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1. over 3 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Hmmm. This conundrum would suggest the need for a “time and space machine”.

2. over 3 years ago on ViewsAmerica

   Absolutely! Your list was pretty impressive. Another fun one – Ol’ LBJ served and was actually awarded a Silver Star he was very proud of – you’ll see him wearing the pin even as president. The only thing is – he was a noncombatant and his plane actually turned back with engine trouble after take off on the mission for which he received it. He basically got it for taking a brief flight.

3. over 3 years ago on ViewsAmerica

   One small correction – Reagan served in the Army. He joined the reserves around ‘37-’38. He asked for regular service but his eyesight kept him from serving in a combat unit and he was asked to use his experience to make training films and particuipate in war bond drives.

4. over 3 years ago on Luann

   As the husband of a teacher of 34 years – you nailed it. The number of absolute know-nothings who are more concerned about their “rights” and reputation/social standing/feelings than their kid’s education is astounding and disheartening. They usually disrupt education far more than any “good” they think they might be doing. I see the problem with this – Tara didn’t enter properly, and brought a weapon in. I was invited to address a group of athletes at my (many years ago) ‘alma mater’ and took with me bat used by Hank Aaron to hit a home run (Around #700 – don’t know exactly which): it had to be approved for me to bring a bat into the school….to address the athletes…

   Meanwhile, back in the 70s I was on the school rifle team. Go figure.

5. over 3 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Back in the 80s I used to install >large< phone systems for a Fortune 500 company (we did the (entire) Tennessee Valley Authority, for example). The marketing and sales guys would sell the systems promising they’d lay eggs, fly around the room, deliver stock quotes to you at midnight – whatever it took to close the sale. Installation techs would arrive onsite to start the installation and the customer would expect to the see the features they had been promised and we would be the ones who would get to tell them that the system wouldn’t do those things. Did the marketing guys get blamed? Noooo… the customer would make an irate phone call telling them to “get somebody out here to install this system that knows how!”.

   Every. Stinking. Time.

   We would be stuck onsite to make the customer happy. Oh, and afterward we’d get to watch at the quarterly meetings when the same marketing guys would get awards and kudos for “selling and handling difficult customer X” – the one they promised the impossible to. Grrrrrrrr….

6. over 3 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   But then there’s the Dream Police… but that’s a completely different album entirely…

7. over 3 years ago on Steve Kelley

   Talking about “dishonest and misrepresented” – that’s exactly what YOU just did. Kyrie literally said “Except people use hammers and knives to kill more people in America than use AR-15s.” which YOU then later misquoted as “your alleged “fact” that more people kill with hammers than guns” – NOT what was said. It’s easy to knock down the straw men you yourself set up.

   Now, as for your assertion about “Well Regulated Militias” – you are absolutely correct in stating that the founders were very proficient and literate in the English language…. that used in the 18th century. The problem is that too many people don’t read it the way they wrote it. You see, the Constitution was not written last month using modern idioms and terms: it was written in the late 1700s. At that time, to give a few simple examples, a “napkin” was either something you dressed a baby in or an item of personal hygiene. To “know” a woman was a physical act. To be “mad” required a doctor’s care. To be “thrilled” was to feel a surge of emotion, usually in a negative sense, such as horror or disgust. Something that was “well regulated” was properly functioning or operating as designed – not “tightly controlled by an outside authority” as we understand the term in modern English. When one considers the fact that the militia was understood at the time to be all able bodied men (remembering that women were not included by social construct), all one has to do to make the whole thing come sharply into modern view is simply substitute the temporally equivalent phrase ‘properly functioning’ in place of “well regulated” and the intent of the founders comes sharply into focus, especially when compared to their later writings. There was no intent whatsoever for the 2nd Amendment to be dependent in any way or participating in an organized governmentally controlled militia, something the Supreme Court has affirmed.

8. over 3 years ago on Steve Kelley

   Wow… it would be interesting if it were actually true – but it’s not. There is zero data out there showing anything of the kind.

9. almost 4 years ago on Free Range

   The duck that speaking looks like he’s about to quack up…

10. almost 4 years ago on Free Range

    My favorite GPS misdirection was the time mine instructed me to continue straight ahead for another half mile, which would have had me driving through a chain link fence and directly across the fifth runway at Hartsfield Intl Airport in Atlanta at midfield. Yeahhhhh….no.