Thursday, December 8, 2011

eBay Shopping

Luggage:

GPS Units:

Wii Stuff:

Xbox 360:

iPhone/iPad Stuff:

Bluetooth Headsets:

Computer Monitors:

Flat Panel TVs:

Shaver:

Laser Printer:

Headphones:

Misc:

Bought/Won:
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Monday, December 5, 2011

Gear Shopping

Flashlights:
Forum posts:
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Black Friday 2011

Black Friday "aggregator" sites:
B/M deals:


Other/misc:
  • NewEggBusiness
  • Summit Gun Broker
  • "Happy Thanksgiving. We will be taking Wed, Thrus, and Fri. off this week for the holiday. Check the site for the weekend and we will have some specials listed for your holiday sale."


Black Friday deals I'm looking for:

Black Friday Gun Deals

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Facebook Posts

Corporate personhood:

"Jerry - Legally speaking, corporations are people. Thanks to the GOP."
Kenny already [partially] alluded to it, but courts gave corps [basic] personhood in 1819... the GOP wasn't founded until 1854.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

Continuing the above... there are a great many things the GOP can (and should!) be held responsible for. I just don't think this is one of them. Now, for *perpetuating* the doctrine of corporate personhood? "You Betcha!" (tm) Of course, Reps/Sens in *either* party can introduce legislation to overturn/change it. To the best of my knowledge, no one has.

‎"The ruling by the Supreme Court establishing the rights of corporations, in my opinion, was one of the poorest in my lifetime."
As discussed above, that didn't happen in your lifetime. Unless you're perhaps talking about Citizens United, which didn't /establish/ anything... "all" it did was follow 192 years worth of precedent.

This country's only been around for 235 years, so there were only 53 years of this country's existence where [some degree] of corporate personhood was not the law of the land.
[Please also note that I'm *not* a fan of the doctrine]



Same-sex marriage (SSM):

JMHO, but I think if you don't like SSM, you shouldn't try to defeat it by passing a law and getting people with guns to enforce your preference for you (cowardly)... you should:
1.) live your life as an example and try to attract more followers than the other side
2.) argue effectively against it (my preference is for logic & reason over emotion) and let your argument succeed or fail in the marketplace of ideas


Football:

Summer: I explain football to Mason strictly in terms of good guys vs bad guys. The sooners -- or the Empire -- suffered defeat at the hands of the rebel forces last night. He seems to appreciate this...
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Capital Cities

Capital Cities

I'm not going to lie... I have some "issues" with capital cities.

And I also have at least the appearance of hypocrisy on the issue...

Favorite city in Texas? Austin. (with Dallas, San Antonio, Lubbock, and Corpus Christi as runners-up)

Favorite city in the United States? Well, it's *not* Washington, D.C. But I like D.C. A lot. So much fun, so much to see and do. And for "free," at that!

But I hate myself for loving Austin and D.C. so much...

"Why?" you may ask...

Not for what they have (i.e. to offer), but for what they take.

And it's nothing against Austin or D.C., specifically; my issue is with capital cities, in general.

They look the same, more or less, around the globe:

Plenty of ("free!") bread and circuses to entertain, confuse, and distract the citizens.

Plenty of pretty things to look at (art, statues, etc).

But look *around* them. Ceteris paribus, the farther you travel from a capital city, the more poverty you will likely (i.e. almost certainly) see.

Obviously, this _____ is more pronounced in _______

But you will also see (in some, you must look closely) poverty in capital cities (i.e. _____, _____, and D.C.).



References:

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Constitutional Issues

Placeholder for all constitutional issues.



Privileges and Immunities (P&I)

Privileges or Immunities (PorI)



14th Amendment:

Slaughterhouse Cases:

Judicial Review:
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Government Failure

People often talk of "market failure," but generally only public choice theorists talk of "government failure" in any kind of systematic way.


"We need government to help us protect the environment..."
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iDevices and other Apple products

iCloud:
iOS 5 features:

Carrier-related:

AT&T:
Apple TV:

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

U.S. Action in... Iran?

Iranian Assassination Plot:

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U.S. Action in Uganda

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Occupy (Wall Street, and others)

OWS:

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Texas A&M bus vandalism incident (2011)

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Timeline:

October 08, 2011 @ 12:51pm, Texas A&M Director of Athletics Bill Byrne tweets the following:
"Someone vandalized our buses in Lubbock. Excrement inside and outside of buses plus spray painted vulgarities on outside. Classy."


October 08, 2011 @ 5:20pm, It was already being reported as fact at this time, as this AP story notes:
"Texas A&M's team buses were vandalized before the Aggies played Texas Tech, with drivers finding manure inside and outside the four vehicles."

October 08, 2011 @ xx:yy, Twitter user "DaveNelAgDuck" (David C. Nelson) tweets:
"@Bill_Byrne Any pictures, Bill? Sand Fleas are already denying it, saying we did it ourselves to motivate ourselves? Police report filed?"


October 08, 2011 @ xx:yy, Texas A&M Director of Athletics Bill Byrne tweets the following:
"@DaveNelAgDuck Highway Patrol has pictures and Lubbock police were contacted. Drivers cleaned buses. Bus 3 still reeks."



Details/Discussion:

"The team was accompanied by school security and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and no official report was made to the agency, an email from Aggies spokesman Brad Marquardt said."



Misc:
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

Hurricane Irene
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Pets

"We'll make great pets..."



My favorites:

Reptile
Squamata
lizards
Texas alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus infernalis)
Horned lizards (Phrynosoma)
Komodo Island monitor, aka Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
geckos
Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
snakes
Rosy Boa (Lichanura trivirgata)
Rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria)
Sunbeam snakes (Xenopeltidae)
turtles
From The Onion: "Ancient turtles moved lightning quick, had long legs, lacked a shell, and were covered in Cheetah fur"
terrapins
tortoises
x
y
z
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Politicians

A placeholder for everything politician-related...

10 Richest US Presidential Candidates (CNN)

2012 Republican Candidates:

2012 Debates:


Ames Straw Poll:

Rick Perry arm-grab:


Iowa Caucuses:

NH Primary:

South Carolina:


Florida Primary:




Ron Paul:

Ron Paul Newsletters Controversy:

Yes, but:

Media bias against Ron Paul:







    Michele Bachmann:


    Gary Johnson:

    John McCain:

    Carl Levin:


    Rick Santorum:



    Sarah Palin:



    Lindsay Graham:

    Herman Cain:

    Mitt Romney:

    Rick Perry:

    Barack Obama:


    Howard Dean:

    David Petraeus:

    David Van Os:


    Robert Taft:
    • http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/dialogue/moser.html
    • http://raceandliberty.blogspot.com/
    • A negative look from NAACP's "The Crisis" [link]


    Rand Paul:

    Mike Lee:
    Mark Kirk:
    Marco Rubio:

    Elizabeth Warren:
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    Newt Gingrich:

    Tim Pawlenty:

    Mike Pence:

    Mike Huckabee:

    Haley Barbour:

    Ronald Reagan:

    George W. ("Dubya") Bush:

    Bill Richardson
    Eric Holder:



    NDAA:


    SOPA & PIPA:

    Jim DeMint:

    Bill White:
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