tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51909362011-06-07T23:28:24.406-07:00<b>Broadcast semi-live 700 yards from the remains of Robert E. Lee's horse</b>Fingershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04522406919872410011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190936.post-1165051200625433232006-12-02T01:20:00.000-08:002006-12-02T01:20:00.686-08:00

Just days after declaring I would revamp this site, I've decided to make the switch to blogger Beta and start a new site on a clean slate. I can't promise it'll be anything like this one :) Find me at Slydexic Fingers.

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I thought I'd write bout this, since I think I have things to say that haven't been noted by others.A recent attack on the validity of the Book of Mormon is the argument that the DNA of Native Americans does not reflect Jewish populations, but looks more like Asian stock. There's a bundle of objections that could be raised to that argument, but I'm gonna focus on one. That is, that the Nephites

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I think I may actually have some more stuff to say as I sort out my life. First things first though - I've decided I dislike my current color scheme. Look for major site design improvements.

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Homestar Runner is the best thing on the internet?

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I was really warming up to a Romney campaign, especially with his great showing at the SRLC, but this site has thrown some water on that. We've of course heard that Romney's been soft on social issues. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was simply spinning his actually conservative thoughts for Massachusetts, acceptable since as governor of a state he couldn't really do anything

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I thought I liked Tucker Carlson. Now I've decided he's far too libertarian... plus when he wasted 10 minutes of airtime watching a stripper.... nah, that's no good man. You're smart, smooth, and manage to cut through the party line, but the hit-you-in-the-face libertarianism is too much.Earlier in the show he argued trading $1 a month rent in a high-rise condo for sex wasn't bad. He did make

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Spent the first part of the break in DC with some friends who came from Washington to "lobby" (read: use student funds and spend a few hours chatting up congressional staffers as cover to spend 4 days in the capital of the most powerful county on earth). That was fun, but I spent more time there than intented, and have wasted a lot of time on this end of the week just playing games and

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Score. Romney now officially has some play in the South after coming in second (14%) to Frist (the home state favorite who got 48%). If you add the write-ins for Bush (10%) to the actual McCain votes, McCain did slightly pass Romney, but still a suprising showing for Romeny who normally doesn't do very well in these polls. Now there will be curiosity about him and he can build some name

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This guy, by the name of Antidote, wants to jump-start a Mormon hip-hop music movement. Check him out if you like that kinda stuff. Not much of a hip-hop fan myself, but I'm sure others are. It's a MySpace page, so if you're not familiar when them it could be confusing, but the music should be near the top on the right hand side.

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*by Republicans I mean the geniuses in the congressional leadership. I really don't know why they made such a big deal about the ports thing. I suppose it was just to free themselves from the President, proclaim his lame-duckery to the world. That may be a good move on their part, because now they can go back to their districts and distance themselves from his dropping poll numbers. But it's

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Sure, they've all been laying the groundwork for months, but, as MSNBC takes pains to remind me, the game really begins Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis. Everyone* will be there, and MSNBC will be doing a straw poll, a poll Bush won in '98. But now Bush has been a lame duck for about 6 months, with the congressional leadership wandering further every day. So

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David Bernstein (who spoke at our school for FedSoc once last year) has a post over at The Volokh Conspiracy noting that if Alito is confirmed that would make a majority of the Court Catholic. Very interesting, seeing as how not that long ago everyone was scared JFK would be taking orders from the Vatican. Even more interesting, ALL FIVE would make up the conservative end, from Kennedy in the

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am breaking my long silence to bring you some breaking news! Sobek over at Sobekpundit has gotten his hands on our leaders' secret plans for reshaping the world! As you of course are aware, we mormons have long publicly acknowledged our intentions to take over the world in the power vacuum brought on by the imminent collapse of society. But, why, pray tell, would we

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Hi

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Al Gore announced plans to strike back at the digital brown-shirts by creating a new cable-news service that will allow viewers to submit their own segments. By fusing the power of the 24-hour cable news service with the potential of the internet, Gore hopes to guide Current TV on an exploration of the sweet mysteries of life. Said the

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Bleh, long time 'gone, " "but just' testing something with quotation marks. Check out this place.

