“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” — Will Durant
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The firearms death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation’s Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C.
Too funny to not mention. Classic case of driver mistaking gas for brake? Or just a classic case of an idiot behind the wheel?
Due to events that were completely out of my control, my wife and I found ourselves in a sudden move. So here I sit in my new room, downloading games on Steam, listening to some Manson with this thought in my mind:
Regardless of all the shit that was tossed in our war, despite all the bullshit events that transpired, and all the tragedy that has fallen in our laps.. we’re doing alright. More so, we’re doing great. This is our new beginning, our metaphorical flip-off of the others whom tried to hold us down and stand in our way
As new beginnings go, I do have a quote I would like to share. I do believe this will be the new template to how I would like to live my life from henceforth:
We meet as strangers, each carrying a mystery within us. I cannot say who you are. I may never know you completely. But I trust that you are a person in your own right possessed of a beauty and value that are the earth’s greatest treasures.
So I make this promise to you;
I will impose no identities upon you, but will invite you to become yourself without shame or fear. I will hold open a space for you in the world and defend your right to fill it with an authentic vocation.
For as long as your search takes you have my loyalty.
—Theodore Roszak
DWI in La-Z-Boy: Driver pleads guilty - Vehicular weirdness- msnbc.com -
This ladies and gentlemen, takes the cake. Dennis LeRoy Anderson is now indeed the winner of the 2009 Red Neck King Awards. Long live the King!
Mark your calendars, because it is on.
More details to come. And remember, submissions are due one week from today— Wednesday, October 21st at 5pm PST!
Good news finally.. my wife got a job! Now all I need to do is pray like hell that I can get some employment myself, and we can begin our own lives. =)
Mmm.. mi amor. Taken during our visit to Florida.