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Friday June 27, 2008 |
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary
to the security of a Second Amendment |
Gun Control Ruling Long Debated, the Second
Amendment has now been declared an individual right, not a right of the
Government. Being that the Other nine amendments of the Constitution were
individual rights, I am not sure why there was any debate at all. The
semantics of the wording has always been involved in the debate but I have a
hard time grasping that in context of those other nine amendments that our
four fathers would have thrown in one government right amongst all the other
individual rights. This Ruling is a
victory for us all as citizen of the great http://www.law.emory.edu/index.php?id=3080 KAT cuts Spelled http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=60080&catid=2 What’s Next for Gun
Control http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1818325,00.html?cnn=yes McCain/Obama on the
Supreme Court Decision on the Gin Ban http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91I1FJ00.html Nancy Pelosi on Gun
Regulations http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/06/26/pelosi-says-dc-should-continue-gun-regulation/ |
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Thursday June 26, 2008 |
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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your
natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to
you where you are resisting your natural state. Sharon Gannon |
Front Porch Yoga Given how nice the weather has been, I decided to move my home yoga practice out of doors. The house I live in has a relatively decent porch on the front so this has become the location of practice. Given that this is the side of the house facing the road, I have noticed passer-bys slowing in their vehicles to look on at what I am doing. I think I will continue this and see if anyone inquires! Unfortunately I have not been able to see the expressions because it is later in the evening and too dark to see by I am sure I will be amused once the opportunity presents itself! Here is a pose that I have been working on (on some modifications there of). I can only imagine what the passer-bys are thinking. One modification to this that I am working on is, being able to straighten my legs out and raise into a Hand Stand (can’t find pictures of this) and am getting very close. I will get it or kill my self trying!
Another Blog This is a link to a friend of mines (and his
brother’s) blog. They are both in the military and are currently in two
separate middle-eastern countries: http://2soldiers2countries.blogspot.com/ News Kanye West responds to Bonnaroo http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/music.kanyewest.bonna.ap/index.html Sesame Street designer Dies at 91 http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/25/obit.kermit.love.ap/index.html |
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Wednesday June 25, 2008 |
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Fire, water and government know nothing
of mercy |
Less than Exciting There just hasn’t been much to say in the past few days. The ride has been routine and there hasn’t been any unusual wildlife sightings to mention. This morning as I passed under Kingston Pike heading by
the UT’s I am still riding and as things happen I will continue to write but don’t want to bore! Next week I am on vacation! Drilling Down on
Oil: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2008/06/22/oiloped.html KAT Proposing Service Reduction and Rate
Changes http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=59959&catid=2 |
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Monday June 23, 2008 |
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Behold the Turtle. He makes progress only
when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant |
Turtles There are turtles galore in third creek near I got out for a long ride yesterday: the first time in a while I have been able to do a weekend ride. News: George Carlin Dead
at 71: http://www.wbir.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=59865&catid=16 http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=59868&catid=2 Skyrocketing
Application for Carry http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/20652919.html |
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Friday June 20, 2008 |
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As we do at such times I turned on my
automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that
I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside. Sonia Johnson |
Normalcy Life is getting back to some normalcy now and the Bonnaflu I have had is starting to pass. I have some pictures now but most of the stage photos are blurry. I think the people I was with were the biggest factor in the experience anyway so I am only going to post those for now. Unfortunately, the man holding the camera is never in the photos (sorry Wes. Maybe Becki has a picture or two of you):
Lauren, Becki and Kate Lauren and Randy
Bonnaroo Traffic Lauren and Jeff
John and I Me, Lauren and John
The Sky Beans Anyone (Lauren thought this was hilarious)?
John doing the Bush whacker Me There will be more pictures as I receive them. Stay Tuned! |
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Wednesday June 18, 2008 |
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Those who danced were thought to be quite
insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Monet |
Return from Bonnaroo
If you haven’t experienced the joy of Bonnaroo you will be hard pressed to comprehend the emotions it brings. The variety offered would be hard matched anywhere. Exhausted, we left Sunday evening to head home around midnight. Though we all agreed it was time to go home and rest, the end came too quickly. The Bands that I saw were as follows: Thursday: Back Door Slam* Battles* Dark Star Orchestra* Friday: Umphrey’s McGee* Les Claypool Chris Rock Metallica My Morning Jacket Saturday Ozomatli BB King Jack Johnson Pearl Jam Phil Lesh & Friends* Chromeo* Sigur Ros* Sunday Jacob Dylan and the An Acoustic Performance by Larry Campbell, Jackie Green, Phil Lesh and Teresa Williams* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Featuring T-Bone Burnett Widespread Panic* (*)-Indicates those that I heard for the first Time Given that there are so many of them, I won’t waste time commentating them all. I will say that Metallica played all of their old stuff from the Black Album Back and really rocked. Plant and Krauss were fantastic as well. As for the rest, I got my moneys worth! The Best newly discovered band for me was Back Door Slam (A great band to open the weekend with) and Umphrey’s McGee is in Second. I am waiting on pictures to come in from the people who were with me and then I will post them. Today is the first commute since the Debauchery and it was good to be back at it. It was actually kind of chilly this morning and I wish that I worn a jacket. |
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Wednesday June 11, 2008 |
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A painter paints pictures on
canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski |
Bonnarroo This is the last commute of the week as I am heading to Bonarroo in the morning! I couldn’t ask for better weather than this morning. Yesterday evening was nice as well. I hope that we have mild temperature all weekend. I will post pictures from Bonnarroo when I return. |
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Monday June 9, 2008 |
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Life's
a garden, dig it. Joe
Dirt |
More Like it I really love the morning weather. Short and a T-shirt have been sufficient for the past couple of weeks. The ride home has been warmer than I like and I am still trying to acclimate. I have not been checking for temperature in the evening but I have heard murmurs of mid-90s. I am going to start checking before heading home now as heat may in fact be worse than the coldest of winter. I noted on the advertisement board at the convention center that is was 76 degrees riding in. I filled my gas tank last night and paid 3.73/gallon ($43
to fill my kia). The Gas Prices We Deserve http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/voters_get_oil_prices_they_des.html |
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Friday June 6, 2008 |
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There is one great thing that you men
will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again.
