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Drones? You just take that shotgun out on the porch and do some skeet hunting.

New blog software ... be careful what you ask for.

First thing that happens is, all your old comments hit the bit bucket...

Post office. Savings time. Sorry. Nobody's perfect.

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!?!

[long high-pitched scream of oh noes ending in sobbing moans]

I would rather we did away with DST.

" there, in all our glory are a list and short blurb from our most recent comments...."

[Diving under lurker couch...] Not the wider public! Noooo...!

Pets need feedin'. Day needs livin'. Looks like it might be a nice one. The rains are late.

Our daughter chose to go to public school for Jr & Sr years. So many stories!

Our meeting with her counselor was a classic I must give full due some day. Best part was my taking our daughter out of the room for a moment, making her ditch the gum (!), and telling her when we went back in, it would be she, not me, sitting across from the counselor. Heh.

When we emerged, daughter had been advanced enough credits to graduate. I mean, real ones. She aced French 5 but had no cred for 1-4. Like that.

After us, they changed the way they dealt with the formerly homeschooled. (Not for the better IMO.)

On the DARE test is a question, do you know where to get drugs in school?

Daughter's friend later asks, what did you put?

"No."

Her friend proceeds to name and rate the various dealers in the school.

She did have one good physics course....

@Mirage, sorry, I developed an allergy to Coulter some time back. Looks like you're developing the same condition. I think it comes from reading her words and trying to parse them from a Constitutionalist's perspective; too much cognitive dissonance makes me itchy.

Anyone still with children in the soul-aborting school system should dress the kids in camo, US flag t-shirts, and send them in with army men cupcakes every day. Should prove educational to all involved.

Congrats, Vic. Now that you're 21, it's time you learned about the dangers of alcohol poisoning....

First I heard of P Schlaffley was when my wife and I joined the local ERA ratification group. Heck, yeah; we edited the newsletter! Other than me, it was all women. Most were limousine lib wives, of both parties. A few were Eagle Forum infiltrators, evidently there to Concern Troll about the Amendment resulting in unisex bathrooms and other Scary Stuff. I kind-of admire that level of political infiltration, as a tactic.

On its face, the ERA shouldn't even be necessary, but we saw it as worthy, and thought the Schlaffley-ites were mad tinfoil-hatters. Nobody in their right mind would think that restricting the government from gender discrimination would undo human biology. We were just naive about the pervasive lack of right mind. As articles linked here on AoS recently have shown, They don't need an ERA to start enforcing unisex bathrooms, and I'm surprised it took them so long, really. Haha, well, at least they can't force men to share pregnancy. ... yet. (Chemically-induced menstrual periods for men, coming under Obamacare....)

So, decades later and far less naive about the Enemy, I'm fine with the ERA not having passed. I still say, it was, on it's face, simply a restatement of the Human Right, of which all enumerated and other rights are but facets. But it's not the law, it's how a law's abused.

Our idealism about Equal Rights was & is like other long-held views. I can make an argument that an abortion is sometimes the right decision, but where I'm thinking of extreme circumstances, extremely early, extremely rare, and with much lamentation for the unhappy medical necessity, such an argument gets twisted until They get casual everyday infanticide. We once had a woman engage us in discussion about marriage, and I allowed there might be workable "four-cornered" relationships; soon thereafter, she destroyed her marriage by having an affair; I suspected our theoretical discussion was mis-taken as encouragement, even if for something she'd been thinking about already anyway.

If reasoned arguments for liberty on the gray fringe get twisted into excuse for extreme license, better to keep such rarified noodling to oneself than encourage children to play with dynamite.

[TL;DR? Sorry. And painfully composed on my cell besides. I'm nutz.]

Why don't folks like Back to the Future 3?

I don't believe Obama had much of an intention to whack American citizens on the streets. Yet.

FIFY, Ace.

The personality definition is still, "not maliciously intending to do injury (or death) to others, but uncaring about it if seeming need arises."

You load that toaster, both slots, and you go out on the porch, and you fire off those pop-tarts into the air. That'll scare 'm off.

last thread:

"425 LAST! ...
Posted by: eleven at March 07, 2013 11:53 AM (KXm42)"

I wanted to leave a follow-up comment of congratulations, but that just didn't seem sporting.

" Coburn overall has been one of the most conservative Senators in the Senate."

Used to be. Now he doesn't just drink the kool-ade, he's soaking in it. Don't know when we lost him.

For some reason I run Opera mini on this new (refurb) android cell. On texty links, I have to highlight the text, copy, open new tab, click in addr box, click-hold to paste, hit enter... Tedious! So, I often think, I'll get back to that link later, when I get to the desktop. Sometimes I do.

Stupid dirty old sock. Be off witcha!

29 >>while Dem establishment mocks fumes

What does that mean?

Posted by: Mama AJ

Oh, good. Thanks, Ma. I wasn't going to ask.

Aluminum foil doesn't work, fool.

"A republic, if you can keep it." -Ben Franklin

A principled and informed electorate being necessary to the preservation of the Republic, the Enemy need only undermine principle and disinform the people.

"Also, let them find out they can vote themselves money!" -Alex d'T.

Mission accomplished.