Many of you have recently received an e-mail from me about signing an online petition found at http://www.bobbarr2008.com/rights/Read more... )

I'm having a rough time right now. That same calling I felt that brought me to enlist in the first place hasn't died out, nor has my personal shame that I was issued a challenge to be a Recon Marine and fled from it. On the other hand, if I can get surgery/rehab/whatever it takes to get back, I will be most likely be deployed to war at least twice ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've read anything about the 'gun control debate,' but I was reading slashdot for the first time in a while and came across some nonsense about securing individual rounds of ammunition with an encryption key in an effort to make the world safer for the children or some such drivel. I was highly amused by this ( post )

I thought I'd share this with those of you who don't read thefrank's journal.
"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=389689&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=Read more... )