Author: Chris Johnson

  • Tim Walz Throws his Support Behind Trump

    Tim Walz Throws his Support Behind Trump

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    “We can’t afford… We can’t afford… four more years of this” Every so often the masks slip and they tell the truth. Note, the ellipsis in the quote are him pausing. Not anything being cut out.

  • Honor Culture

    Honor Culture

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    Or Cultures of Honor. Most people in western civilizations understand the concept of Honor. Or, at least, they think they do. Most understand, “do the honorable thing.” It is a question of right and wrong. It is a moral decision. The honorable thing to do is to return the wallet you find on the sidewalk.…

  • Operation Grim Beeper

    Operation Grim Beeper

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    Years ago, my lady discovered that one of my co-workers was plagiarizing content. She brought it to my attention. I reported it to the owner of the company. I cc’ed my boss to keep her in the loop. When I arrived at work that day, my boss was waiting for me, took me to a…

  • Pasta, again

    Pasta, again

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    There are three ways of making pasta shapes. You can extrude the dough through shaped holes, cutting the forms off as needed. You can roll the dough thin, then hand cut the dough to be shaped. The same can be done using a “pasta machine” which rules the dough to a known thickness. Or you…

  • Lawyers are strange?

    Lawyers are strange?

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    Barnett v. Raoul, 3:23-cv-00209, (S.D. Ill.) is one of the cases filed in response to the Illinois Bruen tantrum. It was opened January 24, 2023. It was decided at the district court level in favor of The People. It was part of the group of cases that went to the Seventh Circuit where Judge Easterbrook…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

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    From the YouTube description: The following are a series of war correspondence films from the Simba Rebellion in the Congo in 1964/65 set to the tune of “Roland the Thompson Gunner” by Warren Zevon. The film features a platoon of mercenaries from Europe conducting a platoon attack on the town of Boende in the Cong.…

  • What was old is new again

    What was old is new again

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    Allyson had picked up a wooden box a few years ago to take to events. It was a plain wooden box with just a bit of decoration and a porcelain knob attached to the sliding top. The knob and screw holding it are not period. The rest was pretty period. Or more precisely, it was…

  • Filler–

    Filler–

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    I’m trying to export a video from OpenShot-community, and it is refusing to cooperate. Switching to a filler article. Poor Ricky, he thinks that government inspectors keep us safe from bad business practices. Maybe he should ask about all the mandated state inspections of Gosnell’s medical facilities? MSNBC is likely lying by omission and by…

  • And we are at step 2

    And we are at step 2

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  • Why Do They Start By Wanting to Break the Law?

    Why Do They Start By Wanting to Break the Law?

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    I’ve been advocating for the Right of The People to keep and bear arms for decades now. After the Sandy Hook shooting, I was in a discussion with somebody on Google+. They were attempting to come up with a “common-sense gun safety laws”. After a couple of days going back and forth, they asked “Well,…