One Sentence Happiness Journal
I was happy this morning when, the old lady woke up damp with sweat at 0430 again this morning, and it wasn’t low blood sugar; yesterday it was a low 42 – today it was high 350.
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OSHJ: A different sweat this morning
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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GUNS: ban the purchase, transfer, or inheritance of many popular hunting guns
Tuesday, June 10, 2008FROM AN NRA ALERT
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New Jersey Assembly Committee to Consider Gun Ban Bill!
Bill is an Attack on Sportsmen, Collectors, and Target Shooters!
On Thursday morning, June 12, the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation that would ban the purchase, transfer, or inheritance of many popular hunting guns, historical American firearms, and large bore target firearms, based on alleged public safety concerns. The bill would ban any rifle with a bore diameter larger than .50 caliber, including many modern and antique hunting and target firearms.
Touted as a ban on .50 caliber and larger firearms, A2116 assaults New Jersey sportsmen by banning dozens of models of popular hunting guns, including traditional .50 caliber muzzle loaders with synthetic stocks, fiber optic sights, or scopes in lieu of sights. Such guns with sights not actually made of iron are also in question due to A2116’s unclear wording.
A2116, sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-15), also bans hundreds of historical American firearms and replicas, including those from the Revolutionary War and Civil War eras. A2116 is a slap in the face to collectors, historians, and the patriots who used these firearms to win the very freedoms this legislation now seeks to take away.
A2116 also wrongly demonizes the .50 BMG rifle, which is not used in criminal activity, but which is regularly used by law-abiding citizens for precision target shooting, competition, and collection. The legislation makes the fundamental mistake of banning guns based on the size of the barrel rather than punishing criminal behavior.
Please contact the members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee IMMEDIATELY by email, phone, and/or fax and respectfully urge them to OPPOSE A2116!
Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee:
Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-14), Chair
AswGreenstein@njleg.org
Phone: 609-395-9911
Fax: 609-395-9032
Assemblyman Peter Barnes, III (D-18), Vice Chair
AsmBarnes@njleg.org
Phone: 732-548-1406
Fax: 732-548-1623
Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (R-12)
AswCasagrande@njleg.org
Phone: 732-866-1695
Fax: 732-866-4262
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-15)
AsmGusciora@njleg.org
Phone: 609-292-0500
Fax: 609-633-2179
Assemblywoman Amy Handlin (R-13)
AswHandlin@njleg.org
Phone: 732-787-1170
Fax: 732-787-0356
Assemblywoman Grace Spencer (D-29)
AswSpencer@njleg.org
Phone: 973-624-1730
Fax: 973-589-0716
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Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-14), Chair
Assemblyman Peter Barnes, III (D-18), Vice Chair
Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (R-12)
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-15)
Assemblywoman Amy Handlin (R-13)
Assemblywoman Grace Spencer (D-29)
Dear Assembly Folks:
I really don’t understand. In my email today, I find:
>New Jersey Assembly Committee to Consider Gun Ban Bill!
>Bill is an Attack on Sportsmen, Collectors, and Target Shooters!
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>On Thursday morning, June 12, the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation
> that would ban the purchase, transfer, or inheritance of many popular hunting guns, historical American firearms,
> and large bore target firearms, based on alleged public safety concerns. The bill would ban any rifle with a bore
> diameter larger than .50 caliber, including many modern and antique hunting and target firearms.
I urge you to OPPOSE A2116!
Last I heard even the most livid anti-gun nut makes no assertion that criminals use these weapons. I’d also call your attention to the Second Amendment. I know you all think that is “just an anachronistic piece of paper’. But, if someone applied it to printing presses, then everyone would understand. The Second is the insurance policy for the First. Every time governments disarm their citizens, genocide follows.
Please don’t count on my vote in November if you advance this bill.
F. J. Reinke
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OSHJ: Published another chapter of my novel
Tuesday, June 10, 2008One Sentence Happiness Journal
With a lot going on, not all of which is good, I did mange to push 5k choices words this morning; caterpillering my way to a successful conclusion.
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Sixty Two – Kabuki’s Final Act
Tuesday, June 10, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Sixty Two – Kabuki’s Final Act
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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OSHJ: Saw a family walking to the bus
Monday, June 9, 2008One Sentence Happiness Journal
Today, when driving to get gas, I saw a family walking to the bus and that reminded me of commuting to NYC with my aunt; I loved the cold ac of the bus on the hot humid mornings.
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LIBERTY: “Don’t Talk to the Police” by Professor James Duane
Sunday, June 8, 2008http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865&pr=goog-sl
“Don’t Talk to the Police” by Professor James Duane
27 min 25 sec – May 21, 2008
Description: James Duane explains why innocent people should never talk to the police.
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Even if you’re innocent, … …
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Wise advice for EVERYONE!
The police are NOT your friend.
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GOLDBUG: Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money
Sunday, June 8, 2008http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/06/gene_epstein_on.html
Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money
June 02, 2008, Featuring Gene Epstein
Gene Epstein, Barron’s economics editor, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues of the gold standard relative to fiat money. Epstein argues that privately issued money, backed by gold, would lead to an economy with much greater price stability and fewer and milder recessions.
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Casualties under a gold standard:
* Federal Spending (“Teenager model”)
* Spending upon dubious things
* “Deficits don’t matter” “Guns and Butter both”
* Monetize the debt; index to inflation
* Unfunded liabilities
* Gooferment can fight wars
* Gooferment can make promises
* Foreign entities buy Federal debt giving them a lever politically
* Banks protected by Gooferment; a cartel
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Sixty One – What’s a walk up?
Sunday, June 8, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Sixty One – What’s a walk up?
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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McBookaire: It’s BACKSPACE; not DELETE
Sunday, June 8, 2008Now maybe it’s picky. And maybe I’m just dense. But the McBa’s keyboard is mislabeled one key.
It’s <backspace>; not <delete>!!!
It reallly throws me off.
Maybe there’s a way to redefine it? Maybe I just don’t understand. Maybe it’s trivial to you.
It’s annoying to me!
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Update: Yes, I figured out that Fn + Delete is ‘forward delete’. Thanks, Google. Argh!
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INTERESTING: the benefits of failure
Saturday, June 7, 2008http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91232541
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
by J.K. Rowling
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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement.
Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this.
I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.
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