Monthly Archives: December 2009

Tough DUI test

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The Problem with Social Change

In my experience disagreements and conflict tend to take root when someone wants to decide-choose-dictate for someone else.  It is human nature to want to choose one’s own path.  Having it mandated, even if the intention is good, simply doesn’t … Continue reading

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Smoking Meat video

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Ray Mears experiement quote

"For 99.9% recurring of our history we were hunter-gathers. About 12,000 years ago we came up with this concept of farming, which in my eyes is still an experiment in food-gathering, because we’ve still got to prove we can do … Continue reading

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Mood at the Moment

I am trying to be optimistic but find little hope I can believe in…  Our Government is on the verge of passing health care "reform" which really sounds like a windfall for the insurance and pharmaceutical companies more than reform … Continue reading

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James Madison

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." JAMES MADISON (Drafted Virginia Constitution, Member of Continental Congress, Virginia delegate … Continue reading

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Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. Theodore Roosevelt The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing … Continue reading

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Global Warming – The “denier’s” Point of View.

HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made: 1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse … Continue reading

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Will Rogers

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you." – Will Rogers

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Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."— Marcus Aurelius

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