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YOU ARE RULE 11! You were designed to make sure that attorneys infederal cases make reasonable inquiries intofact and law before submitting pleadings,motions, or other papers. You were a realhardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legalcreativity from federal proceedings andembarassed well-meaning but overzealousattorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, whenyou began allowing plaintiffs to

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Random tricentennial post: I just heard this crazy song "Glomd" by a group called "Koop". Several times it plays a sythesized flute sound I swear is directly ripped from a theme from the old Playstation RPG "Beyond the Beyond," the only RPG I've actually owned, and helped convince me I'd never own another one. The rest of the song incorporated elements of the flute riff into the melody. I

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I'm very torn over this issue, on several levels. And the case Raich v. Ashcroft brings all of those conflicts to the fore. On the one hand, my religious beliefs have shapped my view on the power of government generally, overpowering some of my libertarian leanings. That is, I believe government morally can and should regulate and/or ban recreational drugs. Whether "medical" marijuana can be

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As I've mentioned before, when I procrastinate I do really dumb stuff to waste my time. Instead of doing my work I'll midlessly surf or whatever, not do things even half way constructive like post here. I've got a week now that I'll be hanging out at home studying so maybe I'll get around to doing something here. I've got pics from NY, Election night (Woohoo!), and the FedSoc convention in DC

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So sue me.

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Dean Pahtlett is riding 'is bike as a young lahd in his native Austrahlia. For a bit 'o' fun, he grahbs onto the bumper of a passing truck. Now, he is cleahrly contributoraly negligent in his actions as regards the truck. If the truck were to suddenly stop, and he fell under it and was squahshed, he would have no recovery because of his own negligence. But if there was a hunter in the field,

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2004 - 1918 = 86 2004 - 1986 = 18 How do you break a curse? Numerology, of course.

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Quick story about how crazy some people can be. One of my professors spent a couple weeks in Iraq this last month helping to establish the rule of law, Western style. She's a Dem herself, but I admire her willingness. Anyways, after class the day she got back several students stayed around to talk about her trip. She told a story about some of the other coalition lawyers there who said

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Sorry haven't been posting. I'll have an update eventually, chonicalling my trip to NY two weeks ago, but now it is time to procrastinate my open memo.

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I didn't think Bush did that bad. True, I missed the first half hour, but take for example all the buzz in the media, left and right, that he "looked angry". That's preposturous. You look at those cut-away shots and he just looks normal. Nothing like Gore and his constant sighing and shaking his head. The real mistakes he made mostly regarded not being agressive enough when Kerry opened

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I took a trip to the capitol of the CSA yesterday to go to a reception for Judge Robert Bork, now the owner of his very own verb, who is taking up teaching at Richmond University. The recpetion was sponsored by the Federalist Society. It was pretty fun. Some people from my school, strangely almost all foreigners, managed to corner Bobby B at a table after his little spiel and have a meaningful

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I've been sadly neglecting this blog. I hope to do better. Anyways, the sweltering heat of the Lexington summer is leaving us. Ivan brought us what I believe to be the last blast of warm air, and in its wake today was the most pleasant day yet. I regret not getting out to enjoy it more, but this is also the first weekend I've had homework over. Sadly, I will even need to do a substantial

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From the AP Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West

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Check it out.

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I wen't to my very first concert last night. Blink 182/No Doubt/Phantom Planet at the new Ampitheater here in Vancouver. I highlight Vancouver because the bands kept talking to us as if we were Portland! I mean, we're not even the same state! I know other suburbs around the nation may not feel slighted by that, but we endure enough economic and political tyrany from the Rose City that such

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Apparenlty, there's no such thing as free speech over there.

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... and the new blogger-by-email system, which should allow me to postfrom any email in the world (which means by cell-phone or PDA if Iever get an internet capable one)

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Testing some fun stuff, like the gaim-blogger plugin, which lets me log into blogger with gaim, an uber-Instant Messenger client for Linux...

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I'm mighty impressed with how well things have gone in the UN. From a purely political standpoint, it was a victory in every way for Bush. He got exactly what he wanted, without making any concessions. Oh sure, there were some vague rumors about the Multinational Force as they like to call it now being completly out of the reach of Iraqi sovreignty, but that was transparent (to me at least)

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My template is pretty ugly in Mozilla... wonder how I can fix that.

