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Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up. who are these people? it isn't as if anything has actually changed in the last year. all of these issues were on the table a year ago.


Who is thankful today? The people of Jackson, Mississippi. "an increase in the purchase of guns and jewelry". excellent use of taxpayers' money.

distorted intelligence. duh.

the cristian right.

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”

THOSE WORDS, PENNED IN ARTICLE 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, are as succinct a statement as we have from the Founding Fathers on the role of religion in our government. Their authorship is ascribed variously to George Washington, under whom the treaty was negotiated, or to John Adams, under whom it took effect, or sometimes to Joel Barlow, U.S. consul to Algiers, friend of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, and himself no stranger to the religious ferment of the era, having served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army. But the validity of the document transcends its authorship for a simple reason: it was ratified. It was debated in the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Adams without a breath of controversy or complaint concerning its secular language, and so stands today as an official description of the founders’ intent.

indeed. the brilliance of the system isn't that the people may enact it's will via the vote of the majority but that there are limits to what the majority may do. that is, there can be no tyranny of the majority over the minority.

ah yes, thanksgiving. pretty standard fare here in spokane with michelle's family.

the stuffing had cornmeal and sausages. it was damned good. nothing touches my mom's cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie. nothing. the cranberry sauces takes two or three days in the crock pot. ah yeah!

i went and lifted real quick today. michelle went for a run and now she's playing lord of the rings on xbox with shakey jakey. it's a cool game, but i prefer the fighting games that are first person. i think we're going shopping.

i'm trying to deploy MovableType on thatantonguy, but it is being difficult. hmm...maybe i'll ask.

shakey jakey just said "fuck". now i'm going to get shit for it. damn. fucking kids.

spokane tv is pretty awesome. just saw an ad for a pawn shop. ha ha!

photos

pictures uploaded to thatantonguy in the gallery section. check it out.

chainsaws, medina, chainsaws.

man. take a guy who hasn't worked a lick in almost a year. then send him out into the forest with a chainsaw and a big truck and make him cut and haul trees for 12-15 hrs a day. good times. i was getting up at 500 and on the road by 515, getting home at 730-930. wednesday and thursday we were working near menlo, wa. how's that for a drive? it was really pretty once off I-5. but man, i am sick of I-5. friday we worked around chehalis and morton. saturday was out in the belfair area. pretty cool. and then yesterday was back to chehalis and mossyrock, which is near morton. never got to do that nice sweet straight shot from morton to seattle though. always had to get back to chehalis first. i don't even know how many miles i logged. well over 1K.

i have a little meeting with a temp agency. i was going to get my hair cut this weekend. i was supposed to be home by 300 yesterday. i was home at 900. no time for hair cuts.

i'll give you all some extended entries later. i took some pictures too.

thatantonguy.com

got my own website now. thatantonguy.com. not much up there now. just got the account going today. we'll see what i do with it. i could move my blog over there, but there are a number of advantages to blogger. $10/month for the website. not so bad, i suppose.

i can set folks up with email addresses. RC2K@thatantonguy.com. how's that for a ring?

tombomb put up a stellar post yesterday. full of gems, like "religion doesn't exist" and "ethereal candyland". oh man oh man oh man. finally, i'm getting my money's worth out of his tuition. but he forgot about the dancing jesus! i love the hate mail that sites like that get. so-called christians threatening his life (and legs). man oh man. get a grip, folks!

MoS and Ricky Ricardo pulled out some sweet rides at the state cross race this weekend. love that podium shot of Ricky.

picture by hyun lee

gotta go dig out my long underwear and warm clothes for tromping through the christmas tree forests of adna, wa. yeah, that's fucking out there.

wild and crazy bitch

lookin' at a big week this week. gotta go and get some trees. god, i hope it isn't rainy and shit. that's fucking miserable.

anybody seen blogshares.com. interesting concept. cycling soup and i are both worth $1K. i don't fully understand the whole thing, but something about blogs are valued by the number of incoming links. players "buy" the blogs with fictional money and it's a sort of market. although i imagine that he has more incoming links. not much content though.

speaking of very little content, medina seems content to let his dribble pass as blogging.

want a big tree for christmas? come to buchanan family trees in bellevue. remember when i tried to sell a tree on ebay? can't seem to find that picture. yeah, we'll try that one again. good trees there at buchanan though. lots of big ones too. huge. 15' or more. even tall-ass medina can't reach the top. the president of the mariners bought one. delivered it to their place. his wife is really nice.

so, we dogsat this weekend. sadie. sadie the golden retriever. she's a bit neurotic. she sleeps on the bed. or at least wants to. she also doesn't chew her food. it's amazing. she'll eat dry food by just swallowing. it's one of the most fascinating displays of eating i've ever seen. the simpsons got nothin' on this bitch. well, she is a bitch, isn't she? she's not really a barker. she groans a lot, but not so much barking. but she can get a bit excited. saturday or friday morning, something got her going and she barked right next to my head and woke me up. oh man, i wasn't too happy. what're you going to do?

nice day for a ride on saturday. looks like today is pretty sweet too. i'm going to head downtown to lift. we'll see what happens to all that when i start working the christmas trees.

i'm looking into getting a website and all that. any ideas on domain names? as much fun as pleasuresite.com or siteofpleasure.com or siteofthepleasure sounds, i think i need something a bit more professional. put some ideas in the comments, yo.

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