack.
1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his own shotgun to show it to Jack..
2008 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack [...]
Utah Screwed (again) with the Help of Jim Matheson
For several years there has been a land swap deal in the works in Washington County. Under the deal negotiated over about a five year period, the State would deed some 90,000 acres of land to the Federal Government to be preserved as wilderness and in exchange the Federal Government would sell some 25,000 acres [...]
Milton Friedman on Greed
Why the Gun is Civilization
I have often had very similar thoughts, but I have never seen them expressed so well:
Originally written by Marco (the munchkin wrangler), Friday, March 23, 2007
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing [...]
Who Will Die For You?
Luke AFB is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being surrounded by civilization that complains about the noise from the base and its planes, forgetting that it was there long before they were. A certain lieutenant colonel at Luke AFB deserves a big pat on the back. Apparently, an individual who lives somewhere near Luke [...]
Well Said, Bill!
They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain’t,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be…
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except [...]