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This photo popped up in my Facebook memories this morning and I thought it was worth sharing for its overwhelming cuteness value:

This was in our hotel room in San Diego, California, on the afternoon of January 21st, 2017.  My miniature dachshund Tammy and I had come back from the dog beach on Coronado Island.  I took her there often when we were in San Diego, she really enjoyed playing in the sand and getting to meet other dogs!  The surf, ehhh… not so much.  She had never seen so much water and she certainly had never seen water that chased after her.

Anyhoo, we came back to the hotel and I gave Tammy a bath.  And after that she immediately curled up beneath the blanket on the nicely made-up bed with only her snout sticking out.  I thought it made for a great photo opportunity.  And until now only ...

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Nine years ago tonight I was in a movie theater in San Diego, California.  I was about to do something I’d never done before in my entire life: watch a Star Wars movie in the theater without anyone to share the experience with.

It was still Tammy the Pup and me, a boy and his dog across America, a very long way from where we had started six months before.  I was stuck between wanting to see a new Star Wars film so very much, but also having to face that there would be no friend or family to enjoy it with.  That’s how I went in to see Rogue One.

But maybe God provided.  I wound up sitting with some high school kids who were very excited about the movie, and we talked a little bit.  We’d become rather acquainted by the time the lights went down and ...

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Call it what you may, a law of either history or human nature. Anything can be used as a weapon… and that a thing intended as a weapon will be used as a weapon.

Concordantly, there is no reason to produce a weapon unless there is a determined possibility of using that weapon.

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department is now in possession of a Long Range Acoustical Device or LRAD: a “sonic weapon” straight out of science-fiction (particularly Atlas Shrugged). This is something that has been used in Iraq against insurgents and also recently against pirates off the coast of Somalia. Quite effectively, it should be noted.

Well, now San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore has been placing his new toy at town hall meetings where citizens have been coming in droves to protest “health care reform” and bigger government.

A spokesman for the San Diego Sheriff’s Department claims ...

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I wonder how much of an issue this could become over the next few years. From the Fox News website…

Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit

Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.

“On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county.” David Jones told FOX News.

“We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all,” Jones said.

A few days

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