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Yes, I'm still here. Haven't done much because of the LAST MONTH OF SCHOOL!!!! WOOHOOO!!! GRADUATED!!! I'm officialy smarter than my mom (but not wiser, she reminds me). Plus, I've been having too much fun with my computer to actually use it. I've been Windows Free for about a week now. Oh, and I also beat a pack of 12 year olds at a Super Smash Brothers tournament and won some tickets to

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I am completely baffled all the time by people on the left. What in the world is so awful about Sharon pulling out of Gaza completely and most of the West Bank? Shouldn't the left be celebrating that those nasty Israeli's are leaving? But no, Sharon apparently can't simply solve much of the problem by himself, he has to negotiate his withdrawals with the Palestinians. He has to get permission

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Peace prospects bleak after killing Are you sure? I thought they were always bleak as long as people insit on blowing themselves up to kill teenager. Anyone who dared hope that the killing had ended after Ariel Sharon's breakthrough meeting with President Bush in Washington last week, would have been severely disappointed. Dr Rantissi was killed on Saturday by

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because it raises my blood pressure. But it's very hard. Today someone said to my "My condolences for last night." He was reffering to Bush's press conference. He also mention that the Washington Post had called it "High on resolve, low on content." I was ok right then, but I nearly blew my top on the way home. We don't need anyone's condolences. Bush handled himself well, even if he

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"Some people think that if you're Muslim, or if you have brown skin, you somehow don't want to be free." Booyah!

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And I'm turning over a new leaf by burning my scriptures, converting to norse paganism, and dancing naked in front of a bon fire... Ok, no.

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In order to counter the massive conservative dominance of the media, Al Franken has launch his own 'progressive' talk show, starting inside my listen area at KPOJ in Portland. Of ocurse, as we all know, AM radio is the only source of news for 90% of Americans, and liberal views expressed on NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Newsweek, Time, the Associated

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Saw Charles Pickering on 60 Minutes, and I was quite impressed. Too bad Bush resorted to constituionaly questionable methods of getting him appointed.

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CharlesBush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush. This is a pretty old article, but still perfectly applicable today. Other tidbits? Even worse is the fact that he is now exhibiting symptoms of a related illness, Murdoch Derangement Syndrome (MDS), in which

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How will I ever get along with a wife if I can't remember things like this? I began blogging one year ago... last week tuesday. So, I guess what I want is a non-blogspot site. Anyone know of some cheap-o hosting?

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The 9/11 hearings got you confused? Can't tell who's being honest and who's a slippery fish? Just follow this simple diagram and it will all become clear:

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Yesterday was one of my personal heroes' birthday, and somehow I didn't know it. James Madison was the principle author of the Constitution, wrote the Bill of Rights, and co-authored the Federalist Papers. Madison was a close friend and protege of Thomas Jefferson, and succeeded him to the Presidency. When I attempt to describe my political leanings, a term I invariably call myself a

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Spain has suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history. Nearly 200 people wer viscously slaughtered by multiple bomb attacks on several trains. So what do the Spanish do? Throw out the government in favor of socialists. Instead of fighting back, they blamed the conservatives for drawing the terorists attention to them by supporting the US in Iraq. Why do they think this way? I don't

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As you probably know, Bush has openly come out in support of a constitutional Amendment to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. Many say this was a savvy election year move on his part to pin down his religious base while not alienating the middle. I, however, feel this will be a Bad Thing for conservatives in the long run from a legal standpoint. Bush is basically forcing me and

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Today I celebrated Singles' Awareness Day, on account of being turned down six times by the poor sisters in our singles ward relief society who never get asked out. So, after taking my siblings to their non-Single Aware dance, I wnet and bought a movie I had never gotten aorund to seeing, Star Trek Nemesis. I have to say that its touchy-feely-ness was right up there with the last socialist

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Condi for veep would be a great idea. I know Bush has said Cheney would be his vp, but still, Cheney is something of a liability, what with Haliburton and all. I suggest that in the Republican primaries (if your state hasn't already done them yet) you write in Condi for Pres. It won't hurt Bush and it would make a statement. EDIT: What typos?

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With European style anti-Christian and anti-religion-in-general bias thrown in for kicks! The Bumbling British Commies report that French MPs are set to ban headscarves. Oh, the poor picked on muslims. Sure, its a stupid law. But they (meaning hte BBC, major European critics of the law, etc) focus exclusively on the muslim headscarves. They don't care that it would ban crosses, yarmulkas,

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why the Soviet kitties are singing in German?

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This has been bouncing around the Mo'logsphere World66, the travel guide you write: visitedStates: " create your own visited states map" I didn't include a layover in Texas, but I did include driving through Maryland, Deleware, Pennsylvania, and Jersey in between DC and NY. I'm not making a world map because the closest I've ever come is visiting the Russian embasy (technically Russian soil)

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The newest blogger on the block, who gets off to great start by linking, who else? Your's truely. Thanks Chris!

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I've been linked by an Israeli search engine. Someone searched for the words "shcool tycoon" and I'm on page two.