You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the
fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the
great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and
say, Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana. No, Sir, you can look him straight in
the eye and say, Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a
Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton! General
George S. Patton (This speech was delivered to
Patton's troops on June 5, 1944) |
64 Years Ago Today… Was one of the largest (maybe the most significant)
military operations in history! The invasion of Normandy Began and involved over
850,000 troops. It is estimated that The United States alone lost 29,000
troops and another 106,000 were wounded. The real casualties will never be
known. This was the beginning of the end of the Nazi occupation of The Invasion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy FDR’s Prayer
following the Invasion of http://members.aol.com/forcountry/ww2/fdr3.htm Nothing I can say or do can follow that piece of history
but I will continue anyway. Today I was sitting at the red light at Related Topic: Gas Prices and other means of transportation. Around the building I work in, I have recently been hearing lots of talk of people modifying their behavior to save on Gas Costs. I know of a number of people who are now Carpooling and others who are trying out the public transportation systems. Kudos to them all! If you have considered alternate means of transportation, here is a site that might help your out: http://www.knoxsmarttrips.org/enroll.htm There are tools on this site to help you find a carpool, find bus routes and even find better bicycle routes. The Gas Prices http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/voters_get_oil_prices_they_des.html |
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Thursday June 5, 2008 |
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Just News D.C. Police State This is how Peter Nickels, Interim Attorney General Feels about it: “I’m not
worried about the constitutionality of it.” I think
maybe there is a link between D.C.’s Violent Crime and their Stringent Gun
Laws. The DC gun ban case is scheduled for Supreme Court Ruling this month.
Maybe if this case goes well, the citizen there will have right to own guns
(the Second Amendment says they do) and the criminals will be less sure of
the helpless victims. DC Gun Ban http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/03/06/a-key-case-on-gun-control.html More Predictions on
the Lieberman-Warner Bill http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121184454327221281.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks |
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Wednesday June 4, 2008 |
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The
grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried
all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal
sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each
in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir |
Magnificent! I saw this on the way in today! It is hard for a photograph to do any justice to something so magnificent!
Riding around town you see some strange things. This morning I saw a dead chicken in a Kroger bag. That is, a whole chicken with feathers not like a breast ready to cook. I imagine it is the losing bird in a cock fight to give his discarded remains some glory! ZZ Top formed in 1969 and still rocking in 2008! They put on a great show! http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=58826&catid=2 |
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Tuesday June 3, 2008 |
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the
sun, the moon, and the truth. |
Still Riding I usually roll out of bed the
same time every day! I decided today I would sleep in a bit. It served me
well. This didn’t keep me from riding; in fact, I had a pretty good ride. I
used the short route and made record time. ZZ Top is playing tonight and I
will be there, this does however; leave me riding in the dark. I think the
temperature will be pleasant but I really don’t like riding in the dark. It
will be a long ride! Being between books and having mostly
finished the list of recommendations that has already been submitted, I have
to plug for new ideas. I am going to look for The Education of Little Tree by
Forrest Carter. If anyone has a copy that I can borrow let me know. In the mean time, I am reading
through The Buddhist Bible by Dwight
Goddard which is a thorough study in Buddhist Texts. Having spent a good deal
of time studying Eastern Religions I have not spent much time in the text
themselves. I look forward to this overview. Law professor wants to use courts to fight global warming http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2008/06/01/news/local/1aaa01_law.txt Climate Change Bill http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/05/30/leiberman-warner-congress-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0602climate.html Downtown Streets
change Direction http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=58817&catid=2 |
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Monday June 2, 2008 |
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Population stability can only
be achieved if we ignore mythology and pay attention to reality. Daniel Quinn |
Ishmael Occasionally we come across a book worth reading and then
reading again. Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn is one of those. Kudos A couple of Quotes: "And in spite of all the mastery we’ve attained, we
don’t have enough mastery to stop devastating the world – or to repair
the devastation we’ve already wrought." - (p.82) "The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison." - (p.254) This is a Truly remarkable story and I will encourage all to read this one as soon as they can get their hands on it! And this news article couldn’t be more relevant: Un-contacted Tribes
in the Amazon http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/30/brazil.tribes/index.html As for the commute today: Man it was foggy! I had to take my glasses off because of the condensation forming on them. The temperature was a comfortable 63 Degrees. |
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