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Date Added: 2006-04-24: Pull Out the Six-ShooterThe California Legislature is considering a new bill that would require pistol makers to design new firing pins that would mark shell casings in a manner unique to the pistol that fired them. The aim of the bill is to assist police detectives in tracking down the perpetrators of “Gun Crimes.” At first glance, this bill seems rather innocuous and even somewhat technologically interesting. The idea of etching the firing pin of a pistol so that it not only leaves a unique mark, but one that can specifically identify the gun is rather remarkable. However, if you think about it a little bit, you quickly realize that it’s nothing more than another step towards eliminating one of our guaranteed Constitutional rights. In fact, you’ll also realize that the bill won ’t really help law enforcement officers much at all either. It might even help the criminals. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-02: $100 Permission SlipI’m not against drilling for oil in the arctic, but I’m not really for it either. Unlike most of the liberals out there, I don’t think the world will come to an end if we allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, nor to I think the caribou will go extinct. However, unlike many conservatives, I don’t believe oil drilling in the arctic will lower my gas prices anytime soon or make a noticeable impact by the time production begins. Maybe if we’d drilled ten years ago a gallon of gas would be a few cents cheaper now, but we didn’t. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-07: Where am I?Half of the young adults age 18 to 24 in this country can’t locate New York State on a map of the United States. Only 37% can find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. These are the kind of results obtained by a recent National Geographic poll. As disturbing as these results may be, the results themselves are not the most alarming thing. What should alarm and concern everyone is that these people are allowed to vote and they and others like them help decide who our governmental policy makers are. The results of a similar study conducted in 2002 were also remarkably bad, so this not something new. In fact these results probably hold true for a tremendous number of people in our country. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-14: Approve ThisApproval has been a big topic in the news lately. The most common subject associated with approval has been President Bush’s job approval rating. According to the latest polls, which by the way use a sample size of roughly five ten-thousandths of a percent of the U.S. population, the President’s job approval rating is only 31%. This of course is dramatically important since it will be very difficult for him to win re-election if his approval ratings stay so low. What’s that? Oh yeah, he can’t run for re-election anymore. Well, I’m sure the approval rating is important somehow. After all, you can’t go more than a day without some news anchor telling you about it. The President must be very concerned with his approval rating; otherwise it wouldn’t be “news”, would it? |
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Date Added: 2006-06-01: Is it Getting Warm in Here, or is it Just Me?So what’s with all the fuss over global warming these days? It seems like it has become a major political issue of the past several years. The liberal politicians will tell you that it’ s the greatest problem to ever face humanity and the conservatives tell you that it doesn’t even exist. Why has it even become such an issue? |
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Date Added: 2006-06-11: What Are They Looking For?Do you ever wonder about the people who get abducted by aliens? I’m not talking about illegal Mexican farm workers. I’m talking about the type of aliens that fly around in UFO’s and presumably come from some other planet. What exactly are they looking for? They don’t seem to be abducting a very large cross-section of our culture. In fact, the abductions don’t seem to be happening in other countries either. So they can’t be doing any sort of cultural or biological study of humanity. They’re being way too selective for that. The aliens have to be looking for something very specific, because they seem to keep abducting the same types of people. |
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Date Added: 2006-06-18: Farming For PublicityActress Darryl Hannah was arrested in a walnut tree last week. She was evidently protesting the planned development of a 14-acre plot of land in Los Angeles. Local area residents have used the property in question as a garden for the past 10 to 15 years, but the property owner has decided to sell it. The thought of someone actually selling their own personal property so incensed the freeloaders who were gardening on the plot that the owner had to obtain a court order just to exercise his legal property rights. |
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Date Added: 2006-07-09: You Call That Research?Once upon a time it took a lot to be a science professor. Long, long ago scientists were hard working lab rats and theorists who made great discoveries and helped to advance human kind. They earned our respect, they deserved our admiration, and they wer |
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