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Have a paper worth 60% of your grade due this week? No problem. Simply print out your paper with our Holy Ink™, turn it in, and leave the grade in heaven's hands. This Ink has been blessed by our own techno-monks from the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Idaho. It's gauranteed to be the answer to your prayers. Editor's note: This is satire. It is not meant to defame or

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After seeing them treat depraved stuff like this seriously, while also posting blatently biased stuff like this or ridiculing religion like they've done so often in the past, I simply can't stand them. But I'm torn, because they are the only place I get to hear about things outside of the US, which is why I have them as my home page. AARRGGHH!!!

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Today was the fourth day this week school was closed because of snow. Didn't affect me, because I'm on break until Monday, but my siblings missed nearly their entire first week back. We thought this was unusual weather for the Northwest. Apparently it not. Plus, with a slightly warmer night the top inch or so of hte snow froze over. Our field out back is (or was) like an ice rink. It seems

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I'm flabergasted. I'm completely astounded. I have no words for the depth of the... the... something... of this... this... person. Quote: "It's well past time that people confront this issue, no matter who's offended. We are on the way to becoming a nation of imbeciles. I'm certain that a plethora of "George W. Bush" jokes is already being circulated in every capital of the world. We can stop

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Hurrah! I finally managed to do it. I got Linux and X running after many hours of partitioning, reformating, installin,g reinstalling, downloading, and configuring stuff. But now I could completely free myself from Microsoft anytime I choose, simply by wiping its partition and giving all that space to Linux! Mwahaaahaahaa! Only problem right now seems to be a slow internet connection...

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Pretty good loot this year, among them a new quadruple combination (which I badly needed) and a DSL router (which lets me get online from my laptop!!!). We also recently got a new bigscreen tv so that's our major gift of the year.

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Is there a difference being a Mormon in Utah and being one anywhere else? Of course. Orson Scott Card sums it up quite nicely in this article I just found.

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Time for a mostly complete debrief on the LotR marathon. First, no girls showed up, so that was a bummer. But we still had fun. After picking up a couple of people (one who had been confirmed and member two days before!), got home and started the first movie at 3:30 on the brand-new bigscreen. We upped the purchase date on that beast just for the occasion. We annihilated the good chips very

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I'm ashamed to think that there are people in my state who would vote for this guy.

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Why Lord of the Rings (a word my mom doesn't like). Excellent satire piece.

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Very fun time. I was quite impressed with most of RotK, but it seemed very rushed and time compressed at the end. Like how the forces of Men recouperate from the Battle of Pelenor Fields, devise a plot to distract Sauron, throw together an army, and march it to the Black Gate, and draw away the vast hords on the central plain of Mordor, all before Sam and Frodo get down the hill from the

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Alrighty folks. I'm gonna get back to postin here. Right after my Lord of the Rings Marathon! In the meantime, be adding me to your bookmarks and your blogrolls. It'll be worth it :)

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Awesome news! We (the College Republicans), just got a pledge of $7,900 to go towards bringing John Sununu, three time governor of New Hampshire and Bush Sr.'s Chief of Staff, to our campus. That means we only got 4 or 5 thousand more to go! With such a big grant though, it shouldn't be much trouble collecting the rest. We were really surprised when our benefactors wanted the event to be HERE

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The Journal has a good piece on the dumbing-down of social sutdies in our schools in a review of a collection of essays called "Where Did Social Studies Go Wrong?" Link via Southern Appeal.

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My vote for the week: King of Fools with Caucasian Club.

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She just gave us a concert at the nearby high shcool. I was able to run lights for the show. If you don't know who she is, that's OK. She's an LDS musician who has had her music played on Singles Ward, Alias, Felicity, stared in RM (and played a song for it) and some other stuff. Her website is kinda cheesy but she's a great musician. Also appearing, even though his group organized the

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Chief Wiggles in Iraq has started a toy drive. A good idea is to goto the Oriental Trading Company and pick $20 or $50 worth of stuff. EDIT: The shipping info has changed. Now go to operationgive.org to contribute.

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The Blogger Alliance has a new mission. How many times have you read the paper, or turned on the news, or talked to someone, and been bombarded with how bad things are in Iraq, how the people hate us, and assasins lurk around every corner? Why is what we hear here so different from what we hear from there? This is hte alliances new mission: to get the truth, from those who know and live the

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I made it into the Dallas News as a religous blog. Freaky. Link (requires registration, possible spaming).

