These are just some notes. The attendance number is getting closer to being nailed down. This photo appears to have been taken earlier in the day. Note that there was a festival set up in the grassy area in front of the Washington Memorial. Eye-witnesses report that a lot of people filled the side streets [...]
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Archive for September, 2009
$15,000,000 fines for holding a garage sale: Consult with the Feds before holding yours
Posted in September 18th, 2009
The 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, H.R.4040, has given the Consumer Product Safety Commission the right to apply ridiculously large fines, up to $15,000,000 for selling certain used toys at garage sales Fox News points out. The new government regulations cover used toys and other items that meet certain conditions. Fortunately for garage salers [...]
About Christian Deism
Posted in September 18th, 2009
There is a myth I read on every once in a while that Deism is the belief that God is cold, distant and detached from humanity. I see no reason to believe that understanding of Deism is correct. When I read the better Deist web sites it is apparent the many people who believe in [...]
The American Unitarian Church
Posted in September 17th, 2009
I just found this: http://www.unitarianministries.com/home I kind of like these guys. They come closer to what I believe in than any other group I’ve come across. Jefferson predicted that one day American would be a Unitarian nation. In the 1960′s I believe it was, the Unitarians merged with the Universalists and formed the Unitarian Universalist [...]
Talk like a pirate day September 19
Posted in September 17th, 2009
Break out the rum, matey’s! September 19 is talk like a pirate day! This blog will only be accepting comments on the 19th if they are said in pirate talk. Commentors writing in plain english will be thrown to the sharks. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html (The How-To page has some great must-read pick up lines.)
