Daily Archives: August 14, 2008

Conversations with my wife

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August 14, 2008

Watching Shooting Gallery last night with Mrs. Ahab – she looks at me and laughingly says “You’re leaving me to spend five days with this guy”?  To which I replied, “No dear, I’m only spending three days really with Michael Bane, if you want to be more accurate I’m leaving you to spend 5...
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Shall Not Be Infringed

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August 14, 2008

From Uncle, regarding the backlash against his (and sometimes my) use of “shall not be infringed” as a pejorative. We all are shall not be infringed types. Some of us realize that there will be infringements and there are infringements. It’s just that we choose to work within the existing system to address those...
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Skeet skeet skeet

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August 14, 2008

Kim Rhode, the most decorated American shooter, has picked up another medal to add to her already impressive collection. Cainero, Rhode and Germany’s Christine Brinker were tied with 93 points each, an Olympic record, after the final round of the women’s skeet. The Italian won the shoot-off for gold in the rainy conditions, hitting...
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Only Ones prosecuting their own

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August 14, 2008

In a sort of turn around from the last two stories I’ve run in this week-long series; I want to focus on an incident where the “good cops” did in fact do the right thing and prosecute “one of their own”.   In this particular case, a now ex-cop (he was a cop at the...
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