My quest for a free iPod ( _to dream the impossible dream_ ) led me into joining BMG for, what, the fifth time in my life? I think so. Despite an increasingly desperate CD storage problem and the fact that I have been buying almost all of my music from iTunes over the last [...] Read more »

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I’ll take the liberty of speaking for Democrats from the great Commonwealth of Virginia by echoing Bubba’s sentiment: “Lay off”:http://www.southknoxbubba.net/skblog/archive_2004_11.php#3691. Read more »

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Much of Second Amendment absolutism — no gun controls! no registration! no waiting period! — rests on a so-called “strict” and “literal” interpretation of the Second Amendment. But I don’t think anyone really wants that — you can get yourself in a lot of trouble. For example, while the Second Amendment says people must be [...] Read more »

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There is absolutely something funny with the vote count “according to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6368819.
Besides the already-mentioned five counties in Florida that polled strongly Democratic turning out a Bush landslide, Olbermann says there are twenty-four others with similar problems.
In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, apparently the GOTV effort in the Spirt world was effective: 93,000 _more votes [...] Read more »

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Over at _Say Uncle_, “Thibodeaux suggests:”:http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2004/11/07/democrats_lets_make_a_deal/
bq. Tell you what, I’ll trade you straight up: You get gay marriage, and we get a repeal of ALL gun restrictions. [ ... ] No waiting periods, no background checks, no registration, no licensing, open carry, concealed carry, whatever we want. No federal, state, or local restrictions, ever again, [...] Read more »

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