Now that Governor Richardson has made it "legal" you may soon be dining in a restaurant, which serves some alcohol, next to someone carrying a concealed weapon; a situation which would have been utterly impossible under the old prohibition. Or, at least that is the government's story.
Sorry to disappoint the governor, but people have always carried into those restaurants anyway. Both good people who understand the concept of "better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6" and bad guys who obviously have no ethical problem breaking laws which prohibit theft, murder, and other acts of aggression and who will never be stopped by a silly "law" prohibiting them from carrying a gun somewhere.
Notice, too, that attacking innocent people with that gun is still not permitted. Unless you are a LEO, of course, judging by the "Only Ones" news. In the world of real right and wrong, it's all about the act of aggression, not the tool you use.
Next time you are dining in a restaurant in Albuquerque, look around you. Is the person sitting at the next booth or table armed? By its very definition, if that person is carrying a concealed weapon, how would you know?
You have always had a basic human right which predates even the very first government ever imagined to own and to carry ("keep and bear") any weapon you think will help you survive an attack, regardless of any governmental wishes, restrictions, or "laws". Use it.
ID "borrowing"?
A while back I had the odd experience of running across a MySpace profile which appears to be me, but which I didn't set up. That profile picture is my cartoonified self which I use frequently, and those are some of my links. Could the bad link to my blog have been the point of the whole thing? To phish information? Or could it have been an honest mistake in linking? Some info is obviously wrong. Here is my real MySpace profile.
I sent the other "me" a friend request, but I guess "I" haven't logged in since then. Very odd, indeed.
I'm not quite sure whether to be flattered or creeped out. At least the fake "me" hasn't posted anything (as far as I can see) that offends me or drags my reputation through the dirt (worse than I do on my own, I mean). I suppose it just goes to show the utility of googling yourself from time to time.
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Lots of well-merited silence going on around here. Dude, you should consider spending more time gardening, or sleeping. Anything other than trying to write.
Kent,
Keep up the excellent articles. Enjoy your pieces in that they are concise and on point about 99.5% of the time; which means, they are almost always that way.
Keep up the excellent work. Always looking forward to the next good read; because, your articles are some of the best nutrition around for minds that are starving for enriching material.
I second Liberty Lover...I just don't feel the need to patronise Kent and post that I am in agreement with him after practically every article he writes.
As for Mr Gutless Wonder...Kent's musings and those by other Examiner writers are reaching far more people than your little mind can comprehend...if it all means so little, why did you take the time out to reply?
Oh, look, the votes of some illiterate people are in--they like the writing of ignorant baboons b/c it gives them hope that they too can have an Examiner blog read by 3 people who never made it out of high school. What a surprise.
You talking about intellectual "nutrition" is like the fat guy in McDonald's telling someone about a healthy diet. To call you clueless would be to credit you with too much.
I'll bet $20 you're missing at least two of your front teeth, Yawn.
Obviously, I have the power to delete comments. Spam comments crop up from time to time and get tossed. But in the case of Worthless/Bent it is much more fun to watch this monkey staring down the barrel of the gun he is fumblng with.
Wow Kent you found yourself a snail it seems, merrily leaving a trail of slime wherever he goes. Or maybe someone had a breakthrough with a random insult generator.
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