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The Bear will join our alliance and display our logo (now displayed to the left) if we participate the most in the New Blog Showcase. Here are my votes: Pardon my English with Who Needs Citizenship? Although I don't believe the US needs an Official Language, I agree with Aaron's sentiments that Citizenship should be something worth striving for. Eye on the Left with The Exclusionary World of

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Wow. That was pretty quick. At the end of last year, me and some friends started the College Republicans on our campus. We're getting geared up to bring several state congressmen as well as the Republican candidate for Patty Murray's Senate seat to our school. This year as club treasurer I was going to start off by taking bets on how long it would be until the Young Democrats formed on campus

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So I have more access to internet. My most interesting news of this first week of class was SOC 320: Introduction to Social Research. It's a required class in my major and is shaping up to be as boring as it sounds. Our first two sessions have been basicaly the textbook and the professor trying to convince us that Social Science actually is a science. Beyond taking statistics, its really not.

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You are 35% geekYou are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell

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Thank's to Jan for the link.

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Link via the Emporer. He does an excellent job of tearing it to shreds, but I'll just share the closing two lines:Much of Cuba's success in combating Aids can be attributed to that fact this is a society where public good has taken preference over private freedom. But as Cubans again turn to the oldest private enterprise in the world, can that success last?Ah, the Blessed Socialist Paradise is

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I'm joining the legions of Frank J., the Imperial Minister of War in his Crusade against the Puppy Blender. This was has already begun, with vicious visual insults and plot development building on both sides, and maybe a third side, all across the blogosphere. In other news, I may have found a new image host site to restore my wicked cool banner. Socii Inimicum superabunt!!

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I didn't know about Taylor stepping down and troops going in (a good thing IMHO) until the day before. I didn't know about the power outage out east until right now. Maybe once school starts and I got good access every day I can do better. Until then, cya, amicae.

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There's no immediate hope in sight of relief. I could get a dial-up service, but its so painfully slow I'd rather just come here to the library. Besides, by removing hte internet I actually have gotten constructive things done. I read my scriptures more regularly, I'm learning some Latin, I'm likely to play some guitar this week, and I can prepare better for next semester. So until I have

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The governor of Texas has called a special legislative session to resolve the redistricting impasse in that fine state. Naturally, the Dems bailed to New Mexico as soon as the announcement was made. The shear pettiness of these particular Dems is astounding. They simply can't accept that Texans don't like them anymore, and so will deny the now dominate Republicans the opportunity to redraw

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Got way too expensive. Until we find a better option, I will only appear very sporadicaly.

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Go here. Don't believe the TV.

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Gov. Gary Locke announces he will not seek a third term Hooray! Here's his supposed reasons: 'Despite my deep love of our state, I want to devote more time to Mona, Emily and Dylan. As profoundly important as it is to be your governor, it is just as important to me to be a good husband and father. Oh, how sweet. It's more profoundly important to him to spend time with his family than it is

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That's this week's BBC (Brainless British Communist) Headline. The article itself references a Red Cross report that international humanitarian aid is so focused on Afganistan and Iraq that other regions aren't getting the help they need. However, their simple plea that people stop being so obsessive about wherever the United States has gone and pay attention to the rest of the world isn't

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I've noticed something about procrastination, at least for me. As the deadline for whatever I need to do gets closer, my time is taken up by more and more meaningless activity. When I have lots of time, I read Dickens, study scripture, look for volunteer activities, engage in philosophical study, and generaly improve myself. When a deadline nears, however, I start surfing random pathways on

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Renee's bought a house. Go wish her luck!

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Story via The Volokh Conspiracy. Nevada's lower house, the Assembly, "passed" a $788 Million tax increase by 26-16. However, Nevada's Constitution states that a two-thirds majority of both houses is required to pass a tax increase. 26 is not 2/3rds of 42. This strange phenomenon of passing a bill without enough votes was set up by the Nevada Supreme Court, which ruled 6-1 that the same

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The About.com LDS page asked me for all the Mormon blogs I knew of, so I made a list. Here it is, in no particular order: A Good Oman Chez Max Life of Levi Midwest Bloggin Mo' Boy Blog A Soft Answer Ahoyhoy Homage to Brasilia Hugh's News KZION Legalguy Seeking for Righteousness Venturpreneur SisterCTR Deep Thoughts Amidst a tangled web About: LDS The Metaphysical Elders Book of Mormon Diary

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The LDS Temple in Samoa, a twenty year old building, caught fire and was destroyed Wednesday morning. It is assumed that the blaze was related to renovation work that was underway. It was due to be rededicated in December. Link

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