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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    j -I'm looking forward to meeting you this winter. It's going to be a highlight of our Florida trip. And getting to look over a real PHU will be awesome!

    I'll be traveling with a few "toys", so if there's any firearm you've been really wanting to shoot, let me know. If I don't own one (not too likely), I know somebody who does. The only one I can't travel with is my .50 cal., It's too big for the safe in my camper.

    I recall a couple days ago you mentioned some historical workshop you did and if I recall correctly, some civil war sites were a part of it - I have a 1862 Colt Musket .58 cal. that I can bring. It was the M16 of the north and is a hoot to shoot.
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  • Posted by Stormi 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Even when our daughter, now 30, was in school, the groundwork was being set for what you describe - that slow shift in brainwashing kids to accept loss of freedom, disdain private property, shop for abortions, and on and on. So, by fifth grade I handed her "Animal Farm", "Brave New World", "Anthem" and the next year "1984" and "The Law". They got to her on some things, like entitlements, feeding them crap about only working if they could start out at $100,000, because they deserved it! She saw early on how she was being manipulated, but not at all times. She at least knows history. People sit back and do nothing because they don't know history, have been told to let the schools raise their kids, and have been offered so many freebies. They do not realize being free means being productive and self-reliant. They mistake self-esteem (unearned) with self-respect (earned). Thank your local government schools for a good start on this disaster our country has become. It will get worse under Common Core. The kids are already primed to accept UN Agenda 21, and the loss of the right to private property.
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  • Posted by peterchunt 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Obama is on a mission to destroy America. So yes i agree it is going according to his plan. Hopefully America is resilient and will outlast this evil person
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  • Posted by maxsilver 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nice to meet you jbrenner, good to know there are still free thinkers out there. Have you connected with the Thunderbolts project?

    http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/

    These guys are at the top of the mark in their fields and have come together in a very interesting show of reason.

    Peace through Power --- Free Energy!
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Both of my kids read 1984 this year. My 16 year old in English class, (his teacher was Eastern European interestingly), and my 14 year old daughter because I gave it to her to read. They were both full of questions, and also observations about the parallels they are seeing presently in this country.
    It's extremely disturbing to see how far along that path we as a nation have gone. And also how complacent most people are about how government has insinuated itself into every aspect of our lives. I find it reprehensible and terribly sad to see such a sharp decline in freedom, free will and the right to speak out without retribution.
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  • Posted by edweaver 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think there is a difference. Quick death by current administration. Slow painful death by most of the current republicans but same ending just the same. Only chance is back to founding principles.
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    IMHO they are following an instructional manual hence why there is little difference from Dem to Repub.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Only if it were allowed to be a truly free market. No prohibition for selling across state lines.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Frustrating how so many are just blindly allowing it to happen. I think of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie. It's like you fall asleep and you are now part of the collective.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Insurance is crazy. Before we incorporated our small business we had to carry workman's compensation insurance on everybody. As the owner, my father was legally barred from collecting. Over the years he paid in thousands of dollars to a system he was never allowed to collect from.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like Jim Caviezel. He is a great actor. I watched the show a couple of times at my in laws and you are right. The tech is helpful and no one questions using it.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The meal was probably only about $2.43, and the 57 cent tip was probably the change from $3.00.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you'll like it.

    There are a LOT of references to science fiction and its fans in the book; it's actually dedicated to fandom.

    Wade Curtis == Jerry Pournelle
    Nat Reynolds == Larry Niven (I think)
    Other famous writers and SF "celebrities" are referenced, but not being in fandom, I have no way of knowing who they are. At one point, though, they meet my namesake (minus the "gh") :)

    So many lines from it that I like... among my favorites:

    "We'll get them high with illegal droogs".
    "The sister of misfortune is hope"
    "Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"

    And probably my absolute favorite...
    "Ninety-nine out of a hundred dreams came crashing down around you. But if life always fell short of your expectations, that was no argument for lowering them. There was always the hundredth dream."

    I keep wanting to do a movie trailer video for the book, as if it were going to be made into a movie (Pournelle and Niven would never allow that, after "Starshit Troupers"). But, I never have the time and resources. Mostly resources these days (sigh)
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I enjoy my shrug job. I could easily earn twice as much, but I probably wouldn't keep a whole lot more.
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  • Posted by preimert1 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've been a fan of "Person of Interest" for several seasons, which is bases on similar technology.
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