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The moment is still seared into my memory. Indeed, I can still feel the revulsion that was far too much for a little child to have to grasp.

It was this day in 1983. I had seen on the news about something called “abortion”. Seems that it was the tenth anniversary of it being allowed. So I asked Mom what “abortion” means.

“It means a mother kills her baby before it’s born.”

A chunk of my childhood died that day. There are some who would think of it as “no big deal”. But to me it was the beginning of a loss of innocence. The first bricks of the wall of naivety that had secured this small child away from the madness of man’s own making, come crumbling down to Earth.

“It means a mother kills her baby before it’s born.”

My God.

And then some years later as a ...

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Two thoughts about the reindeer who went down in hist-o-REEEEEE…

1. If Rudolph’s nose is THAT bright, and also such high-energy because of its intense red hue, assuming it’s radiating out the lumens of at least the running lights of a commercial airliner and that it’s shining right at his face…

…Rudolph should be totally blind by now!! Even one trip around the world would have been more than enough to burn out his retinas.

I hope Santa sleeps easy with this on his conscience.

2. Johnny Marks wrote “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in 1949 as part of a publicity campaign for the Montgomery Ward’s department store chain.

Just think: if the company had insisted upon royalties every time that song was played or performed or sung in public by school choirs and Brownie troops, Montgomery Ward’s would still be in business!...

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The game is rigged. We all know it.

So why do we tolerate it?

America owes the old Soviet Union an apology. At least the Soviets had one party rule and were honest about it.

Tomorrow is the national election day in the United States. But nothing will substantially change as a result of it. The two major parties, corporate interests and the mainstream media have perpetrated a massive con on the American people: making us believe that there are only two parties that count when in truth they are much the same.

I will not be voting for either one of the two major candidates for President. Neither of them has done anything to earn my trust. I will vote for another. Some may call that “throwing your vote away”. I disagree.

Any vote from one’s earnest conscience is a valid one. As I see it, it is the ...

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You know what’s going to happen to America after Tuesday?

Nothing. Not a damned frazzling thing.

We will still be taxed too much.

Abortion will still go on.

TSA will still be molesting children and elderly people.

We will continue to be
over-extended militarily.

Companies will keep relocating their production
overseas.

Children in our schools will continue to be taught to
obey and not question instead of encouraged to think for themselves.

Government power over us will continue to increase instead of diminishing.

Our economy won’t stop being based around fiat currency.

The Constitution will continue to be ignored by lawmakers and the judiciary and the White House.

NOTHING will change after
Tuesday… except perhaps a different set of faces upon which we’ll blame for the folly that we ourselves allowed to happen. Because we didn’t want to buck the status quo.

Some call that “being comfortable”. I call that ...

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What had been a terrific and fun-filled Saturday night with my girlfriend and two close friends ended up crashing hard with an e-mail I received shortly after returning home…

Chris, just wanted to let you know that I am de-friending you because basically you are not a friend. Like most other “christians” I know, you seem to be two-faced and unreliable… my “christian” friends seem to be about the most worthless and unreliable of any that I have. I have atheist and agnostic friends who I trust implicitly. At least you’ve shown me that “christians” truly are a lying, two-face bunch of hypocrits.

That was written by someone who I have known for over thirty years. I cannot be responsible for the choice that this person has made in severing our relationship.

But it is true: I am a hypocrite.

So is every other Christian. Every Christian who sincerely lives ...

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…and you wanna know why?

Because today I just don’t feel like I want to eat chicken.

It has nothing to do at all with the recent statements by the company’s president, Dan Cathy, regarding his beliefs on homosexuality and “gay marriage”. It was a statement of his personal opinion and he’s entitled to have them. Personally, I’m inclined to agree with him, but that’s not the point of this post.

So today has been declared “Let’s Go To Chick-fil-A And Buy Their Food And Show We Support Traditional Families For God And Country Day Hurrah For Us!” or something. It’s in response to the boycott that some “gay rights” groups (I never understood the concept of “gay rights” either: what rights exactly do some homosexuals believe they’re being deprived of? I’ve never seen a “Straights Only” lunch counter in all my years of living in the South of all ...

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