Altered Definitions

Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration : The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
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Pep Talk From Huckabee

Put Conservatism Into Practice
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 9:51am

Enough already of the hand-wringing and night sweats about the demise of the conservative movement!

Conservatives aren’t challenged because of the basic principles that define us, but by the failure of the principles being translated into policy and practice.

Gandhi once said, “If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”

I would be so brazen to say that if conservatives would really live according to the principles of classic conservatism, all of America would be conservative today.

The crisis is not one over the precepts, but the practice. It’s not that we’ve failed in our doctrine, but our “doing.”

Conservatives believe that the best government is the most local government possible and that the 10th Amendment means something and should be followed. Yet, the supposedly conservative Republican Party has been a drum major for the expanded role of the federal government.

Our founders feared a highly centralized and endowed federal government, instead preferring a system of strong and virtually independent states so that no one person, party, or power broker would exercise a great deal of control.
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For Liberty Trailer – Let It Not Be Said We Did Nothing

This looks like a movie I want to see.

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Garden Update – March 28, 2009

Amber has been doing the daily maintenance on the garden since I’m out of town. The corn is starting to pop up out of the dirt.

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BO Cartoon

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Adventure into the Everglades

Besides getting my laundry done, I wanted to adventure out on my day off. I decided that an airboat ride out to see alligators would be fun, so I searched and found an alligator farm on the edge of the Everglades. This place got started as an airboat ride attraction, then added an alligator farm in the 80s when the government allowed the breeding of the animals. The boats are big enough to seat 5 across in 5 rows, and are powered by a 500 CID Cadillac V8. The driver would take us up to about 40MPH, and flip the rear of the boat around, putting us in a 360 degree spin, pretty fun stuff.
This is one of the grow out pens for the baby alligators.

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Birthday Boy

It was nice to find these pictures in my inbox tonight, so I thought I’d share them with everyone.

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Bumper stickers for my Liberal Friends

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Bryson’s Birthday Party

Mom threw a birthday party for Bryson today. It was nice to see all the family that showed up, and we were able to catch up and visit a little, even though the kiddos were loud.

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My First Flight

Brandon and I went up to see Louie at his flight school. He gave us the grand tour of his empire out at the airport. Here is his newest airplane. This one is pretty fancy, it has a parachute for the plane, in case things get really bad.

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